The Score

Clearly eager to make up for the years of his life he gave over to Succession, Brian Cox swifty follows up his 2024 starring role in Eugene O’Neill’s Long Day’s Journey Into Night with a reprisal and West End transfer for his 2023 turn in Oliver Cotton’s new play The Score, which initially ran at the Theatre Royal Bath. Set in 1747, it stars Cox as Johann Sebastian Bach, who has been lured to the Prussian court by the capricious Frederick II, who has prepared an unusual musical conundrum for him that will have unexpected consequences. Cox’s wife Nicole Ansari-Cox will star as Bach’s wife Anna in the Trevor Nunn-directed production.