Full casting announced for West End transfer of PATRIOTS
Full casting has been announced for Peter Morgan’s new play, Patriots, which transfers to London’s Noel Coward Theatre from 26 May-19 August.
Patriots has just won the Critics’ Circle Award for Best New Play 2023, which follows Will Keen’s Olivier Award win for Best Actor in a Supporting Role for his portrayal of Vladimir Putin.
Joining the previously announced BAFTA-winning actor Tom Hollander as Boris Berezovsky, Will Keen as Vladimir Putin and Luke Thallon as Roman Abramovich are Matt Concannon (The Glee Club, Oldham Coliseum) as Assistant/Daniel Kahneman/Russian Captain, Ronald Guttman (The Fall, Huron Club) as Professor Perelman, Sean Kingsley (Mandela, Young Vic) as Voloshin/Nurse, Paul Kynman (Under the Whaleback, Hull Truck Theatre) as Korzhakov/Yeltsin/FSB Boss/Reporter/Bodyguard, and Jessica Temple (Hedda Gabler, Reading Rep) as Anna Berezovsky/Newscaster/Journalist/Secretary/Pianist all reprising their roles from the Almeida Theatre run; plus new cast members Josef Davies (Ravenscourt, Hampstead Theatre) as Alexander Litvinenko, Ashley Gerlach (The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, National Theatre) as Lawyer/Home Office, Howard Gossington (TINA - The Tina Turner Musical, West End) as Teacher/Compromised Newscaster, Stefanie Martini (The Gold) as Marina Litvinenko/Nina Berezovsky, and Evelyn Miller (Cyrano de Bergerac, West End/BAM) as Tatiana/Katya/Judge/Lover. They are joined by understudies Peter Eastland (My Brother’s Keeper, Theatre503), Lydia Fraser (Hamilton, West End) and Matt McClure (Black Watch, UK/US tour)
Patriots is internationally award-winning writer Peter Morgan’s first new play since The Audience. Peter is best known for writing the multi award-winning Netflix hit, The Crown.
Directed by the Almeida’s Artistic Director, Rupert Goold, Patriots is a brilliant and startlingly timely story of ambition, loyalty and betrayal in a brave new world.
“If the politicians cannot save Russia, then we businessmen must. We have not just the responsibility but the duty to become Russian heroes”
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.
The production has set design by Miriam Buether, co-costume design by Deborah Andrews and Miriam Buether, lighting by Jack Knowles, sound and composition by Adam Cork, casting by Robert Sterne CDG, and movement direction by Polly Bennett.
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