With the critically acclaimed production of Lillian Helman’s Watch on the Rhine currently running, and ahead of the world premiere of Diana Nneka Atuona’s Trouble in Butetown, Artistic Director Michael Longhurst and Executive Director Henny Finch today announce the next two shows in the Donmar’s 30th birthday season, along with lead casting for the previously announced Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award-winning musical Next To Normal.
Opening the season is Noël Coward’s Private Lives with a cast including Stephen Mangan as Elyot, Rachael Stirling as Amanda, Laura Carmichael as Sibyl and Sargon Yelda as Victor, in a new production directed by Michael Longhurst. This is followed by the world première of award-winning playwright Jack Thorne’s latest play When Winston Went to War with the Wireless directed by Katy Rudd, a gripping and timely examination of the BBC’s independence during the 1926 General Strike. Having collaborated on Caroline, or Change on Broadway, Longhurst reunites with Caissie Levy, who will play Diana in Tom Kitt and Brian Yorkey’s Next to Normal, along with Trevor Dion Nicholas as Dr. Madden/Dr. Fine, with further casting to be announced. Alessandra Davison and Adam Karim are also today announced as Resident Assistant Directors for the company.
This season is generously supported by Charles Holloway, Season Supporter, and presented in partnership with Wessex Grove.
After five years in the role, Michael Longhurst announces today he will step down as Artistic Director of the Donmar Warehouse when his contract ends in February 2024.
During his tenure, Michael has championed new writing including work by Branden Jacobs-Jenkins, Alice Birch and the upcoming world premiere of Trouble in Butetown by Diana Nneka Atuona. He has also revived classics including Henry V, starring Kit Harington. His own productions directed at the theatre include Europe by David Greig, Mike Lew’s ground-breaking Teenage Dick, starring leading disabled actors Daniel Monks and Ruth Madeley, Tim Price’s adaptation of Ruben Östlund’s Force Majeure, where the stage was transformed into a ski slope, and the recent sell out run of acclaimed musical The Band’s Visit.
For much of Michael’s tenure, the sector faced unprecedented challenges with the Covid-19 pandemic, and the enforced closure of theatres around the world. During this time the Donmar carried out significant capital improvements to the theatre, ensuring it is more accessible and fit for purpose for years to come. Michael also led a programme of artistic innovation during this time, in particular the 2020 critically acclaimed sound installation Blindness which went on to tour the UK and internationally to cities including Amsterdam, Hong Kong and Auckland, enabling venues worldwide to safely welcome audiences back into their spaces, including one of the first theatres to reopen in New York.
In Summer 2021, as theatres were gradually reopening with social distancing restrictions, Michael conceived and directed an innovative multi-cast model of his production of Nick Payne’s Constellations, which was seen by 60,000 people at the Vaudeville Theatre and won Best Revival and Best Actress for Sheila Atim at the 2022 Olivier Awards.
Other key achievements include: putting the climate emergency at the heart of the company’s ethos with the appointment of a Climate Dramaturg, and growing the Donmar’s work in its local community and schools, including staging the UK premiere of Dawn King’s The Trials. Michael has also been committed to supporting the next generation of theatre-makers, creating the Donmar’s Catalyst programme, which seeks to reduce barriers to careers in the theatre industry due to ethnicity, gender, disability or socio-economic background.
Michael Longhurst said:
“I could not be prouder of the Donmar team and all that we’ve achieved across my tenure – the impact of the pandemic on our industry was devastating, but in the face of this, I am so grateful that the team rose to the challenge, not only to fundraise for and deliver an essential capital project, but to simultaneously help reopen theatres with our globally-transferring sound installation Blindness and our multi-cast Olivier Award-winning revival of Constellations in the West End. Thank you to all the artists and theatre makers who have been part of the journey so far. I am proud that in a time so challenging for freelancers to have enabled so many Donmar debuts, and to have continued to improve the diversity of those making work here. I am enormously grateful to my Co-Chief Executive Henny Finch for her unwavering support and great skill throughout my tenure.
