Complicite's Endgame at Duchess from 18 Sep 2009

Complicite's Endgame at Duchess from 18 Sep 2009

(**UPDATE 13 AUG 2009: Richard Briers & Adrian Scarborough withdraws - Mark Rylance & Simon McBurney take over roles - perfs now from 3 Oct)

Complicite's Endgame, by Samuel Beckett, will open at the Duchess Theatre 24 Sep 2009, following previews from 18 Sep - running to 5 Dec 2009.

Directed by Simon McBurney, the cast includes Richard Briers (Hamm), Adrian Scarborough (Clov to 18 Oct, then Simon McBurney takes over the role), Miriam Margolyes (Nell). The role of Nagg will be announced shortly.

Richard Briers says: "I saw Endgame 50 years ago with George Devine in the role of Hamm, and said to my wife that this was a role I wanted to play - she pointed out that I was perhaps a little young for it at the time! I now feel the time has come to have a crack at it, in what will be my last role on the stage, and I couldn't be in better company," Richard Briers said today.

It is designed by Tim Hatley, costumes by Christina Cunningham, sound by Christopher Shutt, and produced by / Nica Burns & Max Weitzenhoffer.

The aged and blind Hamm and his servant Clov co-exist in a mutually dependent and fractious relationship, with only Hamm's parents, Nell and Nagg, legless from a biking accident, for company. They are condemned to a daily routine sealed off from the void outside.