Joseph Fiennes & Pam Ferris to Star in Epitaph for George Dillon

Joseph Fiennes and Pam Ferris will star in a West End revival of Epitaph for George Dillon by John Osborne and Anthony Creighton. The production is aiming for a mid-October opening, according to Variety.

Trained at the Young Vic Youth Theatre, Fiennes has a long history on the stage. His theatrical credits include The Woman in Black, A Month in the Country, West Side Story, The Threepenny Opera, Le Grand Meaulines, Jude the Obscure, Les enfants du Pardis, A View from the Bridge, Troilus and Cressida, As You Like It and Love's Labour's Lost. His is probably best known for playing the title character in the Oscar-winning film Shakespeare in Love. In addition to that movie, his big screen credits include Stealing Beauty, Elizabeth, Forever Mine, Rancid Aluminum, Enemy at the Gates and Killing Me Softly, Luther, The Merchant of Venice and The Great Raid.

Ferris has appeared in numerous productions for the Royal Court Theatre, a National Theatre tour of Roots, Under the Stars for the Greenwich Theatre and a Royal Court/National Theatre tour of The Queen and I. After a series of television and film roles, Ferris truly became popular in the U.K. when she played Ma Larkin in the series The Darling Buds of May. She is best known to audiences around the world for portraying sinister headmistress Agatha Trunchball in the film Matilda and Aunt Marge in Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban.

In Epitaph for George Dillon, an artist gets involved with a family of banal morons.

Peter Gill will direct this revival, which is expected to have a 12-week limited engagement at a theater to be announced.