Linda Marlowe stars in in the acclaimed revival of Tennessee Williams’ most daring and extraordinary plays
Mark is a world-famous artist. He and his grasping wife Miriam are caught in a fiercely symbiotic bond of need and hatred. Having played midwife to his incredible career, Mark has been both Miriam’s validation and despair. Now she wants to leave, afraid that Mark is in the grip of a breakdown and he can no longer create. Mark, however, senses a breakthrough coming. He returns again and again to his canvases, which “demand what I can’t give them yet”. The scene is set both for a savage and witty dance of death, and an autobiographical meditation on creativity and envy of success.
Linda Marlowe is superb as the haunted Miriam
Flamin Norma ★★★★★
Linda Marlowe is a stunningly elegant, poised and utterly ruthless Miriam. An impressive tour de–force performance
WhatsOnStage
Performances, production values, and direction are outstanding
Remote Goat ★★★★
Linda Marlowe gives a bravura performance
Broadway World
It’s good to see Charing Cross Theatre continue to programme challenging work
The Times
Well worth seeing for the remarkable Linda Marlowe - and for a chance to give Tennessee Williams a different moment in the sun
Live Theatre ★★★★
Dates & Times
4 APR - 14 MAY
Mon - Sat 7.30pm
Wed matinee 2.30pm
Sat matinee 3pm
Tickets
includes best stalls locations, a programme and a glass of bubbly
Stalls £29.50
Balcony £22.50
Slips £17.50
The are no booking fees charged on phone and internet orders. Box office at theatre open to personal callers from two hours before the curtain time for every performance.
Tel: 08444 930 650
Cast
West End acting credits include: Decadence, The Trial, Metamorp-hosis, Hamlet, Greek, Coriolanus directed by Steven Berkoff. Too Clever By Half and A Flea in Her Ear directed by Richard Jones at the Old Vic. One Flew Over The Cuckoos Nest (Manchester Royal Exchange); A Streetcar Named Desire (Sherman Theatre, Cardiff); Callas directed by Paul Kerryson (Oldham Coliseum); Suddenly Last Summer directed by Ralph Koltai (Nottingham Playhouse). For the Royal Shakespeare Company: The Virtuoso, Twelfth Night and The Theban Triology.
Recent theatre includes: Mother Adam, Dance Of Death.
TV credits include: Eastenders, Houdini, The Guilty, The Borgias, Midsomer Murders, Coronation Street, Jekyl, Holby City, Family, She’s Out and The Green Man.
Film credits include: The Wedding Video, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, Day of the Dead, The House of Mirth, Mr Love, Manifesto and soon to be seen in the film Denial.
Linda Marlowe worked with Steven Berkoff over a twenty-five year span in most of his plays, touring internationally and in Londons West End. Her association with him gave rise to her first solo show, Berkoffs Women, directed by Josie Lawrence. She then followed it on with six more solo shows including No Fear!, Mortal Ladies Possessed, Believe, The World’s Wife and Miss Havisham’s Expectations. She has toured these shows nationally and internationally and won The WhatsOnStage, Peoples Choice Theatre Award as Best Actress in her solo show Berkoff's Women, seen in the West End at the Ambassadors Theatre, London in 2001.
Andrew Koji is an Actor based in London of Anglo-Japanese descent.
He has appeared in the BBC TV Action Comedy series, The Wrong Mans, alongside James Corden and Mathew Baynton and BBC One's Casualty and Call the Midwife.
He performed in the play #:aiww : The Arrest of Aiweiwei at the Hampstead Theatre written by Howard Brenton. He also appeared in the play The Fu Manchu Complex directed by Justin Audibert.
He also writes and produces his own films. His film Above the Waist won him the Best Actor award at the Asians on Film Festival and was nominated for best film. His next film Hall of Mirrors is currently in post-production and aims to raise awareness of body dysmorphic disorder.
Yasmine has enjoyed a long and varied career on the stage and screen spanning over 20 years. Firstly being a singer in a girl band, then branching out as a model and presenter. Modelling for various campaigns including Lynx, Vivienne Westwood and Nivea and presenting for companies such as I Can Kids, Nokia and the NHS.
High profile commercials include: 2013 Yasmine head the Tesco Lamb campaign. 2014 head the Coca Cola worldwide campaign. And 2015 the face of Theatre Tokens UK.
Film work includes: Triads, Yardies and Onion Bhajees which won best foreign film in Cannes in 2003, The Ungone from the writers of Dr Who and The Attachment horror film to be released 2016.
