Jonathan Pryce Leads Pinter's THE CARETAKER in West End, 1/12 - 4/17

Jonathan Pryce is set to star in the first West End Pinter production, The Caretaker, since Harold Pinter's death in December last year. The Caretaker runs at Trafalgar Studios from January 12 - April 17, 2010.  Opening Night is January 18, 2010.

The Caretaker marked Harold Pinter's arrival as the seminal playwright of his generation, when it was originally produced in 1960. 2010 sees the play celebrating its 50th anniversary.

Jonathan Pryce plays the role of Davies in this story of two brothers and a tramp, Pinter's first major success as a dramatist. Davies is down and out when Aston takes him in for the night. Lost in a shoeless world, chasing papers in Sidcup, Davies soon fancies his chances at something more permanent. Then Aston's fiery brother Mick shows up. As the odd couple becomes an odd number, who will be the odd man out? Power games and simmering tension combine with comedy and Pinter's eloquent dialogue to make The Caretaker a mesmerising experience.

Jonathan Pryce won Tony Awards for Miss Saigon and Comedians and an Olivier award for Hamlet, his many previous theatre credits include Glengarry GLen Ross, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Oliver!, and My Fair Lady. In 1980, he played the role of Mick in the National Theatre's production of The Caretaker with Kenneth Cranham and Warren Mitchell. His diverse film roles include Sam Lowry in Brazil; Juan Perón in Evita; Lytton Strachey in Carrington; James Lingk in Glengarry GLen Ross; villain Elliot Carver in the James Bond film Tomorrow Never Dies; and Governor Weatherby Swann in the Pirates of the Caribbean trilogy.

The cast also includes Peter McDonald in the role of Astonm whose theatre credits include Dancing at Lughnasa and Resurrection Blues at London's Old Vic Theatre; Exiles and The Aristocrats at the National Theatre; and Glengarry GLen Ross in the West End. His television and film roles include Green Wing, Spooks, City of Vice, and The Damned United.

Multi award-winning director Christopher Morahan has worked extensively at the Royal Shakespeare Company, National Theatre and in the West End. His awards include an Olivier and Evening Standard Award, two BAFTA Awards, three international Emmys and the Directors Guild of Great Britain Lifetime Achievement Award.

Harold Pinter was born in London in 1930 and died on Christmas Eve, 2008. He wrote twenty-nine plays including The Birthday Party, The Caretaker, The Homecoming, and Betrayal, twenty-one screenplays including The Servant, The Go-Between, The French Lieutenant's Woman and Sleuth, and directed twenty-seven theatre productions, including James Joyce's Exiles, David Mamet's Oleanna, seven plays by Simon Gray and many of his own plays including his last, Celebration, paired with his first, The Room at The Almeida Theatre, London in the spring of 2000. In 2005 he received the Nobel Prize for Literature. Other awards include the Companion of Honour for services to Literature, the Legion D'Honneur, the Laurence Olivier Award and the Moliere D'Honneur for lifetime achievement. In 1999 he was made a Companion of Literature by the Royal Society of Literature. He received honorary degrees from eighteen universities.

The Caretaker will play Trafalgar Studios, 14 Whitehall, London, SW1A 2DY from January 12 - April 17, 2010.  Performance times are Mon - Sat, 7.30pm, with matinees on Thurs & Sat, 2.30pm. Tickets are £45 - £20 and can be purchased by calling the box office at 0844 871 7632 or visit www.ambassadortickets.com.