The National Theatre tweeted this yesterday:
  • In June, Anne-Marie Duff and Charles Edwards will be in Strange Interlude by Eugene O’Neill directed by Simon Godwin #NT2013

Strange Interlude is a Pulitzer Prize-winning drama. It's over 4 hours long, so it'll be interesting to see how they perform it. I guess sometimes it's been performed w/ a dinner break or on two consecutive nights. Here's the plot summary per Wikipedia. I put part of it under the spoiler alert in case you'd rather not know, but it sounds controversial though timely. Very meaty stuff for AM!

The plot centers on Nina Leeds, the daughter of an Ivy League professor, who is devastated when her adored fiancé is killed in World War I, before they have a chance to consummate their passion. Ignoring the unconditional love of the novelist Charles Marsden, Nina embarks on a series of sordid affairs before determining to marry an amiable fool, Sam Evans. While Nina is pregnant with Sam's child, she learns a horrifying secret known only to Sam's mother: insanity runs in the Evans family and could be inherited by any child of Sam's. Realizing that a child is essential to her own and to Sam's happiness, Nina decides on a "scientific" solution.

The meaning of the title is suggested by the aging Nina in a speech near the end of the play: "Our lives are strange dark interludes in the electrical display of God the Father!"

Kind of curious about this since so far James and AM have managed to pretty much take turns and not work at the same time (at least on location shoots), so don't know what this means in terms of his schedule for DoFP.  ??