Soon to be seen on Channel 5’s 50 Ways To Kill Your Lover (June 2016) as Emilia Basil in Chefs Special – a true story of how a Lebanese restauranteur killed and cooked her lover, and then served him up to her customers!
And this summer on The Discovery Channels, The Chase, as Griselda Blanco the Black Widow, a real life ‘Godmother gangster’ who ordered the hit on a shopping mall in the states killing 40 people.
Alan trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art.
Theatre includes: Hamlet (Donmar at Wyndham’s Theatre, Elsinore Castle and Broadhurst Theatre, New York); A Cry From Heaven (Abbey Theatre); The Tempest, The Winter’s Tale and Pericles (Royal Shakespeare Company); Gates of Gold and John Ferguson (Finborough Theatre); John Bull’s Other Island (Tricycle Theatre); Sweet Bird Of Youth (Dundee Rep); Lagan (Ovalhouse); Stars In The Morning Sky (Belgrade Theatre); A View From The Bridge (Harrogate Theatre); InFlame (Jermyn Street Theatre); The Santaland Diaries (Union Theatre); Touch (Tristan Bates Theatre); What If (Theatre Renegade / Southwark Playhouse).
Film includes: Knights of the Round Table: King Arthur, Dad’s Army, Nine Volts, Want It, The Man From U.N.C.L.E., Drone, Implementation, Love, Door Out Of The Dark and Pure.
Television includes: Mr. Selfridge, Strike Back, 10 Days To War, Dates, Hollyoaks, Spying On Hitler’s Army, Holby City, In4 and Doctors.
Radio includes: Eight Hundred And Thirty Seven Point Nine, Portrait Of A Year, Journey From The New World and Soul Music.
David last appeared at the Charing Cross Theatre in Robert Chevara’s production of Vieux Carré by Tennesee Williams. After the run of Tokyo Hotel he will be playing Monsieur Maingot in French Without Tears at the Orange Tree and on a national tour.
Other theatre includes: Aladdin (Milton Keynes and Bristol Hippodrome); Sleeping Beauty (Waterside); The Woman in Black (for GEST in Gothenburg and at the Stadsteater in Stockholm); The Widowing of Mrs Holroyd, The Thunderbolt, Mary Goes First, A Journey to London, Double Double, Trifles, Sauce for the Goose, King Lear, Magnificence (Orange Tree); Pride and Prejudice, Romeo and Juliet, Twelfth Night, Much Ado About Nothing, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Henry V, As You Like It, The Dark Lady of the Sonnets, Love’s Labours Lost (Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre); London Wall (Finborough and St James Theatre); Rigor Mortis (Finborough); The Second Mrs Tanqueray (Rose Theatre); London Assurance (National Theatre); Wuthering Heights (Birmingham Rep) and The Mousetrap (St Martin’s).
TV includes: Alan Titchmarsh Show, The Bill, Nicholas Nickleby, Jasper Carrott, Big Deal, Poldark, Miss Jones and Son, Colditz, Z Cars, Coronation Street, A Family at War, Barlow, Armchair Theatre. Films include: Love’s Kitchen, Little Dorrit.
Creatives
Robert Chevara is an award-winning freelance theatre and opera director who divides his time between London and Berlin.
He is currently an Associate Director at the King's Head Theatre in London, and was previously a Director of Productions at the English Touring Opera. He recently directed the Danish premiere of Cock and Bull by Mike Bartlett (Aalborg Theatre, Denmark). He is currently developing new theatre pieces with Alexis Gregory and JJ Bibby. His production of Vieux Carré won 'Best Revival of a Play Award' 2013 from Front Row Dress.
Previous Theatre productions include: Tennessee Williams' The Chorus Girl Plays (Tennessee Williams Festival, Provincetown 2013), the world premiere of Lionel Bart's musical Quasimodo (Kings Head Theatre, 2013); Tennessee Williams' Vieux Carré (Charing Cross Theatre transfer from King's Head Theatre); The Glass Menagerie (TheatreSpace, London); As You Like It (English Theatre Berlin); Fair!, devised play with music (NYT at Bullwood Hall Prison, Essex); Caryl Churchill's Top Girls (Hau Theatre, Berlin); Hotter than Rochester by Paul Doust (Théâtre du Neslé. Paris); JM Barrie's Mary Rose; Strindberg's Easter (both TheatreSpace, London); Eva Peron/ The Four Twins, a double-bill by Copi (BAC).
