Rory Kinnear will play Angelo, Anna Maxwell Martin will be Isabella, and Ben Miles will be the Duke in Shakespeare's Measure for Measure, to run February 11 - April 10 at the Almeida Theatre. Michael Attenborough will direct. Additional casting will be announced at a later date.As previously announced, Kinnear will also play the title role in Nicholas Hytner's staging of Hamlet at the National Theatre next year.
The creative team includes Lez Brotherston (production design), David Hersey (lighting design), Stephen Warbeck (music), and John Leonard (sound design).
For further information, visit www.almeida.co.uk.
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She was Lyra in Philip Pullman’s His Dark Materials at the National, she has shared the stage with Eileen Atkins (in Honour and The Female of the Species), played Isabella in Measure for Measure, Regan in King Lear and Sally Bowles in Cabaret. She has worn bonnets in Bleak House and North and South, a corset as Elizabeth Darcy in PD James's Death Comes to Pemberley (pictured below) and a prison officer’s uniform in Accused, a gritty Jimmy McGovern story on television. An enviably versatile actress, Anna Maxwell Martin has won two BAFTAs (for Esther Summerson in Bleak House and N in Poppy Shakespeare) and been nominated for an Olivier (for Lyra). Maxwell Martin has scarcely been out of work since her first job after graduation, in The Little Foxes at the Donmar. Now she is back at the National Theatre, in Consent, a new play by Nina Raine, directed by her husband Roger Michell, who previously directed Raine’s lauded Tribes at the Royal Court. Maxwell Martin’s character, Kitty, i...
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