Full Cast Announced for Tennessee Williams's A LOVELY SUNDAY IN CREVE COEUR at The Print Room

Artistic Director of The Print Room at the Coronet Anda Winters today announces the full cast for Tennessee Williams' rarely performed A LOVELY SUNDAY IN CREVE COEUR, which opens the theatre's new Autumn season. Michael Oakley directs Debbie Chazen as Bodey, Hermione Gulliford as Helena, Laura Rogers as Dorothea and Julia Watson as Miss Gluck. The production opens in the main theatre space on 15 September, with previews from 12 September, and runs until 7 October.

It's Sunday morning in early June, 1930s St Louis. In a sweltering apartment, as Dorothea completes her rigorous daily exercise regime, Bodey is in the kitchen, frying chicken for a picnic at Creve Coeur Lake. Upstairs neighbour Mrs Gluck has depression so bad she can't even make coffee, and now Dorothea's spinster colleague Helena arrives with the news that she's found a lovely new apartment for them to share. But Dorothea's mind is elsewhere, she is hoping for a call from the man of her dreams...

Arguably one of the greatest American Playwrights of the last century, Tennessee Williams received a Rockerfeller fellowship in 1940 for his play Battle of Angels, and won the Pulitzer Prize in 1948 for A Streetcar Named Desire and in 1955 for Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. Other plays include Summer and Smoke, The Rose Tattoo, Camino Real, Baby Doll, The Glass Menagerie, Orpheus Descending, Suddenly Last Summer, The Night of the Iguana, Sweet Bird of Youth, and The Two-Character Play.

Debbie Chazen plays Bodey. Her theatre credits include The Girls (Tour and soon to be West End), Listen, We're Family (Wilton's Music Hall), The Duck House (Vaudeville Theatre), A Little Hotel on the Side (Theatre Royal Bath), Open Court: The President Has Come to See You, Mint, Untitled Martriarch Play and In Basildon (Royal Court), Calendar Girls (West End & Tour), The Girlfriend Experience (Royal Court/Young Vic/Plymouth), Cinderella (Old Vic), The Cherry Orchard (Crucible), Dick Whittington (Barbican), Crooked (Bush), A Prayer for Owen Meaney and Mother Clap's Molly House (National Theatre), A Midsummer Night's Dream (West End) and The Rise and Fall of Little Voice (Salisbury Playhouse). Her work for television includes Agatha Raisin, You, Me and the Apocalypse, Ambassadors, Asylum, Sherlock, Trollied, The Spa, Doctor Who, Tittybangbang, This Is Jinsy, White Van Man, We Are Klang, Psychoville, The Smoking Room, Nicholas Nickleby, Mine All Mine, Murder in Suburbia, Doc Martin, Gimme Gimme Gimme, Lucy Sullivan is Getting Married, Tess of the D'Urbervilles, A Christmas Carol and The Lakes. Film appearances include Topsy Turvy, Suzie Gold, Tooth and The Duel.

Hermione Gulliford returns to Notting Hill in the role of Helena. Previous productions at the Print Room include Amygdala and Lot and His God. Other theatre credits include Richard II (Arcola), The Merchant of Venice, Love for Love, A Midsummer Night's Dream (RSC), 3 Winters, Hotel (National Theatre), Amygdala, Lot and His God (The Print Room), Way of the World, The Critic, The Real Inspector Hound and Three Sisters (Chichester Festival Theatre), Arcadia (Bristol Old Vic), Twelfth Night, The Country Wife (Sheffield Crucible), Happy Savages (Lyric Hammersmith), The Importance of Being Earnest (Birmingham Rep/ Old Vic). Her film credits include Stage Beauty and The Affair of the Necklace. Television credits include Count Arthur Strong, Foyles War, Call the Midwife, Lewis, Utopia, Upstairs Downstairs, Hustle, Rev, The IT Crowd, All About George, Monarch of the Glen and Oktober.

Laura Rogers plays Dorothea. Her theatre credits include Private Lives (UK tour), Tipping The Velvet (Lyric Hammersmith), Pressure, An Ideal Husband, Blue Remembered Hills, Hay Fever (Chichester Festival Theatre), Masterpieces (Royal Court), Revelations (Hampstead Theatre), The Comedy of Errors (Globe & US tour) Macbeth, A New World, As You Like It, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Timon of Athens, The Taming of the Shrew, Richard III (Globe), The 39 Steps (West End), Dark Philosophers (National Theatre Of Wales). TV credits include Doctor Who Christmas Special, Bad Girls and The Sins.

