The Michael Grandage Company has finally announced the full casting for the upcoming production of Anna Ziegler’s play, Photograph 51 at the Noel Coward Theatre.
Joining the previously announced star of stage and screen, Nicole Kidman in this UK premiere will be Edward Bennett as Francis Crick, Joshua Silver as Ray Gosling, Stephen Campbell Moore as Maurice Wilkins, Will Attenborough as James Watson and Patrick Kennedy as Don Caspar.
Directed by Michael Grandage, Photograph 51 tells the fascinating story behind the woman who discovered the architecture of DNA, British scientist Rosalind Franklin, played by Nicole Kidman. The title of the play comes from the name given to an x-ray image that revealed the double-helix structure of DNA and unlocked the secret to life, as we know it.
Kidman was last seen in the West End back in 1998 when she stared David Hare’s play, The Blue Room at the Donmar Warehouse and then on Broadway. The Academy Award winning actress is best known for her appearances in such films as The Hours, Cold Mountain and Moulin Rouge.
Edward Bennett is best known for his work with the Royal Shakespeare Company, including Hamlet, Love's Labour's Lost and Love's Labour's Won. Joshua Silver was last seen in the West End in the RSC’s productions of Wolf Hall and Bring Up the Bodies. Stephen Campbell Moore is best known from his role in Alan Bennett’s The History Boys, and has also appeared in Clybourne Park and Chimerica in the West End. Will Attenborough was last seen in the West End in Another Country at the Trafalgar Studios. Patrick Kennedy’s theatre work includes The Glass Menagerie for Shared Experience, Terese Raquin at the National Theatre and No Quarter at the Royal Court Theatre.
Photograph 51 opens at the Noel Coward Theatre on 14 September and runs until 21 November 2015.
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