It has been announced that Lucy Punch (pictured right) will star as Paige Britain in the West End transfer of Richard Bean’s new play, Great Britain.
Billie Piper is currently playing the role at the National Theatre where the piece premiered in June.
Billie Piper is currently playing the role at the National Theatre where the piece premiered in June.
Directed by Nicholas Hytner, Great Britain opens at the Theatre Royal Haymarket on Friday 26th September 2014 (previews from 9th September) for a limited run until Saturday 10th January 2015.
The show is designed by Tim Hatley with video design by 59 Productions, lighting by Neil Austin, music by Grant Olding and sound by Paul Arditti.
Ben Mansfield will star opposite Punch. The cast also includes: Sarah Annis, Ross Boatman, Robert Calvert, William Chubb, Dermot Crowley, Jo Dockery, Robert Glenister, Ian Hallard, James Harkness, Scott Karim, Barbara Kirby, Nicholas Lumley, Ben Mansfield, Maggie McCarthy, Iain Mitchell, Miles Mitchell, Aaron Neil, Lucy Punch, Nick Sampson, Kellie Shirley, Kiruna Stamell, Harriet Thorpe, Rupert Vansittart, Joseph Wilkins and Andrew Woodall.
Richard Bean’s fast and furious new play is an anarchic and foul-mouthed satire about the press, the police and the political establishment. Paige Britain is the ambitious young news editor of The Free Press, a tabloid newspaper locked in a never-ending battle for more readers.
Punch returns to the UK to join the cast of Great Britain to play Paige Britain. Her previous theatre credits include: Boy Gets Girl for the Royal Court Theatre, A Carpet, A Pony, and A Monkey for the Bush Theatre and The Graduate at the Gielgud Theatre.
Her television credits include: Ben and Kate, Vexed and The Class. Her many film credits include: You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger, Hot Fuzz, St Trinian’s, Bad Teacher, Being Julia, Are You Ready for Love and Dinner for Schmucks. Punch was most recently directed on film by Rob Marshall in Disney’s Into The Woods which will be released in the UK in the new year.
Photo Credit: Dan Jackman
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