As I approach the end of my contract, it feels like the right moment to hand over this incredible theatre - now celebrating its 30th anniversary. When I leave next year, I will do so with the company in robust financial health, in part due to the Donmar’s many loyal supporters, with whose help we feel confident we can fill the gap left by the recent withdrawal of our Arts Council funding. I know that the Donmar will not simply survive, but thrive and continue to forge forward as an industry leader and innovator - this next chapter is a new moment and an incredible opportunity for the company’s next Artistic Director.
Before then, I am beyond thrilled to be honouring the 50th anniversary of Coward’s death by reviving his most famous work Private Lives in the fierce intimacy of the Donmar; producing Jack Thorne’s astonishingly timely play about BBC independence, and directing the long-awaited UK premiere of Tony Award and Pulitzer Prize-winning musical Next to Normal, with Broadway star Caissie Levy, whose vocals are currently Grammy-nominated on the cast album of my last Broadway production Caroline, or Change. I look forward to announcing my final season later in the year, before pursuing new artistic challenges for myself in 2024”.
Adam Kenwright, Chair of the Donmar Warehouse commented:
“On behalf of the Donmar’s Board, I would like to thank Michael for his inspired artistic leadership since the start of 2019. Not only has he directed and produced some of the standout work of the past few years, he also ably steered the theatre through a very challenging time, putting the Donmar at the forefront of innovation. Working closely with Executive Director Henny Finch and the brilliant Donmar team, Michael spearheaded the essential renovations of our theatre during our enforced Covid closure, ensuring when we reopened it was improved and welcoming for future audiences and artists. His are big shoes to fill, but I have no doubt there are fantastic candidates out there, who can continue the Donmar’s commitment to staging work that thrills, engages and excites our audiences. Together with my board colleagues we will begin the recruitment process for Michael’s successor in mid-February”
Alongside the productions on stage, the Donmar continues its innovative work with the local community, platforming the voices of local young people. As part of its commitment to work exploring the climate crisis, the Donmar today announces a new theatre-making project My Future. Young artists and activists aged 11-14 will work in collaboration with leading theatre-makers and climate activists in four local schools, to create new work about one of the most urgent issues for their generation. The weekly programme of sessions will culminate in a takeover day at the Donmar with the devised works shared on stage. My Future is supported by PwC. David Adair, Director of Community Engagement for PwC said:
"We are delighted to be collaborating with the Donmar team on this exciting social and environmental programme. Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG), is core to our purpose and it is essential that young people have a voice in the debate."
The Donmar’s commitment to talent development continues as the theatre welcomes the next cohort of CATALYST trainees for When Winston went to War with the Wireless in roles including lighting, sound and design. Following a successful pilot programme for The Trials, Junior Creative Assistants will be recruited for Next to Normal with paid placements for 16-18 year olds mentored by leading creatives.
Donmar’s LOCAL Young Writers programme continues in 2023, with 16 young writers aged 16-19 who are developing new writing working with Molly Taylor and a team of leading playwrights.
Noël Coward’s
PRIVATE LIVES
Directed by Michael Longhurst
7 April – 27 May 2023
Press night: Thursday 13 April
Cast: Laura Carmichael, Stephen Mangan, Rachael Stirling, Sargon Yelda
Designer: Hildegard Bechtler
Lighting Designer: Jack Knowles
Casting Director: Anna Cooper CDG
We were so ridiculously over in love.
Funny wasn’t it?
Horribly funny.
Elyot and Amanda; glamorous, rich, reckless… and divorced.
A surprise encounter on adjoining hotel balconies rekindles their passion and they fling themselves violently into love once more, and their newly married lives into chaos.
Starring Stephen Mangan and Rachael Stirling, this fiercely intimate revival of Noël Coward’s dark comedy directed by Donmar Artistic Director Michael Longhurst, asks can you love someone too much, or too many times?
