The Almeida Theatre announces the full cast for world premiere of Peter Morgan’s Patriots.
Joining the previously announced Tom Hollander, Will Keen, Yolanda Kettle and Luke Thallon are Matt Concannon, Stephen Fewell, Ronald Guttman, Aoife Hinds, Sean Kingsley, Paul Kynman, Jessica Temple and Jamael Westman.
The production, directed by Almeida Artistic Director Rupert Goold, opens on Tuesday 12 July, with previews from Saturday 2 July, and runs until Saturday 20 August.
1991. The Fall of the Soviet Union.
With the dawning of a new Russia, there are winners and losers, and today’s patriot can fast become tomorrow’s traitor.
As a new generation of oligarchs fights to seize control, Patriots follows billionaire businessman Boris Berezovsky from the president's inner circle to public enemy number one.
BAFTA-winning actor Tom Hollander (The Night Manager; Travesties) plays Berezovsky, the ‘kingmaker’ behind Vladimir Putin. A new play from Peter Morgan (The Crown; The Audience; Frost/Nixon) and directed by Almeida Artistic Director Rupert Goold (Ink; Albion; Spring Awakening), Patriots is an unflinching story of ambition and the dangers of loyalty and love.
Patriots is a recipient of an Edgerton Foundation New Play Award.
Cast and creative biographies:
Matt Concannon’s theatre credits include Alice in Wonderland (HOME); The Girl on the Train (UK tour); Flashdance (tour) and One for My Baby (Tristan Bates Theatre).
Stephen Fewell returns to the Almeida having previously appeared in Hamlet and 1984. His other theatre credits include Venice Preserved (RSC); The Soulless (Hoxton Hall); Walking the Tightrope (TheatreUncut); Manchester Sound: The Massacre (HOME); Breaking the Code (English Theatre Frankfurt); Romeo and Juliet and Paradise Lost (Headlong); Enron (Chichester Festival Theatre, Royal Court and West End). His television work includes The Girlfriend Experience; The King and Knightfall.
Rupert Goold is Artistic Director of the Almeida Theatre where he has previously directed Spring Awakening, The Hunt, Shipwreck, Albion (broadcast on BBC Four), Ink (also West End and Broadway), Richard III (broadcast live to cinemas around the world), Medea, The Merchant of Venice, King Charles III (West End, Broadway, UK and international tour) and American Psycho (also Broadway). He was Artistic Director of Headlong from 2005 until 2013 where his work included The Effect, ENRON, Earthquakes in London and Decade. Other theatre credits include The 47th (The Old Vic); Made in Dagenham (West End); The Last Days of Judas Iscariot (Almeida Theatre); Macbeth (Chichester Festival Theatre, West End and Broadway) and No Man’s Land (The Gate, Dublin and West End). He has twice been the recipient of the Olivier, Critics’ Circle and Evening Standard Awards for Best Director. He was Associate Director at the Royal Shakespeare Company from 2009 to 2012 and was Artistic Director of Northampton Theatres from 2002 to 2005. His feature film work includes Judy and True Story, and his other work on film includes the BAFTA nominated Richard II, part of The Hollow Crown, Macbeth for the BBC and Mike Bartlett’s King Charles III for BBC Two. He was awarded a CBE for services to drama in 2017.
Ronald Guttman’s theatre credits include in the US include Picasso at the Lapin Agile and The Philanthropist (Long Wharf Theatre); The Fifth Column and The Lonely Way (Mint Theater Company); Rough for Theatre 1 (Drama League); Race (Classic Stage Company) and Modigliani (Jewish Repertory Theatre). His television work includes Godfather of Harlem; Hunters; Black Earth Rising; Preacher; The Good Wife; Mad Men and Homeland. His film work includes On the Basis of Sex; 27 Dresses; The Hunt for Red October.
Aoife Hinds’ theatre credits include i will still be whole (when you rip me in half) (Bunker Theatre). For television, her work includes The Long Call; Anne Boleyn; Normal People; Derry Girls and The Feed. Her film credits include Belfast; The Man in the Hat and The Commuter.
Tom Hollander returns to the Almeida having previously appeared in The Government Inspector, Tartuffe; King Lear and The Judas Kiss. His other theatre work includes Travesties (Menier Chocolate Factory, West End – nominated for Olivier Award and Broadway – nominated for Tony Award for Best Actor); A Flea in Her Ear (The Old Vic); Landscape with Weapon (National Theatre); The Hotel in Amsterdam, (Donmar Warehouse); Mojo (Royal Court); As You Like It (Cheek by Jowl). His recent television credits include The White Lotus; The Ipcress File; Us; Taboo; Doctor Thorne; The Night Manager; Rev; Any Human Heart. His film work includes The King’s Man; Bohemian Rhapsody; Mission: Impossible (Rogue Nation); About Time; In the Loop; Pirates of the Caribbean (II and III); Gosford Park.
