Casting Update at The National Theatre 2004

Casting Update at The National Theatre

Casting update concerning two National Theatre productions....."Stuff Happens" & "Night Season"

It is directed by Nicholas Hytner, designed by Christopher Oram, lighting by Paul Anderson, and sound by Paul Groothuis.

"Stuff happens... and it's untidy, and freedom's untidy, and free people are free to make mistakes and commit crimes and do bad things."

The American Secretary of Defense, Donald Rumsfeld's famous response to the looting of Baghdad, at a press conference on 11 April 2003, provides the title for a new play, specially written for the Olivier Theatre. Stuff Happens sets out to dramatise the extraordinary process which led up to the formation of a coalition, headed by the US and Great Britain, to invade Iraq.

It is directed by Lucy Bailey, designed by Dick Bird, lighting by Neil Austin. Cast includes: David Bradley (Patrick Kennedy), Annette Crosbie (Lily O'Hanlon), Sarah-Jane Drummey (Maud Kennedy), Lloyd Hutchinson (Gary Malone), John Light (John Eastman), Susan Lynch.

Late at night, shoeless, in the rain, an actor playing Yeats in a film shows up at his Sligo digs. Three feisty sisters lie dreaming upstairs, but in the morning, down they come, burning to meet the new lodger. While their father's intent on an early glass of whiskey and a date with the local barmaid, the youngest daughter shows the actor to his bedroom...

A funny, modern, intoxicated tale of love, loss and families.

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