Previous opera productions include: Die Fledermaus (his own new version, King's Head Theatre); West End Girl (a new version of Puccini's La Fanciulla del West, King's Head Theatre); La Voix Humaine (Cocteau/Poulenc, Stockholm Opera House, awarded Best Contemporary Opera production); Powder Her Face (Thomas Adès, Ystad Opera Festival, Sweden, awarded Best Contemporary Opera Production); Potent Shakespeare (Toovey, Festival Hall, London); To Be Sung (world premiere by Pascal Dusapin, Banff Centre); Madama Butterfly (Opera New Zealand); The Rake's Progress, Carmen, Macbeth, Fidelio, Werther (all English Touring Opera); Hand of Bridge by Barber, Blue Monday by Gershwin; and Bernstein's Trouble in Tahiti (all Barbican Centre, London).
Selected work includes: La Traviata (Stand Moutier, Switzerland); The Window (Rambert Dance Company); The Divided Laing (Arcola Theatre); Cock/Bull (Aalborg Teater, Denmark); The Lilly Of The Valley (ROH2); Nordost (Salisbury Playhouse); Fanciulla del West (Opera Up Close); Vieux Carre (Kings Head / Charing Cross Theatre); Playing the Victim (Royal Court Theatre, Told by An Idiot); Some Girls Are Bigger Than Others (Lyric Hammersmith); Private Fears In Public Places (Royal Theatre Northampton); Eugene Onegin (Hampstead Opera); In The Jungle Of Cities (Arcola Theatre, Splitmoon); Desert Boy (Nitro Theatre Company); Orpheo et Euridice (Scarlett Opera); Watership Down (Hammersmith Theatre); Here Be Monsters (Rejects Revenge, Liverpool); Medea (New York); Habe Kein Angst (Betty Nansen, Copenhagen); Winter Under The Table, The Map Makers Sorrow (Eklektisk, Copenhagen); Mine (Kaos Theatre); Billy Budd (Southwark Playhouse); Shivered (Webber Douglas).
Represented by Rachel Daniels at Berlin Associates.
As Costume Designer, theatre includes: Purity and Desire (Drill Hall); The Country Girl (West End, National Tours); Larkrise to Candleford, Jekyll and Hyde: The Musical, The Haunting, Blockbuster: The Musical (National Tours); La Fanciulla del West, Un Ballo in Maschera, Die Fledermaus (Opera Up Close, Kings Head); Tosca, La Traviata (Opera Up Close, Kings Head, Soho Theatre, National Tours); Vieux Carre (Theatre Up Close, Kings Head, Charing Cross Theatre); The Handyman (Yvonne Arnaud, National Tour); Quasimodo, A Tale of Two Cities (Theatre Up Close, Kings Head); Keeler (National Tour, Charing Cross Theatre; Pope Joan (NYT, London); The Lady Must Live (Los Angeles); The Mikado (Charing Cross Theatre); Murder in the Cathedral (Middle Temple Church); Grey Gardens (Southwark Playhouse).
Film includes: The Houdini Girl.
As Associate Costume Designer, theatre includes: Richard III (Old Vic, BAM, World Tour), Dr Dee (Manchester International Festival, ENO).
Andrew May began his theatre career working for Glyndebourne. After nine years he left to pursue a career as a freelance lighting designer.
His opera credits include: The Marriage of Figaro (Houston Grand Opera); Don Pasquale, The Marriage of Figaro (festival revival and Glyndebourne on Tour); Ravel Double Bill (Rome Opera); Cosi fan Tutti (LA Opera); The Marriage of Figaro (Belgrade and UK tour); La Traviata (Soho Theatre and UK tour); Die Fledermaus and La Fanciulla del West (Opera Up Close); Yellow Sofa (The Lindbury ROH and Glyndebourne on Tour); Of Water And Tears, Night Pieces, Renard & Mavra, La Descente d’Orphée aux Enfers, Wakening Shadows (Glyndebourne); Jonathan Dove's Mansfield Park (Hampstead Garden Opera); Carmen (Riverside Opera); Falstaff and Agrippina (Iford Arts).
Theatre includes: And Then There Were None and A Government Inspector (Trinity Theatre); The Diary of a Nobody (Rough Haired Pointer); Lady Windermere’s Fan (Ruby in the Dust); Stop Search (Broadway Theatre).
