London Classic Theatre: Notice Board 2009

John Dorney	THE NEW BOY The Caretaker resumes on 9 September at the Lawrence Batley Theatre, Huddersfield. We would like to warmly welcome John Dorney to the company, to take over the part of Mick. John played Felix Humble in our 2008/9 tour of Humble Boy and it is excellent to have him on board in a very different role. John's theatre credits include; Peter Pan and Flight (National Theatre); Feelgood (English Speaking Theatres of Vienna & Frankfurt); Something Beginning with… (Orange Tree); Beauty and the Beast (Creation Theatre Company); Better Watch Out (Hampstead); Volpone (Wilton’s Music Hall); The Revengers Tragedy (Southwark Playhouse); Honolulu and Morpheus Descending (Pleasance Courtyard); Jack and the Beanstalk and Aladdin (Roses, Tewkesbury) and An Evening with Gary Lineker (Wimbledon Studio). Posted 30 August 2010
	2011 TOURING PLANS We are delighted to announce our touring plans for the first half of 2011. A season of modern takes on European Classic plays begins with Patrick Marber's After Miss Julie. This sexy, stylish version of Strindberg’s landmark drama will open at the Lawrence Batley Theatre, Huddersfield on 2 February before touring the UK and Ireland for 12 weeks. After Miss Julie is set in July 1945. In a country house near London, celebrations for the Labour Party’s landslide election victory are in full swing. The lady of the house, Miss Julie, descends into the servants’ kitchen to seek out John, her father’s chauffeur. As the night draws in and flirtation turns to passion, the two lovers embark on a consuming and deadly dance of desire. Sex, class and ambition battle for centre stage as Patrick Marber relocates Strindberg’s brutal, sensual love story to post-war England. In March, our season continues with a new version of Henrik Ibsen's Ghosts by award-winning Irish playwright Frank McGuinness. For the very first time, we will have two productions on tour simultaneously. We anticipate that Ghosts will run for a minimum of 15 weeks, until the end of June. Ghosts begins as Helene Alving prepares for the opening of an orphanage, built in memory of her late husband. Her beloved artist son, Oswald, has returned from Paris to honour the occasion, but his long-awaited homecoming rapidly descends into tragedy as his presence triggers the exposure of a dark story of hypocrisy and betrayed love. Ibsen’s study of hidden passions and family secrets remains as dramatically alive as ever in this vital new version. Creative teams for both productions will be announced shortly and casting will begin, initially for After Miss Julie, in October. Posted 16 August 2010
Nicholas Gasson as Davies, Nicholas Gadd as Mick	A PINTER PAUSE After 13 very successful weeks on tour, The Caretaker will take a break for the summer before it re-opens in September. We will all be sad to lose Nicholas Gadd, who is hanging up his leather jacket to pursue opportunities in London. His performance as Mick was outstanding - a perceptive, gutsy interpretation, full of presence and attention to detail. Offstage, his positive attitude, good humour and composure were much appreciated. We wish him all the best for the future. A tour schedule for the Autumn can be found on our CURRENTLY page. Posted 12 July 2010
	CARETAKER EXTENDS We can confirm that our tenth anniversary production of The Caretaker will extend into the Autumn. This second leg of the tour will run for 11 weeks, from 9 September - 20 November, with visits to Oldham Coliseum, Clwyd Theatr Cymru and Lawrence Batley Theatre, Huddersfield. A full tour schedule will be announced shortly. Posted 1 May 2010
	FAREWELL MY LOVELY Our 2010 UK and Ireland tour of The Beauty Queen of Leenane finished at the Lawrence Batley Theatre, Huddersfield on 27 March. As with the 2009 tour of the play, we would like thank everyone involved for a job very well done. The production was a great success, opening at the Everyman Palace Theatre, Cork in February, then touring Ireland for a further four weeks before heading back to the UK. Our outstanding cast - Connie, Paddy, Brendan and Alan - maintained the high standards set by the 2009 production, consistently producing work of the very highest quality. As always, thanks are due to our diligent and talented design team, Kerry, Joe and Katja, who continued to keep the show looking at its very best. Not forgetting Ben and Kris, our stage managers, who gained something of a reputation for embracing Irish hospitality with a similar vigour to their duties behind the scenes! Posted 5 April 2010