Laura Carmichael plays Sibyl. Her theatre credits include Apologia, The Maids (Trafalgar Studios), Uncle Vanya (Vaudeville Theatre), Plenty (Sheffield Crucible), and The Tempest (UK tour). Her television credits include The Secrets She Keeps; The Spanish Princess; Man in an Orange Shirt; Marcella; Downton Abbey (as series regular Lady Edith Crawley); and for film, Downton Abbey: A New Era; Downton Abbey; A United Kingdom; Burn Burn Burn; Madame Bovary; Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy.
Stephen Mangan plays Elyot. His theatre credits include The Man in the White Suit (Theatre Royal Bath/Wyndham’s Theatre), The Birthday Party (Harold Pinter Theatre), Birthday, The People Are Friendly (Royal Court Theatre), Jeeves and Wooster in Perfect Nonsense (Duke of York’s Theatre), The Norman Conquests (The Old Vic/Broadway - Tony Award nomination for Best Featured Actor in a Play), The Magic Carpet (Lyric Hammersmith), Noises Off (Piccadilly Theatre), A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The School for Scandal (RSC), She Stoops to Conquer (Birmingham Stage Company and Old Rep), As You Like It (Nottingham Playhouse), Hamlet (Theatre Royal Norwich), Couch Grass & Ribbon (Watermill, Newbury), The Rover (Salisbury Playhouse), The Tempest (Nottingham Playhouse/Theatr Clywd), The Shoe Shop of Desire (Nottingham Playhouse/National Theatre), Twelfth Night (Nottingham Playhouse), George Dandin, Mrs Warren’s Profession (Redgrave Theatre), Much Ado About Nothing (Cheek By Jowl), and Hay Fever (Savoy Theatre). His television credits include The Split, Urban Myths: Bleak House Guest, Bliss, Episodes, Houdini & Doyle, This Is Jinsy, Dirk Gently, Britain’s Greatest Comedian, The Comic Strip Presents Red Top, 10 Minute Tales, Free Agents, Never Better, Who Gets the Dog?, Miss Marple: At Bertram’s Hotel, Green Wing, Bromwell High, Nathan Barley, Ready When You Are Mr McGill, I’m Alan Partridge, The Armando Iannucci Show, Adrian Mole: The Cappuccino Years, Sword of Honour, In Defence, Big Bad World, The Walker, Ditch the Bitch, Argumental, Lucky Jim, Party Political Broadcast; and for film. A Gaza Weekend, Breathe, Postman Pat: The Movie, L’Assenza, Rush, The Hungry Corpse, An Act of Love, Cooked, War Wounds, Beyond the Pole, Someone Else, Confetti, Festival, Birthday Girl, Chunky Monkey, Billy Elliot, An Hour in Paradise, and Martha, Meet Frank, Daniel and Laurence.
Rachael Stirling returns to the Donmar to play Amanda. She previously appeared in The Recruiting Officer and Helpless. Her other theatre credits include Scandaltown, Love Love Love (Lyric Hammersmith), Labour of Love (Noël Coward Theatre), The Winter’s Tale (Sam Wanamaker Playhouse, Shakespeare’s Globe), An Intervention (Paines Plough/Watford Palace Theatre), Variation on a Theme (Finborough Theatre), Medea (Headlong), An Ideal Husband (Vaudeville Theatre), A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Rose Theatre Kingston), The Priory (Royal Court Theatre), Pygmalion (international tour), The Taming of the Shrew, Uncle Vanya (Wilton’s Music Hall), Look Back in Anger (Theatre Royal Bath), Tamburlaine (Bristol Old Vic), Theatre of Blood (National Theatre/Improbable), Anna in the Tropics (Hampstead Theatre) and A Woman of No Importance (Theatre Royal Haymarket). Her television credits include The Chelsea Detective, Hollington Drive, Grantchester, Life, Wild Bill, The Bletchley Circle: San Francisco, Detectorists, Capital, Churchill’s Secret, Letters from Baghdad, The Bletchley Circle, Women in Love, Minder, Boy Meets Girl, Beyond, The Haunted Airman, Riot at the Rite, Murder at the Vicarage, The Final Quest, Poirot, Tipping the Velvet, Bait, Othello, In the Beginning; and for film, Their Finest, Scottish Mussel, Sixteen, Snow White and the Huntsman, Salmon Fishing in the Yemen, Centurian, The Young Victoria, Dangerous Parking, The Truth, Freeze Frame, Triumph of Love, Another Life, Complicity, Maybe Baby, and Still Crazy.
