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West End transfer for Gray's 'Last Cigarette'

The Chichester Festival Theatre production of Simon Gray's The Last Cigarette (Directed by Richard Eyre) transfers to London's Trafalgar Studio 1 Theatre from 21st April 09.


Richard Eyre’s production of The Last Cigarette, adapted by Hugh Whitemore and Simon Gray from Gray’s critically acclaimed The Smoking Diaries, is to transfer to the West End having previously opened the 2009 Season at the Chichester Festival Theatre. Starring Felicity Kendal, Nicholas le Prevost and Jasper Britton, who all perform as Simon Gray, The Last Cigarette will run at Trafalgar Studios from 21 April - 1 August, with opening night 28 April 2009. Designs are by Rob Howell with lighting and projection by John Driscoll and music by George Fenton.

Sardonic, humane, intelligent and often outrageously funny, this stage version of The Last Cigarette was completed just before Gray’s death last summer and draws on his many volumes of memoirs, including Fat Chance, Enter a Fox, The Smoking Diaries and Coda. Having faced life – and death - with unflinching courage and defiant humanity, even when writing about his own mortality, Gray lost none of his prodigious talent to entertain. Simon Gray’s plays include Butley, Otherwise Engaged, Quatermaine's Terms, Hidden Laughter and The Common Pursuit.

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