It tackles the idea of how good people can succumb to such an evil
David Tennant is heading back tostar will appear in the revival of CP Taylor’s play, Good, that will run at the Playhouse Theatre from October, later this year.
, and Good will be the first production from director Dominic Cooke’s new company, with Cooke tellingin a new interview that, while the play may be set in 1930s Germany, its ideas are still ‘very current’. ‘It shows how people can blur reality, turn away from difficult moments and allow themselves to become inveigled into hideous situations,’ he said.
‘We are in danger of that happening now, not just politically but in terms of the environment… it is a play really about denial.’David will play the role of John Halder and says of his addition to the cast: ‘Dominic is one of the UK’s all-time great theatre directors. I am really inspired and delighted to finally get a chance to work with him, and especially on a wonderful play like C P Taylor’s Good – a fantastic bit of writing that is more pertinent and resonant now than it has ever been.
Fictionhouse’s first project for the stage is C.P.Taylor’s modern classic @GoodThePlay, directed by Dominic Cooke and starring
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