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"My future is here. My aim is clear and simple. I want
out. I wanna be rich. Bola Agbaje came
through the Royal Court’s Critical Mass programme. Her debut play Gone Too Far! premiered at the Royal Court in 2007,
and won an Olivier Award for Outstanding Achievement and a Most Promising
Playwright nomination at the Evening Standard Awards 2008. Detaining Justice opens as part of the Not Black and White
season at the Tricycle in November. Her other plays include If Things Were
Different and In Time. Most recently she wrote Anything You Can
Do for Soho
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ONMAR WAREHOUSE UNVEILS PLANS FOR 2010
Artistic Director, Michael
Grandage announces the new Donmar season through until February 2011:
Polar Bears -
full casting for a new play by Mark Haddon
The Late Middle
Classes - David Leveaux returns to direct Simon Gray’s play
The Prince of
Homburg - von Kleist’s play in a new version by Dennis Kelly
Passion and
other events to mark Sondheim at 80
King Lear - Michael
Grandage directs Derek Jacobi
In addition to the above season
of work, the Donmar will launch a new initiative at the Trafalgar Studios
– Donmar Trafalgar. Demonstrating the Donmar’s commitment to
the next generation of young directors, the company will take up a residency at
Trafalgar Studio 2 for twelve weeks a year for the next three years to showcase
the work of graduates of the Donmar’s Resident Assistant Director
programme.
The Donmar also continues to
expand outside its Covent Garden home. As well as a UK tour of Serenading
Louie, the Donmar heads to New York - Michael Grandage’s
production of Red transfers to Broadway while Creditors directed
by Alan Rickman opens at the Brooklyn Academy of Music. Piaf continues
its run in Buenos Aires before transferring to Madrid.
Artistic director Michael
Grandage said today “This new season of work demonstrates our
ongoing commitment to deliver high quality productions both at home and abroad.
Eight new productions, one tour and three transfers around the world will
enable the Donmar’s work to continue to reach out to more and more people
than ever before. These are exciting times for the Donmar and I look forward to
engaging with new and diverse audiences through our productions and our
expanding education programme in the year ahead.”
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World Première
Polar Bears
A new play by Mark Haddon
Cast: Richard Coyle, Paul
Hilton, Celia Imrie, David Leon, Jodhi May
Also: Skye Bennett, Alice
Sykes
Director: Jamie Lloyd;
Designer: Soutra Gilmour
Lighting Designer: Jon Clark;
Composers and Sound Designers: Ben & Max Ringham
1 April – 22 May
“And I promise. I will carry on
loving you when the lights go out. I will.”
John has never met anyone like
Kay. When the moon is in the right phase, she is magnetic and amazingly alive.
But when the darkness closes in, she is lost to another world, a world in which
John does not belong.
One man’s struggle to
love, support and live with someone suffering from a psychological condition is
beautifully captured with humour and pathos in this extraordinary new play by
Mark Haddon.
Richard Coyle returns to the Donmar to play John. His previous work
for the company includes After Miss Julie and Proof. His other
theatre work includes The Lover & The Collection (Comedy Theatre), Look
Back in Anger (Theatre Royal Bath), Don Carlos (Sheffield Crucible
and Gielgud Theatre) and The York Realist (Royal Court and Strand
Theatre). For television, his credits include Going Postal, Miami Trauma,
Octavia, Whistleblowers, Cracker, The Best Man, Gunpowder Treason and Plot,
Strange and Coupling; and for film, Georgia, The Prince of
Persia, Franklyn, A Good Year, The Libertine, Happy Now, Topsy-Turvy and
Jane Eyre.
Paul Hilton plays Sandy. He previously appeared at the Donmar in
Michael Grandage’s production of The Wild Duck. His other theatre
credits include Riflemind, In Celebration (Duke of York’s
Theatre), Rosmersholm (Almeida Theatre), On the Third Day (New
Ambassadors) and The President of an Empty Room, Mourning Becomes Electra,
Three Sisters (National Theatre). His television work includes Laconia,
Garrow’s Law, Lydon; True, Dare, Kiss; The Relief of Belsen, The Family
Man and The Princes in the Tower; and for film, Klimt.
Celia Imrie plays Margaret. Her theatre work includes The
Rivals (Southwark Playhouse), Mixed Up North (Out of Joint), Plague
Over England (Duchess Theatre), Unsuspecting Susan (59th Street
Theatre, New York) and Acorn Antiques – The Musical (Theatre Royal
Haymarket). For television, her credits include Kingdom, After You’ve
Gone, The Commander, The Last Detective, Lavender List, Sparkhouse, Dr Zhivago,
The Gathering Storm and Absolutely Fabulous; and for film, St
Trinian’s, 3
Woody Allen Summer Project 2009, Imagine Me and You, Imagine Me and
You, Nanny McPhee, Bridget Jones, Wimbledon, Calendar Girls, Hilary and Jackie,
Star Wars: The Phantom Menace and The
Borrowers.
David Leon plays Jesus. His stage work includes Richard II (Old
Vic), Pride and Prejudice (Orange Tree Theatre) and The Dream (ROH).
For television, his credits include Vera, Clapham Junction, Strictly
Confidential, Billy the Kid and Cutting It; and for film, The
Glass House, RocknRolla, Love Me Still and The Lives of Saints.
