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The Deep Blue Sea

Hadley Fraser played the semi-alcoholic former Royal Air Force pilot Freddie Page in the Chichester Festival Theatre's production of Terrence Rattigan's play, The Deep Blue Sea.

Photo credits to Manuel Harlan

Ran from June 21 to July 27, 2019 at the Minerva Theatre Directed by: Paul Foster Official show website: https://www.cft.org.uk/archive/the-deep-blue-sea

REVIEWS

Better even than Carroll is Hadley Fraser, who gives the most moving reading I’ve yet seen of Hester’s lover, Freddie Page. Fraser makes him a fallen angel of a rosy-cheeked man-boy, the hero out of the pages of a Boys’ Own adventure run aground in a dowdy post-war reality. A former spitfire pilot with nerves shot by alcohol, he’s the worst possible person for Hester to love.

- Fiona Mountford, The Evening Standard

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Broadway World UK (Cindy Marcolina)WhatsOnStage.com (Sarah Compton)Miro Magazine (Camille Lapaix)British Theatre Guide (Shiela Connor)The Real ChrisparklePeterViney.com

BEHIND THE SCENES

INTERVIEW: Five Minutes with Hadley Fraser

Hadley's Instagram takeover of @whatsonstage on behalf of Chichester Festival Theatre (Thank you @whatsonstage for this gem!)

First day of rehearsals!

Photo credits to @ChichesterFT

Serious Hadley during rehearsals

Photo credits to Manuel Harlan

Smiley Hadley during rehearsals

Photo credits to Manuel Harlan

More from rehearsals with Nancy Carroll (really envying Nancy Carroll here lol)

Photo credits to Manuel Harlan

Hadley with Gerald Kyd and Nancy Carroll

Photos credits to Hadley Fraser Fanpage

The cast before press night

Photo credits to @HadleyFraser

STILLS FROM THE SHOW

Photo credits to Manuel Harlan

Photo credits to Manuel Harlan

With Gerald Kyd (Sir William Collyer) and Nancy Carroll (Hester Collyer)

Photo credits to Manuel Harlan

With Nancy Carroll (Hester Collyer)

Photo credits to Manuel Harlan

With Nancy Carroll (Hester Collyer)

Photo credits to Manuel Harlan

With Nancy Carroll (Hester Collyer) Please excuse us as we fan ourselves profusely

Photo credits to Manuel Harlan

With Laurence Ubong Williams (Jackie Jackson)

Photo credits to Manuel Harlan

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Saint Joan

Hadley plays Dunois, the commander of the French forces, in this 2016 production of Saint Joan. It ran at the Donmar Warehouse from December 9, 2016 - February 18, 2017 and was directed by Josie Rourke.

SHOW WEBSITES: https://www.donmarwarehouse.com/production/12/saint-joan/ http://ntlive.nationaltheatre.org.uk/productions/ntlout20-saint-joan

SHOW TRAILER

BEHIND THE SCENES

Click here for the Behind the Scenes Guide from the Donmar Warehouse!

Hadley Fraser during rehearsals for Saint Joan

Photo credits to Jack Sain for the Donmar Warehouse

Hadley Fraser and Niall Buggy during rehearsals

Photo credits to Jack Sain for the Donmar Warehouse

May we point out that if you look through Hadley's glasses, you could tell that the man is absolutely blind without it. Now we can confirm why he hit that table in POTO@RAH lol

Syrus Lowe (Monsieur de Rais/Courcelles), Fisayo Akinade (The Dauphin), Guy Rhys (La Hire/Executioner), Hadley Fraser (Dunois) and Gemma Arterton (Joan of Arc) backstage before going onstage for Act 2

Photo credits to Gemma Arterton Italia

The cast before their last performance

Photo credits to Gemma Arterton Italia

CLIP FROM THE SHOW

This is one of our favorite moments from the show. It was a really awesome introduction for Hadley's character. We recently watched the play and found that it is definitely not for everyone. As theatre noobs (frankly we were just watching for Hadley lol), it was a bit much for us. That being said, we may be a tad bit biased but Hadley was reaaaally good in this play. We highly encourage you to see it.

PHOTOS FROM THE AFTER PARTY

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Photo credits to Dan Wooler

Photo credits to Dan Wooler

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The Vote (2015)

Hadley, in his most sober role yet, plays Alastair Swift in James Graham's BAFTA nominated play, The Vote.

