GHOSTS with Lesley Manville to Transfer to Trafalgar Studios from 17 Dec

The Almeida Theatre's five-star production of Ibsen's Ghosts, adapted and directed by Richard Eyre, will transfer to Trafalgar Studios, playing from Tuesday 17 December. Lesley Manville, Jack Lowden, Brian McCardie and Charlene McKenna will reprise their roles and are joined by Adam Kotz as Pastor Manders.

Tickets are now on sale at www.atgtickets.com or www.almeida.co.uk.

Richard Eyre was announced as Best Director for Ghosts at Sunday's Evening Standard Theatre Awards. Lesley Manville was nominated for the Natasha Richardson Award for Best Actress and the production's Designer Tim Hatley and Lighting Designer Peter Mumford were jointly nominated for Best Design.

Helene Alving has spent her life suspended in an emotional void after the death of her cruel but outwardly charming husband. She is determined to escape the ghosts of her past by telling her son, Oswald, the truth about his father. But on his return from his life as a painter in France, Oswald reveals how he has already inherited the legacy of his father's dissolute life.

Multi award-winning theatre, film and television actor Lesley Manville was last on stage in Grief at the National Theatre, where she has previously been seen in Her Naked Skin, Pillars of the Community, The Alchemist and His Dark Materials. Other theatre credits include Six Degrees of Separation and All About My Mother at the Old Vic, Top Girls, Serious Money, The Pope's Wedding and Three Sisters at the Royal Court and for the Royal Shakespeare Company she has been seen in The Wives' Excuse, Les Liaisons Dangereuses and As You Like It. On screen, Lesley has regularly collaborated with Mike Leigh in films including Another Year, All or Nothing, Topsy-Turvy, Secrets and Lies and High Hopes. Her other film credits include The Christmas Candle, Molly Moon, Maleficent, Romeo and Juliet, Spike Island and A Christmas Carol. On television her credits include An Adventure in Space and Time, The Man Who Would Be Bond, Mayday, Cranford, North and South, Bodily Harm, Other Peoples' Children, Promoted To Glory, The Cazalets, David Copperfield, Painted Lady, The Bite, Holding On, Tears Before Bedtime, A Statement of Affairs, Top Girls, Grown-Ups and The Firm.

Adam Kotz's theatre credits include The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, Murmuring Judges, Trelawny of the Wells, Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme, The Miser, Racing Demon, Command or Promise and True Dare Kiss all at the National Theatre, Love's Labours Lost and War Play Trilogy at the Royal Shakespeare Company, Falling at the Bush Theatre and 1953 at the Almeida. Most recently he performed in Sherlock's Last Case at The Watermill Theatre. Adam's many television credits include Homeland, Silent Witness and Band of Gold. His film work includes Complicit, Salmon Fishing in the Yemen and The Last King of Scotland.

Jack Lowden was most recently on stage in Chariots of Fire at Hampstead Theatre/Gielgud Theatre. His previous roles include Cammy in the Laurence Olivier award-winning Black Watch for the National Theatre of Scotland/Barbican and on tour worldwide. On television his credits include Mrs Biggs, Blue Haven and Being Victor and the forthcoming The Tunnel. His film credit is uwantme2killhim?

Brian McCardie's theatre credits include A Doll's House for the National Theatre of Scotland and A Number, The Mercy Seat and Gagarin Way all for Prime Cut Theatre. His television credits include The Crash, The Accused, Shameless and Whistleblowers. On film his credits include Filth, The Damned United and 200 Cigarettes.

Charlene McKenna's previous theatre credits include The Eleventh Capital at the Royal Court, Lonesome West at The Lyric in Belfast and Romeo and Juliet at the Garage in Monaghan. Her television credits include Ripper Street, Misfits, Merlin, Raw, Sirens, Law and Order UK, Being Human, The Fixer, Whistleblower and The Old Curiosity Shop. Charlene's film work includes A Boy Called Dad, Dorothy Mills, Porcelain, Middletown, Tiger's Tale and Breakfast on Pluto.

Richard Eyre's credits at the Almeida include The Dark Earth and the Light Sky, David Hare's The Judas Kiss - his first production after leaving the National Theatre where he was Director from 1988 - 1997 - The Novice and Hedda Gabler. His more recent work as a director for the stage includes the award-winning production of Arthur Miller's The Crucible on Broadway, the world premieres of Nicholas Wright's Vincent in Brixton and The Reporter both for the National Theatre, Noel Coward's Private Lives on Broadway and the musical Mary Poppins. Most recently he directed Quartermaine's Terms at the Wyndham's Theatre and The Pajama Game for Chichester Festival Theatre. Richard will next direct Stephen Ward The Musical, running at the Aldwych Theatre from 3 December 2013. For television his credits include Changing Stages - a BBC Series on the history of theatre in the 20th century, which he co-wrote with Nicholas Wright and presented and the BAFTA award-winning Tumbledown. Eyre recently directed the critically-acclaimed Henry IV Parts 1 and 2 for the BBC's 2012 Shakespeare Season. His film credits include Iris, Stage Beauty, Notes on a Scandal and The Other Man.

Ghosts will be produced in the West End by Sonia Friedman Productions and The Almeida Theatre.

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