Tru

Modern Family star Jesse Tyler Ferguson made his London stage debut in last year’s Here We Are at the National Theatre and seemingly can’t get enough of us: he spent the start of the summer as the first ‘guest’ Herod in the West End’s Jesus Christ Superstar. Now he’s back with Tru, a revival of Jay Presson Allen’s one man bio-drama about Truman Capote, that follows the legendary writer while down on his luck after alienating most of his socialite friends via an ill-advised short story send up of them in Esquire. In New York, Ferguson’s take on Tru got solid reviews that were slightly tempered by the extreme ticket price: it was staged in the spectacular library of Gilded Age mansion House of the Redeemer. Here it’ll just be at the good ol’ Menier: still intimate, but at a more reasonable price. Rob Ashford directs.