Orange Tree Theatrehas introduced Finn Cole, identified for his roles in Peaky Blinders and Animal Kingdom,will make his skilled stage debut taking part in Ray within the European première of Lucas Hnath’sCrimson Speedo directed by Matthew Dunster.
Crimson Speedo opens on 18 July, with previews from 13 July, and runs till 10 August.
Lucas Hnath’s RED SPEEDO Directed by Matthew Dunster A co-production with David Adkin 13 July – 10 August 2024
Ray lives to swim. He’s inside touching distance of worldwide glory and a life-changing sponsorship deal. However every little thing adjustments when performance-enhancing medicine are found within the membership’s fridge. As tensions run excessive, Ray’s brother needs them destroyed, his coach needs to name the authorities, his ex-girlfriend doesn’t need to know, and Ray needs the medicine again. A thriller performed on the breakneck tempo of an Olympic dash, Crimson Speedo tackles the unforgiving weight of success in a world the place the one crime is getting caught.
Lucas Hnath is considered one of America’s most enjoyable up to date playwrights, whose A Doll’s Home, Half 2 was just lately seen on the Donmar Warehouse. Matthew Dunster directs this European première, recent from his hit West Finish productions of Shirley Valentine, 2:22 A Ghost Story and Hangmen.
Lucas Hnath is an award-winning playwright whose different performs embrace A Doll’s Home, Half 2 (South Coast Repertory and Broadway), The Christians (Humana Pageant), A Public Studying of an Unproduced Screenplay In regards to the Dying of Walt Disney (Soho Rep), nightnight (Humana Pageant), Isaac’s Eye (Ensemble Studio Theatre), and Dying Tax (Humana Pageant, Royal Court docket Theatre). He’s the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, a 2015 Whiting Award, a Whitfield Cook dinner Award, two Steinberg/ATCA New Play Award Citations and a Windham Campbell Prize for Drama.
Finn Cole makes his skilled stage debut as Ray. His tv credit embrace Peaky Blinders (as sequence common Michael Grey), An Inspector Calls and Animal Kingdom. For movie his credit embrace Slaughterhouse Rulez, Dreamland, Right here Are The Younger Males, F9 and Locked In, and the forthcoming Final Breath.
Matthew Dunster’sdirecting credit embrace Shirley Valentine (Duke of York’s Theatre), 2:22A Ghost Story (Apollo Theatre), True West (Vaudeville Theatre), Oedipus (Bunkamura Theatre), Hangmen, (Royal Court docket Theatre, Golden Theatre), Liberian Woman (Royal Court docket Theatre) The Seagull, A Midsummer Night time’s Dream (Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre), Love’s Sacrifice (RSC), The Lightning Baby, Physician Faustus (Shakespeare’s Globe), The Love Woman andThe Harmless, You Can Nonetheless Make a Killing (Southwark Playhouse), Mametz (Nationwide Theatre Wales), Earlier than the Occasion (Almeida Theatre), A Sacred Flame (ETT), Saturday Night time and Sunday Morning (Royal Change Manchester), Mogadishu (Royal Change Manchester and Lyric Hammersmith), The Most Unbelievable Factor (Sadler’s Wells), and The Two Gents of Verona (Royal & Derngate, Northampton). His writing credit embrace Kids’s Kids (Almeida Theatre), You Can See the Hills and Two Clouds Over Eden (Royal Change Manchester).
