Theatre Debut for Kimberley Nixon
13 August 2008
Recent graduate Kimberley Nixon (acting 2007)
is to follow up her recent screen success in Cranford,
Angus, Thongs & Perfect Snogging and Wild Child
with her professional theatre debut.
In the new theatre production of The Girl
with the Pearl Earring, Kimberley will play the role made
famous by Scarlett Johansson in the film version. Griet is the
young servant girl, who allegedly inspires the 17th
century painter Johannes Vermeer, to paint his masterpiece of the
same name. Adrian Dunbar, famous for the BAFTA-nominated film
Hear my Song, which he co-wrote, as well for appearances
in My Left Foot, Cracker and The General will
take the Colin Firth role of Vermeer.
The stage version of Tracey Chevalier’s
best-selling novel will receive its world premiere this autumn at
the Cambridge Arts Theatre where it will run from 11 to 20
September, ahead of a planned West End transfer.