Sienna Miller to Star in West End's BIRDSONG this Fall?

Sienna Miller may be making her return to the London stage in the Trevor Nunn-directed Birdsong, by Sebastian Faulks, The U.K. Sunday Telegraph is reporting. She was last seen on the West End in the Young Vic's 2005 production of As You Like It. Birdsong is scheduled to open at the Comedy Theatre On 29 September 2010, with previews beginning on 18 September.  It is rumored that she will be co-starring alongside Dan Stevens.

Birdsong is a 1993 war novel by the English author Sebastian Faulks. Faulks' fourth novel, it tells of a man, Stephen Wraysford at different stages of his life both before and during World War I. Birdsong is part of a trilogy of novels by Sebastian Faulks which includes The Girl at the Lion d'Or and Charlotte Gray which are all linked through location, history and several minor characters.

The stage script is being penned by Rachel Wagstaff.  She previously adapted The Girl at the Lion d'Or for Radio 4.

According to the report, "[Miller] is said to be pursuing the role of Isabelle after playing the part in an early read-through of the play in February...Dan Stevens, the actor who played the lead in the BBC's adaptation of Alan Hollinghurst's novel, The Line of Beauty, is thought to be in the running for the role of Stephen."

Working Title Productions, who obtained the rights to the book in 1999 has made several attempts to bring the story to the stage, with numerous actors and directors attached to the attempts throughout the last decade including Sam Mendes, Harold Pinter, and Ralph Fiennes, Ewan McGregor and Eva Green.

To read the full report in the Sunday Telegraph, click here.

Miller made her Broadway debut in the Roundabout's production of After Miss Julie last fall, starring with Johnny Lee Miller and Marin Ireland.  On screen, she has appeared in Alfie, Factory Girl, Interview, G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra, Hasbro, Layer Cake, Casanova, The Edge of Love, for which she received a British Independent Film Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress and The Mysteries of Pittsburgh.

 

 

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