Tru<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\tThe U.S. star will perform at the city\u2019s Menier Chocolate Factory from Sept. 27 to Nov. 14 following the show\u2019s acclaimed New York stint earlier this year. Rob Ashford is set to direct.<\/p>\n
\n\tDrawn entirely from Capote\u2019s own words,\u00a0Tru\u00a0<\/em>was originally staged in 1989. It is set in the writer\u2019s\u00a0New York City\u00a0apartment the week before Christmas 1975, after an excerpt from Capote\u2019s infamous unfinished\u00a0roman \u00e0 clef,\u00a0Answered Prayers<\/em>, has been published in\u00a0Esquire<\/em>. Essentially a two-act monodrama, Capote self-soothes with pills, vodka, cocaine and chocolate truffles as he muses over his life and career.<\/p>\n\n\tAshford and Ferguson collaborated on the project in March at House of the Redeemer\u2019s Library.<\/p>\n
\n\t\u201cI\u2019m thrilled to bring this intimate production of\u00a0Tru<\/em>\u00a0to the Menier following its successful New York run,\u201d said Ferguson, who won a Tony for his role in the Broadway revival of Take Me Out<\/em>. \u201cThe audience response to this unique theatrical experience, and the chance to encounter Truman Capote up close, was incredibly rewarding. I\u2019m delighted that Rob Ashford and I now have the opportunity to share what we\u2019ve created with London audiences.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\tAshford added: \u201cI had the great pleasure of directing Jesse in a staged reading of\u00a0Tru\u00a0<\/em>as a one-night-only charity benefit in Tangier, Morocco, in the summer of 2024. He was mesmerizing\u2026 He captured the truth of the man, his humour and heartbreak. I\u2019m thrilled that we get the opportunity to further explore this great pairing of actor and character in London.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\tFerguson is no stranger to London theater \u2014\u00a0he is currently guest starring as King Herod in Jesus Christ Superstar <\/em>at the Palladium, and has previously appeared in Stephen Sondheim\u2019s Here We Are <\/em>at the National Theatre.<\/p>\n\n\tAshford\u2019s London theater credits include The Entertainer<\/em>, Macbeth<\/em>, Anna Christie <\/em>and A Streetcar Named Desire<\/em>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Modern Family\u2018s Jesse Tyler Ferguson is reprising his stage role as Truman Capote in a London run of Jay Presson Allen\u2019s Tru. The U.S. star will perform at the city\u2019s Menier Chocolate Factory from Sept. 27 to Nov. 14 following the show\u2019s acclaimed New York stint earlier this year. Rob Ashford is set to direct. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5773,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[5108,5106,5105,1983,432,1301,5109,5107,1999],"class_list":["post-5772","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fashion","tag-capote","tag-ferguson","tag-jesse","tag-london","tag-play","tag-run","tag-tru","tag-truman","tag-tyler"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tmbglobal.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5772","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tmbglobal.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tmbglobal.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tmbglobal.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tmbglobal.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5772"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tmbglobal.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5772\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5774,"href":"https:\/\/tmbglobal.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5772\/revisions\/5774"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tmbglobal.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5773"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tmbglobal.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tmbglobal.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tmbglobal.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}