Dreyfus Joins Friel In BREAKFAST AT TIFFANY'S

James Dreyfus, Suzanne Bertish, Dermot Crowley and John Ramm are to join Anna Friel and Joseph Cross in Samuel Adamson's new stage adaptation of Truman Capote's classic novella Breakfast at Tiffany's, directed by Sean Mathias. Breakfast at Tiffany's - the second production in Mathias' Theatre Royal Haymarket Season following the critically acclaimed Waiting for Godot - will preview from 9 September and is booking until 9 January 2010.

New York City, 1943. William ‘Fred' Parsons, a young writer from Louisiana, meets Miss Holly Golightly, a charming, vivacious and utterly elusive good-time girl. Everyone falls in love with Holly, including William - but he is poor, and Holly needs rich. Will she marry Rusty, playboy millionaire? Or José, the future president of Brazil? As war rages in Europe, Holly begins to fall in love with William - and then her past catches up with her...

The cast is Suzanne Bertish (Madama Spanella), James Bradshaw (Rusty Trawler), Gwendoline Christie (Mag Wildwood), Paul Courtney Hyu (Ensemble), Joseph Cross (William ‘Fred' Parsons), Dermot Crowley (Joe Bell), Felix D'Alviella (Jose Ybarra-Jaegar), James Dreyfus (O J Berman), Anna Friel (Holly Golightly), Nicholas Goh (Mr Yunioshi), Annie Hemingway (Ensemble), Sam Hoare (Ensemble), Natalie Klamar (Middy Munson), David Phelan (Sid Arbuck) and John Ramm (Doc Golightly).

Award-winning Anna Friel's theatre work includes Lulu for The Almeida Theatre Company both in London and New York and Patrick Marber's Closer on Broadway. She has recently been seen on ITV1 starring as Charlotte Charles in Pushing Daises for which she was nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Television Series. Later this month, she will star opposite Will Ferrell in the film Land of the Lost. Friel is currently filming London Boulevard with Keira Knightly and Colin Farrell and will soon be filming Jacob Estes' black comedy The Details, with James McAvoy, Elizabeth Banks and Laura Linney. On television, she can currently be seen in Jimmy McGovern's award-winning The Street.

American actor Joseph Cross is best known for his roles as Augusten Burroughs in Running with Scissors, as Franklin Sousley in the Clint Eastwood war drama Flags of our Fathers, and most recently, as Dick Pabich in the Gus Van Sant feature film Milk, starring opposite Sean Penn. In 2003 Cross made his stage debut at the Williamstown Playhouse in John Guare's Landscape of the Body and earlier this year played Orin Mannon in The New Group's off-Broadway revival of Eugene O'Neill's Mourning Becomes Electra.

James Dreyfus' recent theatre credits include Amongst Friends for Hampstead Theatre, The Common Pursuit for the Menier Chocolate Factory, Cabaret at the Lyric Theatre, Donkey's Years at the Comedy Theatre and The Producers at the Theatre Royal Drury Lane. In 1998 Dreyfus won the Laurence Olivier Award for Best Supporting Actor in a Musical for his performance as Russell Paxton in Lady in the Dark at the National Theatre and in the same year was nominated for the Ian Charleson Award for his performance as Cassius in Julius Caesar at the Birmingham Rep. His extensive television credits include Gimme Gimme Gimme in which he played Tom as well as Casualty, My Hero, Waking The Dead and The Thin Blue Line for which he won British Comedy Award for Best Comedy Newcomer. His film credits include Colour Me Kubrick, Fat Slags, Agent Cody Banks and Notting Hill in which he playEd Martin.

Suzanne Bertish has most recently played the title role in Mrs Warren's Profession and Cleopatra in Antony and Cleopatra for the Harman Center for the Arts, Washington DC. As well as extensive credits for the National Theatre, the Royal Shakespeare Company and the Glasgow Citizens' Theatre, her West End credits include An Inspector Calls, The Vagina Monologues, Les Liaisons Dangereuses and Hamlet. Her Broadway credits are Salome for Circle In The Square Theatre and The Molière Comedies for Roundabout Theater for which she was nominated for a Tony Award. Her extensive television credits include Rome, Love Soup, Trial and Retribution, Mumbai Calling, Silent Witness, and Coronation Street. On film her work includes Holy Money, The Upside of Anger, The Toy Box, Déjà vu and Bent. She was last on stage in London in Crossing Jerusalem at the Tricycle Theatre.

Dermot Crowley was last on stage in the UK playing Donald Rumsfeld in Stuff Happens at the National Theatre. Previously he has been seen in Calico at the Duke of York's Theatre, Scenes from the Big Picture at the National Theatre, The Weir at the Royal Court and The Hostage for the Royal Shakespeare Company. His U.S theatre credits include Juno, Translations, The Weir and Dealer's Chioce. His many television credits include Margaret, in which he played Airey Neve, Bleak House, Spooks, Foyle's War and Trial and Retribution. On film his credits include Babel, Little Dorrit and The Return of the Jedi.

John Ramm, who plays Raymond Box in the National Theatre of Brent opposite Patrick Barlow, has worked extensively for the Crucible Theatre Sheffield as well as, more recently the Royal Shakespeare Company and Birmingham Rep. His recent theatre credits include A Christmas Carol for the Rose Theatre Kingston, Little Dolls and Flooded Grave for the Bush Theatre and Ring Around the Moon for Liverpool Playhouse. His screen credits include Midsomer Murders, Doctors, My Family, The Queen's Nose, Shakespeare in Love and The Nine Lives of Thomas Katz.

 

 

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