It has been announced that Peter Davison and Thusitha Jayasundera will star in the first London revival of David Hare’s The Vertical Hour at the Park Theatre
The production opens at Park200 on Thursday 25th September (previews from 23rd September) and runs until Sunday 26th October 2014. The Vertical Hour is described as a "gripping play" that "pits personal philosophies against global politics."
Best known for playing the fifth incarnation of The Doctor in Doctor Who and Tristan Farnon in All Creatures Great and Small, Davison will star as Oliver opposite Jayasundera as Nadia. The play, which received its UK premiere at the Royal Court in 2008, will be directed by Nigel Douglas.
Nadia Blye knows exactly what her stance is on Iraq. A former war reporter and Professor of International Relations at Yale, she has advised the President and seen action in Sarajevo and Baghdad. She is sure of her place in the world and her opinion of it.
Until, that is, she meets an equally opinionated and lethally charming man – her boyfriend’s father – over a weekend in Shropshire. His intervention has far-reaching consequences for them all.
Meet The Cast
Peter Davison's theatre credits include: Legally Blonde – The Musical (Savoy Theatre), Spamalot (Palace Theatre), Under the Doctor (Comedy Theatre), Chicago (Adelphi Theatre), Dial M for Murder (UK tour), An Absolute Turkey (Globe Theatre), The Last Yankee (Young Vic and Duke of York’s Theatre), The Decorator (Yvonne Arnaud and UK tour), Arsenic and Old Lace (Chichester Festival Theatre), A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, Hamlet and Two Gentlemen of Verona (Edinburgh Lyceum).
As well as Doctor Who and All Creatures Great and Small, his television credits include: Law and Order, At Home with the Braithwaites, Cabbage and Pat, The Queen, Miranda, Distant Shores, The Last Detective, Fear Stress and Anger, The Complete Guide to Parenting and Aint Misbehaving; and for film: Parting Shots, Ghosts of Winterborne, Black Beauty and A Man You Don’t Meet Everyday.
Thusitha Jayasundera's theatre credits include: The Nine O’Clock Slot (Ice and Fire), Tiger Country (Hampstead Theatre), A Day at the Racists (Finborough Theatre), Dreams of Violence (Out of Joint/Soho Theatre and UK tour), Crime and Punishment,Warhorse and The Caucasian Chalk Circle (National Theatre), Twelfth Night and As I Lay Dying (Young Vic) and The Comedy of Errors,Cain, Peer Gint and Pentecost (RSC).
Her TV work includes The Bill (series regular), Holby City (series regular), Broadchurch, The C Word and Above Suspicion.
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