Sean Mathias is to direct Anna Friel as Holly Golightly and Joseph Cross as William ‘Fred' Parsons in Samuel Adamson's new stage adaptation of Truman Capote's classic novella Breakfast at Tiffany's, currently in its 50th anniversary year. Breakfast at Tiffany's - the second production in Mathias' Theatre Royal Haymarket Season, will preview from 9 September and is currently booking until 9 January 2010. Press night will be 29 September 2009. Set and costume designs are by Anthony Ward. Featuring Henry Mancini and Johnny Mercer's Oscar-winning song Moon River, Breakfast at Tiffany's is presented by Chambord, and is produced by Colin Ingram by arrangement with The Theatre Royal Haymarket Company.
New York City, 1943. William ‘Fred' Parsons, a young writer from Louisiana, meets Miss Holly Golightly, a charming, vivacious and utterly elusive good-time girl. Everyone falls in love with Holly, including William - but he is poor, and Holly needs rich. Will she marry Rusty, playboy millionaire? Or José, the future president of Brazil? As war rages in Europe, Holly begins to fall in love with William - and then her past catches up with her.....
Truman Capote's 1958 novella Breakfast at Tiffany's was released as a film in 1961. Directed by Blake Edwards, the double Oscar winning film starred Audrey Hepburn, George Peppard, Patricia Neal and Mickey Rooney.
Anna Friel said: "Truman Capote's Breakfast at Tiffany's has always been one of my favourite novels and I am delighted to have been given both the opportunity to play one of my all time favourite heroines, Holly Golightly, and to be returning home to the London stage."
Sean Mathias, Director, said: "I am delighted to be helming the Haymarket's Second Season of plays at the Theatre Royal. After an exhilarating tour of Waiting for Godot, it was a joy to bring the play home to the Haymarket as the opening production in the season. My second production, a brand new stage adaptation of Truman Capote's most popular work Breakfast at Tiffany's, is the glorious story of the unique Holly Golightly leading her fantastical existence in New York City during the second World War. I have long been an avid fan of Capote and I hope that my production of his dazzling novella Breakfast at Tiffany's will be an unashamedly glamorous evening of wit, style, tenderness and music, with the dynamic 1940's New York as a backdrop. I am thrilled to be working with the beautiful and talented Anna Friel in her return to the London stage and one of America's most sought after young actors Joseph Cross in his London debut."
