Cast Announced for Mike Bartlett's Love, Love, Love

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FULL CAST ANNOUNCED FOR LOVE, LOVE, LOVE AT ROYAL COURT THEATRE

The cast has been announced for Love, Love, Love – Claire Foy, Victoria Hamilton, Ben Miles, George Rainsford and Sam Troughton play in the new production of Mike Bartlett’s play at the Royal Court Theatre in a co-production with Paines Plough in association with Drum Theatre Plymouth.

The production runs in the Jerwood Theatre Downstairs from 27 April – 2 June (press night 3 May) and will be directed by Paines Plough’s Artistic Director James Grieve, designed by Lucy Osborne, with lighting by James Farncombe and sound by Tom Gibbons.

‘Young people, our age. We’re the moment. Henry’s just that bit too old he can’t understand.’
1967. Kenneth and Sandra meet, and it’s a whole new world.
A fiery relationship is sparked in the haze of the 60s, and charred by today’s brutal realities.
From passion to paranoia, Love, Love, Love takes on the baby boomer generation as it retires, and finds it full of trouble.

The play was originally produced in October 2010 by Paines Plough in a co-production with the Drum Theatre Plymouth, where it opened, before embarking on a 14 week national tour, winning a UK Theatre Award for Best Play.

Claire Foy plays Rosie. Her theatre credits include Baby Girl, DNA and The Miracle as part of the Connections season at the National Theatre. She is currently appearing in BBC1 dramas Upstairs Downstairs and White Heat. Her previous television credits include Little Dorrit, Hacks, The Night Watch and Going Postal. On film, she appeared in Season of the Witch.

Victoria Hamilton plays Sandra. Previous theatre credits include Twelfth Night (Donmar West End), King Lear at the Old Vic, Suddenly Last Summer in the West End, As You Like It at the Sheffield Crucible and Lyric Hammersmith and A Day in the Death of Joe Egg in the West End. On television, her credits include Toast, Lark Rise to Candleford, Pride and Prejudice and on film, she appeared in Mansfield Park.

Ben Miles plays Kenneth. He last appeared at the Royal Court in Mike Bartlett’s My Child. His other recent credits include Betrayal in the West End, Measure for Measure at the Almeida, The Norman Conquests at the Old Vic and on Broadway, Richard II for the Old Vic. His many television appearances include leading roles in Coupling, Lark Rise to Candleford, Freezing and Sex and The City and Me all for the BBC and Cold Feet for ITV. His film credits include Speed Racer, V for Vendetta, The Affair of the Necklace and The Wings of a Dove.

George Rainsford plays Jamie. His previous theatre credits include Roald Dahl’s Twisted Tales at Liverpool Playhouse, The Man at Finborough Theatre, Days of Significance at the RSC, All’s Well that Ends Well and Chatroom/Citizenship at the National Theatre. On television, his credits include Call the Midwife, Waking the Dead and Doctors all for the BBC.

Sam Troughton plays Henry. He is currently appearing in A Streetcar Named Desire at the Liverpool Playhouse. His theatre credits also include Morte d’Arthur, Romeo and Juliet, The Grain Store, Julius Caesar and The Winter’s Tale at the RSC. On film, his credits include Spirit Trap and Vera Drake.

Mike Bartlett’s plays at the Royal Court include Cock for which he won an Olivier Award for Outstanding Achievement in an Affiliate Theatre and which will transfer to New York Off Broadway in Spring 2012, Contractions and My Child. His other plays include 13 and Earthquakes in London for the National Theatre and Headlong, Artefacts at the Bush and his new adaptation of Chariots of Fire will open at Hampstead Theatre in May 2012.

James Grieve, Co‐Artistic Director of Paines Plough will direct. His credits include, for Paines Plough: Fly Me To The Moon by Marie Jones, Tiny Volcanoes by Laurence Wilson, Wasted by Kate Tempest, You Cannot Go Forward From Where You Are Right Now by David Watson and The Sound Of Heavy Rain by Penelope Skinner. He was formerly co-founder and Artistic Director of nabokov and Associate Director of the Bush Theatre. For The Bush: The Whisky Taster by James Graham, St Petersburg by Declan Feenan, Psychogeography by Lucy Kirkwood and A Nobody by Laura Dockrill (Sixty-six Books). For nabokov: Artefacts by Mike Bartlett (nabokov/The Bush, National Tour & Off-Broadway); Kitchen, Bedtime For Bastards and Nikolina by Van Badham. Further credits include the world premieres of Old Street by Patrick Marber (nabokov Arts Club) and The List by David Eldridge (Arcola).

Cast:
Claire Foy Rosie
Victoria Hamiliton Sandra
Ben Miles Kenneth
George Rainsford Jamie
Sam Troughton Henry

Creative Team

James Grieve Director
Lucy Osborne Designer
James Farncombe Lighting Designer
Tom Gibbons Sound Designer

Listings Information
Love Love Love
By Mike Bartlett
Directed by James Grieve
A co-production with Paines Plough in association with Drum Theatre Plymouth
Friday 27 April – Saturday 2 June 2012
Jerwood Theatre Downstairs Royal Court Theatre Sloane Square SW1W 8AS
Monday-Saturday 7.30pm Saturday Matinees 2.30pm (from 5 May)
Thursday Matinees 2.30pm (from 24 May)
There will be no performance on the May Day Bank Holiday
Press Night Thursday 3 May 7pm
Post-show Talk Thursday 17 May
Captioned performance Tuesday 29 May
Audio Described Performance Saturday 2 June 2.30pm
Age Guidance 14+
Tickets £28, £20, £12
Mondays all seats £10 (available on the day of the performance from 9am online)
Concessions £5 off top two prices* (available in advance for all performances until Saturday 5 May inclusive and all matinees. For all other performances, available on a standby basis on the day)
25s and under £8* (available on £20 and £12 tickets)
School and HE Groups of 8+ 50% off top two prices (available Tuesday-Friday)
Groups of 6+ £5 off top price (available Tuesday-Friday)
Access £12 (plus a companion at the same rate)
*ID required. All discounts are subject to availability

Coutts is the Principal Sponsor of the Royal Court Theatre

Coutts is the UK private banking arm of the Royal Bank of Scotland. Coutts has a long history of supporting the arts going back 200 years, having looked after the financial affairs of many famous clients connected with the arts such as Bram Stoker, Charles Dickens and Chopin. In 1816, Thomas Coutts married Harriot Mellon, a popular actress of her day, and together they became partners of a number of London Theatres, including the Drury Lane and the Royal Opera House. Coutts has even featured in a number of artistic works including The Gondoliers by Gilbert and Sullivan, and Robert Louis Stevenson’s classic story Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde. In the new millennium, this tradition has continued not only through managing the finances of many of today’s top writers, actors and musicians, but also through our arts sponsorship programme and we are delighted to support The Royal Court and its diverse range of ground-breaking performances.

Love, Love, Love is a co-production with Paines Plough in association with Drum Theatre Plymouth

Paines Plough commissions and produces the best playwrights and tours their plays far and wide. Paines Plough was founded in 1974 over a pint of Paines bitter in the Plough pub. Since then it has produced more than 100 new productions by world renowned playwrights like Stephen Jeffreys, Abi Morgan, Sarah Kane, Mark Ravenhill, Dennis Kelly and Mike Bartlett. Those plays have toured to hundreds of places from Manchester to Moscow to Maidenhead.

Under Artistic Directors James Grieve and George Perrin, Paines Plough is producing more work, in more places than ever before. The 2011 Programme saw 11 productions touring to 36 towns and cities across the UK and internationally.