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Clare Higgins
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Clare Higgins, currently at the National Theatre in Major Barbara, will stay on there in the fall to play Jocasta to Ralph Fiennes' Oedipus in Jonathan Kent's forthcoming Olivier auditorium production of Oedipus Rex. The Sophocles tragedy, in a version by Frank McGuinness, will open in early October.
The Greeks are no stranger to Higgins, who last worked with director Kent on a 2004 Donmar revival of Hecuba. Nor is the illicit lust traveled by Oedipus exactly alien territory to this actress either: her 2006 Donmar run in Phaedra cast her as a woman in love (or lust) with her own stepson.
Higgins is currently playing Lady Britomart in the Shaw play through June and will then partner Simon Russell Beale in an hour-long Harold Pinter piece, A Slight Ache, before turning her attentions to Oedipus. A three-time Olivier Award winner her other credits include Sweet Bird of Youth, Vincent In Brixton, The Children's Hour and The Night of the Iguana.
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