Aristo is a 2008 play by American born playwright Martin Sherman

Martin Sherman

Martin Sherman is an American dramatist and screenwriter, best known for his Pulitzer Prize-nominated play Bent , which explores the persecution of homosexuals during the Holocaust...

, based on material in the book Nemesis by Peter Evans

Peter Evans

Peter Evans may refer to:* Peter B. Evans , political sociologist* Peter Evans , English poker player* Peter Evans , Australian swimmer, won a gold medal at the 1980 Summer Olympics...

 about the life of Aristotle Onassis

Aristotle Onassis

Aristotle Sokratis Onassis , commonly called Ari or Aristo Onassis, was a prominent Greek shipping magnate.- Early life :Onassis was born in Karatass, a suburb of Smyrna to Socrates and Penelope Onassis...

 after he met Jackie Kennedy. It premiered at the Minerva Theatre, Chichester

Minerva Theatre, Chichester

The Minerva Theatre is a studio theatre seating at full capacity 283. It is run as part of the adjacent Chichester Festival Theatre, located in Chichester, England, and was opened in 1989...

 (11 Sept - 11 Oct 2008), was directed by Nancy Meckler

Nancy Meckler

Nancy Meckler is an American theatre director and film director, best known for her work in the United Kingdom, especially with Shared Experience, where she is joint artistic director alongside Polly Teale....

 and starred Robert Lindsay

Robert Lindsay (actor)

Robert Lindsay is an English actor who is best known for his television work, especially his roles of Wolfie Smith in Citizen Smith, Michael Murray in G.B.H., Captain Sir Edward Pellew in Hornblower and Ben Harper in My Family which has been on television screens since 2000.-Early life:Lindsay was...

 as Onassis.

Reviews

The play was poorly received by critics and did not transfer to the West End

West End theatre

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 even though it had sold out in Chichester. However, critics agreed that Robert Lindsay

Robert Lindsay (actor)

Robert Lindsay is an English actor who is best known for his television work, especially his roles of Wolfie Smith in Citizen Smith, Michael Murray in G.B.H., Captain Sir Edward Pellew in Hornblower and Ben Harper in My Family which has been on television screens since 2000.-Early life:Lindsay was...

's performance eclipsed the play.

Cast

• Robert Lindsay
  Robert Lindsay (actor)
  Robert Lindsay is an English actor who is best known for his television work, especially his roles of Wolfie Smith in Citizen Smith, Michael Murray in G.B.H., Captain Sir Edward Pellew in Hornblower and Ben Harper in My Family which has been on television screens since 2000.-Early life:Lindsay was...
  
   - Onassis
• Elizabeth McGovern
  Elizabeth McGovern
  -Early life:McGovern was born in Evanston, Illinois, the daughter of Katharine Wolcott , a high school teacher, and William Montgomery McGovern, Jr., a university professor. Her paternal grandfather was adventurer William Montgomery McGovern and her maternal great-grandfather was U.S. diplomat...
  
   - Jacqueline
• June Watson - Eleni
• Robin Soans
  Robin Soans
  Robin Soans is an actor, and a playwright specialising in verbatim and documentary plays. These plays include Across the Divide ; A State Affair which looked at life on a Bradford estate, produced by Out of Joint theatre company; The Arab Israeli Cookbook ; Talking to Terrorists Robin Soans (born...
  
   - Costa
• Denise Black
  Denise Black
  Denise Black is an English actress, best known for playing Denise Osbourne in the ITV1 soap Coronation Street and Hazel Tyler in Channel 4 TV's Queer As Folk in 1999 and 2000, written by Russell T Davies. After attending Portsmouth's Girls Public Day School, she studied Psychology at London...
  
   - Dimitra
• Julius D'Silva - Theo
• John Hodgkinson - Yanni
• Diana Quick
  Diana Quick
  -Life:Quick was born in London, England. She grew up in Dartford, Kent, the third of a dentist's four children. She was educated at Dartford Grammar School for Girls, Kent. She was greatly aided by her English teacher, Miss Davis, who encouraged her to pursue acting...
  
   - Maria
• Joe Marsh - Alexander
• Ben Grove - Musician
• Graeme Taylor
  Graeme Taylor
  Graeme Taylor is a British electric guitarist.Taylor played lead guitar with 1970s medieval/rock band Gryphon, and leading folk rock bands including the Albion Band and Home Service...
  
  - Musician
• Andrew Elias - Waiter
• Nick Howard-Brown - Waiter