Jodhi May makes her Donmar debut as Kay. Her theatre work
includes Blackbird (Edinburgh International Festival and Albery
Theatre), The Seagull (Edinburgh Festival Theatre), The Talking Cure (National
Theatre) Far Away (Theatre Des Bouffes) and Platonov (Almeida at
King’s Cross). For television, her credits include Strike Back, Emma,
Angel, Sleep With Me, The Street and Friends and Crocodiles; and for
film, Defiance, Flashbacks of a Fool, Nightwatching, The House of Mirth, The
Gambler, Sister My Sister (Best Actress Award Valladolid Film Festival), Last
of the Mohicans and A World Apart (Best Actress at Cannes Film
Festival, and Variety Club & Evening Standard Awards for Best Newcomer).
Polar Bears is screenwriter and author Mark Haddon’s
first work for the theatre. His work for television includes Coming Down the
Mountain, Fungus the Bogeyman (adapted from Raymond Briggs’ book,
INDIE Award for Best Children’s Programme) and Microsoap (BAFTA,
RTS and Broadcast Award for Best Children’s Programme, New York TV
Festival – Gold Award, Prix Jeunesse Award (Munich), and Haddon also
received a Special Screenwriter’s Award for Contribution to
Children’s Television by BAFTA. As an author his work include A Spot
of Bother, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (Whitbread
prize, Guardian children’s fiction prize, The British Book Awards –
Children’s Book of the Year & Literary Fiction Award, Book Trust
Teenage Fiction Award), The Real Porky Philips, Agent Z and Titch
Johnson – Almost World Champion.
As Associate Director of the
Donmar Jamie Lloyd’s work for the company includes Piaf (Donmar
Warehouse, Vaudeville Theatre, Buenos Aires – ADEET Award for Best
Production and Clarin Award for Best Musical Production - and Spain) and
readings as part of the TS Eliot Festival and the Tennessee Williams’
season. His other credits include The Little Dog Laughed (Garrick
Theatre) Three Days of Rain (Apollo Theatre), Eric’s (Liverpool
Playhouse), The Pride (Royal Court – Olivier Award for Outstanding
Achievement), The Lover and The Collection (Comedy Theatre) and The
Caretaker (Sheffield Crucible and Tricycle Theatre). Lloyd will direct Salome
for Headlong in May 2010.
Designed by Soutra Gilmour,
lighting by Jon Clark and the composers and sound designers are Ben
& Max Ringham.
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The Late Middle Classes
By Simon Gray
Cast includes: Helen McCrory
Director: David Leveaux;
Designer: Mike Britton; Lighting Designer: Hugh Vanstone
Composer: Corin Buckeridge;
Sound Designer: Simon Baker
27 May – 17 July
“We live in secret almost all the
time.”
Celia is bored to distraction;
Charles is obsessed with his work; and their son is having his first lessons in
music and in life.
Simon Gray's funny, melancholic and captivating play about a
young boy trapped between two types of oppressive love reveals the frustration,
secrets and guilt of middle class respectability in 1950s England.
Helen McCrory returns to the Donmar to play Celia. Her work for the
Donmar includes Old Times, Twelfth Night & Uncle Vanya (also New
York), In a Little World of Our Own and How I Learned to Drive.
Her other recent theatre work includes Rosmersholm, Five Gold Rings,
Platonov, The Triumph of Love (Almeida Theatre) and As You Like It (Wyndham’s
Theatre). For television, her credits include Doctor Who, Life,
Frankenstein, Charles II, Carla, The Jury, North Square (Critics’
Circle Award for Best Actress), Anna Karenina, In a Land of Plenty,
Spoonface Steinberg, The Fragile Heart and Street Life (RTS and
Monte Carlo Awards for Best Actress, also Welsh BAFTA); and for film, 4,3,2,1,
Harry Potter, A Special Relationship, The Queen, Casanova, Enduring Love and
Charlotte Gray.
Simon Gray (1936 – 2008) is a British playwright, novelist
and diarist. He wrote 40 original stage plays, screenplays and screen
adaptations. His plays include Wise Child, Butley (Evening Standard
Award), Otherwise Engaged (New York Critics’ Circle, Drama Desk,
and Evening Standard Awards for Best Play),The Rear Column, Close of
Play, Quartermaine’s Terms(Cheltenham Literary Prize), The Common
Pursuit, Hidden Laughter, Cell Mates, Life Support, Japes, Japes Too, The Old
Masters, Little Nell and The Last Cigarette (with Hugh Whitemore).
David Leveaux directs. His previous work for the Donmar includes The
Real Thing (also West End and New York – Tony Award for Best Revival),
Nine and Electra (also New York). His other theatre work includes
Tales of Ballycumber, Three Sisters (Abbey Theatre, Dublin), Arcadia (Duke
of York’s Theatre), Rudolph (Vienna), A Doll’s House (Tokyo),
Cyrano, The Glass Menagerie, Fiddler on the Roof, Nine (Tony Award for
Best Revival), Betrayal, Anna Christie (Tony Award for Best Revival) and
A Moon for the Misbegotten – all Broadway, Sinatra Live (London
Palladium), Jumpers (also Piccadilly Theatre and Broadway) and The
Father (both National Theatre), No Man’s Land, Moonlight, Betrayal
and The Distance From Here (Almeida Theatre) and ‘Tis Pity
She’s a Whore and Romeo and Juliet 5
(RSC).
For Opera, his work includes The Turn of the Screw and The Marriage
of Figaro (Scottish Opera) and Salome (ENO).
Designed by Mark Britton,
with lighting by Hugh Vanstone, the composer is Corin Buckeridge and
sound by Simon Baker.
