Synnove Karlsen Sets U.K. Stage Debut With ‘The House Party’

Rising star Synnøve Karlsen is ready to make her theater debut in Headlong’s buzzy new manufacturing “The Home Occasion,” whereas juggling high-profile TV roles in BBC and Masterpiece’s “Miss Austen” and Apple TV+’s “Basis.”

The actor will tackle the lead function of Julie in Laura Lomas’ modern reimagining of August Strindberg‘s “Miss Julie,” directed by Headlong inventive director Holly Race Roughan. The manufacturing, which first bowed at Chichester Pageant Theatre in Could 2024, will embark on a U.Ok. tour beginning in February.

The play, a co-production with Chichester Pageant Theatre and produced in affiliation with Frantic Meeting, follows an 18-year-old’s birthday celebration that spirals right into a potent mixture of privilege, need and destruction. The tour will hit main venues together with Leeds Playhouse, Rose Theatre Kingston, House Manchester, Bristol Outdated Vic and Belgrade Theatre Coventry.

“I couldn’t be extra excited to be enjoying Julie in ‘The Home Occasion,’” Karlsen tells Selection. “Laura Lomas has written such a dynamic and related retelling of Strindberg’s ‘Miss Julie’ and one which I do know will converse to in the present day’s viewers. I’ve waited eight years to be on stage and when this chance arose I knew I needed to seize onto it — she’s simply such a harmful and thrilling half.”

In the meantime, Karlsen is conserving busy on display screen. Talking about her function in Apple TV+’s “Basis,” she says: “‘Basis’ has been such a labor of affection over these previous two years. We obtained shut down through the strikes which led to an enormous re-shuffle. I’m actually excited for followers to lastly get to see it when it comes out, I believe it’s going to be fairly epic.”

As revealed by Selection, the actor may even seem as Cassandra Austen in BBC’s upcoming four-part collection “Miss Austen.” “It’s a ravishing story concerning the love between two sisters,” Karlsen says. “It was an absolute pleasure to be part of that story, generally a mission simply clicks collectively in an intangible means. I actually hope individuals get pleasure from it.”

Karlsen’s earlier credit embrace Edgar Wright’s “Final Evening in Soho,” Netflix’s “Our bodies” alongside Stephen Graham and Shira Haas, BBC’s “Clique” and the historic drama “Medici.” She is represented by Impartial Expertise Group, Nameless Content material and Private PR.

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