THE AMERICAN PLAN to Transfer to St. James Theatre

St. James Theatre and Theatre Royal Bath Productions present the Ustinov Studio production of The American Plan by Richard Greenberg, directed by David Grindley. The production will transfer to the St. James Theatre from Tuesday 2 July to Saturday 10 August 2013, with press night on Monday 8 July at 7pm. The production received its UK premiere earlier this year at the Ustinov Studio, Bath. Booking opens for members and friends of the St. James Theatre on Monday 6 May and to the general public on Wednesday 8 May 2013.

The cast comprises Diana Quick in the role of Eva, with Luke Allen-Gale as Nick, Emily Taaffe as Lili, Dona Croll as Olivia and Mark Edel- Hunt as Gil. The production is designed by Jonathan Fensom with lighting by Jason Taylor and sound by Gregory Clarke.

A tangle of ravaged dreams, broken souls, twisted motives and deceit, The American Plan takes place against a backdrop of the Catskill Mountains during a 1960s summer.

Lili Adler, the beautiful, fragile daughter of a wealthy German-Jewish refugee, meets Nick Lockridge, a handsome young stranger, and finds herself falling in love. But when her overbearing mother learns of their relationship, she proceeds to poison the young man's affection and Lili's one chance to escape her mother's control looks like being lost forever.

Richard Greenberg is the author of The Assembled Parties, which has recently been nominated for the 2013 Tony Award for Best Play. His play Take Me Out, which received an acclaimed production on Broadway after successful runs at the Donmar Warehouse and The Public Theater in New York, won the 2003 Tony Award for Best Play, the Drama Desk Award, the NY Drama Critics Circle Award, the Outer Critics Circle Award and Lucille Lortel Award. Other works include The House in Town; The Violet Hour; The Dazzle (Outer Critics Circle Award); Everett Beekin; Three Days of Rain (L.A. Drama Critics Award), which received a Broadway revival in 2006 starring Julia Roberts and a West End revival in 2009 starring James McAvoy; Hurrah At Last; Night and Her Stars; Life Under Water and The Author's Voice, among others. His adaptation of Strindberg's Dance of Death was seen on Broadway starring Ian McKellen, Helen Mirren and David Straithairn. He is writing the book for a musical version of Todd Haynes's film Far From Heaven and has adapted Breakfast at Tiffany's for the stage. Greenberg received the Oppenheimer Award for a new playwright as well as the first PEN/Laura Pels Award for a playwright in mid-career. He is an associate artist at South Coast Repertory and a member of Ensemble Studio Theater.

David Grindley's recent directorial credits include Our Boys (Duchess); Enron (Tokyo); Copenhagen (Sheffield); The Misanthrope (Stratford, Canada); Journey's End (tour/Duke of York's); Jeffrey Bernard Is Unwell (tour); Six Degrees of Separation (Old Vic); A Midsummer Night's Dream (Stratford, Canada); The Philanthropist (Broadway); The American Plan (Broadway); Crown Matrimonial (tour); Blackbird (tour); Pygmalion (Broadway) and Journey's End (Broadway), which won the 2007 Tony Award for Best Revival. Further credits include In the Club (Hampstead/tour); Honour (Wyndham's); The Philanthropist (Donmar); National Anthems (Old Vic); What the Butler Saw (Hampstead/Criterion); Some Girls (Gielgud); Journey's End (Comedy/tour); Abigail's Party (Hampstead/ Ambassadors/tour); Loot (Chichester/Vaudeville); Single Spies (tour); Richard III (Mercury, Colchester) and The League of Gentlemen.

Diana Quick's recent theatre performances include Maria Callas in Aristos, Single Spies; the title role in Mother Courage and Her Children directed by Stephen Unwin and Mrs Clandon in Sir Peter Hall's West End production of You Never Can Tell. Her extensive theatre credits include Ghosts (English Touring Theatre) - for which she won both the Barclays/TMA Award and the Manchester Evening News Award for Best Actress - Be My Baby (Soho Theatre); Mother Teresa is Dead, The Old Neighbourhood, The Sea and Lear (Royal Court); Hamlet, The Changeling and The Women Pirates (RSC) and A Map of the World, Troilus and Cressida, Tamburlaine, Plunder and Phaedra Brittanica (National Theatre). On television she is perhaps best known for her role as Lady Julia Flyte in the 1981 Granada Television production of Brideshead Revisited. Further television credits include Case Histories, George Gently, Law & Order UK, Lewis, New Tricks, The Queen, The Protectors, Kingdom II and Catwalk Dogs, Midsomer Murders and Poirot: Sad Cypress. On film she has appeared in Side by Side (for release 2013), Mother's Milk, Love/Loss, The Revenger's Tragedy, The Discovery of Heaven, L'Affaire du Collier, A.K.A., Saving Grace, Vigo: Burning Up, The Leading Man, Nostradamus, Wilt, Vroom, The Duellists, The Big Sleep, The Odd Job, Ordeal by Innocence, 1919, Max mon amour, Nicholas and Alexandra and A Private Enterprise. Diana is the director of the Aldeburgh Documentary Festival.

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