Heinrich von Kleist’s
The Prince of Homburg
In a new version by Dennis
Kelly
Cast includes: Charlie Cox,
Ian McDiarmid
Director: Jonathan Munby;
Designer: Angela Davies; Lighting Designer: Neil Austin;
Composer: Dominic Haslam;
Sound Designer: Christopher Shutt
22 July – 4 September
“The highest rule is that which
beats in the heart.”
Heroic commander of the
Prussian cavalry, the Prince of Homburg dreams of victory, glory and fame. But
his reckless disobedience during a crucial military operation leads the Prince
to his greatest battle yet.
The creative team behind the
Donmar’s critically acclaimed production of Life is a Dream present
Heinrich von Kleist’s poetic masterpiece The Prince of Homburg which
is considered to be one of the most haunting and beautiful plays of the
nineteenth century, exploring honour, courage, ambition and love.
Charlie Cox makes his Donmar debut as the Prince of Homburg.
Cox’s theatre work includes The Lover & The Collection (Comedy
Theatre) and ‘Tis Pity She’s a Whore (Southwark Playhouse).
For television, his credits include Moby Dick and A for Andromeda;
and for film, Glorious 39, Stardust, Things to Do Before You’re 30,
The Merchant of Venice and Casanova.
Ian McDiarmid plays the Elector. McDiarmid returns to the Donmar,
where his work includes Be Near Me (also national tour), John Gabriel
Borkman and Pirandello’s Henry IV. As well as extensive work
at the Almeida where he was also Joint Artistic Director from 1990 to 2001 his
other credits include performances at the RSC and the Royal Exchange,
Manchester. McDiarmid’s most recent stage roles are in Six Characters
in Search of an Author (Chichester Festival Theatre and Gielgud Theatre)
and Jonah and Otto at Manchester Royal Exchange. He played Teddy in Faith
Healer on Broadway, for which he won the Tony Award for Best Performance by
a Featured Actor in a Play. Television work includes The Odds, Margaret,
City of Vice, Our Hidden Lives, Elizabeth I, Charles II, Crime and Punishment,
Great Expectations, Hillsborough and Karaoke; and his many
films include Sleepy Hollow, Restoration, Dirty Rotten
Scoundrels and the Star Wars series.
Heinrich von Kleist (1777 – 1811) is a German playwright, poet,
novelist and short-story writer. His work for the stage includes The
Schroffenstein Family, Penthesilea, The Broken Jug and Die
Hermannsschlacht. In 1811 von Kleist and his lover Henriette Vogel
committed suicide.
Dennis Kelly is a playwright and screenwriter. His original works
include The Gods Weep, Orphans (Fringe First and Herald Angel Award), Deoxyribonucleic
Acid, Taking Care of Baby, After the End (Meyer-Whitworth Award), Osama
the Hero and Debris. He has also translated and adapted works 7
that
include Rose Bernd (Arcola Theatre) and The Fourth Gate. For
television, Pulling (co-written with Sharon Horgan) and Monkey Dust.
Jonathan Munby returns to the Donmar where he directed the critically
acclaimed production of Life is a Dream last year. His other work
includes Serious Money (Birmingham Rep), The Dog in the Manger (Washington
Shakespeare Theatre Company), The White Devil (Menier Chocolate
Factory), A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Shakespeare’s Globe), Henry
V, Mirandolina (Manchester Royal Exchange), Gilgamesh, Firebrand (National
Theatre Studio), A Number (Sheffield Crucible), Nakamitsu (The
Gate) and Don Giovanni (English Touring Opera).
Designed by Angela Davies,
with lighting by Neil Austin, the composer is Dominic Haslam and
sound by Christopher Shutt.
SONDHEIM AT 80
In celebration of Stephen
Sondheim's 80th birthday, the Donmar will stage a revival of his 1994
musical Passion, alongside other events to mark the occasion, and
to recognise the long association the composer has had with the Donmar since
1992.
Stephen Sondheim said today, “My association with the Donmar
Warehouse has been a joy from its inception in 1992 with Assassins through
its productions of Company, Merrily We Roll Along, Into the Woods and Pacific
Overtures. Our collaborations over the years have been professionally
fulfilling and personally gratifying and now I'm honoured and thrilled that
they are presenting Passion to help celebrate my 80th birthday. There is
no venue, or team of artists, that I would rather have produce the
piece.”
Passion
Music & Lyrics by: Stephen
Sondheim Book by: James Lapine
Cast includes: Elena Roger
Director: Jamie Lloyd;
Designer: Christopher Oram; Lighting Designer: Neil Austin
Musical Director: Alan
Williams; Sound Designer: Nick Lidster & Terry Jardine for
Autograph; Choreographer: Scott Ambler
10 September – 27
November
“In war you know the
enemy. Not always so in life.” Captain
Giorgio Bachetti, a military hero, is transferred to a strange and remote
Italian outpost. Far away from his beloved Clara, he encounters Fosca, the
cousin of his commanding officer, and her influence has shattering and
inconceivable consequences. Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine's
multi-award-winning musical examines the power of love in a haunting story of
desire, sacrifice and redemption.
Donmar Associate Director Jamie
Lloyd is reunited with Elena Roger - following their work together
on the Donmar production of Piaf.