Sargon Yelda returns to the Donmar to play Victor. He recently appeared in The Band’s Visit. His other theatre credits include Hex, Anthony and Cleopatra, Light Shining in Buckinghamshire, Dara, Emperor & Galilean, Mother Courage and her Children (National Theatre), Stovepipe (National Theatre and Bush Theatre), Romeo and Juliet (Globe Theatre), Fanny and Alexander, King Lear (The Old Vic), Comedy of Errors, Twelfth Night, The Tempest (RSC), Human Animals, The Internet is a Serious Business (Royal Court), Incognito, Forget Me Not (Bush Theatre), Moby Dick and Cabinet of Caligari (Arcola Theatre). His television credits include Treason, Dead Pixels, Endeavour, People Just Do Nothing, Strike: The Silkworm and The Cuckoo’s Calling, Innocent, Zen, Midnight Man, Saddam’s Tribe and Compulsion, and for film; Spectre and Close.
Michael Longhurst is the Artistic Director of the Donmar Warehouse. For the company, direction includes The Band’s Visit, Force Majeure, Midnight Your Time (lockdown film), Teenage Dick, Europe, Belleville and last summer’s multicast revival of Nick Payne’s Constellations, which broke box office records at the Vaudeville and won the 2022 Olivier Award for Best Revival. Constellations previously ran on Broadway (Samuel J Friedman Theater, for MTC), West End (Duke of York’s, Evening Standard Award Best Play), UK tour, originating at the Royal Court. His Chichester Festival Theatre production of Tony Kushner and Jeanine Tesori’s Caroline, or Change transferred to Studio 54 for Roundabout Theater on Broadway with Sharon D Clarke reprising her Olivier Award-winning performance (also West End and Hampstead). The Broadway production received three Tony nominations including Best Musical Revival. Other theatre includes Amadeus with the Southbank Sinfonia (National Theatre/NTatHome), The Son (Kiln Theatre/Duke of York’s Theatre), Gloria (Hampstead Theatre), Bad Jews (Theatre Royal Haymarket/Theatre Royal Bath/UK tour & current revival at the Arts), They Drink It In The Congo and Carmen Disruption (Almeida Theatre), ‘Tis Pity She’s A Whore, The Winter’s Tale (Shakespeare’s Globe), If There Is I Haven’t Found It Yet (Off-Broadway for Roundabout), Linda, The Art of Dying, Remembrance Day (Royal Court Theatre), A Number (Nuffield Southampton Theatres/Young Vic), Cannibals (Royal Exchange Theatre), The History Boys (Sheffield Theatres), Dealer’s Choice (Royal & Derngate), The World of Extreme Happiness (NT Shed), Stovepipe (site-specific promenade with the National Theatre, HighTide and Bush Theatre), Midnight Your Time (HighTide), On The Beach (Bush Theatre), On The Record, Gaudeamus (Arcola Theatre), dirty butterfly (Young Vic - winner of the Jerwood Directors Award) and Guardians (Pleasance/Theatre503 - Fringe First Award).
