Bryan Cranston to Star in Network Stage Adaptation, Directed by Ivo van Hove
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Tony Award winners Bryan Cranston (All the Way) and Ivo van Hove (A View From the Bridge) are set to collaborate on a new stage project for London's National Theatre. Cranston will star as Howard Beale, the role created in film by Peter Finch, in an adaptation of the 1976 classic Network, directed by van Hove. The production has an opening scheduled for this coming November.
The stage version of Network is written by Billy Elliot Tony winner Lee Hall, adapted from Paddy Chayefsky’s screenplay for the Sidney Lumet film. The original movie is a media satire that follows employees at a fictional television network suffering from poor ratings. It was awarded four Oscars in 1977.
Network will have set and lighting design by Jan Versweyveld, sound by Tom Gibbons, video design by Tal Yarden, costume design by An D'Huys, and music by Eric Sleichim.
Other productions newly announced for the National Theatre's upcoming season include Rory Mullarkey's Saint George and the Dragon, a Rufus Norris-directed production of Macbeth, Michael Longhurst's Amadeus, Rob Drummond's one-man show The Majority, David Eldridge's Beginning, and Annie Baker's John.
