Billy Crudup to make West End theatre debut as a conman in Harry Clarke

The star of The Morning Show will bring David Cale’s award-winning one-man play to London in March

Billy Crudup is to make his West End theatre debut portraying 19 characters in a solo show about a charismatic American trickster posing as a Londoner.

Written by David Cale, the one-man play Harry Clarke was first performed by Crudup off-Broadway in 2017. It follows a midwestern barista who beguiles a wealthy New York family while pretending to be a British representative of the singer Sade. “It’s part charm show, it’s part thrill ride, and then it’s a claustrophobic attack in the style of film noir,” Crudup told the San Jose News when he reprised the part at Berkeley Repertory theatre last year.