World Première
WHEN WINSTON WENT TO WAR WITH THE WIRELESS
by Jack Thorne
Directed by Katy Rudd
2 June – 29 July 2023
Press night: Tuesday 13 June
A true story about truth
In May 1926 Britain grinds to a halt, as workers down tools for The General Strike.
With the printing presses shut down, the only sources of news are the government’s The British Gazette, edited by Chancellor of the Exchequer Winston Churchill, and the independent, fledgling British Broadcasting Company, led by John Reith. What follows is a fierce battle for control of the news and who gets to define the truth.
A gripping and timely story about the birth of a great British institution, WHEN WINSTON WENT TO WAR WITH THE WIRELESS is a new play by multi award-winning stage and screen writer Jack Thorne (Harry Potter and the Cursed Child stage play, His Dark Materials for BBC One), directed by Katy Rudd (Ocean at the End of the Lane, Eureka Day).
Casting to be announced.
Jack Thorne’s credits as a playwright include After Life (National Theatre), A Christmas Carol, Woyzeck (Old Vic Theatre), Harry Potter and the Cursed Child (The Palace Theatre/Lyric Theatre Broadway), Sunday (Atlantic Theatre), The End of History, Hope (Royal Court), King Kong (Broadway Theatre), Mydidae (Soho Theatre), Stacy (Tron, Arcola Theatre, New Diorama Theatre), Let the Right One In (Apollo Theatre, Dundee Rep, Royal Court), Junkyard (UK tour), The Solid Life of Sugar Water (UK tour, National Theatre, Orange Tree Theatre), Bunny (Edinburgh Festival Fringe, UK tour, E9E59 Theatres) and Stuart: A Life Backwards (Sheffield Theatre/UK tour). His television credits include Help, Then Barbara Met Alan, Crip Tales, The Eddy, The Accident, His Dark Material, Electric Dreams, Kiri, National Treasure, The Last Panthers, Don’t Take My Baby, This is England, The Fades, Glue, Cast-Offs and for film; The Swimmers, Enola Holmes, The Secret Garden, The Aeronauts, Dirt Music, Radioactive, Wonder, War Book, The Long Way Down and The Scouting Book for Boys. His work for television has won him 5 BAFTAs and an RTS Television Award. In 2022, he was the recipient of both the Writers’ Guild of Great Britain award for Outstanding Contribution to Writing, and the Royal Television Society’s award for Outstanding Contribution to British Television. Jack is a patron of Graeae Theatre Company, and associate artist of the Old Vic Theatre, and launched the pressure group Underlying Health Condition to champion disabled representation in the TV industry.
Katy Rudd’s credits as a director include Eureka Day, Camp Siegfried (The Old Vic), The Ocean at the End of the Lane (National Theatre/Duke of York’s Theatre), The Almighty Sometimes – Winner of The Stage Debut Award for Best Director (Royal Exchange Theatre), and her credits as an Associate Director include Lungs, The Master Builder (The Old Vic), Groundhog Day (The Old Vic/August Wilson Theater), The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time (National Theatre/Piccadilly Theatre/UK tour), Husbands and Sons, Pinocchio (National Theatre), Linda (Royal Court), and as an Assistant Director; Mojo (Harold Pinter Theatre), The Playboy of the Western World (Old Vic Theatre) and Into the Woods (Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre).
NEXT TO NORMAL
Music by Tom Kitt
Book and Lyrics by Brian Yorkey
Directed by Michael Longhurst
12 August – 7 October 2023
Press night: Tuesday 22 August
Cast includes: Caissie Levy, Trevor Dion Nicholas
Musical Supervisor: Nigel Lilley
Designer: Chloe Lamford
Lighting Designer: Lee Curran
Sound Designer: Tony Gayle
Movement Director: Ann Yee
Musical Director: Nick Barstow
Casting Director: Anna Cooper CDG
“It is much more than a feel-good musical; it is a feel-everything musical." New York Times
Critically acclaimed Broadway musical Next to Normal is an intimate exploration of family and loss. At its heart is Diana Goodman, played by Broadway star Caissie Levy, a suburban wife and mother living with bipolar disorder and haunted by her past. Donmar Artistic Director Michael Longhurst directs the long-awaited UK première of this powerful musical about a far from average family.
