Olivier Award winner Zoë Wanamaker makes her West End return in Passion Play, Peter Nichols’ celebrated black comedy about love and infidelity.

Nichols’ comedy combines humour, eroticism and duplicity to tell the story of married couple, James and Eleanor, whose world is turned upside down when James agrees to a secret rendezvous with their recently widowed friend, Kate. As the lies mount up, the affair strips the marriage bare and reveals the illicit desires and hidden passions that lie beneath the everyday facade.

Acclamied stage and screen actress Wanamaker’s theatre credits include the National Theatre’s The Cherry Orchard, All My Sons, in which she starred opposite David Suchet, and Once In A Lifetime, for which she collected her first Olivier Award in 1979.

Wanamaker is joined in the cast by Samantha Bond and Owen Teale. Arguably best known for her role as Miss Moneypenny in the James Bond films, Bond’s theatre credits include What The Butler Saw, An Ideal Husband, Arcadia and A Woman Of No Importance, while Tony Award-winning actor Teale has previously appeared on stage in productions including The Country, Creditors at the Donmar Warehouse and A Doll’s House in the West End and on Broadway.

David Leveaux, whose credits include Arcadia, Jumpers, Through A Glass Darkly, The Late Middle Classes and Betrayal, previously directed the star of the Harry Potter films and My Family in her Olivier Award-winning performance in Electra.

Nichols’ other plays include A Day In The Death Of Joe Egg, The National Health and Privates On Parade.