Well this is Good news indeed!
London’s star-studded 2020 theatre season will get a little starrier in autumn, as it’s been confirmed that David Tennant will tread the boards at the Playhouse Theatre from October 6th. He’ll be taking the lead role in ‘Good’, CP Taylor’s terrifyingly plausible tale of the ease with which good people can abandon morality in pursuit of an easy, comfortable life.
Regarded as one of the most important, powerful theatrical works about the Holocaust, Good traces the evolution of John Halder (Tennant) over the course of eight years, as the music-loving professor gets swept up in the rising tide of Nazism. It’s important political theatre, made even more urgent by the creeping advance of the far-right across Europe and the world once more. A timely return to the boards, then, for Tennant, making his first appearance on the London stage since 2017.
Dominic Cooke is directing, whilst Fenella Woolgar and Elliot Levey will join Tennant in the cast. Good has some very big shoes to fill, given that the Playhouse Theatre has arguably lined up one of the hottest years of theatre in recent memory. By the time Good premieres, the Playhouse stage will have already hosted James McAvoy’s critically-acclaimed turn in Cyrano de Bergerac, an Emilia Clarke-led production of The Seagull, and Jessica Chastain starring in A Doll’s House. Really, it’s a reminder that even when the world is less than amazing, theatre still has the power to do Good.
Also published on Medium.