Donmar Warehouse is back with a bigger and better line-up
Donmar Theatre: What’s on
Following major renovation, the Donmar Warehouse has reopened its doors with a stellar line up of productions for the next few months. Love and Other Acts of Violence kicks off the autumn months, followed by Tim Price’s new stage adaption of Ruben Östlund’s film about a family falling apart, Force Majeure, which will run through Christmas into 2022. The winter season will conclude with William Shakespeare’s Henry V until Spring. Followed by Pulitzer Price winner Jackie Sibblies Drury’s Marys Seacole, about the pioneering Jamaican nurse, and what it means to be a woman who is paid to care. For more information, take a look at each production’s bios, performance timings and how to book below.
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LOVE AND OTHER ACTS OF VIOLENCE
7 October – 27 November 2021
A young Jewish physicist and an activist poet meet at a party and fall in love. As society splinters around them, the couple struggle’s to survive and erupts into violence.
Cordelia Lynn’s new play is a subversive and intimate love story about inheritance and the cycles of politics and history. Elayce Ismail directs a cast including Tom Mothersdale, Abigail Weinstock and Richard Katz.
PERFORMANCE TIMES
Evenings Mon – Sat: 7.30pm
Matinees Thu & Sat: 2.30pm
To book tickets, please see here.
FORCE MAJEURE
10 December 2021 – 5 February 2022
Tomas and Ebba are determined to have quality family time with their children, so they head to the Alps on a skiing trip.
But when disaster strikes, their family unit is tested to breaking point with hilarious and tragic consequences.
Ruben Östlund’s award-winning comedy about a family falling apart is adapted for the Donmar stage by Tim Price, directed by Donmar Warehouse Artistic Director Michael Longhurst. Cast includes double Olivier Award-winner Rory Kinnear.
PERFORMANCE TIMES
Evenings Mon – Sat: 7.30pm
Matinees Thu & Sat: 2.30pm
To book tickets, please see here.
HENRY V
11 February 2022 – 9 April 2022
Shakespeare’s ever popular play is a thrilling study of nationalism, war and the psychology of power.
Kit Harington leads the cast in an exciting modern production directed by Donmar Associate Director Max Webster, exploring what it means to be English and our relationship to Europe, asking: do we ever get the leaders we deserve?
PERFORMANCE TIMES
Evenings Mon – Sat: 7.30pm
Matinees Thu & Sat: 2.30pm
To book tickets, please see here.
MARYS SEACOLE
15 April 2022 – 4 June 2022
Marys Seacole was the pioneering Jamaican nurse who bravely voyaged to heal soldiers in the Crimean War. She was a traveller, a hotelier and a businesswoman. She was the most impressive woman you’ve ever met.
Putting the concept of a biopic through a kaleidoscope, MARYS SEACOLE is a dazzling exploration, across oceans and eras, of what it means to be a woman who is paid to care, and how, ultimately, no one is in charge of their own story.
Directed by Nadia Latif, the UK premiere of Pulitzer Prize winner Jackie Sibblies Drury’s celebrated new play reunites the team behind her critically-acclaimed Fairview in 2019.
PERFORMANCE TIMES
Evenings Mon – Sat: 7.30pm
Matinees Thu & Sat: 2.30pm
To book tickets, please see here.