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THEO James, who will star opposite emilia Fox in Laura eason’s play sex With strangers, directed by Peter DuBois, at Hampstead Theatre from January 27. rehearsals start on monday for the play, which is about a star online writer (and a bit of a bed-hopper) who meets a published author, hungry for more success. The pair hole up in the same B&B during a snowstorm. mr James is an accomplished actor, who starred in the Divergent series of films, but i know this play — and what happens in it — and felt i had to mention that James also played poor mr Pamuk, who keeled over in an early episode of Downton abbey, after testing the bed springs with Lady mary. TUPPENCE MIDDLETON (pictured), who will join Benedict Cumberbatch in the movie The Current War, about rival power magnates Thomas Edison (Cumberbatch) and George Westinghouse (Michael Shannon). Ms Middleton will portray Edison’s first wife Mary Stilwell Edison, who met the inventor when she worked for his company, punching holes into telegraph tape. Middleton had a role in another Cumberbatch film: The Imitation Game. Director Alfonso Gomez-Rejon has also cast Tom Holland and Nicholas Hoult in the picture. JOSEPH AYRE, Jo Castleton, Nicolas Tennant and the cast of the olivier and Tony-award winning National Theatre production of The Curious incident of The Dog in The Night-Time, who will give their last performance at the Gielgud Theatre on June 3. The play by simon stephens, adapted from mark Haddon’s best-selling novel and directed by award-winning marianne elliott, has enjoyed great success in London, where it will have had a combined five-year run by the time it closes. a second, touring production will start at the Lowry, in salford, on January 21. as this page reported recently, Jez Butterworth’s new play The Ferryman, directed by sam mendes, is negotiating to transfer to the Gielgud after its run at the royal Court Theatre ends in may, though no deal has been signed — yet.