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18 Jan 2024, 17:10
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Line of Duty’s Adrian Dunbar’s next project marks a surprising departure from his most famous on-screen role.
The Superintendent Ted Hastings actor is set to make his West End debut in June in Cole Porter’s Shakespeare-inspired musical comedy Kiss Me, Kate.
Playing the roles of Fred Graham and Petruchio in the show which is centred around the “backstage chaos and romantic entanglements” of a group of actors putting on the aforementioned Shakespearean comedy, Dunbar will be joined in the Barbican theatre production by Tony award-winning actress Stephanie J Block.
Speaking about the upcoming show, the Irish actor said he was “delighted to be returning to the stage this summer to my spiritual home at the Barbican - where I started my career at The Guildhall School of Music and Drama.”
The actor praised the “Cole Porter classic” he would be starring in, and added he was looking forward to joining with the rest of “the wonderful creative team including [director] Bart Sher and Stephanie J Block.”
Referring to the play-within-a-play musical’s opening number, Stephanie promised audiences Kiss Me, Kate would “most definitely not be just ‘Another Op’nin, Another Show’.
“When asked to bring a Cole Porter classic to the Barbican stage under the care and vision of Bart Sher, one must say yes,” she also said, adding: “I cannot wait to dive into this timeless classic and put a fresh stamp on it alongside the incredible Adrian Dunbar.”
Stephanie will play the show’s leading lady Lilly Vanessi, the ex-wife of Dunbar’s Fred Graham, an actor-manager who still shares a fraught relationship with Lilly as they continue to put on productions together.
Other hit songs which feature in the musical include ‘Brush Up Your Shakespeare’, ‘Tom, Dick or Harry’ and ‘Too Darn Hot’. Show producer Sir Howard Panter believes the play should provide “the perfect summer treat for London audiences [this] year.”
Kiss Me, Kate will run at the Barbican Theatre, London, from 4th June to 14th September.
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