Julia Watson plays Miss Gluck. Theatre credits include The Sisterhood (Belgrade Coventry), The Deep Blue Sea (Watford Palace), The Seagull, My Family & Other Animals (York Theatre Royal), Amy's View (Nottingham Playhouse), Tosca's Kiss, The Stepmother, Love's Comedy, The Man Who Pays the Piper (Orange Tree), She Stoops to Conquer, Major Barbara, Wild Honey (National Theatre). National tours -Ideal Husband (Sir Peter Hall Company), Little Women, Mum's the Word. Film includes Baar Baar Dekho. Television includes Midsomer Murders, Not Going Out, A Touch of Frost and Never the Twain. She played Dr Baz Samuels on and off for 18 years in Casualty. She was the reciter in the world premiere of The Woman and the Hare (Nash Ensemble), the recording of which received a Grammy nomination for Best Performance.

Michael Oakley directs. His most recent theatre credits include The Invisible (Bush Theatre) and The Life and Times of Fanny Hill (Bristol Old Vic). In 2012 he was Co-Artistic Director of Theatre on the Fly - a pop-up venue at Chichester Festival Theatre - where he directed a production of April De Angelis' Playhouse Creatures. Prior to this he was Trainee Director in Residence at Chichester and a recipient of the JMK Award for young directors. He is currently Associate Director of the Young Chekhov trilogy at the National Theatre.

Fotini Dimou returns to the Print Room where she previously designed sets and costumes for Lot and his God by Howard Barker. Fotini trained as set and costume designer at the Central School of Art and Design and has been working extensively as a designer in theatres such as the RSC, National Theatre, Royal Court, Chichester Festival Theatre, as well as the West End and National tours. She has also designed operas for ENO, the Royal Opera House, Wexford Opera, Scottish Opera Touring Company and Opera North. Her work extends to Europe as well as the US where she has designed for Opera and Dance companies such as La Scala in Milan, Baden Baden Festspielhaus, Geneva Opera, and the Metropolitan Opera in NY. This year she designed the costumes for Manon Lescaut at the NY Met and An Italian in Madrid for Richard Alston Dance Company at Sadlers Wells. She also designs for TV dramas and feature films. She won this year's BAFTA costume design TV award for her work on The Dresser, a BBC TV film starring Ian McKellen and Anthony Hopkins.

David Plater returns to the Print Room, having designed lighting for The Cocktail Party, Deathwatch and Terra. David was previously head of lighting at the Donmar Warehouse, and has been Resident Lighting Designer for Ballet Black since their formation in 2001. David has been nominated for Olivier, Tony, and Drama Desk Awards for Best Lighting Design for Bring Up The Bodies (Winter Gardens Broadway, Aldwych, West End); the Knight of Illumination Award for Richard II (Best Play Lighting) in 2012 and for This is My Family (Best Musical Lighting) in 2013. Extensive lighting designs include The Mentalists (Wyndham's), The Glass Supper (Hampstead), Billy Liar (Manchester Royal Exchange), Richard III and Twelfth Night, Roger Rees: What You Will, and 13 The Musical (Apollo Theatre), Richard II, Four Quartets, and Three Days of Rain (Donmar Warehouse), Loyal Women (Royal Court Theatre Downstairs), Macbeth (Sheffield Crucible), Mrs Lowry & Son, The Silence of the Sea, and Stacy/Fanny & Faggot (Trafalgar Studios), and The Chair Plays, Lyric Hammersmith.

Max Pappenheim (Sound Designer). Theatre includes Labyrinth (Hampstead Theatre), Ophelias Zimmer (Schaubühne, Berlin and Royal Court), Jane Wenham (Out of Joint), Cargo (Arcola Theatre), Toast (Park Theatre and 59E59 Theatres, New York), CommonWealth (Almeida Theatre), Waiting for Godot (Sheffield Crucible), Wink (Theatre503), Little Light, The Distance (Orange Tree Theatre, Richmond), Fabric, Invincible (National Tours); The Glass Menagerie, Ghost, Strangers On A Train (English Theatre, Frankfurt), Usagi Yojimbo, Johnny Got His Gun, Three Sisters, Fiji Land, Our Ajax (Southwark Playhouse), Mrs Lowry and Son (Trafalgar Studios), My Eyes Went Dark, Martine, Black Jesus, Somersaults, The Fear of Breathing (Finborough Theatre), The Faction's Rep Season 2015 (New Diorama Theatre), Shopera: Carmen (Royal Opera House), The Hotel Plays (Langham Hotel), Awkward Conversations with Animals I've F*cked (Underbelly, Edinburgh). As Associate: The Island (Young Vic), Fleabag (Soho Theatre). Radio includes Home Front (BBC Radio 4). Nominated for OffWestEnd Awards 2012, 2014 and 2015 for Best Sound Designer.

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