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Press Release

DONMAR WAREHOUSE ANNOUNCES ’S FIRST SEASON AS ARTISTIC DIRECTOR

● The first production will be a revival of ’s visionary early play Europe, directed by Michael Longhurst in his first production as Artistic Director of the Donmar. Written 25 years ago, it is prophetic in its vision of Europe today - as a continent, a refuge, an idea. Cast includes Billy Howle (MotherFatherSon, On Chesil Beach), Kevork Malikyan (Exodus: Gods and Kings, The Cut), Faye Marsay (, The Darkest Hour), (The Paradise, Bluestone 42), and Shane Zaza (Happy Valley, Press).

● The Donmar will then stage the UK premiere of Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’s Appropriate, which takes on the rich tradition of American family drama. Jacobs-Jenkins’s play, set on a former slave plantation, about ghosts and the legacies we are left with will be directed by Ola Ince. Casting includes Monica Dolan (All About Eve, Appropriate Adult).

● The full-length premiere of a new play by Alice Birch [BLANK], will be directed by Maria Aberg who is making her debut. [BLANK] is a co-production to celebrate the 40th anniversary of Clean Break and will feature an all-female cast of 15, including women who have lived-experience of the criminal justice system, and an all-female creative team.

● The UK premiere of Teenage Dick, US playwright Mike Lew’s high school take on Shakespeare’s Richard III, a dark and funny story about the rise of a teenage despot. Examining disability and power, Teenage Dick is directed by Artistic Director Michael Longhurst with actor Daniel Monks as Richard.

● Finally, in early 2020, director Lyndsey Turner will return to the Donmar Warehouse to revive ’s Far Away, 20 years on from its premiere.

● Also included in Michael Longhurst’s first season is Writing Wrongs as part of the previously announced Fly The Flag. Inspired by Ai Weiwei’s Flag celebrating universal human rights, Writing Wrongs brings together writers including Zainab Hasan, Sabrina Mahfouz, Natasha Simone, Monsay Whitney and Alexandra Wood with school and community groups for a 6-month project to create monologues that explore what these rights mean to them personally. The project will see these monologues released as films, alongside performances in public spaces across during Fly The Flag Week between 24-30 June, and invite people across the country to create their own films in response.

● Michael Longhurst has appointed Roy Alexander Weise as the first of his Artistic Associates at the Donmar. The Donmar’s Resident Assistant Director scheme also continues, with the appointment of Thomas Bailey and Blythe Stewart, who will each assist on three productions during the next year. Alumni of the scheme include former Donmar Artistic Director Josie

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Rourke, Artistic Director , and Artistic Director . The Donmar Warehouse’s Resident Assistant Director scheme is supported by The Steel Charitable Trust.

● The Donmar is continuing its commitment to engaging new audiences by simplifying ticket access schemes and launching the DONMAR DAILY RELEASE. This new scheme will see a minimum of 40 additional tickets released for sale every morning for the performance 7 days later. Audiences can sign up to receive information about productions and ticketing on the Donmar’s website www.donmarwarehouse.com.

● The Donmar’s successful free ticket scheme for those aged under 26, YOUNG+FREE, will continue to offer seats for performances across the new season with tickets released on the final Friday of every month. YOUNG+FREE is funded through the generosity of audiences via the Donmar’s PAY IT FORWARD scheme. These donations have allowed the Donmar to allocate more than 16,000 free tickets to those aged under 26.

Speaking about his first season Artistic Director Michael Longhurst said: “I couldn’t be more excited to announce my first season as Artistic Director of the Donmar Warehouse.

This is a theatre I’ve adored for years. I once even slept outside overnight to get a ticket. For me, the Donmar is a magical space designed to ignite theatrical fireworks; an intimate space in which to congregate and expand our horizons. I’m honoured to be here and can’t wait to get started.

In June, I’ll be kicking it all off by directing David Greig’s EUROPE. A masterpiece of modern British theatre, my production will be the play’s 25-year revival. EUROPE is prophetic in its vision for our complex continent. A story of borders and refugees; hope, conflict and love – it knocks me off my feet and I am sure you will feel the same.

Then, from August, you can catch the UK premiere of APPROPRIATE by playwrighting sensation Branden Jacobs-Jenkins. Stealing tropes from the great American canon, Branden’s riotous family drama uncovers buried secrets and asks what the correct response is. I’m delighted that rising star Ola Ince will direct.

