I Want You, Land Girls and Stealing Beauty, her starring television roles include My Summer With Des and Scarlet and Black . Also in the cast is Sheila Gish who won the 1996 Olivier Award for Best Supporting Performance in a Musical for Company, her numerous television roles include Pie in the Sky , Jonathan Creek and Highlander . The cast is completed by Patricia Boyer, Gerard Butler, Johanna Kirby, Tim Mathews and Julia Swift. This production is being presented by Warehouse Productions, a new company affiliated to London's Donmar Warehouse Theatre and is lead by Artistic Director Sam Mendes. The Real Inspector Hound and Black Comedy .
Smoke rises and birds screech in the background.
Welcome to the Gothic world of Tennessee Williams, and this steamy shocker of a 1958 play about the mysterious death of an unknown poet who, like Dorian Gray, refused to grow old. The details emerge in an emotional power struggle between his mother, Mrs Venable, and the poet's cousin, Catharine, who accompanied the dead Sebastian on his last trip abroad. We may be locked in a closed world, but the metaphor of depravity emerges against a distant landscape of hatching sea-turtles and naked beggar children on a volcanic island. Johanna Kirby is the cowed maid, Julia Swift Catharine's mother all in a tizzy, and Tim Matthews her pain of a brother, keen to get his hands on Sebastian's money. The play finally grips like a vice, not least because of Tim Hatley's amazing design and Jason Carr's nerve-jangling soundtrack.