Owen Teale Joins Ian McKellen and Patrick Stewart in NO MAN'S LAND

Tony Award-winning actor Owen Teale will play Briggs in Sean Mathias's production of Harold Pinter's NO MAN'S LAND, which tours the UK in August, finishing with a limited run at Wyndham's Theatre in the West End from September. Teale joins theatrical legends Ian McKellan and Patrick Stewart, with further casting still to be announced.

Known recently for playing Ser Alliser Thorne in HBO's Game of Thrones, Owen Teale won the 1997 Tony Award for Best Actor in a Featured Role in a Play for his portrayal of Torvald in A Doll's House, for which he was also nominated for an Olivier Award. Other notable theatre credits include Dance of Death (also alongside Ian McKellen and directed by Sean Mathias), Ivanov at the National Theatre, Julius Caesar, King Lear and Henry IV for the RSC. He appeared in HBO's Conspiracy, alongside Kenneth Branagh, Stanley Tucci and Colin Firth, and other screen credits include The Cherry Orchard opposite Charlotte Rampling and ITV's Torchwood.

No Man's Land will embark on a UK tour, opening at the Lyceam Theatre in Sheffield on August 3, followed by dates at Theatre Royal Newcastle, Theatre Royal Brighton and New Theatre Cardiff. The production will then head into London's West End where it will play a limited 14-week engagement at Wyndham's Theatre from September 8, with press night on September 20. No Man's Land was first performed at the iconic Wyndham's Theatre in 1975 with Ralph Richardson and John Gielgud, following its premiere at the National Theatre.

Directed by Sean Mathias, this production of No Man's Land received highly acclaimed reviews at the Cort Theatre in New York whilst in repertory alongside Waiting for Godot, also starring McKellen and Stewart and directed by Mathias. The production of Waiting for Godot had transferred from London where it celebrated a sell-out run at the Theatre Royal Haymarket, the last time McKellen and Stewart shared a West End stage.

One summer's evening, two ageing writers, Hirst and Spooner, meet in a Hampstead pub and continue their drinking into the night at Hirst's stately house nearby. As the pair become increasingly inebriated, and their stories increasingly unbelievable, the lively conversation soon turns into a revealing power game, further complicated by the return home of two sinister younger men.

No Man's Land will have set and costume design by Stephen Brimson Lewis and lighting design by Peter Kaczorowski.

For more information and to book tickets, visit www.NoMansLandThePlay.com

Photo credit: Luke Fontana

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