Arts & Culture
Award-winning play 'Duet for one' comes to Salisbury playhouse

By Ryan Thompson

Tom Kempinski’s award-winning play Duet For One, directed by Robin Lefevre, is coming to Salisbury Playhouse in September with Belinda Lang (2 Point 4 Children) reprising her acclaimed performance as Stephanie Abrahams joined on this tour by Jonathan Coy (Downton Abbey) as Dr Feldmann.

In this play, Stephanie Abrahams is a brilliant concert violinist who seemingly has it all. She is forced to re-evaluate her life when struck down by an unforeseen tragedy.  Faced with a truth too difficult to comprehend, she consults psychiatrist Dr Feldmann, resulting in a duel between two razor-sharp minds. Tom Kempinski’s play is ultimately a tribute to the human spirit.

Based on the life of world-renowned musician Jacqueline Du Pré, Duet For One premiered at the Bush Theatre in 1980 with Frances De La Tour and David de Keyser and had great success in subsequent West End and Broadway runs, including a revival in 2009 starring Juliet Stephenson and Henry Goodman.  The film adaptation of Duet For One, released in 1986, saw Julie Andrews nominated for the Golden Globe for Best Actress.

Belinda Lang is well known for playing Bill Porter The County Wife and 2 Point 4 Children. She is also well known in theatre and has starred in such plays as Present Laughter, Blithe Spirit and Hay Fever.

Jonathan Coy has worked largely in television and has starred in many shows, such as Rumpole, Hornblower and Brideshead Revisited. In theatre Jonathan has starred in many productions such as Noises Off, Much Ado About Nothing and The Magistrate.

Duet For One is directed by multi award-winning director Robin Lefevre and designed by Olivier and Tony award-winner Lez Brotherston, with lighting by Ian Scott and sound by John Leonard.

Duet For One runs from Monday 10 to Saturday September 15 in the Main House of Salisbury Playhouse.

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