Richard stars in Look Back in Anger
Whatsonstage.com : Whatsonstage.com: Cast: Coyle Looks Back, Exiles, Frost & Chichester
Open from 16 August to 2 September at Theatre Royal Bath
29th June 2006 - What's on Stage NewsCast: Coyle Looks Back, Exiles, Frost & Chichester
Richard Coyle Further casting has been announced for several upcoming plays in London and at leading regional venues, including Peter Gill’s 50th anniversary production of John Osborne’s seminal Look Back in Anger, which concludes Sir Peter Hall’s annual summer repertory season at the Theatre Royal Bath (See News, 3 Mar 2006).
Gill has cast Richard Coyle (pictured) – whom he previously directed in his own play, The York Realist - as the original “angry young man”, the working class anti-hero Jimmy Porter. In an urban bedsit, Jimmy lives with his upper crust wife Alison and his best friend Cliff. Sexual tensions rise as the frustrations of daily life and a dead-end job mount. Look Back in Anger runs at Bath from 16 August to 2 September 2006 ahead of an anticipated West End transfer.
In addition to The York Realist, which moved to the West End following a Royal Court stint and tour, Coyle’s stage credits include Proof (opposite Gwyneth Paltrow at the Donmar Warehouse) and, most recently, Don Carlos (opposite Derek Jacobi at Sheffield Crucible and in the West End). His many screen credits include Coupling, Strange, The Best Man, The Libertine, Cracker and Gunpowder, Plot and Treason.
