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11 July 2023
REHEARSAL IMAGES RELEASED FOR THE EFFECT AT THE NATIONAL THEATRE, IN ASSOCIATION WITH THE JAMIE LLOYD COMPANY
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The National Theatre today releases photographs of the company in rehearsals for The Effect by Lucy Prebble (Succession), in association with The Jamie Lloyd Company. Joining the previously announced Paapa Essiedu (I May Destroy You, The Lazarus Project) as Tristan and Taylor Russell (Bones and All, Waves) as Connie, are Michele Austin (Cyrano de Bergerac) as Dr Lorna James and Kobna Holdbrook-Smith (Tina Turner: The Musical) as Dr Toby Sealey.
Jamie Lloyd (Cyrano de Bergerac) returns to the National Theatre to direct this funny and intimate examination of love and ethics, set to play in the Lyttelton theatre this summer.
Hearts and minds racing, Connie and Tristan are falling for each other fast. But is their sudden and intoxicating chemistry real, or a side effect of a new antidepressant? As two young volunteers in a clinical drug trial, their illicit romance poses startling dilemmas for the supervising doctors.
The full company is Michele Austin, Shereener Browne, Paapa Essiedu, Valentine Hanson, Kobna Holdbrook-Smith, Mara Huf, Joseph Langdon and Taylor Russell.
With direction by Jamie Lloyd, set and costume design by Soutra Gilmour, lighting design by Jon Clark, composition by Michael ‘Mikey J’ Asante, sound design by George Dennis, movement direction by Sarah Golding and Yukiko Masui (SAY), fight direction by Kate Waters, intimacy co-ordination by Ingrid Mackinnon and casting by Alastair Coomer CDG and Chloe Blake.
The Effect will play in the Lyttelton theatre from 1 August, with press night on 9 August and a final performance on 7 October.
Notes to Editor
Assisted performances of The Effect:
Captioned: Thursday 7 September at 7.30pm, Saturday 7 October at 2.15pm
BSL Interpreted: Saturday 16 September at 2.15pm
Audio described: Thursday 24 August at 7.30pm, Saturday 23 September at 2.15pm
Chilled performance: Wednesday 4 October at 7.30pm
Audio described performances are preceded by a Touch Tour, 90 minutes before the performance start time.
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About The Jamie Lloyd Company
The Jamie Lloyd Company is the phenomenally successful partnership between Ambassador Theatre Group and Artistic Director Jamie Lloyd. The Jamie Lloyd Company creates groundbreaking productions with the very best acting talent in the world. Recent productions include radical reappraisals of A Doll’s House, The Seagull, Cyrano de Bergerac and Betrayal, and the forthcoming Sunset Boulevard with Nicole Scherzinger at Savoy Theatre from September 2023.
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