Next to Normal is the winner of the 2010 Pulitzer Prize for Drama and three Tony Awards including Best Original Score.
Caissie Levy plays Diana Goodman. Her theatre credits include Leopoldstadt (Longacre Theatre), The Bedwetter (Linda Gross Theatre), Caroline, or Change (Studio 54), Frozen (St James Theatre), First Daughter Suite (The Public Theatre), Les Misérables (Imperial Theatre), Murder Ballad (Union Square Theatre), Ghost The Musical (Lunt-Fontanne Theatre, Piccadilly Theatre, Manchester Opera House), Hair (Gielgud Theatre, Al Hirshfeld Theatre), Wicked (Pantages Theatre, Gershwin Theatre), Hairspray (Neil Simon Theatre and US tour) and Rent (US tour). Her television credits include The Battery’s Down, Creative Galaxy, Gotham, Wishenpoof! And for film; Options and Ms. Bula Banerjee.
Trevor Dion Nicholas plays Dr. Madden/Dr. Fine. His theatre credits include include George Washington in the West End production of Hamilton, Preacher in Bonnie & Clyde (Theatre Royal Drury Lane), Disney’s Aladdin (West End, Broadway & US Tour/What’s On Stage Award for Best Supporting Actor in a Musical), Big River (US Tour), The Wiz, The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, Ragtime, The Little Mermaid, The Wizard of Oz, Into the Woods, Little Shop of Horrors, Rent, The Exonerated and This is the Life (ETA Hoffman Theatre, DE). Trevor is the voice of the Ghost of Christmas Present in the Netflix animated film Scrooge: A Christmas Carol. Television credits includes Panellist/Judge on All Star Musicals (ITV), Lester in Moley (Boomerang), The Show Must Go On (Sky Arts), Strictly Come Dancing (BBC), Christmas at the Snow Globe, The Americans, Sunday Night at the Palladium, Royal Variety Performance and Disney’s Broadway Hits at Royal Albert Hall (Emmy Award).
Tom Kitt received the 2010 Pulitzer Prize for Drama, two Tony Awards for Best Score and Best Orchestrations, and the Outer Critics Circle Award for Outstanding New Score for Next to Normal (Second Stage Theater/Broadway). He is also the composer of If/Then (Tony and Outer Critics Circle Award nominations), High Fidelity (Broadway), Bring it On, The Musical (co-composer with Lin-Manuel Miranda, Broadway), Superhero (Second Stage), Disney's Freaky Friday (Stage Production and Original Disney Channel Movie Musical), Dave (Arena Stage), The Winter's Tale, All's Well That Ends Well, Cymbeline (Public Theater's NYSF), From Up Here, The Madrid (Manhattan Theatre Club), Orphans (Broadway), The Retributionists (Playwrights Horizons), and As You Like It (Toho Co., Japan). As a music supervisor, arranger, and orchestrator, credits include SpongeBob Squarepants, The Musical (Tony, Outer Critics Circle, Drama Desk Award nominations), Head Over Heels, Jagged Little Pill; Grease Live!, Rise (NBC), and American Idiot. His work with Green Day also includes additional arrangements for their Grammy Award-winning album 21st Century Breakdown and their album trilogy, ¡Uno! ¡Dos! ¡Tré! Tom received an Emmy Award as co-writer (with Lin-Manuel Miranda) for the 2013 Tony Award opening number, Bigger. Other television songwriting credits include a musical episode of Royal Pains, and songs for Penny Dreadful, Sesame Street, and Julie's Greenroom. As a musical director, conductor, arranger and orchestrator, credits include the Pitch Perfect films, 2Cellos featuring Lang Lang (Live and Let Die), The Kennedy Center Honors, 13, Debbie Does Dallas, Everyday Rapture, Hair, Laugh Whore, Pippin (Deaf West), and These Paper Bullets. Upcoming projects include musical adaptations of the films Almost Famous (premiering on Broadway in October 2022), Magic Mike, and The Visitor.
