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Posted: Thu., Feb. 19, 2009, 2:36pm PT

Joseph Fiennes to star in 'Cyrano'

Chichester slate also includes Enron play

Joseph Fiennes toplines a Trevor Nunn-helmed staging of "Cyrano de Bergerac" and Rupert Goold directs a new play about Enron as part of the 2009 Chichester Festival Theater in the U.K.

Also on the bill is a production of "Oklahoma!" directed by John Doyle ("Sweeney Todd," "A Catered Affair") and a new adaptation of plays by Friedrich Schiller, "Wallenstein," starring Iain Glen.

Goold's production of Lucy Prebble's "Enron," which begins perfs at Chichester in July, also will play London's Royal Court Theater in a run that kicks off in September. Goold's Chichester revival of "Macbeth" played on Broadway last season.

Slate for Chichester also includes the previously announced world preem of Simon Gray adaptation "The Last Cigarette" and Diana Rigg in a revival of "Hay Fever."

Contact Gordon Cox at gordon.cox@variety.com

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