Following on, from October we share with you a new play by Alice Birch, one of the UK’s most daring playwrights. Mapping the far-reaching effects of our criminal justice system on the lives of women, [BLANK] is an invitation to see our society anew. Visionary director Maria Aberg helms this co- production with Clean Break, who are celebrating 40 years of making ground-breaking work with women with lived experience of the criminal justice system. I’m immensely proud to share the Donmar’s stage with them.

I can’t wait to direct the UK premiere of Mike Lew’s genuinely hilarious play, TEENAGE DICK, which will open in December. Set in an American high school, it’s a cheeky and subversive take on Shakespeare’s Richard III, exploring our society’s treatment of disability and how it is represented. I am delighted that the incredible actor Daniel Monks will lead the cast as Richard.

Finally, I am thrilled Lyndsey Turner will return to the Donmar to direct Caryl Churchill’s FAR AWAY. This extraordinary piece about a divided planet sliding into chaos is a landmark play of the 21st century, and I can’t wait to bring to the Donmar 20 years after its explosive premiere.”

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Speaking about improved ticket schemes and the continuation of YOUNG+FREE Executive Producer Henny Finch said: “We want the Donmar Warehouse to be for everyone and, although there’s no getting away from the fact it’s an intimate space, we have thought of ways to ensure tickets can be made continuously accessible and simplify the process of seeing shows here.

Firstly, we will be launching Daily Donmar Release – a new and simplified way of getting your hands on tickets for Donmar shows. This new scheme will see a minimum of 40 tickets made available every morning for the performances taking place one week later.

Engaging with new audiences is at the heart of what we do at the Donmar Warehouse, so we are thrilled to be continuing the fantastic YOUNG+FREE scheme where tickets will be free for those aged under 26 by ballot. YOUNG+FREE is funded through the generosity of audiences via the Donmar’s PAY IT FORWARD scheme, and so far these donations have allowed the Donmar to allocate more than 16,000 tickets to those aged under 26.

Together these schemes will ensure tickets for the Donmar are available, to as many people as possible, every day that we are open.”

Members Priority Booking for Europe, Appropriate and [BLANK]: Steel members from 10am and Copper members from noon on Tuesday 9 April 2019.

Friends from 9am (online) and 10am (telephone) on Thursday 11 April 2019.

Public Booking for Europe, Appropriate and [BLANK]: From 9am (online) and 10am (telephone) on Tuesday 16 April 2019.

Further details and on sale dates for Teenage Dick and Far Away to be announced in the autumn. ENDS

For further information, please contact: James Travis-Lever, Tess Shennan and Jo Allan at Jo Allan PR [email protected] | [email protected] | [email protected] | 020 7520 9392

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NOTES TO EDITORS ABOUT THE DONMAR WAREHOUSE From our iconic warehouse space in the heart of London’s West End, we create world-class theatre with international impact. Our intimate auditorium offers audiences a unique shared experience, and an unparalleled connection with performers.

We believe that representation matters; diversity of identity, of perspective, of lived experience enriches our work and our lives.

We develop new artists and future audiences through our renowned training programmes and our Discover activity in schools and communities.

We share the theatre we make widely through transfers, tours and on screen.

Welcome to important stories, thrillingly told.

MICHAEL LONGHURST – ARTISTIC DIRECTOR

Michael is an award-winning stage director. Previously for the Donmar he directed the UK premiere of Amy Herzog’s Belleville, starring and , in December 2017. His acclaimed production of Peter Shaffer’s at the National Theatre returned for its second run in the Olivier in early 2018. He also directed the celebrated Chichester Festival Theatre revival of Caroline, or Change by Tony Kushner and Jeanine Tesori which transferred to Theatre and then to the West End, and is nominated for three Olivier Awards.

Michael’s Royal Court production of ’s Constellations starring Sally Hawkins and transferred to the West End, winning the 2012 Evening Standard Award for Best Play and receiving four Olivier Award nominations, and ran on Broadway starring and , who was Tony-nominated. He also directed Gyllenhaal in his American stage debut at the Roundabout Theatre, New York in Nick Payne’s If There Is I Haven’t Found It Yet.

