Pop star turned actress Billie Piper will take to the National Theatre stage for the first time this autumn when she stars in Lucy Prebble’s new play The Effect.
The former Dalek-chaser and star of Secret Diary Of A Call Girl, whose stage credits include Reasons To Be Pretty at the Almeida and Treats at the Garrick, will star opposite Tom Goodman-Hill, Anastasia Hille and Jonjo O’Neill in the co-production between the National Theatre and Headlong.
The latest piece from the writer of award-winner ENRON, billed as a funny and moving new play exploring questions of sanity, neurology and the limits of medicine, runs at the National’s Cottesloe theatre from 6 November.
The production reunites director Rupert Goold, designer Miriam Buether and performer Goodman-Hill, who all worked on Earthquakes In London, which ran at the National Theatre in 2010.
Like Goodman-Hill, O’Neill is a Headlong alumnus, having worked with the exciting theatre company on productions of King Lear and Faustus, while Hille is a regular at the NT where she has appeared in Women Of Troy, A Dream Play and The Oresteia.
The new play joins an autumn line-up in the National Theatre’s smallest auditorium that also includes The Curious Incident Of The Dog In The Night-Time and This House.