Hoffman brings Riflemind to London

12:27am Saturday 9th August 2008

Oscar-winning star Philip Seymour Hoffman is directing a play about an ageing rock band for the London stage.

Riflemind tells the story of the group reforming 20 years after their frontman walked off stage for good.

It stars Four Weddings and a Funeral actor John Hannah and theatre and TV actor Paul Hilton.

Hoffman, 41, is co-artistic director of the LAByrinth Theater Company in New York but is best known for the likes of Mission Impossible III, The Savages and Capote, for which he won the best actor Academy Award.

Riflemind was written by Australian playwright Andrew Upton, whose most recent play, an adaptation of Gorky's The Philistines, opened at the National Theatre last year to critical acclaim.

Riflemind premiered in Sydney last year and opens at the Trafalgar Studios in the West End on September 18.