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Full cast announced for Terence Rattigan’s IN PRAISE OF LOVE

Four actors' headshots are arranged in a grid. In the top left, an actor with short brown hair gazes toward the camera. They have a light beard and are wearing a dark grey shirt under a black blazer. They are visible from the shoulders-up. In the top right, an actor with short brown hair gazes toward the camera with a neutral expression. They are wearing a green buttoned shirt under a light brown jacket. They have one arm resting casually on their knee, and can be seen mostly from the waist-up. In the bottom left, an actor with shoulder-length blonde hair smiles toward the camera. They are wearing a black buttoned top, and are seen mostly from the shoulders-up. In the bottom right, an actor with short brown hair has a neutral expression. They have a slight beard and are wearing a white buttoned shirt. They can be seen from the shoulders-up.

We’re thrilled to announce the full cast for Terence Rattigan’s In Praise of Love, directed by Amelia Sears.

Joining us this summer are Daniel Abelson (Amsterdam – OT), Joe Edgar (Just For One Day – Old Vic), Claire Price (King Lear – Duke of York’s Theatre) and Dominic Rowan (The Invention of Love – Hampstead Theatre).

A perceptive and deeply moving drama, In Praise of Love is Rattigan’s penultimate play, and loosely based on the relationship between the actor Rex Harrison and his wife Kay Kendall.

In Praise of Love opens on 3 June, with previews from 25 May, and runs until 5 July.

Book now to get the best seats at the best prices. 

Daniel Abelson plays Mark Walters. An actor with short brown hair gazes toward the camera against a blurred grey background. They have a light beard and are wearing a dark grey shirt under a black blazer. They are visible from the shoulders-up.

Orange Tree Theatre credits include: Amsterdam (also Theatre Royal Plymouth).

Other theatre credits include A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Opera North); Machinal (Old Vic / Theatre Royal Bath Ustinov Studio); Circa (Old Red Lion Theatre); The Rivals (Watermill Theatre); William Wordsworth (ETT / Theatre by the Lake); Once in a Lifetime (Young Vic); The Mighty Waltzer (Royal Exchange Theatre); Me, As a Penguin (Arcola Theatre / The Lowry / West Yorkshire Playhouse); Country Magic (Southwark Playhouse); Macbeth (West Yorkshire Playhouse); Shadow of a Gunman (Glasgow Citizens Theatre); 5/11, King Lear, The Government Inspector, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Seven Doors, Thermidor, The Seagull and Holes in the Skin (Chichester Festival Theatre).

Television credits include: Humans, I Shouldn’t Be Alive, Jonathan Pie’s American Pie, Robin Hood and The Royal Today.

Film credits include: The Rack Pack.

Joe Edgar plays Joey Cruttwell. An actor with short brown hair gazes toward the camera with a neutral expression against a light grey background. They are wearing a green buttoned shirt under a light brown jacket. They have one arm resting casually on their knee, and can be seen mostly from the waist-up.

Theatre credits include: The Cabinet Minister (Menier Chocolate Factory); Just For One Day (Old Vic) and Hitchhiker (Teastain Theatre). 

Television credits include: The Crown.

Claire Price plays Lydia Cruttwell. An actor with shoulder-length blonde hair smiles toward the camera against a medium grey background. They are wearing a black buttoned top, and are seen mostly from the shoulders-up.

Orange Tree Theatre credits include: Poison.

