Details

Ben Butley is having a monumentally bad day. So bad, he's making sure everyone else has a worse one. His estranged wife has taken up with the most boring man in London. His beloved protege has found a new benefactor. And in an unprecedented act of betrayal even the English department's resident failure has a book deal. Butley's trusty arsenal - mischievous irony and gleeful troublemaking - have never failed him yet. Might they finally prove to be the weapons of his own tragic self-destruction?

Cast/Performers

Dominic West (Ben Butley), Penny Downie (Edna Shaft), Paul McGann (Reg Nuttall), Amanda Drew (Anne Butley), Martin Hutson (Joseph Keyston), Cai Brigden, Emma Hiddleston

Creatives/Company

Author: Simon Gray
Producer(s): Mark Rubinstein, Eleanor Lloyd, Lee Menzies, Dena Hammerstein, Pam Pariseau
Director: Lindsay Posner
Design: Peter McKintosh
Lighting: Howard Harrison