His forthcoming lighting designs include: The Music Oft Hath Such A Charm (Opera Up Close).
Nico Menghini trained in Sound Engineering and Design, working in a theatre apprenticeship, since then he has worked around the UK as a Sound Engineer before venturing abroad working on UK Produced shows for 5 Star Resorts located in both Tenerife and Egypt.
Shortly after finishing his contracts abroad, Nico undertook a lot of freelance shows back in the UK before joining Dusty The Musical as Sound #1, following Dusty, Nico joined the musical Miracle On 34th Street UK Tour as Sound #1. In 2016 Nico became Sound Engineer for the UK Tour of End Of The Rainbow, whilst designing current children's hit UK tour's Shaun The Sheep and TreeFu Tom.
Nico has a strong passion for Sound Designing and looks forward to up and coming productions this year.
West End productions include: Sinatra, American Idiot, Dusty, Thriller Live, Show Boat (children’s casting), The Bodyguard (children’s casting), Kinky Boots (children’s casting), Priscilla Queen of the Desert, Grease, Flashdance, Piaf, The Snowman, Respect La Diva, The King and I, The Harder They Come, Showboat, Dancing in the Streets, The Rat Pack Live from Las Vegas, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, Saturday Night Fever, Fame, Peter Pan, The Pirates of Penzance, Mum’s the Word, Daisy Pulls It Off, Napoleon, Madame Melville, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, La Cava, Smokey Joe's Café, The Rocky Horror Show, Soul Train, Rent, Always, Steaming, Ain't Misbehavin', Disgracefully Yours.
UK tours include: Laila, a new Musical, Jackie the Musical, Let It Be, Footloose, American Idiot, Dirty Dancing, Priscilla Queen of the Desert, Crush the Musical, Thriller Live, The Bodyguard, Annie (children’s casting), Dancing in the Streets, The Threepenny Opera, Our House, Soul Sister, I Was a Rat, Carnaby Street, 51 Shades of Maggie, Doctor In the House, Hormonal Housewives, Grease, Tell Me On a Sunday, Cacophony, Menopause the Musical, Flashdance, Defending the Caveman, The Rat Pack Live From Las Vegas, Mahabharata, Sweet Soul Music, Starlight Express, Anything Goes, What a Feeling, Dirty Dusting, Mack and Mabel, The Misanthrope, A Chorus Line, A Tribute to the Blues Brothers, Smokey Joe's Cafe, The Rocky Horror Show, Soul Train, Wild Animus.
Regional and international productions include: Priscilla Queen of the Desert (NCL), West Side Story, Red Snapper, The Sisterhood, Medea, Singing in the Rain, Legally Blonde, Cougar, Cats (RCCL), Midsummer Songs, The BFG, Evolution, South Pacific, Sister Act, Much Ado About Nothing, As You Like It, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Romeo and Juliet, The Comedy of Errors, Merry Wives of Windsor and Twelfth Night, Jackie the Musical, Hairspray, Starlight Express (Bochum and international tour), Fame, Alice In Wonderland, The Sound of Music, Chicago, Hair, The Opera Show, Soul Sister, Little Shop of Horrors, The Corstorphine Road Nativity, White Christmas, And Then The Dark, Mods and Rox, Robin Hood, Noises Off, It’s A Wonderful Life, Laurel and Hardy, Blues in the Night, My Fair Lady, Anything Goes, The Sound of Music, Me and My Girl, Little Shop of Horrors, Guys and Dolls, Crazy For You, Oklahoma!, The Opera Show and The Pirates of Penzance, Amadeus, The Snowman; Side by Side by Sondheim, Only You Can Save Mankind and 100% Sex Therapy
Recorded Media: Waybuloo, Grandpa In My Pocket, What’s Your News?, Buddy Patrol, Tic Toc, Quick Quack Duck, Grease is the Word, How Do You Solve a Problem Like Maria , Amahl and the Night Visitors, Planet Cook, Energy.
Steven M. Levy has spent the past 30 years as a theatrical producer, general manager and theatre owner in both New York and London.
