BAFTA-nominated Mike Faist and Oscar-nominated actor Lucas Hedges will star in a London stage adaptation of Annie Proulx’s best-selling novel Brokeback Mountain.
The manufacturing is described as a play with music and can run on the Sohoplace Theatre within the West Finish for a 12-week season from Might 10.
Theater proprietor and producer Nica Burns careworn that the play relies on Proulx’s quick story initially printed in The New Yorker in 1997 and never on Ang Lee’s critically acclaimed 2005 movie that starred Heath Ledger and Jake Gyllenhaal.
Faist, who landed a BAFTA nom for West Aspect Story, will play the a part of Jack Twist and Hedges, whose Oscar nom was for Manchester By The Sea in 2016, will play Ennis Del Mar.
The story of two lonesome cowboys who fall in love within the huge, extensive open areas of Wyoming touched a chord with those that learn the story and caught the film.
Brooklyn-based author Ashley Robinson approached Proulx concerning the stage rights and she or he granted them.
Jonathan Butterell, who delivered Everyone’s Speaking About Jamie to stage and display screen, will direct with shut collaborator Dan Gillespie Sells writing a few of the music.
Singer-songwriter Eddi Reader will carry out on stage with a rustic and western band together with a pedal metal guitarist.
