His Dark Materials and Luther star Ruth Wilson has just confirmed a very brief West End theatre appearance for spring 2022 in a play about love and heartbreak.
Ruth, a double Olivier Award winner, is coming to the Harold Pinter Theatre in Central London for just over three weeks in March and April 2022, to star in The Human Voice.
The play is adapted from a monologue by Jean Cocteau, in which a woman makes her final phone call to her former partner. Ruth will once again team up with director Ivo van Hove – they previously worked together on a 2016 production of Hedda Gabler. Jan Verweyveld, who often teams up with van Hove, will be production designer.
"I am absolutely thrilled to be collaborating again with Ivo and Jan on this wonderful, heartbreaking, and deeply human monologue from Jean Cocteau," said Ruth.
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"A woman alone with only her phone as companion, Cocteau explores the nature of intimate relations through inanimate objects. In a world in which are all addicted to and dependent on our phones, this play from the 1930s couldn't feel more prescient.
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"Ivo is the perfect director to bring Cocteau's play to life as both share a love of the absurd as a mirror to truth."
Previews of The Human Voice start on March 17, 2022, with the play's official opening night on March 22 (as you'd expect, there's already limited availability for this date). The run ends on Saturday, April 9. Tickets are available via retailers including ATG Tickets and LOVEtheatre.
Ruth's appearance at the Harold Pinter Theatre slots into a busy few months for the venue, with James McAvoy and Emilia Clarke among the stars confirmed to appear there.
James will be reprising his award-winning role in The Jamie Lloyd Company's Cyrano de Bergerac, while Emilia returns to the West End to continue her starring run in The Seagull, which was cut short just a few days into its previews run when theatres closed their doors just ahead of the spring 2020 COVID-19 lockdown.
Killing Eve and Free Guy star Jodie Comer is also appearing at the Pinter in 2022, starring in a solo play called Prima Facie in her West End debut.
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