	SECOND TIME AROUND We are delighted to introduce the cast of our forthcoming UK and Ireland tour of The Caretaker. Nicholas Gadd will play Mick. Theatre includes: Alison’s House, How He Lied To Her Husband, Major Barbara, The Madras House (Orange Tree), Birdsong, Words, Words, Words (New Wimbledon), Hamlet, Taming of the Shrew, Much Ado About Nothing, Othello (Shakespeare at the Tobacco Factory), Ours (Finborough Theatre), Kangaroo Valley (Southwark Playhouse), Cigarettes & Chocolate (Edinburgh Fringe). Television: Sherlock (BBC), Homeland (Channel 4) and The Bill (ITV). Nicholas Gasson will reprise the role of Davies. Theatre includes: The Picture of Dorian Gray (Greenwich Theatre), A Chip in the Sugar (Theatre Royal Bury St Edmunds); Entertaining Mr Sloane, Someone Who’ll Watch Over Me and The Caretaker (London Classic Theatre); James and the Giant Peach (No. 1 Tour); Season’s Greetings (Mill Theatre, Sonning); Pink for a Boy (Oldham Coliseum); The Self Made Man (RSC Festival); Dick Whittington (Royal, Northampton). Television: Merlin (Shine/BBC), Doctors (BBC), EastEnders (BBC), Shadow in the North (BBC) and Private Life of an Easter Masterpiece (BBC). Richard Stemp will reprise the role of Aston. Richard trained at the Academy of Live and Recorded Arts. He first worked with Michael Cabot on the première of Sebastian Michael’s The Power of Love at the Southwark Playhouse in 1998 and has since worked on three LCT tours: The Game of Love and Chance, The Caretaker and Old Times. Recent theatre includes: Arcadia, Habeas Corpus and Heartbreak House (Pitlochry Festival Theatre), Around the World (Saddlers Wells), As You Like It (Illyria), A Busy Day and Treasure Island (King's Head) and Cloud Nine (White Bear Theatre). Posted 5 March 2010
	2010 TOURING PLANS To celebrate our ten year anniversary as a touring company, LCT will be reviving our 2004 production of The Caretaker by Harold Pinter. A 25-week tour of the UK and Ireland will begin shortly after Easter and run until November. Director Michael Cabot is delighted to welcome back the design team behind our successful 2007/8 tour of Abigail's Party as Geraldine Bunzl (Designer) and Peter Foster (Lighting Designer) again join forces. Casting for the show will be announced shortly. Posted 20 February 2010
Alan DeVally as Ray Dooley	A NEW CHAPTER We are delighted to introduce the cast of our forthcoming 2010 tour of The Beauty Queen of Leenane. Alan DeVally will reprise the role of Ray Dooley, which he played with distinction on the 2009 tour. Alan is a recent graduate of East 15 where he founded and became associate director of Struck Dumb Theatre. During his time at East 15, Alan was chosen to work with the RSC and performed at the Globe Theatre, London. Theatre includes: Mrs Affleck (Royal National Theatre), Tombstone Tales and Boothill Ballads (Arcola Theatre/Beggar’s Belief), Threadbare Greebo (2headedpigeon), Cure (Underbelly) and Hyde Park (Globe Theatre, Sam Wanamaker Festival). Brendan Fleming will play Pato Dooley. Theatre includes: A Daughter of the Aurora (Proteus), Molly Sweeney (Forest Forge), The Good Thief (Soho Theatre, The Weir (Royal Court), Fighting The Tide (Hull Truck), Tales From Home (Tricycle), The Rock Station (Finborough), Tamburlaine in Tamburlaine the Great (Cochrane Theatre) and Deirdre of the Sorrows (Riverside). Television & film includes: Doctors (BBC), Kavanagh QC (ITV), Murphy’s Law (BBC), Judge Dredd (Universal Pictures) and Ardeevan (RTE). Paddy Glynn will play Mag Folan. Originally from County Wicklow, Paddy started her career as a dancer at the London Palladium. Musical Theatre includes: Sweeney Todd (Bristol Old Vic), King’s Rhapsody (National Tour), Liza of Lambeth (Shaftesbury), Billy Elliott (Victoria Palace) and Fiddler on the Roof (Auckland). Paddy recently toured the UK as Aunt Bridget in The Holly and the Ivy. Television & film includes: Cast Offs, Doctors, Keen Eddie, Metrosexuality, London’s Burning, Newsround and Lucky Old Bag! Connie Walker will play Maureen Folan. Theatre includes: Separate Tables (Chichester), Spring Awakening (Novello Theatre), Deathtrap (English Theatre, Frankfurt), Plunder (Watermill, Newbury), Kes and Top Girls (New Vic, Stoke), Inside Out (Arcola/Tour), Happy Birthday Brecht (National Theatre), Mother Courage and The Miser (New Wolsey, Ipswich), Much Ado About Nothing (Manchester Royal Exchange) and The Caucasian Chalk Circle (Mercury, Colchester). Television includes: Silent Witness, Casualty, Belle de Jour, New Tricks, Blackpool, Doctors, MIT, The Vice, Dream Team and Holby City. Posted 11 January 2010

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