Brand name in the frame for Ibsen's play







By Marion McMullen
Evening Telegraph
p. 9
November 20, 2002





ACTING star Ralph Fiennes is to return to the Warwickshire stage next year for the first time in more than a decade. The star of The English Patient and Schindler's List will play the title role in Ibsen's Brand with Royal Shakespeare Company artistic director Adrian Noble directing the drama.

Fiennes last worked with the RSC in Stratford in 1990, when he appeared in Shakespeare's King Lear, Love's Labour's Lost and Troilus and Cressida.

Theatre Royal Haymarket Productions and Stanhope Productions are working with the RSC to present the new production about the struggle between faith and human will.

Brand runs at the Swan Theatre in Stratford from April 17 before opening at the Theatre Royal Haymarket in May for a 14-week run.

It also marks Adrian Noble's last production as the theatre company' s artistic director. He will be succeeded next April by former Belgrade Theatre director Michael Boyd.

Adrian Noble said: "I've wanted to do Brand with Ralph for ages so I'm delighted that it's finally happening. Ibsen's great plays are always popular with audiences, but Brand is rarely performed and so will be a new experience for many people.

"It's also great to see commercial producers backing classical theatre in the West End.

Booking opens on January 27 in Stratford for Brand.




 

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