Modern Family‘s Jesse Tyler Ferguson is reprising his stage role as Truman Capote in a London run of Jay Presson Allen’s Tru.
The U.S. star will perform at the city’s Menier Chocolate Factory from Sept. 27 to Nov. 14 following the show’s acclaimed New York stint earlier this year. Rob Ashford is set to direct.
Drawn entirely from Capote’s own words, Tru was originally staged in 1989. It is set in the writer’s New York City apartment the week before Christmas 1975, after an excerpt from Capote’s infamous unfinished roman à clef, Answered Prayers, has been published in Esquire. Essentially a two-act monodrama, Capote self-soothes with pills, vodka, cocaine and chocolate truffles as he muses over his life and career.
Ashford and Ferguson collaborated on the project in March at House of the Redeemer’s Library.
“I’m thrilled to bring this intimate production of Tru to the Menier following its successful New York run,” said Ferguson, who won a Tony for his role in the Broadway revival of Take Me Out. “The audience response to this unique theatrical experience, and the chance to encounter Truman Capote up close, was incredibly rewarding. I’m delighted that Rob Ashford and I now have the opportunity to share what we’ve created with London audiences.”
