Mia is at boarding school. She has access to drugs. They are Martha's. Henry is preparing for art college. He has access to alcohol. From Martha. Martha controls their lives. Martha is their mother.
THAT FACE is a hard-hitting, intense and visceral dissection of parent-child relationships.
In a family rent by dysfunction, Mia and Henry find themselves in the unenviable position of having to protect their own mother from herself.
LINDSAY DUNCAN has worked extensively in theatre, television and film. She has won two Olivier Best Actress Awards, for Les Liaisons Dangereuses (RSC) and for her most recent stage role in Private Lives (Albery), as well as a Tony, an Evening Standard Award, a Critics Circle Award and an Obie. At the Royal Court she has appeared in Mouth To Mouth, Ashes To Ashes and Top Girls. Her other stage work includes Celebration/The Room (Almeida) and The Homecoming (NT).
Her TV work has included Rome (BBC TV/ HBO), Longford (HBO / Channel 4) and Spooks (BBC TV). In film, she has recently appeared in Starter For Ten, Under The Tuscan Sun and Mansfield Park.
MATT SMITH is a hugely exciting young talent. Having appeared in Burn/Chatroom/Citizenship, The History Boys and On The Shore Of The Wide World (all NT), he is currently appearing in Party Animals (BBC TV). His last role at the Royal Court was in Fresh Kills.
FELICITY JONES is best known for playing Emma Carter in The Archers (BBC Radio). On television, she has appeared in Northanger Abbey (ITV/Granada) and All Quiet On The Preston Front. (BBC TV) This is her first professional stage role.
POLLY STENHAM wrote That Face, her first play, when she was 19. In common with other playwrights in the Royal Court's 2007 season (Bola Agbaje, Mike Bartlett, Lucy Caldwell, Alexandra Wood), she is a product of the Royal Court's Young Writers Programme.
EREMY HERRIN is Associate Director at Live Theatre Newcastle and has also worked as an assistant director at the Royal Court. He specialises in directing new plays, and has directed work by Richard Bean, Peter Flannery, Lee Hall, Sean O'Brien, Alan Plater and many others. He will be directing the South African premiere of Blackbird by David Harrower in July 2007.
That Face is supported by Jerwood New Playwrights. -- royalcourttheatre.com
Posted March 17th, 2007 by ruzik_tuzik