Other theatre includes The Son (Kiln), Gloria (), Bad Jews (West End, Theatre Royal Bath & UK tour), They Drink It In The Congo and Carmen Disruption (Almeida Theatre), ‘Tis Pity She’s A Whore and The Winter’s Tale (, Shakespeare’s Globe), Linda, The Art of Dying, Remembrance Day (Royal Court), A Number (Nuffield & ), Cannibals (Royal Exchange, Manchester), The History Boys (Sheffield Crucible), Dealer’s Choice (Royal & Derngate), The World Of Extreme Happiness (NT Shed), Stovepipe (site-specific promenade with the National Theatre, HighTide & Bush Theatre, Sunday Times’ Top Ten Theatre Events of the Decade), Midnight Your Time (HighTide), On The Beach (Bush Theatre), On The Record and Gaudeamus (Arcola), dirty butterfly (Young Vic, winner of the Jerwood Directors Award), Guardians (Pleasance & , Fringe First Award).

Michael trained in directing at Mountview after reading Philosophy at Nottingham University. In 2015, the Evening Standard named him as one of the 1000 most influential Londoners.

HENNY FINCH – EXECUTIVE PRODUCER

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After an early career as an artists’ agent and in fundraising, Henny joined Act Productions and worked on the general management of many West End plays and musicals, specialising in the commercial transfer of projects that had been initiated in the subsidised sector.

In 2005 Henny joined Oxford Stage Company as Executive Director. Alongside Artistic Director Rupert Goold she rebranded and created the renowned touring theatre company Headlong. Projects that she produced there include: 1984 adapted and directed by Robert Icke and Duncan Macmillan, which played to 800,000 people worldwide; Enron by Lucy Prebble, directed by Rupert Goold; Chimerica by Lucy Kirkwood, directed by Lyndsey Turner; and People, Places & Things by Duncan Macmillan, directed by . Between 2009 and 2015, she transferred projects to the West End or Broadway, winning eleven Olivier Awards. From 2016-19 she was Executive Director of renowned contemporary dance organisation Hofesh Shechter Company, leading it through a period of strategic change and producing a worldwide programme including Shechter’s Grand Finale, SHOW, East Wall (at the Tower of London) and a film of Clowns, which was broadcast on BBC Two.

Henny is a Clore Fellow and a trustee of the .

ROY ALEXANDER WEISE – ARTISTIC ASSOCIATE

Roy is an award-winning theatre director, whose credits include Nine Night (National and West End), The Dark (Fuel and ), The Mountaintop (Young Vic and UK Tour), The Trick (Bush), Jekyll and Hyde (National Youth Theatre), Heretic Voices (Arcola), The Ugly One (), Br'er Cotton (Theatre503), Primetime ( Royal Court) and Stone Face (Finborough). Roy is the 19th annual winner of the James Menzies-Kitchin Award and was nominated at the 2018 Evening Standard Awards for the ‘Emerging Talent’ Award. He has previously worked at the Royal Court as the Trainee Director, at the Bush Theatre and Lyric Hammersmith as the BBC Theatre Fellow and at The Room as Associate Artist.

NEW SEASON:

EUROPE

Written by David Greig Thursday 20 June – Saturday 10 August 2019

PRESS NIGHT: Thursday 27 June 2019

Director Michael Longhurst Designer Chloe Lamford Lighting Designer Tom Visser Composer Movement Director Imogen Knight Casting Director Anna Cooper CDG

Cast includes Billy Howle (Berlin), Kevork Malikyan (Sava), Faye Marsay (Adele), Stephen Wight (Billy) Shane Zaza (Morocco).

This is what a border is. A magic money line.

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Something changed today. The trains are no longer stopping at the border and no one knows why. Plus, the stationmaster has two new arrivals to deal with. Arrivals that will divide the local population.

This prophetic early masterpiece from David Greig explores our complex relationship to Europe – as a continent, a refuge, an idea.

Michael Longhurst directs the 25th anniversary revival as his inaugural production as Artistic Director of the Donmar.

David Greig (Playwright) is a multi-award-winning playwright and the Artistic Director of The Royal Lyceum Theatre in Edinburgh. His programming for the Lyceum includes the musical adaptation of Local Hero which will also transfer to , The Suppliant Women, adapted by David, which went on to Belfast International Festival and The Royal Exchange, before opening at the Young Vic; and the World Premiere of Glory On Earth, by Linda McLean, which marked David’s directorial debut at the theatre. David’s most notable plays include The Events (Traverse and Young Vic), The Strange Undoing of Prudencia Hart (Tron, National Theatre of Scotland), Midsummer (Traverse, Soho and Tricycle), Dunsinane (RSC at Hampstead and National Theatre of Scotland), Damascus (Traverse, Scotland and Tricycle), Outlying Islands (Traverse and Royal Court), The American Pilot (RSC), Pyrenees (Paines Plough), The Cosmonaut’s Last Message to the Woman He Once Loved in the Former Soviet Union (Donmar Warehouse and Paines Plough) and The Architect (Traverse). David wrote the book for Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, which opened in the West End in 2013 and later transferred to Broadway. His adaptation of Lanark opened at the Edinburgh International Festival in Summer 2015, and his adaptation of Dr Seuss’ The Lorax opened at The Old Vic for Christmas 2015.

