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Jude Law returning to West End stage

Published Friday, Jan 14 2011, 08:59 GMT | By Christian Tobin
Jude Law attends a photocall during the 45th International Carlsbad film festival

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Jude Law is to return to the West End stage this summer, it has been revealed.

The 38-year-old, who played the lead role in a 2009 production of Hamlet at the Wyndham's Theatre, will star in Eugene O'Neill's drama Anna Christie at the Donmar Warehouse from August.

Law will appear as Mat Burke, the rugged stoker on a canal barge who falls in love with the eponymous Anna (Ruth Wilson), in the Rob Ashford-directed production.

The Donmar's departing artistic chief Michael Grandage told the Daily Mail: "Jude said he wanted to work here while I was still there, so we got him together with Rob and this project.

"Jude told me he spent a lot of his young life coming to see plays at the Donmar and had a desire to play this stage. He has deliberately carved out time so he can work here."

Anna Christie will play at the Donmar from August 4 to October 9.
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