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ZOE WANAMAKER, Barbara Flynn and Nina Sosanya (pictured, who was so good in the Chekov season at Chichester Festival Theatre last year), who have been cast by director Josie Rourke to star in Nick Payne’s new play Elegy, which imagines a world where life can be extended. Playwright Payne wrote the transatlantic hit Constellations and adapted Julian Barnes’ novel The Sense Of An Ending for BBC Films. Elegy begins previewing at London’s Donmar Warehouse Theatre on April 21.

Julian Ovenden, who was in los angeles to record some tracks at the Capital recording studios (where Frank Sinatra made some of his greatest discs) for an album of classic popular standards for east West Records. ‘lovely tunes from the Forties and Fifties, such as ev’ry Time We Say Goodbye, The Way You look Tonight and My Funny valentine,’ Ovenden (left) told me. Producer nick Patrick has assembled a full orchestra for the recording, which will be out later in the year. Ovenden is also part of the downton abbey troupe (he played Charles Blake) who are up for the best Tv drama cast in the Screen actors Guild awards, which are presented on January 25.

DANIEL MAYS and George MacKay (right), who will play Aston and Mick in Harold Pinter’s groundbreaking 1960 play The Caretaker. Timothy Spall, as this page revealed months ago, has already been chosen to play the role of Davies, the part originated by Donald Pleasance. MacKay was in director Matthew Warchus’s film Pride. Warchus will also direct The Caretaker, which begins previews at the Old Vic from March 29.