Billy Howle (Berlin) makes his Donmar Warehouse debut in Europe. Theatre credits include Life of Galileo (Young Vic), Long Day's Journey Into Night, The Little Mermaid (Bristol Old Vic) and Ghosts (Brooklyn Academy of Music). Television credits include MotherFatherSon, The Witness for the Prosecution, Cider with Rosie, Glue, Vera and New Worlds. Film credits include Outlaw King, On Chesil Beach, The Sense of an Ending and .

Kevork Malikyan (Sava) makes his Donmar debut in Europe. His theatre credits include A Tale of Two Cities (Regent’s Park Open Air), Anthony and Cleopatra, Bedlam, Henry IV Parts I and II, , The Frontline (Shakespeare’s Globe), Yes Prime Minister (West End and UK Tour), Arabian Nights, , Bartholomew Fair, (RSC), Pera Palas (National Studio and Gate), Waiting for Godot (Lyric Hammersmith), Pinocchio, The Royal Hunt of the Sun (Belgrave, Coventry), (Derby Playhouse), Agamemnon’s Children, Hecuba (Gate), The Ends of the Earth, Stuff Happens (National), As You Like It (Leicester) How Many Miles to Basra (West Yorkshire Playhouse), and Homebody Kabul (Young Vic). Television credits include , The Onedin Line, Judge John Deed, Silent Witness, Ten Days to War, Silent Witness, The Professionals, Minder, Mind Your Language and House of Cards (UK). Film credits include The Promise, Exodus: Gods and Kings, The Cut, Pascalis Island, Saddams Tribe, Homeland (USA), Renaissance, Flight of the Phoenix, and the Last Crusade and Midnight Express.

Faye Marsay (Adele) makes her Donmar Warehouse debut in Europe. Theatre credits include (Royal Court). Television credits include Deep Water, Shamed, Bancroft, McMafia, , Game of Thrones Series 5 and 6, Love, Nina, Vera, My Mad Fat Diary, Doctor Who, Glue, Fresh Meat, Bletchley Circle and The White Queen. Faye’s film credits include A Private War, Darkest Hour, You Me and Him and Pride.

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Stephen Wight (Billy) returns to the Donmar Warehouse in Europe having previously appearing in ’s production of Don Juan in Soho. His theatre credits include McQueen (St. James Theatre and West End), The Lady Killers (Liverpool Everyman and Playhouse and West End), The Habit of Art and Sing Your Heart Out for the Lads (National Theatre), Dealer’s Choice ( and West End), Class Enemy and Skyvers (Royal Court), The Trestle at Pope Lick Creek (Royal Exchange, Manchester), The Straits (Paines Plough and Hampstead) and A Midsummer Night’s Dream (RSC). For television Stephen’s credits include Manhunt, Finding Joy, Flack, Informer, Maigret, Lovesick, Bluestone 42, Laid, The Escape Artist, The Paradise, Sherlock, Threesome, New Tricks, The Great Outdoors, Scaredy Cat, Whites, Misfits, Coming of Age, FM, Apparitions, Ashes to Ashes, Diamond Geezer, Hex, Fingersmith, , A Touch of Frost and Casualty. Film credits include the forthcoming Men In Black: International, Peterloo, Flack, Ashes, Weekender, Highlander – The Source and The Wilderness.

