Dominic Rowan has worked extensively in theatre including A Voyage Around My Father (Donmar/West End), Happy Now? (National),As You Like It (Globe), A Spanish Tragedy (Arcola), Way To Heaven (Royal Court) and Iphegina At Aulis (National). His television credits include Catwalk Dogs with Kris Marshall, Baby Boom, Lynda La Plante's Trial & Retribution, The Family Man with Trevor Eve and Hearts And Bones.
Thea Sharrock directed the critically acclaimed Equus starring Daniel Radcliffe and Richard Griffiths at the Gielgud Theatre and then on Broadway. Other west end credits include Heroes at the Wyndhams Theatre, A Voyage Round My Father (Donmar/ Wyndham's Theatre), Blithe Spirit (Savoy) and Top Girls (Aldwych), which was the first show she directed. She was Artistic Director of Southwark Playhouse 2001-2003 where she directed A Doll's House, Mongoose, Trip's Cinch and The Sleepers' Den; and Artistic Director of the Gate 2004-2007: The Chairs, The Emperor Jones and Tejas Verdes. For the National Theatre: Happy Now?; The Emperor Jones andFree. Earlier this year she directed As You Like It, her first Shakespeare production, which has broken box office records at the Globe. She is currently in rehearsal at the Almeida - where she previously directed Cloud Nine - with the first London revival of Nicholas Wright's Mrs Klein. Other work includes several shows for The Peter Hall Season, Bath Theatre Royal.
Martin Crimp was born in 1956 and began writing for theatre in the 1980's. His plays include The City (2008), Fewer Emergencies(2005), Cruel and Tender (2004), Face to the Wall (2002), The Country (2000), Attempts On Her Life (1997), The Treatment (1993),Getting Attention (1992), No One Sees the Video (1991), Play with Repeats (1989), Dealing with Clair (1988), and Definitely the Bahamas (1987). He has close relationships with The Royal Court Theatre, where he was writer-in-residence in 1997, The Young Vic, and the National Theatre, which in 2007 produced the UK's first major revival of Attempts on her Life. His work is widely translated and has been seen on numerous European stages including the Bouffes du Nord and Théâtre de la Colline in Paris, the Vienna Festwochen and Berlin's Schaubühne. The Treatment (winner of the John Whiting award) was produced by New York's Public Theater in the same year as the Royal Court premiere, and in 1998 his translation of Ionesco's The Chairs won a Tony Award for Best Revival of a Play. He has also translated works by Koltès, Genet, Marivaux, Molière and Chekhov.
THE MISANTHROPE will be designed by Hildegard Bechtler (Arcadia, Hedda Gabler and The Seagull at the Royal Court and on Broadway).
Tickets for THE MISANTHROPE range in price from £20.00 to £65.00 and may be purchased online through www.ambassadortickets.com. The show will begin previews December 5th and run through March 13th, 2010.
For more information, visit the shows website here.
