Old Vic's Season to Include Design for Living, Directed by Anthony Page

London’s Old Vic has announced plans for three productions in the coming season, including Noel Coward’s Design for Living directed by Anthony Page, Georges Feydeau’s A Flea in Her Ear directed by Richard Eyre, and Terence Rattigan’s Cause Célèbre directed by Thea Sharrock. The productions will mark Kevin Spacey’s seventh season as artistic director of the Old Vic.

Design for Living will star Tom Burke, Lisa Dillon and Andrew Scott as Gilda, Otto and Leo, the egotistical and self-absorbed trio who challenge the moral boundaries of relationships. The play will run September 3-November 27, with opening night set for September 15. Director Anthony Page won a Tony for his production of A Doll’s House and helmed the Broadway revival of Waiting for Godot.

John Mortimer’s adaptation of A Flea in Her Ear will star Tom Hollander and Lisa Dillon. A comedy of errors set against a backdrop of jealousy, misunderstandings and confrontation, the play centers on Raymonde (Dillon) who sets a trap resulting in comic disaster when she suspects her husband, Victor (Hollander), of infidelity. The play will run December 4-March 5, 2011, with opening night on December 14.

Cause Célèbre, Rattigan’s final play, will run March 17-June 11, 2011, celebrating the centenary of the playwright’s birth. Opening night will be on March 29. The drama is based on the true story of Alma Rattenbury, who went on trial with her 18-year-old lover for the murder of her husband. Condemned by the public more for her seduction of a young boy than for any involvement she may have had in her husband’s death, Alma’s fate is left in the hands of the socially and sexually repressed jury forewoman, Edith. No casting has been announced.