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Acclaimed actor and director Corin Redgrave will return to the Playhouse
stage where his parents met and fell in love, in the Liverpool Everyman
and Playhouse’s first in-house production of the new Spring-Summer
season – The Entertainer.
John
Osborne’s coruscating modern classic follows the decline of
one time music hall star Archie Rice, played by Redgrave, as he
peddles his pithy one liners to a bored audience in a past-its-prime
seaside resort.
Archie
symbolizes the country he lives in – a post war Britain with
illusions of grandeur based on a speciously ‘glorious’
past.
Corin
Redgrave is one of the country’s most respected actors and
directors. His film works includes Four Weddings and a Funeral,
In The Name of the Father and Oh What A Lovely War! As a director
his credits include The Recruiting Officer (Lichfield Garrick),
In Extremis and De Profundis (RNT, with Trevor Nunn).
Corin’s
parents Sir Michael Redgrave and Lady Rachel Redgrave nee Kempson
met while they were both members of the Liverpool Repertory Theatre
at the Playhouse in 1935.
The
cast includes Paola Dionisotti as Phoebe, who has worked extensively
for the National Theatre and the RSC and who won Best Actress in
the Evening Standard Awards 2000 and Stage Award for Best Actress
in the Edinburgh Festival 2000 .
Eileen
Walsh, who plays Jean Rice, was nominated Best Newcomer at The British
Independent Film Awards and played the lead role of Crispina in
the award-winning film The Magdalene Sisters directed by Peter Mullen.
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