Ran from April 24, 2015 to May 7, 2015 at the Donmar Warehouse Broadcast live on UK television channel More4 on election night, May 7, 2015 Directed by Josie Rourke

TRAILER

REVIEWS

The live broadcast of James Graham's play The Vote from the Donmar Warehouse on election night attracted an audience of more than half a million people... making it the most widely viewed Donmar production in the venue's history.

- Theo Bosanquet, WhatsOnStage.com

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WhatsOnStage.com (Michael Coveney)The Standard (Henry Hitching)The Guardian (Michael Billington)The Telegraph (Dominic Cavendish)

BEHIND THE SCENES

Click here for the Behind the Scenes Guide from the Donmar Warehouse!

Complete Cast

Photo credits to Johan Persson

Hadley with Finty Williams (Lola Parkes), Dame Judi Dench (Christine Metcalfe) and Yusra Warsama (Hanni Yonis)

Photo credits to Johan Persson

With Mark Gatiss

Photo credits to Johan Persson

FINAL NIGHT CURTAIN CALL

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AFTER PARTY PHOTOS

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SNIPPETS FROM THE SHOW!

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Harlequinade

Ran from October 24, 2015 to January 13, 2016 at the Garrick Theatre Directed by Kenneth Branagh and Rob Ashford

Hadley plays the First Halberdier in this comedy from the Kenneth Branagh Theatre Company.

This promo video is absolutely brilliant. We've watched this multiple times and it cracks us up every single time!

REVIEWS

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Daily Mail (Quentin Letts) The Guardian (Michael Billington)Pocket Size Theatre (Jess Alade)A Younger Theatre (Daniel Perks)Flaneur.me.ukPleaseMindtheBlog by Debbie

PHOTOS

Rehearsals with Jaygann Ayeh

Photo credits to Johan Persson

Rehearsals (look at that adorable smile tho hihi brb while we die)

Photo credits to Johan Persson

In one of his scenes with Tom Bateman

Photo credits to Johan Persson

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The Antipodes

Ran from October 21 to November 23, 2019 at the Dorfman Theatre Official website: https://www.nationaltheatre.org.uk/shows/the-antipodes

REVIEWS

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Time Out (Andrzej Lukowski) Broadway World UK (Marianka Swain)The Theatre Times (Mert Dilek)The New European (Tim Walker)Medium.com (Barbara Kolaric)Ask the Ushers

Photo credits to Manuel Harlan

Role: Josh Directors: Annie Baker and Chloe Lamford

Photo credits to Manuel Harlan

Photo credits to Manuel Harlan

Photo credits to Manuel Harlan

Photo credits to Manuel Harlan

BEHIND THE SCENES

Photo credits to Manuel Harlan

From @imogendoel

From @negreydens

From @fisayoakinade

From @hadleyfraser

From @arthurdarvill050

PHOTOS FROM PRESS NIGHT

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MEDIA

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The Vote (2019)

Hadley reprises his role as Alastair Swift in a "rehearsed reading" of James Graham's BAFTA nominated play, The Vote at Bush House on December 12, 2019, at the same time as the general elections.

Official website: http://www.thevote2019.co.uk/

REVIEW

On this evidence, The Vote should be staged in some form at each UK polling station, just as Gore Vidal’s The Best Man has been revived in the US every four years since 1960.

- Mark Lawson, The Guardian

PHOTOS FROM THE SHOW

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The Vote 2019. For the many (wonderful people), not the few (rehearsal hours). x

A post shared by Hadley Fraser (@hadleyfraser) on Dec 13, 2019 at 11:57am PST

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What a gang ❤️

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Some people definitely haven’t enjoyment over looking for monologues to audition for musicals/plays and it shows

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Usual Girls by Ming Peiffer

“How do girls grow up? Quickly, painfully, wondrously.

On an elementary school playground, a boy threatens to tell on the girls for swearing—unless one of them kisses him.

But just before lips can touch, Kyeoung tackles the boy to the ground. The victory is short-lived. Over the coming years, Kyeoung’s stories get stranger, funnier, more harrowing—and more familiar. This hilarious, explicit gut-punch of a play bursts with playwright Ming Peiffer’s bold, explosive voice.” - Roundabout Theatre Company