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A new thriller from the best woman crime writer since Christie Ruth Rendell’s A Judgement in Stone at the New Theatre |
Building on the phenomenal decade-long success of The Agatha Christie Theatre Company, which sold over two million tickets and continually played to packed houses around the UK, Bill Kenwright presents a new production adapted from one of the most celebrated works of the writer often hailed as the successor to Agatha Christie, Ruth Rendell’s A Judgement In Stone.Rendell was first published in 1964 and was awarded a CBE in 1996. Her prolific output included film and TV as well as 80 novels and one of the genre’s most famous characters, Chief Inspector Wexford. Widely considered to be one of Rendell’s greatest works, A Judgement in Stone is loved for its brilliant rendering of character, plot and motive, and is undoubtedly Rendell at her thrilling best. Eunice struggles to fit in. When she joins a wealthy family as their housekeeper the very reason for her awkwardness, long hidden and deeply buried, leads inexorably to a terrible tale of murder in cold blood - on Valentine’s Day. Ruth Rendell’s brilliant plot unravels a lifetime of deceit, despair and cover-ups which, when revealed, brings a shocking revelation almost as grizzly as murder itself. The star cast includes award winning TV and stage favourite ANDREW LANCEL (Coronation Street, The Bill), SOPHIE WARD (Young Sherlock Holmes, Heartbeat), Pop-idol MARK WYNTER, DEBORAH GRANT (Not Going Out, Bergerac), SHIRLEY ANNE FIELD (The Entertainer, Saturday Night and Sunday Morning), ANTONY COSTA (chart topping boy band Blue) and Agatha Christie Company stalwart BEN NEALON (Soldier Soldier). The production will be directed by ROY MARSDEN who is best known as an actor, particularly in his role as Commander Adam Dalgliesh in Anglia TV's P.D. James series, which he played for 15 years. Ruth Rendell who died in May 2015, was an exceptional crime writer and is credited with having revitalised the mystery genre. She won numerous awards in her lifetime, including the Crime Writers’ Association Gold Dagger for best crime novel with A Demon In My View, a Gold Dagger Award for Live Flesh and the Sunday Times Literary Award. She was awarded the Crime Writers’ Association Cartier Diamond Dagger for sustained excellence in crime writing. In addition to the CBE she became a Life Peer in 1997. Her debut novel From Doon With Death introduced Inspector Wexford who went on to feature in twenty-four of her subsequent novels many of which were adapted for television. A Judgement In Stone was also filmed twice, as The Housekeeper (1986) starring Rita Tushingham and as La Cérémonie (1995), directed by Claude Chabrol, starring Sandrine Bonnaire. A Judgement in Stone is at the New Theatre on Tuesday 4 – Saturday 8 April 2017. Tickets are on sale now from £11.00 – £32.50*. For further details about the show or to book tickets visit www.newtheatrecardiff.co.uk or call the Box Office on (029) 2087 8889. *Bookings are subject to a Ticketing Service Charge (exemptions apply). A Judgement in Stone New Theatre, Cardiff Tuesday 4 – Saturday 8 April 2017 Evenings 7.30pm; Wednesday, Thursday & Saturday Matinees 2.30pm Tickets: £11.00 - £32.50 Box Office: 029 2087 8889 Book Online: www.newtheatrecardiff.co.uk |
| New Theatre Cardiff web site: www.newtheatrecardiff.co.uk |
| Jafar Iqbal e-mail: jafar.iqbal@cardiff.gov.uk |
Monday, March 6, 2017 |
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