Brian Yorkey received the 2010 Pulitzer Prize for Drama, as well as the 2009 Tony Award for Best Score for Next to Normal (Second Stage Theater/Broadway). He was also nominated for the Tony Award for Best Musical and Best Book of a Musical for Next to Normal, and his work on the show earned him the Outer Critics Circle Award for Best Score. He partnered again with the Next to Normal team on If/Then (Tony Award nominee for Best Score) starring Idina Menzel. He co-wrote the libretto for The Last Ship (Outer Critics Circle Award nomination, with John Logan), with a score by Sting. His musical adaptation of Freaky Friday for Disney Theatricals enjoyed a national tour before being adapted into a Disney Channel Original Movie. Current theatrical projects in development include the original musical Jesus in My Bedroom, with composer Tim Symons, as well as a stage musical adaptation of Magic Mike. Additional theatre credits include Making Tracks, which has played off-Broadway and regionally, the musical adaptation of Ang Lee's The Wedding Banquet, and the play, Book of Jobs with Alex Glover. Brian was the Executive Producer and Showrunner of 13 Reasons Why for Netflix, Paramount Television and Anonymous Content.
Alessandra Davison is a Donmar Resident Assistant Director. Her recent work includes Carbon and Tipping (Royal Court Theatre), Tamzara (Unge Viken Theatre Company), SCRATCH (Harold Pinter Theatre), Ephemera (Royal Court), Three Sisters (Lyric Hammersmith Theatre), Hatch (Baron’s Court Theatre), By Way of Kensal Green (Theatre 503), Drylands (Tramshed), Hot Off Da Press and Three Wishes (Lyric Hammersmith Theatre START company – also co-writer). As an assistant and associate director, her work includes Two Palestinians Go Dogging (Royal Court Theatre), A Number (The Old Vic), Idyll (Pentabus Theatre), Torch Song (Turbine Theatre), Me for the World (The Young Vic) and Care (The Pappy Show).
Adam Karim is a Donmar Resident Assistant Director. He trained at the Manchester School of Theatre and directing credits include Pressure Drop (Immediate Theatre The Yard, Schools Tour), Second Person Narrative (RBSW Clapham Omnibus). As an Assistant Director work includes The P-Word (Bush Theatre), Sorry You're Not A Winner (Paines Plough) and acting credits include Macbeth, Cold Chips & Pick n Mix (Royal Exchange), The Madness of George III (Nottingham Playhouse), Troilus & Cressida (Shakespeare's Globe) East is East (Jamie Lloyd Co.) Ready or Not (Kali, Arcola), Macbeth (Queens Theatre Hornchurch) Child of the Divide (Tamasha), Untouchable (RADA Festival), Disgraced (English Theatre Frankfurt) Pinocchio (Greenwich Theatre), Thumbelina (Stephen Joseph Theatre), Brownballed (Bolton Octagon), After Love (BFI), Three Girls, Years & Years, Carol and Vinnie (BBC), Daughter (CineK / Gizmo)
DONMAR WAREHOUSE
41 Earlham Street, Seven Dials, London WC2H 9LX
Members Priority Booking:
Patrons (Bronze, Silver, Gold and Platinum) can book from Thursday 26 January
Best Friends from 9am (online) and 12pm (phones) on Tuesday 31 January
Friends from 9am (online) and 12pm (phones) on Wednesday 1 February
Public booking:
From 9am (online) and 12pm (phones) on Monday 6 February
Box Office: www.donmarwarehouse.com / 020 3282 3808
PERFORMANCE TIMES
Private Lives
Evenings Mon – Sat: 7.45pm
Tuesday matinees (2, 9, 23 May) 2.30pm
Wednesday matinee (17 May) 2.30pm
Thursday matinees (4, 11, 25 May) 2.30pm
Saturday matinees (15, 22, 29 April, 13, 20, 27 May) 2.30pm
When Winston went to War with the Wireless, Next to Normal
Evenings Mon – Sat: 7.30pm
Matinees Thu & Sat: 2.30pm
TICKET PRICES
Watch on the Rhine, Trouble in Butetown, Private Lives, When Winston went to War with the Wireless
£55 (£50) / £41 (£38) / £21 (£19)
£10 standing tickets
Next to Normal
£60 (£55) / £45 (£41) / £23 (£21)
£10 standing tickets
Preview discounts apply to the first four performances only
From 6 February 2023 every booking made online, via telephone or in person will be subject to a £1.50 transaction fee
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New tickets on sale every day at the Donmar. Allocations of tickets will be made available every day for performances 7 days later. Tickets will be available across the auditorium at every price band.
