Rush. It’s a new play starring Rupert Everett.
They had us at ‘Rupert Everett’, right? Right. Because it’s nigh on impossible for anything starring London’s glittering Rupert Everett to be a dud, even that thing he did with Our Glorious Leader (‘Madonna’ in old money). You know, that awks baby daddy one, she’s got strawberry-blonde hair, he’s got sperm. We digress.
The play’s called Rush, it’s a witty and irreverent debut by Willi Richards and directed by the Almeida’s Joseph Winters, it’s about three gay men in a ‘triangular relationship’, and it’s produced by Stephen Daldry off-of Billy Elliot/The Hours/etc. and it was supposed to open at Trafalgar Studios 2 (our favourite of the Trafalgars!) in June, in time for Pride, but, you know, Corona. So instead, the cast – so Rupert, plus Omari Douglas and Daniel Boyd - are going to meet up and do a script-in-hand reading of the play, which they’ll record using Who’s Zoomin’ Who, then release it (in HD! Brave) online for us lot to paw over. It’s like a first read-through, only we get to watch. Crazy yet cool, right?
