Richard Wilson will make his RSC debut in the West End this autumn in the Twelfth Night which is set to premiere at the Stratford?s Courtyard Theatre on October 21st.
The show will run up until November 21st at which point it will move to the Duke of York?s Theatre in London from December 22nd though February 27th, 2010.
Richard Wilson is known by most for his role as Victor Meldrew in the TV show One Foot in the Grave. To those in the theatre community he is known for roles in Waiting for Godot, Whipping It up, and What the Butler Saw.
Wilson also has directed a handful of productions including Rainbow Kiss, Primo, Where Do We Live, The Woman Before, and Playing the Victim.
His co-stars in Twelfth Night will be Alexandra Gilbreath who will take on the role of Olivia and Nancy Carroll who plays the role of Viola. The set of actresses have previously worked on stage together in AS You Like It in 2009 playing the roles of Celia and Rosalind.
Other cast members include James Fleet, Simeon Moore, Miltos Yerolemou, Richard McCabe, Jo Stone-Fewings, Sam Alexander, and Pamela Nomvete.
This is the third production that will hit London from the RSC in the winter season with two other productions from Dennis Kelly and David Grieg following close behind at the Hampstead Theatre.
Greig?s production is called Dunsinane and is set in the same area of Scotland that is referenced in MacBeth and is described on the billing as a man?s quest for peace in Scotland after the war tears the country apart.
Kelly will produce The God?s Weep which is a contemporary play that centres around a CEO who runs a global business that they can no longer contain because it is too massive and interferes with the CEO?s personal life.