Other theatre credits include: Something in the Air (Jermyn Street Theatre); Raya (Hampstead Theatre); The Taming of the Shrew/Measure for Measure, When Did You Last See My Mother (Battersea Arts Centre); Volpone, Don Carlos (RSC); Brand (RSC / Theatre Royal Haymarket); King Lear (Duke of York’s Theatre); Things We Do For Love (Theatre Royal Bath / UK Tour); The Winter’s Tale, The Daughter-in-Law, Company, The Pride, Richard III, Much Ado About Nothing (Sheffield Theatres); The Tempest (Sheffield Theatres / Old Vic); Fifty Words (Theatre Royal Bath Ustinov Studio / Arcola Theatre); The Way of the World (Chichester Festival Theatre); Little Platoons (Bush Theatre); Mary Stuart (Theatr Clwyd); The White Devil (Menier Chocolate Factory); The Lady from the Sea (Birmingham Rep); Coriolanus, Blood Wedding (Bloomsbury Theatre); A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Dark Room, Love in a Wood (New End Theatre, Hampstead); Dead White Males (Nuffield Theatre); As You Like It, Twelfth Night (Liverpool Playhouse); The Relapse, Cyrano (National Theatre) and Dr Faustus (Bristol Old Vic).

Television credits include: The Capture, Call the Midwife, Home Fires, Capital, The Coroner, The Outcast, Apparitions, London’s Burning, The White Lady, Murder in Mind: Sleeper, Out of this World, The Knock, Whistleblower, Twelfth Night, Poirot: The Hollow, Dalziel & Pascoe and Rebus.

Film credits include: The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, Jump, Hereafter, Cuckoo and Solo Shuttle. 

Dominic Rowan plays Sebastian Cruttwell. An actor with short brown hair has a neutral expression against a white background. They have a slight beard and are wearing a white buttoned shirt. They can be seen from the shoulders-up.

Orange Tree Theatre credits include: Winter Solstice.

Other theatre credits include: The Invention of Love, The Divine Mrs S, Giving (Hampstead Theatre); The Good Life (Theatre Royal Bath); The Jungle (Playhouse Theatre / St Anne’s Warehouse / Curran Theatre); A Woman of No Importance, Stepping Out (Vaudeville Theatre); The Tempest, Measure for Measure, Henry VIII, A New World, As You Like It (Shakespeare’s Globe); The Cherry Orchard, After Dido (Young Vic); Medea, Happy Now?, Dream Play, Iphigenia at Aulis, Mourning Becomes Electra, Three Sisters, The Talking Cure, Private Lives (National Theatre); A Doll’s House (Young Vic / Duke of York’s Theatre / BAM New York); The Village Bike, Way to Heaven, Forty Winks (Royal Court Theatre); The Misanthrope (Comedy Theatre); The Spanish Tragedy (Arcola Theatre); Under the Blue Sky (Duke of York’s Theatre); A Voyage Round My Father, Lobby Hero (Donmar Warehouse); The Importance of Being Earnest (Oxford Playhouse); Sexual Perversity in Chicago (Sheffield Theatres); The Merchant of Venice, Two Gentlemen of Verona and Talk of the City (RSC).

Television credits include: Dalgliesh, Agatha Raisin, The Crown, Trying, Catastrophe, Press, Henry IV, Restless, Law & Order: UK (as series regular Jacob Thorne), Catwalk Dogs, Baby Boom, Trial and Retribution, The Lavender List, The Family Man, Rescue Me, Lost World, Swallow, North Square, Hearts and Bones, A Rather English Marriage, Between the Lines, Devil’s Advocate, No Bananas, Emma and The Tenant of Wildfell Hall.

Film credits include: Tulse Luper Suitcases.

Amelia Sears’ directing credits include Years of Sunlight (Theatre503); Home, Brimstone and Treacle, Ant Street (Arcola Theatre); The Girl’s Guide to Saving the World (HighTide Festival); Pedestrian (Bristol Old Vic / Underbelly / UK Tour) and The Last Five Years (Duchess Theatre).

As Associate Director credits include Ghosts (Duchess Theatre); Twelfth Night (Donmar Warehouse season at Wyndham’s Theatre); Bliss (Royal Court Theatre); One Evening, Four Quartets (Lincoln Centre); Al Gran Sole Carico D’Amore (Salzburg Opera Festival); Some Trace of Her, The Year of Magical Thinking and Statement of Regret (National Theatre).

For film her credits include the award-winning short films THREE and Ceres and her upcoming debut feature Ceres. She was recently selected as one of the BFI – LFF cohort for the 2024 London Film Festival. 

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