Dreyfus, Bertish, Crowley and Ramm Join London's Breakfast at Tiffany's

James Dreyfus, Suzanne Bertish, Dermot Crowley and John Ramm will join previously announced stars Anna Friel and Joseph Cross in the new stage adaptation of Truman Capote’s novella Breakfast at Tiffany’s. Adapted by Samuel Adamson and directed by Sean Mathias, the production will begin performances at the Theatre Royal Haymarket September 9 and play through January 9, 2010.

Breakfast at Tiffany’s is set in New York City, 1943. William “Fred” Parsons, a young writer from Louisiana, meets Miss Holly Golightly, a charming, vivacious and utterly elusive good-time girl. Everyone falls in love with Holly, including William—but he is poor, and Holly needs rich. Will she marry Rusty, playboy millionaire? Or José, the future president of Brazil? As war rages in Europe, Holly begins to fall in love with William, and things grow more complicated when her past catches up with her.

Dreyfus’ recent theater credits include Amongst Friends (Hampstead Theatre), The Common Pursuit (Menier Chocolate Factory), Cabaret (Lyric Theatre), Donkey’s Years (Comedy Theatre) and The Producers (Theatre Royal Drury Lane). In 1998 Dreyfus won the Laurence Olivier Award for Best Supporting Actor in a Musical for his performance in Lady in the Dark at the National Theatre. His extensive TV credits include Gimme Gimme Gimme, Casualty, My Hero, Waking the Dead and The Thin Blue Line.

Bertish’s stage credits include the title roles in Mrs. Warren’s Profession and Antony and Cleopatra, both at the Harman Center for the Arts in Washington, D.C., as well as An Inspector Calls, The Vagina Monologues, Les Liaisons Dangereuses and Hamlet on the West End. Her Broadway credits are Salome and The Moliere Comedies, the latter of which earned her a Tony Award nomination. On TV, she had been seen on Rome, Love Soup, Trial and Retribution, Silent Witness and Cornonation Street.

Crowley was last seen in Stuff Happens (National Theatre). Stage credits also include Calico (Duke of York’s Theatre), Scenes from the Big Picture (National Theatre), The Weir (Royal Court) and The Hostage (Royal Shakespeare Company). His U.S theater credits include Juno, Translations, The Weir and Dealer’s Chioce. On the screen, he has been seen in Margaret, Bleak House, Spooks, Trial and Retribution, Babel and The Return of the Jedi.

Ramm’s recent theatrical credits include The National Theatre of Brent, A Christmas Carol (Rose Theatre Kingston), Little Dolls and Flooded Grave (Bush Theatre) and Ring Around the Moon (Liverpool Playhouse). Screen credits include Midsomer Murders, Doctors, My Family, The Queen’s Nose, Shakespeare in Love and The Nine Lives of Thomas Katz.  

The complete cast is as follows Bertish (Madama Spanella), James Bradshaw (Rusty Trawler), Gwendoline Christie (Mag Wildwood), Paul Courtney Hyu (Ensemble), Joseph Cross (William ‘Fred’ Parsons), Crowley (Joe Bell), Felix D’Alviella (Jose Ybarra-Jaegar), Dreyfus (O J Berman), Friel (Holly Golightly), Nicholas Goh (Mr Yunioshi), Annie Hemingway (Ensemble), Sam Hoare (Ensemble), Natalie Klamar (Middy Munson), David Phelan (Sid Arbuck) and Ramm (Doc Golightly).

The design team for Breakfast at Tiffany’s includes choreography by Wayne McGregor, costumes and sets by Anthony Ward, lighting by Bruno Poet and sound by Paul Groothuis.