2011 Program; Dominic West, Penny Downie, Paul McGann; Butley/Simon Gray; London

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2011 Program (Duchess Theatre, London, England) Dominic West, Paul McGann, Penny Downie, Amanda Drew, Martin Hutson et al in Butley, a play by Simon Gray, directed by Lindsay Posner ; Program is in Very Good condition
1 programme, 48 pages : illustrations ; rehearsal photographs by Tristram Kenton ; 22 cm ; London, England : Dewynters, June 2011
Cast:
Dominic
West (Ben Butley), Martin Hutson (Joseph Keyston), Emma Hiddleston (Miss Heasman), Penny Downie (Edna Shaft), Amanda Drew (Anne Butley), Paul McGann (Reg Nuttall), Cai Brigden (Mr Gardner). Understudies: Rhiannon Sommers, Andrew McDonald, Andrew Nolan.
Mark Rubinstein, Eleanor Lloyd, Lee Menzies and Dena Hammerstein/Pam Pariseau, and Jay Harris present ... Designer - Peter McKintosh ; Lighting Designer - Howard Harrison ; Sound - Matt McKenzie ; Assistant Director - Tom
Attenborough
Advertisements in the program include:  Rupert Everett, Kara Tointon, Diana Rigg in the Chichester Festival Theatre production of Pygmalion, the play by George Bernard Shaw, directed and designed by Philip Prowse at the Garrick Theatre ; Kristin Scott Thomas, Douglas Henshall, and Ben Miles in Betrayal by Harold Pinter, directed by Ian Rickson at the Comedy Theatre ; Lend Me a Tenor, the musical (from Ken Ludwig) by Peter Sham and Brad Carroll at the Gielgud Theatre ; Betty Blue Eyes, the musical at the Novello Theatre, featuring Sarah Lancashire ; The Flying Karamazov Brothers at the Vaudeville Theatre ; Michael Crawford and Danielle Hope in Andrew Lloyd Webber's The Wizard of Oz at the London Palladium ; Nimax Theatres ; Ozer & Sofra Restaurants.
Dominic West bio:
"Hailing from the stage and screen of his native England, actor Dominic West made a name in the United States playing hard-drinking, anti-authoritarian homicide detective, Jimmy McNulty, on the gritty television crime drama, "The Wire" (HBO, 2002-08). Prior to that critically acclaimed role, West appeared in films like "Richard III" (1995), "Surviving Picasso" (1996) and "The Gambler" (1998). But it was his five years on "The Wire" that perhaps offered him the richest and most compelling performance of his career on a show numerous critics dubbed the greatest series in the history of television. Thanks to the critical adulation heaped upon "The Wire," West nabbed plum roles in higher-profile movies like "Mona Lisa Smile" (2003) and "The Forgotten" (2004). He had his first major co-starring role in the blockbuster adaptation of Frank Miller's graphic novel, "300" (2007), and continued along in that vein with "Punisher: War Zone" (2008), "Centurion" (2010) and the rebooted "Tomb Raider" (2018), along with tony British fare like the 1950s period piece "The Hour" (BBC 2011-12) and steamy American drama "The Affair" (Showtime 2014- ). Thanks to a ready charm and comedic flair mixed with serious acting chops, West was an extraordinary talent worthy of attention."
Simon Gray bio:
"Simon Gray was born in 1936 in Hayling Island, and studied at Westminster School, Dalhousie University, and Trinity College, Cambridge.
He wrote many stage, radio and television plays, and the screenplays for Butley and A Month in the Country, after the novel by J. L. Carr. He often returned to the subject of the lives and trials of educated intellectuals.
His stage plays include adaptations of Dostoyevsky's The Idiot (1971) and Moliere's Tartuffe (1990); Butley (1971); Otherwise Engaged (1991), winner of several awards, and its sequel, Simply Disonnected (1996); Molly (published in The Rear Column and other plays, 1978), a 1930s murder, inspired by the notorious Rattenbury case; Quartermaine's Terms (1981), about the lives of seven teachers in a school in the 1960s; and Melon (1987), in which Mark Melon addresses the Cheltenham WI on his career as a successful publisher, later revised as The Holy Terror (1990). He directed three of his plays himself: The Common Pursuit (1984); Cell Mates (1995); and Hidden Laughter (1990). His last plays are The Old Masters (2004), about art experts Berenson and Duveen; and Little Nell (2007), a play about Charles Dickens, first broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2006, and premiering at the Theatre Royal, Bath in 2007.
His plays for television include After Pilkington (1987); They Never Slept; and Running Late. He also wrote five novels, including Little Portia (1967) and Breaking Hearts (1997).
Simon Gray also wrote several non-fiction works about life in the theatre and outside it, and is particularly well-remembered for his witty and engaging memoirs, including four volumes of his daily journals: The Smoking Diaries (2004); The Year of the Jouncer (2006); The Last Cigarette (2008); and Coda (2008).
Simon Gray was awarded a CBE in 2005 for services to drama and literature. He died in August 2008.