RSC Oppenheimer Fans

Oliver Johnstone comes back at the Royal Shakespeare Company with the “Imperium” plays - Mike Poulton's adaptations of Robert Harris’ best-selling Cicero trilogy -  in the double roles of Rufus/Octavian.

Imperium Part I: Conspirator 16 November 2017 - 10 February 2018

Imperium Part II: Dictator 23 November 2017 - 10 February 2018 

Swan Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon

https://www.rsc.org.uk/imperium-i-conspirator/

Jack Holden reprises his two roles of Beverley and Christopher Timothy in the play “Ink” by James Graham, which transfers to the West End after a run at the Almeida Theatre.

Duke Of York’s, 9 September 2017 – 6 January 2018

https://inktheplay.com/

Catherine Steadman will play Romaine Vole in the play “Witness for the Prosecution” at the County Hall in London, the same role Marlene Dietrich played in the 1957 movie by Billy Wilder, with a different name.

Director: Lucy Bailey.

6 October 2017 - 11 March 2018

John Heffernan is currently in rehearsal in the National Theatre’s “Saint George and the Dragon”, a new play by Rory Mullarkey, playing the title role.

4 October - 2 December 2017

https://www.nationaltheatre.org.uk/shows/saint-george-and-the-dragon

Have you ever fell in love with a play and its cast so much, that after years you still think of it?

That’s what happened with me seeing the Royal Shakespeare Company’s play “Oppenheimer” at the Vaudeville Theatre in London on May 2015.

I can’t still take it out of my mind, it got a talented cast of twenty actors and a crew of talented artists.

So I still follow their career and, even if they went ahead and worked in new different projects, I like to think of them as an ensemble.

Every time I’ll be able, I’ll add news about them.

For example, Ben Allen, who played Edward Teller, is currently playing Octavius in RSC’s “Julius Caesar” at the Royal Shakespeare theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon, until 9 September and, later in year, at the Barbican Centre in London.

Ross Armstrong has written his first book “The Watcher”, available in book stores.

The author Tom Morton Smith is working on a new play.

Two elements of the Swan Theatre’s cast, Josh O’Connor and Joel MacCormack, were not at the Vaudeville Theatre where I saw it, replaced by Toby Webster and Bradley Hall, but I like to include them in the list.

The RSC chose la-créme-de-la-créme for this play.

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But there are four actors in particular I “fell in (platonic) love with”:

- John Heffernan, who played R.J.Oppenheimer

- Catherine Steadman who played Jean Tatlock

- Oliver Johnstone who played Giovanni Rossi Lomanitz

- Jack Holden who played Robert Wilson

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I also run a blog for each of them:

https://johnheffernanactor.wordpress.com/

https://catherinesteadman.wordpress.com/

https://oliverjohnstoneactor.wordpress.com/

https://jackholdenfansite.blog/

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If you, too, are a fan of this play and its cast&creatives, watch this space for news and feel free to join in!