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Apologia
Apologia
Apologia
Apologia
Apologia

Apologia

Trafalgar Studio One, London
Apologia
Trafalgar Studio One, London
Our Review 4 / 5

Director Jamie Lloyd will return to the Trafalgar Studios this summer with a new production of Alexi Kate Campbell's 2009 play Apologia starring Stockard Channing.

The Tony and Emmy award-winning actress will return to the West End to star as Kirstin Miller, the firebrand liberal matriarch in this powerful play from the writer of The Pride, Sunset at The Villa Thalia and The Faith Machine.

Apologia originally opened at the Bush Theatre in West London in 2009.

American actress Stockard Channing is best known for playing Rizzo in the film version of 'Grease' in 1978. Her stage work has seen her nominated for seven Tony Awards, winning the Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play for the Broadway revival of A Day in the Death of Joe Egg in 1985. Other Broadway credits include Other Desert Cities, the musical Pal Joey and more recently a star-studded revival of It's Only a Play. On screen she is known for playing First Lady Abbey Bartlet on 'The West Wing' and she has been nominated 13 times for Primetime Emmy Awards.

Apologia Synopsis

Kristin Miller is a firebrand liberal matriarch and eminent art historian. In her cottage, deep in the English countryside, a birthday gathering should be a time of celebration but the cracks in her family relationships are brought to the surface by the recent publication of her memoir. As the evening progresses, Kristin’s family and friends, and ultimately Kristin herself begin to question her achievements and choices and if they were indeed worth the sacrifice.

Apologia Performance Information

Previews from |
29th July 2017
Opening date |
3rd August 2017
Booking from |
18th November 2017
Available until |
18th November 2017
Closes |
18th November 2017
Categories |
Plays & Drama

Apologia Performance Schedule

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Apologia Cast and Creative

By:
Alexi Kaye Campbell
Producer:
Howard Panter for Trafalgar Entertainment Group, DB Productions and Dodger Theatricals
Director:
Jamie Lloyd
Cast list:
Stockard Channing (Kristin Miller), Freema Agyeman (Claire), Desmond Barrit (Hugh) and Joseph Millson (dual role of Kristin's sons), Laura Carmichael

Trafalgar Studio One Venue Information

Address:
Trafalgar Studio One, 14 Whitehall, London, SW1A 2DY
Nearest tube:
Charing Cross
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Our Review of Apologia

4/5
Review - Apologia starring Stockard Channing at Trafalgar Studios

We have a very fertile new writing culture in Britain - so fertile, in fact, that good plays are seemingly discarded after their first productions and only rarely resurface again for another outing. Productions that begin in London's extensive network of new writing studio theatres routinely suffer this fate, unless they transfer immediately to the West End after their original runs, as in the current Shaftesbury Avenue run for Jez Butterworth's The Ferryman. Read more

Latest Apologia News & Features

Mark Shenton interviews Apologia's Joseph Millson
Friday, 28 July, 2017
"I am still a beggar who can't be a chooser," says Joseph Millson, surprisingly, of a career that has taken him from starring in such popular TV favourites as Peak Practice and Holby City to leading roles with the RSC and in the West End in Love Never Dies, the sequel to The Phantom of the Opera. "I have rent to pay and I have to keep working. But after I did The Rover at the RSC last year, I tried to make a vow to get stuck into some telly and film for a while - I needed to...
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Freema Agyeman
Freema Agyeman joins Stockard Channing in Apologia at Trafalgar Studios
Monday, 19 June, 2017
Producers of the upcoming West End production of  Alexi Kate Campbell's Apologia, directed by Jamie Lloyd, have announced additional casting today. "Doctor Who" and "Torchwood" star Freema Agyeman takes on the role of Claire and joins previously announced Tony and Emmy Award winner Stockard Channing (as Kristin Miller). In addition, Olivier Award nominee Desmond Barrit will take on the role of Hugh - Kristin’s...
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Apologia closed on 18 November 2017.

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