Shane Zaza (Morocco) makes his Donmar Warehouse debut in Europe. Theatre credits include Dear Elizabeth (), Frankenstein (Royal Exchange), Road, Hang and Oxford Street (Royal Court), Behind the Beautiful Forevers and 13 (National Theatre), Henry V (Unicorn), Behind the Lines and Repentance (Bush Theatre), Mongrel Island, Realism, Furnace Four and Minutes Pass (), Pieces of Vincent (Arcola), Peter Pan (National Theatre of Scotland), Macbeth, Romeo & Juliet (Shakespeare’s Globe), Deadeye (Birmingham Rep/Soho Theatre), Billy Liar (Liverpool Playhouse), (Menier Chocolate Factory), George’s Marvellous Medicine (Bolton Octagon), Master & Margarita, Kes, The Arbitrary Adventures of an Accidental Terrorist and Nicholas Nickleby (Lyric Hammersmith) and East is East (New Vic Theatre). Television credits include Doctor Who, London Kills, Press, Will, Black Mirror, Happy Valley, Silent Witness, Doctors, Micah, Mouth to Mouth, The Omid Djalili Show, Spooks, 10 Days to War, The Bill, Casualty, Murphy’s Law, Watch Over Me, Dalziel & Pascoe, Waterloo Road and Messiah. Film credits include The Mummy, The Rezort, Spooks: The Greater , Keeping Up with the Joneses, Plastic, Two Tone, Jadoo, Love at First Sight and The Da Vinci Code.

APPROPRIATE

Written by Branden Jacobs-Jenkins Friday 16 August – Saturday 5 October 2019

PRESS NIGHT: Thursday 22 August 2019 Director Ola Ince Designer Fly Davis Lighting Designer Anna Watson Sound Designer Donato Wharton Casting Director Julia Horan CDG

Cast includes Monica Dolan (Toni).

So I thought, since we can’t do Europe this summer, why don’t the kids and I just do a little Southern History road trip? We’re going to drive back home through Mississippi, Louisiana – all those places – experience some of Daddy’s heritage.

The Lafayette family gather at their late father’s home in Arkansas to bury the hatchet and prepare the former plantation for its Estate Sale.

Until, that is, they make a discovery which changes everything.

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Branden Jacobs-Jenkins takes on the rich tradition of American family drama in his gripping play about ghosts and the legacies we are left with. Ola Ince directs Appropriate in its UK premiere at the Donmar.

Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’s (Writer) plays include Everybody (Signature Theatre; Pulitzer Prize-finalist), War (LCT3/Lincoln Center Theater), Gloria (Vineyard Theatre; Pulitzer Prize-finalist), Appropriate (Signature Theatre; Obie Award), An Octoroon (Soho Rep; Obie Award) and Neighbors (The Public Theater). A Residency Five playwright at Signature Theatre, his most recent honours include the Charles Wintour Award for Most Promising Playwright from the London Evening Standard, a London Critics Circle Award for Most Promising Playwriting, a MacArthur fellowship, the Windham-Campbell Prize for Drama, the Benjamin Danks Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the PEN/Laura Pels International Foundation Theatre Award, the Steinberg Playwriting Award, and the inaugural Award. He sits on the board of Soho Rep and, with Annie Baker, he is an associate co-director of the Hunter College MFA program in playwriting.

Ola Ince (Director) makes her directing debut at the Donmar Warehouse having previously worked as Assistant Director to on the Donmar Shakespeare Trilogy at King’s Cross and St. Ann’s Warehouse in New York. Previous directing credits include The Convert and Dutchman (Young Vic), Poet in da Corner (Royal Court), Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992 (Gate Theatre), Start Swimming (Young Vic and Summerhall Edinburgh), White Sky (RWCMD & Gate Theatre), Rachel and The Soft of her Palm (). As Associate Director her credits include Tina – The Tina Tuner Musical (West End), Bugsy Malone (Lyric Hammersmith), Tipping the Velvet (Lyric Hammersmith and Royal Lyceum Theatre, Edinburgh) and Fog (UK Tour). As Assistant Director Ola’s credits include Dara (National Theatre), Porgy & Bess (Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre), A Taste of Honey (National Theatre) and Josephine & I (Bush Theatre). In 2011 Ola was the Finborough Theatre’s Resident Assistant Director and Senior Reader, as well as a Rose Bruford Directing Bursary recipient. In 2012 she was the Borris Karloff Bursary recipient, which allowed her to train under Sacha Wares. In 2015 Ola became a BBC Performing Arts Fellow and Resident Associate Director at the Lyric Hammersmith. In 2016 she became the Genesis Future Director Award winner and Artistic Associate at Lyric Hammersmith and Theatre Royal Stratford East. Ola is currently an Artistic Associate at the Royal Court and winner of the h100 Theatre & Performance Award.

