Eve Best (Josie Hogan)
Theatre includes Mourning Becomes Electra (Best Actress, Critics’ Circle Award), Three Sisters, The Coast of Utopia, The Heiress, The Cherry Orchard (NT); Hedda Gabler (Almeida; Best Actress, Critics’ Circle and Olivier Awards); Macbeth (Globe); ‘Tis Pity She’s a Whore (Young Vic; Outstanding Newcomer, Evening Standard Award, Most Promising Newcomer, Critics’ Circle Award); Sisters Brothers (Gate); The Promise (BAC); The Misanthrope (Chichester). Television includes Prime Suspect, Vital Signs, Inspector Lynley Mysteries, Waking the Dead, Lie with Me, Shackleton, HG Wells, Other People’s Children. Films include The Lodge, Brilliant.
Colm Meaney (Phil Hogan)
Theatre includes Juno and the Paycock (Donmar); The Cider House Rules (Obie Award), Breaking the Code (New York). Television includes Star Trek, Covert One: The Hades Factor, Scarlett, Random Passage, Boss Lear, The Unit, Law and Order: Criminal Intent. Films include Five Fingers, Perseverance, Intermission, The Boys and Girls from County Clare, Layer Cake, The Dead, The Commitments, The Snapper (Golden Globe Award), The Van, Come See the Paradise, The Road to Wellville, Con Air, Mystery Alaska, under Siege, This is My Father, The Englishman That Went Up a Hill But Came Down a Mountain, Claire Dolan, Four Days, Into the West, Monument Avenue, How Harry Became a Tree (Best Actor, Irish Film Awards).
Kevin Spacey (Jim Tyrone)
Kevin Spacey is Artistic Director of The Old Vic Theatre Company. He directed its inaugural production Cloaca, before appearing in National Anthems, The Philadelphia Story and Richard II. Previous theatre includes The Iceman Cometh (Evening Standard and Olivier Awards for Best Actor, and Tony Award nomination) directed by Howard Davies (Almeida, Old Vic and Broadway); Lost in Yonkers (Tony Award, Best Supporting Actor); Long Day’s Journey into Night, with Jack Lemmon, directed by Jonathan Miller (Broadway and West End) and The Seagull (Kennedy Center, Washington DC). Films include Superman Returns, Beyond the Sea (director and actor), The Usual Suspects (Academy Award, Best Supporting Actor), American Beauty (Academy and BAFTA Awards, Best Actor), Swimming with Sharks, Se7en, LA Confidential, Glengarry Glen Ross, The Negotiator, Hurlyburly, K-Pax and The Shipping News. His production company Trigger Street has produced the films The United States of Leland and The Big Kahuna. Forthcoming producing projects include 21 for Sony Pictures, and The Rules for Dreamworks.
Billy Carter (T Stedman Harder)
Theatre includes Translations (NT); Eastward Hoe, The Island Princess, The Malcontent, The Roman Actor (RSC); Bruises (Royal Court); Macbeth (Almeida); My Boy Jack (Hampstead); The Soldier’s Song (Theatre Royal E15); Serjeant Musgrave’s Dance, Comedians (Oxford Stage Company); Macbeth (West End); Assassins (Sheffield); Aristocrats (Chichester); Dealer’s Choice (West Yorkshire Playhouse); Kes (York). Television includes Perfect Day, Primaeval, Fair City, I Fought the Law, The Gist, The Fitz, Common as Muck, Soldier Soldier, Murder Investigation Team, Bar, Holding the Baby. Films include Festival, Up on the Roof.
Eugene O’Hare (Mike Hogan)
Theatre includes Translations (NT); The Next Big Thing (Old Vic Studios); Lovers (Strindberg
Theatre, Stockholm); Observe the Sons of Ulster Marching towards the Somme, Autumn Fire (Abbey Dublin); In the Sweat, Strindberg Festival (Lyric Belfast); Waiting for Godot (Opera House Belfast); The Silver Tassie, The Rhymers of Eldrich (Newpoint); Lost in Peru (Mapping 4D). Films include The Meeting, Daniel Cares, The Road, Nothing Personal. Television includes Waking the Dead, Over the Wall.
Thank you katie. Grateful for you sharing this with us.
Posted by: Anita | 09/19/2006 at 04:28 PM
What an amazing play, many congratulations to the cast.It was a very memorable evening and definately deserves another visit to the Vic.Great to see the parts of the production that we do not normally get to see, it really makes you appreciate what goes into the production.
Posted by: Carol Everett | 09/20/2006 at 08:53 AM
hmm.plan to see the play anyway.hope the stage version of kevin will be better.heh heh.
Posted by: samudra | 09/26/2006 at 06:23 PM
What an outstanding production. Funny, moving and harrowing in turn. Eve Best and Colm Meany were brilliant and Kevin took the almost impossible part of Jim and made it his own - a marvelously detailed performance. It's a very long second half but the audience hardly moved a muscle which tells you how rivetting it was - especially as the Old Vic audience is notoriously restless.
Posted by: Virginia | 09/29/2006 at 04:51 PM
looking foreward to seeing your play in nyc. good luck in preveiw week and your fundraiser on the 19th.see you in a couple of weeks, love mary and patty, aka mackennah and jaydon.
Posted by: mary | 03/18/2007 at 06:57 AM