West End and Off West End credits include: Jerry Herman’s Dear World (directed by Gillian Lynne, starring Betty Buckley); the Olivier Award-winning La Boheme; 6 Actors in Search of a Director (written and directed by Steven Berkoff); Fascinating Aida: Cheap Flights; John Leguizamo: Ghetto Klown; Patricia Routledge: Facing The Music; Thrill Me; Lost Boy; Finian’s Raindow; Ushers: The Front Of House Musical; Jaques Brel is Alive and Well and Living in Paris; The Mikado and Piaf (all at the Charing Cross Theatre); Singular Sensations (Theatre Royal Haymarket); Nixon’s Nixon (Comedy Theatre); Tom Stoppard’s The Invention of Love (Theatre Royal Haymarket); Gross Indecency (Gielgud Theatre); The Boys in the Band (Aldwych Theatre).
Credits on Broadway include: Whoopi – The 20th Anniversary Show (Lyceum Theatre; starring Whoopi Goldberg); Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All (Longacre Theatre; starring Ellen Burstyn); Our Town (Booth Theatre; starring Paul Newman); I’m Not Rappaport (Booth Theatre; starring Judd Hirsch and Ben Vereen); Dame Edna: The Royal Tour (Booth Theatre); The Beauty Queen of Leenane (Water Kerr Theatre); The Lonesome West (Lyceum Theatre); Waiting in the Wings (Walter Kerr Theatre; starring Lauren Bacall).
Off-Broadway credits include: Waiting for Godot (Theatre at St. Clements; 50th Anniversary Production); Kiki and Herb (Cherry Lane Theatre); As Bees in Honey Drown (Lucille Lortel Theatre), Gross Indecency (Minetta Lane Theatre); Molly Sweeney (Criterion Centre; starring Jason Robards and Alfred Molina), The Syringa Tree (Playhouse 91).
Film credits include: Our Town (Showtime, starring Paul Newman); Whoopi (HBO, starring Whoopi Goldberg); The Man on Her Mind (The Talking Pictures Company).
Mr. Levy’s productions have been the recipient of 14 Tony Award nominations, 5 Tony Awards, as well as the recipient of the Drama Desk, Lucille Lortel, Outer Critics Circle and OBIE Awards. In 1999, Mr. Levy was selected by Crains New York Business of one of the “40 under 40” outstanding business people in New York. Mr. Levy is an owner of the Charing Cross Theatre in London and is a past owner of the Actors’ Playhouse, Village Gate Theatre, Gramercy Theatre and Playhouse 91 in New York. He has lectured on theatre at Columbia University and the New School in New York and at the London College of Music and Mountview Academy in London . He is a member of the Association of Theatrical Press Agents and Managers and holds an honorary Doctor of Letters from the University of West London.
Sean trained as an Opera Singer at Trinity College of Music and sang professionally before moving to the commercial side of theatre in 1994.
Productions include: All My Sons (Apollo); An Ideal Husband (Vaudeville); High Society (two UK tours and Shaftesbury); The Complete Works of Shakespeare (Arts Theatre); Journey’s End (UK Tour); The Long and The Short and The Tall (Pleasance Theatre Islington); Prick Up Your Ears (Comedy); Rue Magique (Kings Head Theatre); Someone Who’ll Watch Over Me (Edinburgh and The Venue) and The Elephant Man (Trafalgar Studios).
Sean is a Partner in the Charing Cross Theatre where he has produced and/or general managed: Naked Boys Singing, The Exonerated, Thrill Me, Confessions Of a Mormon Boy, John Leguizamo – Ghetto Klown, Patricia Routledge – Facing the Music, Fascinating Aida: Cheap Flights, Afraid of the Dark, Keeler, Lost Boy, Finian’s Rainbow, Ushers: The Front Of House Musical, Jaques Brel is Alive and Well and Living in Paris, The Mikado and Piaf.
Vaughan Williams was a founder shareholder in and is Chairman of the Charing Cross Theatre.
Following an English Literature degree at London University, he enjoyed a long career in the City of London. Initially qualifying as a Chartered Accountant with Deloitte, he then joined merchant Bankers Morgan Grenfell and Co., where he was appointed to the main board in 1993. Following the merger with Deutsche Bank, he was appointed a Managing Director in Deutsche’s investment bank where he managed UK Debt Capital Markets. Vaughan later specialised in Structured Finance, where he held a variety of positions in Asset and Project Finance, including Head of the London Office and Global Head of Risk
Since retiring from banking in 2012, Vaughan divides his time between the theatre and property industries. His theatre productions include 6 Actors In Search Of A Director, written and directed by Steven Berkoff, the UK premiere of Jerry Herman’s Dear World, starring Betty Buckley and directed by Gillian Lynne and the Olivier Award-Winning production of La Boheme.