Eve Best to Star in Old Vic’s Duchess of Malfi

Two-time Tony nominee Eve Best will play the title role in John Webster’s Jacobean tragedy, The Duchess of Malfi, at the Old Vic, according to WhatsOnStage.com. Jamie Lloyd will direct the production, which will begin previews March 17, 2012, with an opening on March 27.

The play follows the calamitous consequences of a young widow’s refusal to obey her brothers’ command never to remarry.

Best received Tony nominations for her work in The Homecoming and Moon for the Misbegotten. She won the Olivier for her performance in the title role of Hedda Gabler, and most recently appeared on stage as Beatrice in The Globe’s Much Ado About Nothing.