The Royal Shakespeare Company has announced that their new play Oppenheimer will transfer to the West End on the 7 March 2015.
Written by Tom Morton-Smith, the production will run at the Vaudeville Theatre for a very limited eight-week period, following a sell out run at the RSC’s home in Stratford-upon-Avon.
The play stars John Heffernan as the troubled nuclear physicist Robert Oppenheimer, who invented the atomic bomb. It is set against the spread of fascism in Europe, and follows the ambitious and charismatic man who fathered a weapon that would change human history forever.
Directed by Angus Jackson, Oppenheimer takes the audience into the heart of the infamous Manhattan Project and reveals the personal cost of making history. The West End transfer will see the critically acclaimed ensemble cast of Ben Allen, Ross Armstrong, Daniel Boyd, Vincent Carmichael, Laura Cubitt, Hedydd Dylan, Sandy Foster, William Gaminara, Michael Grady-Hall, Jack Holden, Oliver Johnstone, Andrew Langtree, Joel MacCormack, Tom McCall, Josh O'Connor, Thomasin Rand, Catherine Steadman and Jamie Wilkes, take to stage once more.
The Royal Shakespeare Company’s artistic director Gregory Doran said on the announcement of the transfer, ‘I am so pleased that Tom's wonderful play can be seen by London audiences. The epic nature of the subject and the broad sweep of the narrative is something we have always encouraged in our commissioned new work. This is a direct legacy of Shakespeare, who, of course, was once a ‘new writer' himself.’
Oppenheimer opens at the Vaudeville Theatre on 27 March and runs until 23 May 2015.
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