Kean

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Play closed 14 July 2007

Apollo Theatre Shaftesbury Avenue, London

A major revival of Jean Paul Sartre's play Kean in London, adapted from the play by Alexandre Dumas in a translation by Frank Hauser and directed by Adrian Nobel and starring Antony Sher in the title role.

Edmund Kean, the greatest romantic actor of the 19th century, recreated by Alexandre Dumas on the Paris stage, reinvented by Jean Paul Satre in the 20th century, is now embodied by Antony Sher, acclaimed as one of our most inspiring classical actors.

Drawn loosely from life, Kean is a pretender of the highest order, as Jean Paul Satre described him 'the actor who never ceased acting'. His private life too is a public performance - a tragi-comedy about a man with an insatiable appetite for romantic adventure, an ego as big as a stage and an inability to rescue himself from jeopardy.

This cross-century collaboration is an unmissable portrait, redolent with greasepaint and overflowing with the life of the theatre. Satre's play is a passionate, sexy, funny, full-bloodied experience for anyone who loves Shakespeare, the theatre and great adventure.

Kean in London stars Antony Sher in the title role along with Joanne Pearce as 'Countess de Koefeld'. Alex Avery 'The Prince of Wales', Jane Murphy 'Anne Danby', Robert East 'Count de Koefeld' and Sam Kelly 'Salomon' along with Barry McCarthy, Gemma Paige, Hanne Steen, Brendan Hooper, Oliver Beamish, Jeremy Hancock and Dodger Phillips. (Casting subject to change). Kean is directed by Adrian Noble with designs by Mark Thompson, lighting by Oliver Fenwick, sound by John Leonard and original music by Shaun Davy.