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News Olivier Winners and U.K. "Office" Star Cast as Love Triangle of Donmar's Closer Patrick Marber's play Closer, a drama about deceitful relationships, will be revived in London with Nancy Carroll, Rufus Sewell and Oliver Chris set to star, the Daily Mail reports.

David Leveaux will direct the play, which will run at the Donmar Warehouse beginning in February 2015. The drama premiered at the Royal National Theatre's Cottesloe Theatre in 1997.

Carroll is an Olivier Award winner who has starred in As You Like It, The Winter's Tale and Twelfth Night with the Royal Shakespeare Company. Her stage credits also include After the Dance, The Magistrate and The Duck House.

Sewell won the Olivier Award for his performance in Rock 'n' Roll. His stage credits also include Arcadia, Hamlet and Macbeth. He has appeared in the films "Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter" and "The Illusionist."

Chris has appeared in the TV shows "The Office," "The IT Crowd" and "Rescue Me." His stage work includes Well and A Midsummer Night's Dream.

The Daily Mail reports that Marber and Leveaux are editing the script.  Closer played a Broadway run in 1999, with Natasha Richardson, Rupert Graves, Anna Friel and Ciarán Hinds playing the two couples.

The play was adapted into a 2004 film starring Julia Roberts, Jude Law, Natalie Portman and Clive Owen. Portman and Owen received Academy Award nominations for their performances.

 
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