Aidan Downing will play Nugget/Young Horseman. Theatre includes: Richard III (Caravanserai), Che Walker’s 3 Short Plays (Riverside Studios), The Cherry Orchard and The Queen of Spades (Shchukin Theatre Moscow), Cymbeline (Globe); Lilies (The Space) and The Death of Peter Fetcher (ICA).

Film: Henry V, Devilment, The Ministry and Telstar.

Malcolm James will play Martin Dysart. Malcolm's extensive theatre credits include: The Potting Shed (Finborough); The Importance of Being Earnest, Private Fears in Public Places and My Night with Reg (Library Theatre, Manchester); The Lady in the Van (Salisbury Playhouse); The Portrait of a Lady and A Doll’s House (Theatre Royal, Bath & Tour); An Eligible Man (New End); Of Mice and Man (Theatre By The Lake, Keswick); Still Life (Theatre Royal, Plymouth); Old King Cole (Cochrane Theatre); Kes, Romeo and Juliet, Ham, Toad of Toad Hall, Neville’s Island and Second from Last in The Sack Race; Mrs Warren’s Profession (Bristol Old Vic); Sleeping Beauty (Royal, Northampton); The Lady in the Van, The Tempest and The Nutcracker (West Yorkshire Playhouse); A Chaste Maid in Cheapside (Old Red Lion, London); My Sister in This House (Theatr Clwyd); Volpone and Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead (National Theatre); King Lear (Crucible Theatre, Sheffield); Much Ado About Nothing and The Merry Wives of Windsor (Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre); The Triumph of Love (Gate Theatre, London).

Television; Coronation Street and Undercover Customs (Granada); Tales From The Tower (Ardent Television); Heartbeat (ITV); Crossroads (Carlton); Brookside (C4); The Bill (Thames).

After 13 weeks and 57 performances, our tour of After Miss Julie finished in impressive style at the New Vic Theatre, Newcastle-under-Lyme last Saturday.

Our thanks to all involved with the show. Kathryn, Andy, Helen and Kris all worked hard to make the production a success. They were a tight-knit, committed team, passionate about the work, approaching a busy schedule with energy and good humour.

Kerry Bradley's striking, detailed set design and Katja Krzesinska's beautiful costumes created a totally believable world, as a 1940s kitchen shimmered into life under Peter Foster's atmospheric lighting. Zoe Blackford's intelligent sound design caught the mood of the time with clarity and imagination.

Posted 4 May 2011

We are delighted to announce that in Autumn 2011, LCT has been granted the rights for a major national tour of Peter Shaffer's Equus .

Following in the footsteps of the immense success enjoyed by the play’s West End revival in 2007, Shaffer’s powerful, absorbing drama will visit the following venues as part of an extensive Autumn tour: Connaught Theatre Worthing, Oldham Coliseum, Lighthouse Poole, Lawrence Batley Huddersfield, Theatre Royal Winchester and Buxton Opera House.  

Equus was originally staged in 1973 at the National Theatre, London. In 1977, a film adaptation of the play was released starring Richard Burton and Peter Firth. In 2007, the play was revived in the West End for the first time since its première, in a critically-acclaimed production starring Daniel Radcliffe and Richard Griffiths.

Peter Shaffer was born in 1926. His award-winning plays include The Royal Hunt of the Sun (1964), Black Comedy (1965) and Amadeus (1979). Equus won the Tony Award and New York Critics Circle Award for Best New Play in 1977.

Inspired by a true story, Peter Shaffer's unique psychological thriller explores the complex relationships between worship, myth and sexuality.

In a Hampshire stable, a youth blinds six horses with a metal spike.

Convicted of this appalling crime, seventeen-year-old Alan Strang is sent to a secure psychiatric hospital. Martin Dysart, the child psychiatrist assigned to him, begins to probe Alan’s past in an attempt to understand his motives. Initially the boy is uncooperative, but as Dysart digs deeper, he begins to win Alan’s trust and the truth gradually emerges. Finally, as Alan struggles to be free of his demons, he must relive the events of that terrible night.

The creative team for Equus will be announced shortly and casting will begin after Easter.

Posted 29 March 2011

Peter Cadden will play Engstrand. For London Classic Theatre: Paddy Rice in Molly Sweeney, Kemp in Entertaining Mr Sloane, Ralph in Frozen and George Pye in Humble Boy. Other theatre includes All My Sons (tour of Austria), The Diary of Anne Frank and Lady Windermere's Fan (Birmingham Rep), Sense & Sensibility (Northcott Theatre, Exeter), The Creeper (UK Tour), Ohio Impromptu (Barbican), Measure For Measure (RSC) and A Flea In Her Ear (Old Vic).