Monica Dolan (Toni) returns to the Donmar Warehouse in Appropriate having previously appeared in The Same Deep Water as Me. Her theatre credits include All About Eve (West End), The B*easts, Nassim and Chalet Lines (Bush Theatre), Plaques & Tangles, The Twits, Birth of a Nation, Sliding with Suzanne and Glory Living (Royal Court), King Lear, The Seagull, The Taming of the Shrew and A Midsummer Night’s Dream (RSC), Jane Eyre (Shared Experience and West End), Macbeth (Out of Joint), (Nuffield, Southampton), She Stoops to Conquer, A Laughing Matter and The Walls (National Theatre), Hayfever (Theatre Royal Bath and West End) and (Royal Lyceum Theatre, Edinburgh). Monica’s television credits include A Very English Scandal, Vanity Fair, Strike: The Silkworm, W1A, Inside No. 9, Catastrophe, The Witness for the Prosecution, Neil Gaiman’s Likely Stories, The Casual Vacancy, Mid Morning Matters with Alan Partridge, The Escape Artist, Complicit, Call the Midwife, Coming Up: Spoof or Die, Appropriate Adult for which she recieved the BAFTA Award for Best Supporting Actress, U Be Dead, Excluded, Inspector Banks, Occupation, Midsomer Murders, The History of Mr Polly, Poirot, The Commander, Wallis & Edward, Tipping the Velvet, Judge John Deed and The Gift. Monica’s film credits include Days of Bagnold Summer, Rialto, Official Secrets. Eye in the Sky, Pride, The Falling, Alpha Papa, Sightseers, The Arbor, Never Let Me Go, Within the Whirlwind, King Lear, Topsy Turvy and A Midsummer Night’s Dream.

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A Donmar Warehouse and Clean Break co-production.

A new play by Alice Birch Friday 11 October – Saturday 30 November 2019

PRESS NIGHT: Thursday 17 October 2019

Director Maria Aberg Designer Rosie Elnile Casting Director Anna Cooper CDG

When she was little, she was so happy. I know everyone says that. I do.

She can't stay awake. She sold drugs. She's good at interrogations. She drinks in the mornings. She ate a rabbit. She smashed up a shop. She stabbed a man. She used a hammer. She had a baby. She can't find her mother. She's covered in blood and doesn't know why.

This striking new play from Alice Birch, directed by Maria Aberg, takes a kaleidoscopic view of what happens when a woman goes to prison.

[BLANK] receives its full-length premiere to celebrate the 40th anniversary of Clean Break, the leading theatre company working with women affected by the criminal justice system.

Alice Birch (Writer) is the winner of the Arts Foundation Award for Playwriting 2014, the co-winner of the George Devine Award for Most Promising Playwright 2014 and was shortlisted for the Susan Smith Blackburn Award in 2012 and 2015. Theatre includes: La Maladie de la Mort (Bouffes de Nord); Anatomy of a Suicide (Royal Court), Schatten (Schaubuhne); Revolt. She Said. Revolt Again. (RSC and Soho Rep), Ophelias Zimmer (Royal Court and Schaubuhne, Berlin), We Want You to Watch (National Theatre), Little Light (Orange Tree), Little on the inside (Almeida and Clean Break) and Many Moons (Theatre 503). Film includes Lady Macbeth for the BBC, BFI and Creative England which was the winner of the International Critic’s Prize at San Sebastian Film Festival 2016, the Best First Feature at Zurich Film Festival 2016 and the winner of Best Screenplay at Turin Film Festival 2016 and winner of Best Screenplay at the British Independent Film Awards 2017. Maria Aberg (Director) makes her Donmar Warehouse directing debut with [BLANK]. Maria’s recent work includes Little Shop of Horrors (Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre), Dr Faustus, The White Devil, As You Like It, King John, The Gods Weep, Days of Significance (RSC), Hotel (National Theatre), Much Ado About Nothing (Royal Exchange, Manchester), The Chairs (Theatre Royal Bath), Alaska (Royal Court) and Roald Dahl's Fantastic Mr Fox (Nuffield, Southampton and Lyric Hammersmith).

TEENAGE DICK

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Written by Mike Lew Friday 06 December 2019 – Saturday 1 February 2020

PRESS NIGHT: Thursday 12 December 2019

Director Michael Longhurst Casting Director Anna Cooper CDG

Cast includes Daniel Monks (Richard).

As winter formal gives way to glorious spring fling, Richard – the class loser – lusts for power at Roseland High.

