The new season at The Donmar Warehouse theatre in London has been announced, and Artistic director Michael Grandage is to direct a cast lead by award winning actor Derek Jacobi in King Lear.

Jacobi performed last year at The Donmar Warehouse and Wyndhams Theatre, playing Malvolio in Twelfth Night, for which he received Laurence Olivier award. The acclaimed actor has graced the London theatre stage for over five decades, and has previously worked with director Michael Grandage in The Tempest, Don Carlos and A Voyage Around My Father.

Besides King Lear, the Donmar Warehouse has announced Sondheim and Lapine’s Passion, The Prince of Homburg by Heinrick Von Kleist and adapted by Dennis Kelly, and The Late Middle Classes by Simon Gray. Argentinean actress Elena Rogers, previously known for her award winning role as Edith Piaf in Piaf, is set to star in Passion. The 1994 musical celebrates composer Stephen Sondheim’s 80th birthday, and will be directed Jamie Lloyd.

Earlier in the season Helen McCrory plays Celia in the comic, melancholic drama The Late Middle Classes, which follows a young boy in 1950’s England, trapped by oppressive love. Following that Ian McDiarmid and Charlie Cox star in The Prince of Homburg, a 19th Century tale of courage, honour, love and ambition, centred around a military operation.

Preceding these productions is Polar Bears, starring Celia Imrie, Skye Bennett, Jodhi May, David Leon, Richard Coyle and Alice Sykes.

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