Photo Preview: Rylance, Hickey, Margolyes & McBurney in Duchess Theatre's ENDGAME
By: Aimee Savoth Oct. 21, 2009
The Duchess Theatre presents Endgame by Samuel Beckett. In Beckett's one act play the aged and blind Hamm and his servant Clov co-exist in a mutually dependent and fractious relationship, with only Hamm's parents, Nell and Nagg, legless from a biking accident, for company. They are condemned to a daily routine sealed off from the void outside.
Endgame, Beckett's second play, premiered in 1957 at the Royal Court in French as Fin de partie. He later translated the work into English and it was published in 1958.
This production of Endgame stars Mark Rylance, Simon McBurney, Miram Margolyes, and Tom Hickey. Endgame plays at the Duchess Theatre (Catherine Street, London, WC2B 5LA) through December 5. Endgame performs Monday to Saturday at 7.30pm, Matinee on Saturday at 3pm.
Tickets are £20 - £46 and may be purchased by calling the box office at 0844 4124659 or by visiting www.nimaxtheatres.com. Dayseats are available at £20 from 10am each day of performance.
Actor, writer, director and co-founder of Complicité, Simon McBurney has written, directed and acted in more than 30 productions for the company, most recently Shun-kin, A Disappearing Number, Measure for Measure, A Minute Too Late, The Elephant Vanishes, Pet Shop Boys meet Eisenstein (Trafalgar Square) and Strange Poetry (with the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra in the Walt Disney Concert Hall). Other directing credits include All My Sons (with John Lithgow, Diane Wiest, Patrick Wilson and Katie Holmes on Broadway) and The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui (with Al Pacino in New York). As an actor he performs extensively in feature films including Body of Lies, The Duchess, The Last King of Scotland, Friends With Money, The Golden Compass and the forthcoming Boogie Woogie, Hippie Hippie Shake, Ridley Scott's Robin Hood and Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. He is the recipient of the 2008 Berlin Academy of Arts Konrad Wolf Prize for outstanding multi-disciplinary artists.
Complicité's most recent work is Shun-kin, co-produced with the Setagaya Public Theatre, Tokyo and bite09 which will tour in Autumn 2010 and A Disappearing Number winner of the 2007 Evening Standard Theatre Award, 2007 Critics' Circle Award and 2008 Laurence Olivier Award, all for Best New Play. Other recent work includes the BBC Radio adaptation of A Disappearing Number and a world tour of Measure for Measure (a co-production with the National Theatre). The company is currently working on its first opera, A Dog's Heart, for De Nederlandse Opera and an original screenplay with American writer Jonathan Safran Foer. Complicité's education work informs and reflects its artistic programme. Working across artistic disciplines, it explores ideas that contribute to the creation of new work, as well as complementing Current Productions.
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