
Marking a return to the West End, David Tennant has taken on the title role of Patrick Marber’s Don Juan In Soho. The erstwhile Doctor Who will begin previews at Wyndham’s Theatre from March 17, 2017 with a limited run ending on June 10. Marber is directing the “savagely funny and filthy” modern update which moves the action to contemporary London and follows the final adventures of its debauched protagonist — a cruel seducer who lives only for pleasure. A veteran of stage and screen, Tennant earlier this year reprised his eponymous role in Richard II at the Barbican and at the Brooklyn Academy of Music. He was most recently on the West End playing Benedict in Much Ado About Nothing. He has also just wrapped on the third season of ITV’s Broadchurch. Marber scripted Mike Nichols’ Closer based on his own play, and Richard Eyre’s Notes On A Scandal, for which he received an Oscar nomination. In December this year, Ivo van Hove will direct Marber’s new version of Ibsen’s Hedda Gabler for the National Theatre starring Ruth Wilson and Rafe Spall. Don Juan In Soho, which first premiered 10 years ago at the Donmar Warehouse, is now produced for the West End by Matthew Byam Shaw, Nia Janis and Nick Salmon for Playful Productions in association with Sonia Friedman Productions.
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