La Bęte |
London theatre |
Hotly anticipated as this year's must-see production, La Bęte is a dazzling, critically-acclaimed comedy by American playwright David Hirson. The play was a huge critical success in London in 1992 and won the Olivier Award for Best Comedy. With a stellar cast of exceptional talent and one of the most celebrated directors of our time, this new staging promises to be the theatrical event to see in 2010.
La Bęte stars the extraordinary and multi-award-winning actor Mark Rylance, “the most exciting stage actor of his generation” (Times), the wonderful Tony and Emmy-Award-winning David Hyde Pierce (best known as Niles in the smash-hit sitcom Frasier), and one of the country's most loved and popular actresses, the magnificent Joanna Lumley. This new staging is directed by the internationally acclaimed, multi-award-winning Matthew Warchus (God of Carnage, Boeing-Boeing, Art, The Norman Conquests), hailed as the “finest director of comedy we’ve got” (Sunday Telegraph).
La Bęte is a comic tour de force about Elomire (Hyde
Pierce), a high-minded classical dramatist who loves only the
theatre, and Valere (Rylance), a low-brow street clown who loves
only himself. When the fickle princess (Lumley) decides she’s
grown weary of Elomire's royal theatre troupe, he and Valere are
left fighting for survival as art squares off with ego in a
literary showdown for the ages.
Catch this superb, sparkling masterpiece of comedy during its
limited season form June 28th until August
28th before it transfers to Broadway.
Comedy Theatre, Panton
Street, London SW1
(nearest underground: Piccadilly Circus)
Monday to Saturday at 7:30 pm
Saturday at 2:30 pm
Performances from June 28th to July 10th:
Orchestra Stalls
Ł93.00 & Ł64.00
Dress Circle
Ł93.00 & Ł64.00
Performances from July 12th to August 28th:
Orchestra Stalls
Ł93.00 & Ł72.00
Dress Circle
Ł93.00 & Ł72.00
All booking fees and taxes are included in these London theater prices.