Spiner Lives 'Life x 3'

Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2003 07:32:22 -0000
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Brent Spiner (Data) this week joined the cast of the Broadway play Life x 3.
Spiner replaces actor David Lansbury in the role of Hubert, Broadway.com
reported. Lansbury left the production after only one week of rehearsal "by
mutual agreement between the production and the actor."
Written by Yasmina Reza, Life x 3 centres around a married couple, Sonia and
Henri, who have invited Henri's boss, Hubert, and his wife, Ines, over for a
dinner party in order to impress them. However, things don't go as planned
when Hubert and Ines turn up for dinner a day early, and all Sonia and Henri
have to feed them is a packet of Cheesy Wotsits and a packet of chocolate
biscuits! The play explores three possible outcomes from this potentially
disastrous situation.
Academy Award-winner Helen Hunt ('As Good As It Gets,' Mad About You) will
star as Sonia, with 'Quiz Show' actor John Turturro as Henry. Linda Emond is
set to play Ines to Spiner's Hubert; the two previously performed together
in the Broadway version of 1776. Life x 3 will be directed by Matthew
Warchus, who staged Art and True West.
Spiner has had a successful stage career in addition to his television and
film roles, appearing in 1776, Big River, The Three Musketeers, Sunday in
the Park with George and A History of the American Film on Broadway.