After years of torment due to his hemiplegia, Richard plots the ultimate rise in power: to become president of his senior class. But like all teenagers, and all despots, he is faced with the hardest question of all: is it better to be loved, or feared?

Mike Lew’s darkly comic take on Shakespeare’s Richard III has its UK debut. Donmar Artistic Director Michael Longhurst directs a cast including Daniel Monks as Richard.

Mike Lew’s (Writer) plays include Teenage Dick (Ma-Yi at the Public and Artists Rep productions; Public Studio, O’Neill, OSF workshops), Tiger Style! (Olney, Huntington, La Jolla Playhouse, and Alliance productions; O’Neill and CTG workshops), Bike America (Ma-Yi and Alliance productions), microcrisis (Ma-Yi, InterAct and Next Act productions), Moustache Guys, and the book to the musical Bhangin’ It (Richard Rodgers Award; La Jolla Playhouse, Project Springboard, and Rhinebeck Writers Retreat workshops). He is a Tony voter, Dramatists Guild Council member, and a resident of New Dramatists. Mike’s honours include a Mellon National Playwrights Residency at Ma-Yi and La Jolla Playhouse Artist- in-Residence, both with Rehana Lew Mirza; Lark Venturous and NYFA fellowships; and the PEN Emerging Playwright, Lanford Wilson, Helen Merrill, Heideman, and Kendeda awards. Education: Juilliard, Yale.

Daniel Monks (Richard) makes his Donmar Warehouse debut in Teenage Dick. In 2018, he was nominated for the Australian Academy Award (AACTA) for Best Lead Actor in a Film for his debut feature film Pulse, as well as received Helpmann Award & Green Room Award nominations for Best Lead Actor in a Play for his Australian mainstage debut The Real and Imagined History of The Elephant Man, written by Tom Wright and directed by Matthew Lutton at Malthouse Theatre. He was a finalist for the 2017 Heath Ledger Scholarship and was nominated for Best Actor at the 2016 WA Screen Awards. In 2015, he received the Arts Award at the NSW/ACT Young Achiever Awards, and he was awarded the Young Filmmaker of the Year at the 2014 WA Screen Awards. In 2019, he will also be performing in William Golding's Lord of the Flies at Sydney Theatre Company, directed by Kip Williams, alongside Mia Wasikowska & Eliza Scanlen. As a filmmaker, he wrote, produced, edited and played the lead in the feature film Pulse, which won the Busan Bank Award at the Busan International Film Festival 2017; the first Australian film to ever do so. It also screened at BFI Flare London LGBT Film Festival 2018, Sydney Film Festival 2017, and was the Centrepiece Film of the Melbourne Queer Film Festival 2017. He is a graduate of the Australian Film Television & Radio School (AFTRS), and his short films have screened at more than 50 film festivals worldwide. He is an Ambassador for the Starlight Children's Foundation, and in 2018, he was named the Ambassador for People with Disabilities Australia at the 40th Sydney Mardi Gras .

TEENAGE DICK received its world premiere by Ma-Yi Theater Company; Ralph B. Peña, Producing Artistic Director, June 20, 2018 at The Public Theater, New York, NY.

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TEENAGE DICK was developed during a residency at the Eugene O'Neill Theater Center's National Playwrights Conference in 2016. Preston Whiteway, Executive Director; Wendy C. Goldberg, Artistic Director.

FAR AWAY

Written by Caryl Churchill Thursday 06 February – Saturday 21 March 2020

PRESS NIGHT: To Be Announced

Director Lyndsey Turner Casting Director Anna Cooper CDG

You’ve found something secret. You know that don’t you?

In a cottage far away, a child wakes to the sound of screaming.

Who will tell her what’s really going on?

And where will the discoveries she makes that night take her in the years to come?

Caryl Churchill’s dazzling play about a world sliding into chaos receives a new production at the Donmar, twenty years on from its explosive premiere. Lyndsey Turner directs.