Elena Roger plays Fosca. As well as Piaf (also Vaudeville
Theatre, Buenos Aires) and Evita, her other theatre work in the UK
includes Boeing, Boeing (Comedy Theatre). In her native Buenos Aires, Elena
Roger’s credits include the original productions of Nine, Beauty and
the Beast, Les Miserables and Saturday Night Fever. In 2003 Elena
Roger and director Valeria Ambrosio devised Mina, che cosa sei. This
musical, based on the life of the Italian singer, won five awards including the
ACE (Critics’ Award) for Best Actress for Elena Roger. 9
Stephen Sondheim (b1930) is
one of the world’s greatest living composer and lyricists. His major
works includes Saturday Night, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the
Forum, Anyone Can Whistle, Company, Follies, A Little Night Music, Pacific
Overtures, Sweeney Todd, Merrily We Roll Along, Sunday in the Park With George (Pulitzer
Prize), Into the Woods, Assassins and Bounce (re-titled Road
Show). Sondheim also wrote the lyrics for West Side Story, Gypsy and
Do I Hear a Waltz? He is the recipient of multiple awards, including 8
Tony Awards including a Lifetime Achievement Award, 7 Grammys and an Academy
Award for Best Song for Dick Tracy, and was elected to The American of
Arts and Letters (1983).
James Lapine (b1949) also collaborated with Sondheim on Sunday
in the Park with George and Into the Woods – he also directed
the original productions. His other librettos include Falsettos, Der
Glockner von Notre Dame and A New Brain. Lapine is also a director
and playwright.
Jamie Lloyd directs. For his biography, please see below.
Designed by Christopher Oram,
with lighting by Neil Austin, the musical director is Alan Williams,
with sound by Nick Lidster & Terry Jardine for Autograph and
choreography by Scott Ambler.
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Williams Charitable Foundation
Stephen’s
Sondheim’s new book - Finishing the Hat – Published by
Virgin Books
Virgin books are very proud to
be publishing Finishing the Hat, Stephen Sondheim's first volume of his
lyrics with "attendant comments, principles, heresies, grudges, whines and
anecdotes" which offers an unprecedented insight into this lyrical genius
and his work.
Along with the lyrics for all
of Sondheim's productions from 1954 to 1981, the book will be full of tales
that only Sondheim could tell. He also educates us: he tells us what he's
learned from his failures as well as his successes; and dissects many songs,
sometimes line by line, to outline his thought process and the decisions that
go into the verses. Sondheim discusses his predecessors, his contemporaries,
and analyzes his own work, offering rules, sins and wisdom on lyric writing
that will definitely be studied for many years to come. This gorgeous book will
also contain behind-the-scenes photographs from each production and many
personal photographs of Sondheim with his contemporaries and collaborators.
Finishing the Hat will be published on the 14th October 2010. The second
volume, Look I Made a Hat will be published in October 2011.
For further information, please
contact: Jessica Axe 020 7840 8372 / jaxe@virgin-books.co.uk
SONDHEIM AT 80 – EXTRA EVENTS
Alongside the Donmar’s
production of Passion, the company hosts four events to celebrate the
composer’s 80th birthday.
Thursday 16 September at 6pm
SONDHEIM AT THE DONMAR
Michael Grandage and Sam Mendes
in conversation about staging Sondheim at the Donmar
Monday 11 October at 6pm
STEPHEN SONDHEIM IN
DISCUSSION
Stephen Sondheim in
conversation about his life and career
Sunday 31 October at 7.30pm
COMPANY
A concert performance of
Sondheim's musical written in 1970
Sunday 7 November at 7.30pm
MERRILY WE ROLL ALONG
A concert performance of
Sondheim's musical written in 1981
King Lear
By William Shakespeare
Cast includes: Derek Jacobi
Director: Michael Grandage;
Designer: Christopher Oram
Lighting Designer: Neil
Austin; Composer and Sound Designer: Adam Cork
3 December 2010 – 5
February 2011
“Who is it that can tell me who I
am?”
An ageing monarch. A kingdom
divided. A child's love rejected. As Lear's world descends into chaos, all that
he once believed is brought into question.
One of the greatest works in western
literature, King Lear explores the very nature of human existence: love
and duty, power and loss, good and evil.
Derek Jacobi and Michael Grandage renew their collaboration,
having previously worked together on The Tempest, Don Carlos and Twelfth
Night.
Derek Jacobi returns to the Donmar to play King Lear. His work for
the company includes his Olivier Award-winning performance as Malvolio in
Michael Grandage’s production of Twelfth Night (Donmar West End)
and A Voyage Round My Father (also Wyndham’s Theatre).
Jacobi’s other theatre work includes Don Carlos (Sheffield
Crucible and Gieldgud Theatre), The Tempest (Sheffield Crucible and Old
Vic) - both directed by Michael Grandage, and Hollow Crown (RSC). Jacobi
is renowned for his role as Claudius in I Claudius. His recent
television credits include Margot, Endgame, The Old Curiosity Shop,
Pinochet in Suburbia, The Long Firm, Mr Ambassador, Inquisition, The Gathering
Storm, The Jury and Frasier. For film, his work includes Nanny
McPhee, Gosford Park and Gladiator.
Donmar Artistic Director Michael
Grandage directs. Previous work for the Donmar includes Red, The
Chalk Garden (Evening Standard and Critics’ Circle Awards for
Best Director), Othello (Evening Standard Award for Best
Director), John Gabriel Borkman, Don Juan in Soho, Frost/Nixon (also
West End and Broadway), The Cut, The Wild Duck (Critics’
Circle Award for Best Director), Guys and Dolls (Donmar in the West End
– Olivier Award for Outstanding Musical Production), Grand Hotel (Evening
Standard Award for Best Director, Olivier Award for Outstanding Musical
Production), Henry IV, After Miss Julie, Caligula (Olivier Award for
Best Director) and The Vortex. As part of the Donmar in the West End
season Grandage directed Ivanov - Evening Standard and Critics’
Circle Awards for Best Director, Twelfth Night, Madame de Sade and Hamlet
(also Kronborg Castle and Broadway). Other West End work includes Evita.
