Truman Capote

Emily Atack To Play Holly Golightly As New Venues Announced

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Emily Atack to share the role of Holly Golightly in Breakfast at Tiffany's

Emily Atack will now play the role of Holly Golightly in the UK Tour of Breakfast at Tiffany’s from 2 May to 11 June 2016, appearing at His Majesty’s Aberdeen, Nottingham Theatre Royal, Theatre Royal Bath, Glasgow Theatre Royal, King’s Theatre Edinburgh and Wycombe Swan. She will be replacing Verity Rushworth, who has had to withdraw because she is expecting her first child. Emily will be sharing the role with Pixie Lott, whose dates, including the West End season, have been announced previously. Emily can currently be seen in the highly anticipated remake of Dad’s Army, which topped the UK box office earlier this year. Emily stars as Daphne alongside an all-star cast that includes Catherine Zeta-Jones, Bill Nighy, Toby Jones & Michael Gambon. She is best known for her role as Charlotte Hinchcliffe in the award-winning E4 series The Inbetweeners. Emily has most recently shot Iron Sky 2 alongside … Read more

Breakfast At Tiffany’s UK Tour 2016

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Georgia May Foote will replace Pixie Lott as Holly Golightly in the final months of the Breakfast at Tiffany’s UK Tour. The novella has been adapted for the stage by Pulitzer Prize-winning Finalist and Tony and Olivier Award-winning playwright Richard Greenberg (Take Me Out, Three Days of Rain), and contains memorable songs from the era as well as original music by Grant Olding (One Man, Two Guvnors). “The goal of this version is to return to the original setting of the novella, which is the New York of the Second World War, as well as to resume its tone – still stylish and romantic, yes, but rougher-edged and more candid than people generally remember,” Richard Greenberg explained. “Capote was a great writer and a natural maker of plots and Breakfast at Tiffany’s has a drive that makes it very alluring to dramatise.” Based on Truman Capote’s beloved masterwork, Breakfast at … Read more

Dame Diana Rigg Reads Capote’s A Christmas Memory

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Dame Diana Rigg performs at Lift Festival

Having sold out the candleight intimate festive reading of Truman Capote’s A Christmas Memory with Mark Rylance and Juliet Stevenson, the LIFT festival has announced an extra night of this reading with Dame Diana Rigg and Charles Dance on Wednesday 10th December 2014. This evening is being hosted in collaboration with renowned immersive theatre company Look Left Look Right, and will also feature a cello performance from Harry Napier. Booking:- 10 December 2014 at 7.30pm Kings College London, Strand Campus College Chapel, London WC2R 2LS www.liftfestival.com