Robert Lindsay stars in the title role of Onassis which opens at Novello Theatre this autumn.
This Autumn, Tony Award winner Robert Lindsay continues his lead role in Martin Sherman's Onassis which begins a West End run at London's Novello Theatre with previews from September 30th 2010 until January 8th 2011.
Based on Peter Evans' book Nemesis, Sherman has created a play about the ruthless Greek shipping magnate Aristole Onassis, full of wild speculation about probably the most famous first lady ever. It's a play that audiences loved and critics bestowed with a distinctly average three stars.
The thing about Onassis, which began its notable life as the poorly titled Aristo at Chichester Festival in 2008 and had a run at Minerva Theatre, is that with the sinister charmer of the rich and beautiful at its centre, it's going to be a massive crowd pleaser. Robert Lindsay, veteran of stage and screen and most well-known for his roles in My Family and Me and My Girl for which he won an Olivier award, shone in his role as the arrogant tycoon, managing to impressively win over audience sympathies.
It's been reworked by Sherman and director Nancy Meckler after lack-lustre reviews that made little of its mostly brash, meaningless script. So like the terribly clever theatre-makers they are, the writer and director revamped it, renamed it, and stuck it in Derby for a bit while they secured its West End run. With brilliant design by Katherine Lindsay, the last 12 years of Onassis, a man who was a millionaire at 25 and more famous for the women he shagged than his business achievements, will likely have a lucrative London run.
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