He was the Artistic Director of Sheffield Theatres 1999 – 2005, where his
many productions included Don Carlos (Evening Standard Award for Best
Director).
Designed
by Christopher Oram, lighting by Neil Austin and the composer and
sound designer is Adam Cork.
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Production Supporters
Simon & Liz Dingemans Anda
Winters
DONMAR TRAFALGAR
The Donmar announces the launch
of a new initiative at the Trafalgar Studios – Donmar Trafalgar.
Demonstrating the Donmar’s commitment to the next generation of young
directors, the company will take up a residency at Trafalgar Studio 2 for 12
weeks a year for the next three years to enable recent graduates of their
Resident Assistant Director (RAD) programme to stage productions under the
Donmar banner.
In 1994 the Donmar Warehouse
began their RAD scheme – to offer young directors at the start of their
professional careers the opportunity to work alongside leading theatre
directors for a year at the Donmar. Since the scheme began, it has produced
directors including Sam Buntrock, Toby Frow, Rupert Goold, Josie Rourke and
Sacha Wares. It is widely regarded as the most prestigious training programme
for young directors in the country.
The first year of Donmar
Trafalgar will see Charlotte Westenra, Róisín McBrinn and
Chris Rolls each stage a production – Lower Ninth, Novecento
and Les Parents Terribles respectively.
Michael Grandage, Artistic Director of the Donmar, said, “It
has always been a great privilege to support young directors through the
Donmar's RAD scheme and this residency at the Trafalgar will now give everyone
an opportunity to watch the next generation of theatre directors at work. I
have every confidence that over the next three years we will see some serious
and important talent emerging that will help us focus on the theatre
practitioners of the future."
The RAD scheme at the Donmar
has been supported by Jon and NoraLee Sedmak and the Sedmak Wooten
Family Foundation since 2003. The post is advertised every
October in the national press
and on-line at www.donmarwarehouse.com
Lower Ninth
A new play by Beau Willimon
Director: Charlotte Westenra
30 September – 23 October
“This roof ‘aint no place for
a king.”
In New Orleans’s Lower
Ninth district two African Americans, Malcolm and EZee, find themselves
stranded on a rooftop waiting for rescue. Their city has been devastated, their
worldly possessions swept away and the body of their young friend lies before
them.
Beau Willimon was one of the recipients of the Summer Play Festival
Residency at the Donmar. His other work includes Farragut North (Atlantic
Theatre, New York and The Geffen Playhouse, Los Angeles) - his screenplay
adaptation of which is in development with Warners. Willimon is currently
writing an original feature film, The Candidate for Summit
Entertainment. He is the recipient of the Lila Acheson Wallace Julliard
Playwriting Fellowship, The Lincoln Centre Le Compte du Nuoy Award and under
commission to the Manhattan Theatre Club and National Theatre.
Charlotte Westenra was the Donmar’s Resident Assistant Director in
2004 when she assisted on World Music (dir Josie Rourke), The Dark (dir
Anna Mackmin), Pirandello’s Henry IV (dir Michael Grandage), Old
Times (dir Roger Michell), Hecuba (dir Jonathan Kent) and Grand
Hotel (dir Michael Grandage).
Since leaving the Donmar,
Westenra’s directing credits include My Dad’s a Birdman (Sheffield
Crucible), Shifting Ground (Vaxjo and Stockholm), Alice: Through the
Looking Glass (Edinburgh Festival), Obama Victory Speech Project (National
Theatre Studio/Ingmar Bergman Festival), Romeo and Juliet (Arts Theatre,
Cambridge), We The People (Shakespeare’s Globe), Kiss of the
Spider Woman (Donmar), Darfur – How Long is Never? (co-director,
Tricycle Theatre), When Five Years Pass (Arcola), Gladiator Games (Sheffield
Theatres and Theatre Royal Stratford East), Bloody Sunday – Scenes
from the Saville Inquiry (co-director, Millennium Theatre, Derry; Opera
House, Belfast; Tricycle Theatre – Olivier Award for Outstanding
Achievement in an Affiliate Theatre) and Justifying War (co-director,
Tricycle Theatre).
Novecento
By Alessandro Baricco
Director: Róisín
McBrinn
28 October – 20 November
"When you don't know
what it is...it's jazz."
In 1900 on board a great
Atlantic cruise liner, Novecento was born. He became the greatest jazz musician
the world would never know. For six years before World War II, Tim Tooney
played trumpet with him and Novecento gave him his story...
Alessandro Baricco (b 1958) is a novelist, director and performer. Novecento
was first staged in Italy in 1994 – and later was made into a film.
Barrico’s novels include Castelli di Rabbia, Oceano Mare, Seta (the
2007 film, Silk), City, Senza Sangue and Questa Storia.
His other work for theatre includes Omero, Iliade.
Róisín McBrinn
was the Donmar’s Resident
Assistant Director in 2003 when she assisted on Accidental Death of an
Anarchist (dir Robert Delamere), Caligula (dir Michael Grandage), Pacific
Overtures (dir Gary Griffin), Hotel in Amsterdam (dir Robin Lefevre)
and After Miss Julie (dir Michael Grandage).