Caryl Churchill (Writer) has written for stage, radio and television. She wrote a number of plays for BBC radio including The Ants (1962), Lovesick (1967) and Abortive (1971). The Judge's Wife was televised by the BBC in 1972 and Owners, her first professional stage production, premiered at the in London in the same year. She was Resident Dramatist at the Royal Court (1974- 5) and spent much of the 1970s and 1980s working with the theatre groups 'Joint Stock' and 'Monstrous Regiment'. Her work during this period includes Light Shining in Buckinghamshire (1976), Cloud Nine (1979), Fen (1983) and A Mouthful of Birds (1986), written with David Lan. Three More Sleepless Nights was first produced at the Soho Poly, London, in 1980. Top Girls (1982) was first staged at the Royal Court in 1982 and transferred to Joseph Papp's Public Theatre in New York later that year. Serious Money was first produced at the Royal Court in 1987 and won the Evening Standard Award for Best Comedy of the Year and the Laurence Olivier/BBC Award for Best New Play. More recent plays include Mad Forest (1990), written after a visit to Romania, and The Skriker (1994). Her plays for television include The AfterDinner Joke (1978) and Crimes (1982). Far Away premiered at the Royal Court in 2000, directed by Stephen Daldry. She has also published a new translation of Seneca's Thyestes (2001), and A Number (2002), which addresses the subject of human cloning. Her new version of 's A Dream Play (2005), premiered at the National Theatre in 2005. Her plays since then have included Seven Jewish Children - a play for Gaza (2009), Love and Information (2012), Ding Dong the Wicked (2013), Here We Go (2015) and Escaped Alone (2016). Caryl Churchill lives in London. Her most recent play Escaped Alone (2015) premiered at the Royal Court Theatre in January 2016 and transferred to New York.

Lyndsey Turner’s (Director) previous work at the Donmar includes ’s Aristocrats, Philadelphia, Here I Come!, Fathers and Sons, and . Her other theatre credits include Top Girls, Saint George and the Dragon, Light Shining in Buckinghamshire, Edgar and Annabel, There is a

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War (National Theatre), Girls and Boys (Royal Court), Tipping The Velvet (Lyric Hammersmith), (Barbican), Chimerica (Headlong, Almeida & West End).

DONMAR WAREHOUSE: LISTINGS Donmar Warehouse, 41 Earlham Street, Seven Dials, London WC2H 9LX www.donmarwarehouse.com

Box Office: 020 3282 3808 (No booking fees, £1 postage fee may apply) Telephone Mon-Sat 10am-6pm In person Mon-Sat, 10am-curtain up (with some exceptions, see website)

PERFORMANCE TIMES Evenings Mon – Sat: 7.30pm Matinees Thu & Sat: 2.30pm

TICKET PRICES £10 | £20 | £30 | £40

PREVIEW PRICES £10 | £17.50 | £27.50 | £37.50

PREVIEW DISCOUNTS APPLY ON FOLLOWING DATES Europe Thursday 20 June – Monday 24 June 2019 Appropriate Friday 16 August – Tuesday 20 August 2019 [Blank] Friday 11 October – Tuesday 15 October 2019

YOUNG+FREE YOUNG+FREE tickets for under 26s released by ballot. Sign up at www.donmarwarehouse.com

DONMAR DAILY New tickets on sale every day at the Donmar. Allocations of tickets from £10 will be made available every day for performances 7 days later. Tickets will be available across the auditorium at every price band.

CONCESSIONS For over 60s, £40 tickets reduced to £32.50 and £30 tickets reduced to £25 (matinees only). Must be booked in advance.

STANDING TICKETS £10 standing tickets available every day from 10am online, by phone and in person. (Except Press Nights. The Box Office may be closed on certain dates, see website for details.)

ACCESS The Donmar Warehouse is fully wheelchair accessible. Guide dogs and hearing dogs are welcome in the auditorium. There is an infrared system in the main auditorium and there is also a hearing loop in the box office.

ASSISTED PERFORMANCES If you require a companion to attend the Donmar, their ticket will be free. To book call 020 3282

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TUESDAY 02 APRIL 2019

3808 or email [email protected]

For all other access enquiries or bookings call 020 3282 3808

CAPTIONED PERFORMANCES – 7.30PM (captioned by Stagetext) Europe Monday 29 July Appropriate Monday 23 September [BLANK] Monday 18 November

AUDIO-DESCRIBED PERFORMANCE - 2.30PM (audio-described by Vocaleyes) (TOUCH TOUR AT 1.30PM) Europe Saturday, 27 July Appropriate Saturday 28 September [BLANK] Saturday 16 November

TRANSPORT & PARKING Tubes: , Leicester Sq, Charing Cross, , Tottenham Court Road Buses: Destination Leicester Sq.14, 19, 24, 29, 38, 176 Parking: Masterpark

Principal Sponsor and supporter of Donmar Dryden Street

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