AT ETHEL BARRYMORE THEATRE, NEW YORK
Patriots: Broadway
By Peter Morgan, Directed by Rupert Goold
Event details
Apr - Jun 2024
Winner of 2023 Critics’ Circle Award for Best New Play
★★★★
‘Part political thriller, part cautionary tale, Peter Morgan’s riveting Patriots plays out with chilling force’
Financial Times
★★★★
‘The story of the fight for Russia’s soul. A sharp, taut political drama in Rupert Goold’s propulsive production’
Evening Standard
In 1991, after the fall of the Soviet Union, the new Russia belongs to its oligarchs—and no one is more powerful than billionaire Boris Berezovsky. When an eventual successor to President Boris Yeltsin is needed, Berezovsky turns to the little-known deputy mayor of St. Petersburg, Vladimir Putin. But soon Putin’s ruthless rise threatens Berezovsky’s reign, setting off a riveting, near-Shakespearean confrontation between the two powerful, fatally flawed men.
Tony® and Emmy® Award nominee Michael Stuhlbarg stars as Berezovsky and Will Keen reprises his Olivier Award-winning turn as Putin in Patriots, a shockingly timely history play from Peter Morgan, creator of Netflix’s “The Crown.”
Don’t miss this strictly limited engagement of Olivier Award winner Rupert Goold‘s kinetic, exhilarating production, which reveals to us all how Russia’s post-Soviet machinations continue to shape our world to this day.
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Production Photos
2022 Almeida Production | Photos by Marc Brenner
Cast & Creatives
Further casting to be announced.
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Cast
Will Keen
Michael Stuhlbarg
Luke ThallonLuke Thallon
Luke Thallon
Luke trained at Guildhall School of Music and Drama.
For the Almeida: Patriots (also West End); Nine Lessons and Carols: stories for a long winter; Albion.
Theatre includes: Camp Siegfried; Present Laughter (The Old Vic); After Life (National Theatre); Leopoldstadt; Pinter at the Pinter Season (West End); Cock (Chichester Festival Theatre); The Inheritance (Young Vic).
Luke won the Clarence Derwent Award for his performance in Tom Stoppard’s Leopoldstadt on the West End and was nominated for the Evening Standard Emerging Talent Award for the Almeida’s production of Albion in 2017. In 2022, he was listed by The Stage as one of the top 25 theatre makers of the future.
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Creatives
Peter Morgan
Writer
Rupert GooldRupert Goold
Director
Rupert Goold
Artistic Director of the Almeida Theatre, founding Artistic Director of Headlong (2005 to 2013), Associate Director at the RSC and Artistic Director of Northampton Theatres (2002 to 2005).
For the Almeida: Women, Beware the Devil; Tammy Faye; Patriots (also West End); Spring Awakening; Albion; The Hunt; Shipwreck; Richard III; Medea; The Merchant of Venice; The Last Days of Judas Iscariot; American Psycho (also Broadway); Ink; King Charles III (also West End/ Broadway).
Theatre includes: Dear England (National Theatre/ West End); The 47th (The Old Vic); The Effect; Earthquakes in London (Headlong/ National Theatre); Time and the Conways (National Theatre); The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (Kensington Gardens); The Merchant of Venice; Romeo and Juliet; Speaking Like Magpies (RSC); ENRON (Headlong/ West End/ Broadway); Made in Dagenham; Oliver!; The Glass Menagerie; No Man’s Land (West End); King Lear (Headlong/ Liverpool Everyman/ Young Vic); Six Characters in Search of an Author (Headlong/ West End); Macbeth (Chichester Festival Theatre/ West End/ Broadway).
Film includes: Judy; True Story.
Television includes: Macbeth; King Charles III; Richard II.
Opera includes: Turandot (ENO); Le Comte Ory (Garsington Opera).
Rupert has received Olivier, Critics’ Circle and Evening Standard awards for Best Director twice and won a Peabody Award in 2011 for Macbeth. Rupert received a CBE in 2017 New Year’s Honours for services to drama.
Miriam BuetherMiriam Buether
Set Designer/ Co-Costume Designer
Miriam Buether
For the Almeida as Designer: Patriots; Spring Awakening; Hymn; Albion; Shipwreck; Machinal; Boy; Game; When the Rain Stops Falling; Judgement Day.
Theatre and Dance as Designer includes: The 47th (The Old Vic); King Lear; To Kill a Mockingbird; Three Tall Women; A Doll’s House 2; The Children (Broadway); The Jungle (Young Vic/ West End/ St Ann’s Warehouse); The Trial; Public Enemy; Wild Swans; The Government Inspector; The Good Soul of Szechuan; Generations, Measure for Measure (Young Vic); Glass. Kill. Blubeard. Imp.; Sucker Punch; Cock; In the Republic of Happiness; Get Santa! (Royal Court); The Children; Escaped Alone; Love and Information (Royal Court/ Minetta Lane Theatre); Sunny Afternoon; Bend it Like Beckham (West End); Chariots of Fire (Hampstead Theatre/ West End); The Father (Theatre Royal Bath); The Effect; Earthquakes in London (National Theatre).
Opera as Designer includes: La Fanciulla Del West (ENO/ Santa Fe Opera); Turandot; Wozzeck (ENO); Aida, Suor Angelica (Royal Opera House, as Set Designer); Anna Nicole (Royal Opera House/ BAM, New York); Boris Godunov (Berlin Opera).
Miriam received the Evening Standard Best Design Award in 2010 for Earthquakes in London and Sucker Punch, and in 2018 for The Jungle.
Deborah Andrews
Co-Costume Designer
Jack Knowles
Lighting Designer
Adam CorkAdam Cork
Sound Designer/ Composer
Adam Cork
Adam is composer and co‐lyricist of the documentary musical London Road which had an extended run at the National Theatre Cottesloe before transferring to the Olivier auditorium. He received a Tony Award in 2010 for his music and sound score for Red (Donmar Warehouse/ Broadway) and an Olivier Award in 2011 for King Lear (Donmar Warehouse). Adam received the 2011 Evening Standard Award ‘Best Design’ for Anna Christie and King Lear (Donmar Warehouse) and the 2011 Critics’ Circle ‘Best Musical’ for London Road. He was also nominated in 2010 for the Tony Award ‘Best Score (Music & Lyrics)’ for ENRON (Broadway/ West End).
For the Almeida: Patriots; The Hunt; Ink (also West End/ Broadway).
Theatre includes: The 47th (The Old Vic); The Shark is Broken; Leopoldstadt; Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?; No Man’s Land; Photograph 51; Don Carlos; Suddenly Last Summer (West End); Travesties (Menier Chocolate Factory/ West End/ Broadway); Les Blancs; Three Days in the Country (National Theatre); Frost/Nixon (Donmar Warehouse/ West End/ Broadway); Ivanov (Donmar Warehouse/ West End); The Chalk Garden; Creditors; The Wild Duck; Caligula (Donmar Warehouse).
Film includes: Genius; London Road.
Television includes: The Hollow Crown; Macbeth; Frances Tuesday; Re-ignited; Imprints.
Polly Bennett
Movement Director
Ash J Woodward
Projection Design
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