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Keira Knightley is returning to the West End for the first time in 15 years in an adaptation of the Oscar-winning German film. The Soul of Others.
The play, adapted and directed by Robert Icke and with music by Max Richter, will open at the Adelphi theater in London this autumn. Knightley will portray an actor in East Germany in 1984 who is under government surveillance alongside his fellow novelist, played by Bridgerton’s Luke Thompson. Stephen Dillane he was cast as a Stasi captain who spied on their relationship.
Producer Sonia Friedman, continues her creative partnership with Icke after the hit merger Oedipushe said it would be “unexpected” and “exciting” to take on Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck’s 2006 film. Icke, he said, has a “rare ability to combine great ideas with real emotional truth”.
The lives of others, continued Friedman, take place in a space and time “where there is no secret, every word has consequences, and the government has power not only over lives, but over thoughts, speech and thinking itself”. The play is “a reminder of how fragile those rights are, and the cost and courage required to exercise them”.
As such, it returns to themes explored in Icke and Duncan Macmillan’s adaptation of George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four at the Almeida. in 2014. Since then, Icke has become one of the best-known artists in British theater, with his most recent productions including the genre of Romeo and Juliet which also shows some of the events of the disaster so that you can consider other consequences.
The Lives of Others will be produced by Hildegard Bechtler, and will run at the Adelphi Theater from 14 October to 9 January. The Adelphi was recently home to Back to the Future: The Musical, which closed earlier this month and began a UK tour in October.
Knightley, who wrote and illustrated a children’s book last year, is speaking about Dolores Umbridge on the new Harry Potter audio books. He appeared alongside Damian Lewis in the West End in Martin Crimp’s adapted version of Molière’s The Misanthrope in 2009 and, this time with Elisabeth Moss, in Children’s Hour and Lillian Hellman in 2011. He made his Broadway debut in 2015 in the role of. It’s Raquintaken from Émile Zola’s book.
