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As the women of today's Hollywood campaign for dignity and equality, Finishing the Picture is a razor sharp psychological study of an abused, misunderstood female star and the havoc her unpredictability brings to a film set in 1961. Inspired by the filming of The Misfits, the screenplay Miller wrote for his then wife, Marilyn Monroe, and focused on the bemused and exasperated director, screen writer, producer, acting coaches and crew that closely mirror the real life production team of The Misfits - and whilst leading lady Kitty shares many characteristics with Monroe herself, Finishing the Picture - Arthur Miller's very final play - is a devastating indictment of how a male-dominated movie industry inadvertently destroyed a vulnerable young woman, even as they transformed her into a screen goddess, and how they were unable to deal with the wreckage they caused. European Premiere. Following his critically acclaimed, up-close reinvention of Arthur Miller's Incident at Vichy and sell-out revival of The American Clock, multi-award-winning director Phil Willmott brings the intense focus of the intimate Finborough Theatre to bear on Miller's final work, Finishing The Picture.

Cast/Performers

Patrick Bailey (Terry Case), Stephen Billington (Derek Clemson), Jeremy Drakes (Paul), Nicky Goldie (Flora Fassinger), Rachel Handshaw (Edna Meyers), Oliver Le Sueur (Philip Oschner), Tony Wredden (Jerome Fassinger)

Creatives/Company

Author: Arthur Miller
Presented by: Nastazja Somers (for The Phil Willmott Company in association with the Finborough Theatre)
Director: Phil Willmott
Design: Isabella Van Braeckel
Costume: Penn O'Gara
Lighting: Rachel Sampley
Sound: Nicola Chang