Serenading Louie

Donmar Warehouse

Directed by Simon Curtis

Tue 30 March – Sat 3 April

Press night: Tue 30 March 2010, 8pm

Syndicated print interviews are available with Simon Curtis and Jason O’Mara

The destruction of dreams and the loss of passion and purpose of two suburban American couples is the focus of the Donmar’s latest production at The Lowry later this month.

Award-winning American playwright, Lanford Wilson’s timeless tale is brought to life by director Simon Curtis (Cranford, A Short Stay in Switzerland, David Copperfield) and a stellar cast including Geraldine Somerville (Harry Potter, Survivors, Cracker), Jason O’Mara (Life on Mars US version), Charlotte Emmerson (Casualty 1909, Holby City, Peak Practice) and Jason Butler Harner (The Good Wife, Hope & Faith) who makes his UK theatrical debut.

Friends since college, Carl and Alex are struggling to deal with the harsh realities of adulthood as they enter their thirties. Disillusioned by work and struggling to keep their marriages alive, they’re desperately trying to make sense of it all.

Curtis began his directing work at the Royal Court where he ran the Theatre Upstairs and directed the world première of Jim Cartwright’s Road – later at Lincoln Center - and A Lie of the Mind with Miranda Richardson. Other credits include Making History (National Theatre), The Rise and Fall of Little Voice (Steppenwolf Theater, Chicago & Broadway), Dinner with Friends (Hampstead Theatre) and Otherwise Engaged (Criterion Theatre). For television, his directing credits include the multi award-winning Cranford, A Short Stay in Switzerland, Freezing, Five Days, Twenty Thousand Streets Under the Sky, The Practice, Man and Boy, The Sins, David Copperfield, The Student Prince and Pinter’s Old Times with John Malkovich. As Executive Producer of Performance at the BBC he was responsible for over 50 productions including Poliakoff’s Shooting the Past and Pride.

Posted on Friday, 05 March 2010 under Press Theatre Press

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