Binoche, Fiennes, Redgrave, et al. Set for National Theatre Season

Juliette Binoche, Ralph Fiennes, and Vanessa Redgrave will all be part of London’s National Theatre’s 2008 season.

Binoche, an Oscar winner for The English Patient, will star in a new dance-based piece, created by choreographer Akram Khan; Fiennes — who co-starred with Binoche in The English Patient — will take on the title role in Oedipus, helmed by Jonathan Kent, who directed the actor in his Tony Award-winning performance of Hamlet; and Redgrave will star in the stage adaptation of Joan Didion’s The Year of Magical Thinking, directed by David Hare, which earned her a 2007 Tony nomination.

Other offerings will include artistic director Nicholas Hytner’s revival of George Bernard Shaw’s Major Barbara; Samuel Adamson’s new version of Ibsen’s Little Eyolf, directed by Marianne Elliott; a new play by Tony Harrison about the late classicist and poet Gilbert Murray; Coram Boy director Melly Still’s production of Jacobean classic The Revenger’s Tragedy; and new works from Hare (directed by Howard Davies) and Michael Frayn (directed by Michael Blakemore).

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