Since leaving the Donmar her
directing credits include No Escape, The Fairer Sex (Abbey Theatre,
Dublin), Fugitive Kind (Donmar Warehouse – reading as part of the
Tennessee Williams’ season), Inparenthesis (Winner of The
Metamorphosis project at Churchill Theatre, Bromley), Crestfall (Theatre
503), Sleeping Beauty (Helix Theatre, Dublin), The Field (Tricycle
Theatre), Whereabouts (Fishamble Theatre Company), A Thousand Yards (Southwark
Playhouse), References to Salvador Dalí Make Me Hot and Gompers
(Arcola Theatre). McBrinn is the recipient of the Quercus Award 2010 run by
the National Theatre - the award affords her a full scale production at West
Yorkshire Playhouse in Spring 2011.
Jean Cocteau’s
Les Parents Terribles
Translated by Jeremy Sams
Director: Chris Rolls
25 November – 18 December
“You could go mad in
this house.”
A bohemian household in
‘30s Paris. When Michael declares his love for a girl, his devoted mother
burns with jealousy while his father is shocked to discover that his son's
lover is someone he knows only too well.
Jean Cocteau (1889 – 1963), the prolific French playwright,
novelist, poet, artist and film-maker, was at the forefront of the Surrealist
movement, working alongside such luminaries as Picasso, Diaghilev, Stravinsky,
Satie, Piaf, Colette and other famous contemporaries. His works for the theatre
include La Voix Humaine and Le Bel Indifferent (both written for
Edith Piaf), La Machine Infernale, Les Parents Terribles, L’Aigle A
Deux Têtes, Les Chevaliers de la Table Rond, Orphee and La Machine
A Ecrire. In 1955 he was elected to the French Academy.
Chris Rolls was Resident Assistant Director in 2005 when he
assisted on Days of Wine and Roses (dir Peter Gill), The
Cosmonaut’s Last Message to the Woman He Once Loved in the Former Soviet
Union (dir Tim Supple), This Is How It Goes (dir Moises Kaufman), Mary
Stuart (dir Phyllida Lloyd), The Philanthropist (dir David Grindley)
and The Wild Duck (dir Michael Grandage).
Since leaving the Donmar, Rolls
was Associate Director and Dramaturg on a production of The Merchant of
Venice at the Maxim Gorki Theatre in Berlin (2009). His other credits
include Under The Earth (BAC), The Beaver Coat (Finbourgh
Theatre), Millicent Scowlworthy (Donmar Warehouse reading – as
part of the SPF residency), Blurt Master Constable (Shakespeare's
Globe), Truckstop (Edinburgh Festival and tour), Cosi fan tutte(Opera
du Rhin, Strasbourg) and most recently Brassed Off (Lichfield Garrick
Theatre).
By courtesy of Mr Pierre Bergé
President of the Comité Jean Cocteau
UNITED HOUSE TO SPONSOR DONMAR TRAFALGAR SEASON
Following their generous
support of the Donmar’s West End Season, leading housing contractor and
developer United House will be the Season Sponsor for Donmar Trafalgar
September 2010 – December 2012.
United House’s support of
the Donmar has spanned over 10 years. It has included sponsorship of the West
End Season at the Wyndham’s Theatre, the Donmar’s production of Parade,
and support for the Donmar’s education and outreach programme of work.
Chief Executive of United
House, Jeffrey Adams, is a keen supporter of the performing arts in both a
personal and professional capacity and is a strong believer in the role
businesses can play in helping cultural institutions like the Donmar.
“United House’s London office is just a stone’s throw from
the Donmar in Covent Garden and our relationship with this theatre is one of
which we are particularly proud. We are delighted to be sponsoring the Donmar
Trafalgar Season as we strongly believe in nurturing and providing a vital
platform for the directors of the future in British theatre which, I believe,
is exactly what this season will achieve.”
Michael Grandage, Artistic
Director of the Donmar, comments, “United House has been a long-term,
valued supporter of the Donmar both at our Covent Garden home and at the
Wyndham’s Theatre. It is thrilling for us when a sponsor comes on a
journey with us, and we are so pleased to be partnering with United House on
this new and ambitious venture at the Trafalgar.”
Season Sponsor
United House
DONMAR ON TOUR
Serenading Louie
By Lanford Wilson
Cast: Jason Butler Harner,
Charlotte Emmerson, Jason O’Mara, Geraldine Somerville
Director: Simon Curtis;
Designer: Peter McKintosh
Lighting Designer: Guy Hoare;
Composer and Sound Designer: Adam Cork
11 February – 27 March
“I keep feeling my
real life will begin any day now.”
Friends since college, Carl and
Alex are struggling to deal with the harsh realities of adulthood as they enter
their thirties. Disillusioned by work and struggling to keep their marriages
alive, they’re desperately trying to make sense of it all.
Lanford Wilson’s timeless portrait of two suburban American
couples explores the destruction of dreams and the loss of passion and purpose.
Following its performances at
the Donmar Warehouse, Serenading Louie embarks on a three-week
tour across the UK to The Lowry, Salford Quays; The Curve, Leicester; and Hall
for Cornwall, Truro.
The Donmar began a national
touring programme six years ago with Pirandello’s Henry IV, in a
new version by Tom Stoppard. The production won the Manchester Evening News Awards
for Best Touring Production, and Best Actor for Ian McDiarmid. The tours in the
following two years repeated this double success with the world première
of Neil LaBute’s This Is How It Goes – the Best Actor Award
going to Ben Chaplin; and the world première of Mark Ravenhill’s The
Cut – Ian McKellen was the recipient of the Best Actor Award. This
was followed by Charlotte Westenra’s production of Manuel Puig’s Kiss
of the Spiderwoman, then Sean Holmes’ production of Arthur
Miller’s early work The Man Who Had All the Luck (Manchester
Evening News Award for Best Actor – Andrew Buchan, and Best Actress -
Michelle Terry), and this year’s co-production with the National Theatre
of Scotland, Ian McDiarmid’s adaptation of Andrew O’Hagan’s
novel Be Near Me.
