Directed by Laurence Boswell, the production will run between 16th-26th April 2014 prior to a UK Tour (details of which to be announced). Imbruglia will play Nikki Wickstead, the victim of a classic Ayckbourn love triangle.
Imbruglia began her career on Neighbours playing Beth Brennan. She went on to become one of the biggest pop sensations in Europe. Her smash hit single Torn, and the subsequent album, Left Of The Middle, sold more than 6 million copies worldwide and won her three Grammy nominations and two Brit Awards. She co-starred in the 2003 film Johnny English with Rowan Atkinson and made her leading actress debut in the 2009 film Closed for Winter.
Imbruglia appeared as a Guest Judge on X Factor UK in 2010 while Dannii Minogue was on maternity leave and later returned to assist her during the Judges Houses stage of the competition. She has also appeared as a regular judge on X Factor Australia.
In South West London Barbara, elegant and glacial, lives in immaculate order on the middle floor of her converted house. Downstairs, lovelorn postman and part-time plumber Gilbert has created a shrine to his landlady. Upstairs, the flat is empty, a perfect temporary bolthole for Nikki, Barbara's old school-friend, and her fiancé Hamish. Unfortunately Hamish is everything that Barbara despises (bearded, Scottish and vegetarian) and Hamish takes an instant dislike to the ever-intolerant Barbara - a hostility which hides deeper feelings...
In a wonderfully imaginative set, which reveals a limited view of the rooms above and below Barbara's flat, a bedroom farce develops into something more complex as the two adversaries fall head over heels in lust...
Further casting to be announced.
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