ACCESS
The Donmar Warehouse is fully wheelchair accessible. Guide dogs and hearing dogs are welcome in the auditorium. There is a Loop system and a Radio Frequency system fitted in the main auditorium and there are also hearing loops at all the front of house counters.
ASSISTED PERFORMANCES
If you require a companion to attend the Donmar, their ticket will be free. To book call 020 3282 3808 or email access@donmarwarehouse.com.
For all other access enquiries or bookings call 020 3282 3808.
CAPTIONED PERFORMANCES (captioned by Stagetext)
Trouble in Butetown: Monday 20th March 7.30pm
Private Lives: Monday 22 May 7.45pm
When Winston went to War with the Wireless: Monday 17 July 7.30pm
Next to Normal: Monday 25th September 7.30pm
AUDIO DESCRIBED PERFORMANCE - 2.30pm (audio-described by VocalEyes)
Watch on the Rhine: Saturday 28th January
Trouble in Butetown: Saturday 11th March
Private Lives: Saturday 27 May
When Winston went to War with the Wireless: Saturday 8 July
Next to Normal: Saturday 30th September
BRITISH SIGN LANGUAGE INTERPRETED PERFORMANCES
Trouble in Butetown: Friday 24th March, 7.30pm
Private Lives: Saturday 13 May 2.30pm
When Winston Went to War with the Wireless: Saturday 22 July 2.30pm
Next to Normal: Saturday 23rd September 2.30pm
SEASON AT A GLANCE:
WATCH ON THE RHINE
Until 4 February 2023
Audio-Described: Saturday 28 January, 2.30pm
British Sign Language Interpreted: Saturday 21 January, 2.30pm
TROUBLE IN BUTETOWN
10 February – 25 March 2023
Press night: Monday 20 February
Captioned: Monday 20 March, 7.30pm
Audio-Described: Saturday 11 March, 2.30pm
British Sign Language Interpreted: Friday 24 March, 7.30pm
PRIVATE LIVES
7 April – 27 May 2023
Press night: Thursday 13 April 2023
Captioned: Monday 22 May 7.45pm
Audio-Described: Saturday 27 May 2.30pm
British Sign Language Interpreted: Saturday 13 May 2.30pm
WHEN WINSTON WENT TO WAR WITH THE WIRELESS
2 June – 29 July 2023
Press night: Tuesday 13 June
Captioned: Monday 17 July 7.30pm
Audio-Described: Saturday 8 July 2.30pm
British Sign Language Interpreted: Saturday 22 July 2.30pm
NEXT TO NORMAL
12 August – 7 October 2023
Press night: Tuesday 22 August
Captioned: Monday 25 September, 7.30pm
Audio-Described: Saturday 30 September, 2.30pm
British Sign Language Interpreted: Saturday 23 September, 2.30pm