The Donmar also toured the US
from 2008 – 2009 with Michael Grandage’s production of Peter
Morgan’s Frost/Nixon with Stacy Keach and Alan Cox.
DONMAR - USA
Arielle Tepper Madover
presents
The Donmar Warehouse
production of
Red
by John Logan
Cast: Alfred Molina, Eddie
Redmayne
Director: Michael Grandage;
Designer: Christopher Oram
Lighting Designer: Neil
Austin; Composer and Sound Designer: Adam Cork
11 March – 27 June
Michael Grandage’s critically acclaimed production of Red transfers
to the Golden Theater, Broadway, following the Donmar’s recent New York
transfers of Frost/Nixon, Mary Stuart and Hamlet.
“There is only one
thing I fear in life, my friend...
One day the black will
swallow the red.”
Under the watchful gaze of his
young assistant and the threatening presence of a new generation of artists,
Mark Rothko takes on his greatest challenge yet: to create a definitive work
for an extraordinary setting.
A moving and compelling account
of one of the greatest artists of the 20th century, whose struggle to accept
his growing riches and praise became his ultimate undoing.
BAM and Donmar Warehouse present
U.S. Premiere
Strindberg’s
Creditors
In a new version by David
Greig
16 April – 16 May
Cast: Tom Burke, Anna
Chancellor, Owen Teale
Director: Alan Rickman;
Set Designer: Ben Stones; Costume Designer: Fotini Dimou
Lighting Designer: Howard
Harrison; Composer and Sound Designer: Adam Cork
Director Alan Rickman, together
with his London cast Tom Burke, Anna Chancellor and Owen Teale, return for the
US première of playwright David Greig’s adaptation of Creditors
- this production comes to BAM following a sold-out run at the Donmar
Warehouse.
Anxiously awaiting the return
of his new wife, Adolf finds solace in the words of a stranger. But comfort
soon turns to destruction as old wounds are opened, insecurities are laid bare
and former debts are settled.
Regarded as Strindberg’s
most mature work, Creditors is a darkly comic tale of obsession, honour
and revenge. 21
DONMAR – BUENOS AIRES/DONMAR - MADRID
POL-KA Productions present
the
Donmar Warehouse production
of
Piaf
By Pam Gems
Until: 28 February 2010 at
the Liceo Theatre, Buenos Aires
14 April – 18 July at the Teatro Nuevo Alcala,
Madrid
Cast includes: Elena Roger
Director: Jamie Lloyd;
Designer: Soutra Gilmour; Lighting Designer: Neil Austin
Sound Designer: Christopher
Shutt; Original Composition: Ben and Max Ringham
From the streets of Paris to
worldwide fame, Edith Piaf continues to be remembered and revered for her
exceptional voice and her equally extraordinary life.
In this new production of Piaf,
Pam Gems has reworked her 1978 play vividly capturing the glamour and squalor,
the rise and fall, of this complex, fragile and enigmatic performer.
Following performances at the
Donmar Warehouse, the production transferred to the Vaudeville Theatre, and is
now continuing its life at the Liceo Theatre in Buenos Aires before
transferring to Teatro Nuevo Alcala, Madrid.
SIMMONS AND SIMMONS TO BE DONMAR’S NEW ASSOCIATE SPONSOR
The Donmar today announces that
leading international law firm Simmons & Simmons will become the
company’s new Associate Sponsor. The sponsorship is for a period of three
years and will run from April 2010 – 2013 and each year they will sponsor
three productions at the Donmar. Simmons & Simmons was the Production
Sponsor for Othello and A Streetcar Named Desire.
Michael Grandage says, “Having collaborated with the Donmar on
two previous productions, we are thrilled that Simmons & Simmons has
decided to cement their relationship with the theatre through this long-term
financial commitment. Their support will enable us to continue and expand our
artistic programme of work and creative ambitions. We very much look forward to
developing our relationship with them over the coming years.”
David Dickinson, senior partner at Simmons & Simmons, says, “Simmons
& Simmons is pleased to support the Donmar. Our firm puts collaborative
relationships at the heart of our work, and builds value through inclusivity
and diversity. We believe that the values we share with the Donmar will allow
us to develop a truly creative and productive relationship, and we all look
forward to working together over the next three years.”
SIMMONS & SIMMONS
DONMAR EDUCATION
To complement the
Donmar’s productions the company undertake a programme of education and
outreach work led by their two Education Associates, Sophie Watkiss and Dominic
Francis.
For each Donmar production
there is a Schools Matinee Programme. This programme allows over 200
young people to attend a production, participate in a post-show discussion with
the cast which is led by the Resident Assistant Director, and also undertake a
preparatory workshop in their school led by one of the Education Associates. To
support the teachers through this programme a Teachers
Preview Performance and a
Resource Pack are provided.
In addition to this, the
company are developing their education work, creating special projects around a
number of forthcoming productions – the most recent example of which was Seeing
Red around the production of John Logan’s play. Further projects will
be announced later in the season.
