"Irish actor Denise Gough is one of the most acclaimed stage performers of her generation, most famously for her monumental breakthrough role as a recovering addict in Duncan Macmillan's People, Places and Things. The role propelled her to screen success, most notably with Tony Gilroy's Andor, in which her role as a cold-blooded, ultimately out of her depth imperial intelligence officer brought her to global notice."
"It's a heavily psychological drama that attracted considerable controversy because it was widely regarded as an allegory for the evils of McCarthyism and the Hollywood blacklist. A stage production makes sense. But there is also a lot of gunfighting at the end, and how exactly director Thea Sharrock is going to pull that off is the big question. Still, with cast and creatives of this calibre, it's not just going to be a bit of throwaway West End fluff - it's genuinely massively intriguing."
Denise Gough, acclaimed for her breakthrough as a recovering addict in Duncan Macmillan's People, Places and Things, achieved screen success with a cold-blooded imperial intelligence officer role in Tony Gilroy's Andor. Her stage appearances have become rarer and more selective, with a recent British revival of People, Places and Things. Gough will star opposite Billy Crudup in High Noon, the debut play by Hollywood screenwriter Eric Roth. Roth has six Academy Award nominations and adapted the 1952 Fred Zinnemann Western for the stage. The original film centers on Sheriff Kane facing a returning outlaw and indifferent townsfolk, widely read as an allegory for McCarthyism. Director Thea Sharrock faces staging challenges around the play's climactic gunfighting.
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