Will Keen returns to the Almeida having previously appeared in Ghosts; Waste; Tom and Viv and Five Gold Rings. His other theatre credits include The Stepmother (Chichester Festival Theatre); Quartermaine’s Terms (West End); Hysteria (Theatre Royal Bath); Huis Clos (Donmar Warehouse); Macbeth and The Changeling (Cheek by Jowl). His television work includes Ridley Road; The Pursuit of Love; Temple; His Dark Materials; The Crown and Wolf Hall. His film work includes Operation Mincemeat; The Man Who Killed Don Quixote.
Yolanda Kettle returns to the Almeida having previously appeared in Oil. Her theatre work includes Eden (Hampstead Theatre); Deep Blue Sea (National Theatre); For Services Rendered (Chichester Festival Theatre); Little Light (Orange Tree Theatre); Birdland (Royal Court); A Tale of Two Cities (Royal and Derngate, Northampton); A Doll’s House (Young Vic and West End); Pride and Prejudice (Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre); Hello/Goodbye (Hampstead Theatre). Her television credits include Roadkill; Marcella; Howards End; The Crown; Love, Nina. For film, her work includes Persuasion.
Sean Kingsley’s theatre credits include Once (New Wolsey/Queen’s Theatre Hornchurch); Cinderella, Oxy and the Morons; The Sword in the Stone (New Wolsey Theatre); The Grinning Man (Bristol Old Vic and Trafalgar Studios); Jesus Christ Superstar (Regent's Park Open Air Theatre); Jersey Boys (tour); Billy Elliot (West End) and Les Misérables (West End). His television work includes Poirot and Wire in the Blood. For film, his credits include London Road.
Paul Kynman’s theatre credits include A Little Night Music, Johnny on the Spot and The Madness of King George III (National Theatre); Under the Whale Back (Hull Truck Theatre) and Burning Youth (Donmar Warehouse). His recent television work includes The Witcher; To Walk Invisible; Barbarians Rising. His film credits include Peterloo; Clash of the Titans; A Cock and Bull Story and the upcoming Asteroid City.
Peter Morgan is an international award-winning writer for stage, screen and film. As well as receiving Oscar and BAFTA Award nominations for his screenplay for Stephen Frears’ The Queen starring Helen Mirren, Morgan won a host of international awards including, Golden Globe, British Independent Film and Evening Standard British Film Awards. The award-winning and Tony-nominated play Frost/Nixon received critical acclaim on both sides of the Atlantic before being adapted into a multi–Academy Award-nominated film of the same name. The film garnered five Oscar Award nominations, including Best Screenplay. Morgan's many other film credits include the award-winning The Last King of Scotland, The Damned United and Rush, directed by Ron Howard. His extensive television credits include The Lost Honour of Christopher Jeffries, the critically acclaimed The Deal – the first part of Morgan’s Tony Blair Trilogy (BAFTA Award for Best Drama) - The Special Relationship and Longford. Peter wrote the award-winning West End play The Audience, starring Helen Mirren and most recently, The Crown. A multi award-winning drama series, The Crown centres on the two power-houses of Buckingham Palace and No. 10 Downing Street.
Jessica Temple’s theatre credits include Peter Pan (National Theatre); Medea (Bristol Old Vic); The Madness of George III (Nottingham Playhouse); Who Cares (Lung Theatre); Romeo and Juliet (Insane Root) and King Lear (Bristol Old Vic). For television, her work includes D.I. Ray; Atlanta and Sister Boniface Mysteries.
Luke Thallon returns to the Almeida having previously appeared in Albion (nominated for the Evening Standard Emerging Talent Award) and Nine Lessons and Carols. His other theatre credits include Camp Siegfried (The Old Vic); After Life (National Theatre); Leopoldstadt (West End); Present Laughter (The Old Vic); Family Voices and The Room as part of the Harold Pinter season (West End); Cock (Chichester Festival Theatre) and The Inheritance (Young Vic). His work for film includes The Favourite.
Jamael Westman’s theatre credits include the title role in Hamilton (West End and Los Angeles); The Lorax (The Old Vic); The White Devil (Shakespeare’s Globe) and Torn (Royal Court). His television work includes The Essex Serpent and Anne Boleyn. For film, his credits include Animals.