DONMAR WAREHOUSE LISTINGS
Donmar Warehouse, 41 Earlham
Street, Seven Dials, London WC2H 9LX
www.donmarwarehouse.com
Box Office: 0844 871 7624 (Booking
fee of £2.50 per transaction)
Personal callers Mon-Sat
10am-curtain up (No booking fee)
Telephone Mon-Sat 9am-10pm, Sun
10am-8pm
Serenading Louie and Polar Bears are currently on sale
For The Late Middle
Classes, The Prince of Homburg, Passion and King Lear
Priority Booking opens: 8
March ; Public Booking: 12 April
Seat Prices:
Previews
Stalls £24, £20;
Circle £20, £16, £15, £13
Post press night
Monday 7.30pm & Thursday
2.30pm
Stalls £20, Circle
£15
Tuesday -Thursday 7.30pm &
Saturday 2.30pm
Stalls £26, £22;
Circle £22, £18, £15
Friday & Saturday 7.30pm
Stalls £29, £24;
Circle £24, £20, £15
Seat Prices for Passion:
Previews
Stalls £28, £23;
Circle £23, £18, £13
Post press night
Monday 7.30pm & Wednesday
2.30pm
Stalls £20, Circle
£15
Tuesday -Thursday 7.30pm &
Saturday 2.30pm
Stalls £30, £25;
Circle £25, £20, £15
Friday & Saturday 7.30pm
Stalls £32.50,
£27.50; Circle £27.50, £22, £15
Sondheim at 80 events: On
sale 1 September
£10 all tickets for
Stephen Sondheim in Discussion and Sondheim at the Donmar
Sondheim concerts - £25
stalls, £15 circle
Standby: Subject to availability - £12 available
30 minutes before each performance
(Students / OAPs / ES40s / West
Res card / CGCA / Under 18s / Equity)
OAPs: £12 tickets for Matinees bookable in advance
Disabled: £12 all performances, bookable in advance
Groups: 0870 060 6636 24
Day Seats
10 tickets available daily from
10.30am, in person, from the Box Office. Maximum 2 tickets per person. Excludes
certain performances
Standing: £7.50 tickets available on the day once the
performance is sold out
Transport & Parking
Tubes: Covent Garden, Leicester Sq, Charing Cross, Holborn
Buses: Destination Leicester Sq.14, 19, 24, 29, 38, 176
Parking: Masterpark
Access Performances
To book tickets for the
following performances – at £12, please call 020 7845 5813
or email
access@donmarwarehouse.com
Signed Performance:
Red: Monday 1 February 2010
at 7.30pm
Signed by Jacqui Beckford
Serenading Louie: Thursday 4
March at 7.30pm
Signed by Wendy Ebsworth
Polar Bears: Monday 17 May
at 7.30pm
Signed by Mary Connell
The Late Middle Classes: Thursday
8 July at 7.30pm
Signed by Wendy Ebsworth
The Prince of Homburg: Monday
23 August at 7.30pm
Signed by Mary Connell
Passion: Monday 8 November
at 7.30pm
Signed by Jacqui Beckford
King Lear: Monday 10 January
2011 at 7.30pm
Signed by Mary Connell
Audio-Described Performance
(audio-described by Vocaleyes):
Serenading Louie: Saturday
13 March at 2.30pm
Polar Bears: Saturday 8 May
at 2.30pm
The Late Middle Classes: Saturday
3 July at 2.30pm
The Prince of Homburg: Saturday
28 August at 2.30pm
Passion: Saturday 13
November at 2.30pm
King Lear: Saturday 29
January 2011 at 2.30pm
All preceded by a Touch Tour at
1.30pm
Captioned Performance
(captioned by Stagetext):
Serenading Louie: Tuesday 16
March at 7.30pm
Polar Bears: Monday 26 April
at 7.30pm
The Late Middle Classes: Tuesday
1 July at 7.30pm
The Prince of Homburg: Wednesday
18 August at 7.30pm
Passion: Tuesday 26 October
at 7.30pm
King Lear: Monday 31 January
2011 at 7.30pm 25
DONMAR TRAFALGAR LISTINGS
Trafalgar Studios, Whitehall,
London, SW1A 2DY
Box Office: 0844 871 7632
Tickets go on sale on: 7
June 2010
£17.50 for every seat
Day Seats
10 tickets at £10
available daily from 10.30am, in person, from the Box Office.
Maximum 2 tickets per person.
Excludes certain performances
www.donmarwarehouse.com
DONMAR WAREHOUSE
Serenading
Louie
Until 27 March
Polar Bears
1 April
– 22 May
The Late
Middle Classes
27 May –
17 July
The Prince
of Homburg
22 July
– 4 September
Passion
10 September
– 27 November
King Lear
3 Dec 2010
– 5 Feb 2011
DONMAR
TRAFALGAR
Lower Ninth
30 September
– 23 October
Novecento
28 October
– 20 November
Les Parents
Terribles
25 November
– 18 December
DONMAR ON
TOUR
Serenading
Louie
The Lowry,
Salford Quays
30 March
– 3 April
Box Office:
0870 787 5790
Curve,
Leicester
6 – 10
April
Box Office:
0116 242 3595
Hall for
Cornwall, Truro
13 – 17
April
Box Office:
01872 262 466
DONMAR NEW
YORK
Red
Golden Theatre
New York
13 March
– 27 June
Creditors
BAM
New York
16 April
– 16 May 2010
DONMAR
BUENOS AIRES
Piaf
Liceo Theatre,
Buenos Aires
Until 28
February
DONMAR
MADRID
Piaf
Teatro Nuevo
Alcala, Madrid
14 April
– 18 July
Press night: 26 April
Transport & Parking
Tubes: Covent Garden, Leicester Sq, Charing Cross, Holborn
Buses: Destination Leicester Sq.14, 19, 24, 29, 38, 176
Parking: Masterpark
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