The Donmar Warehouse

Further casting has now been announced for The Late Middle Classes starring Helen McCrory at the Donmar Warehouse this summer. Joining the cast are Robert Glenister, Eleanor Bron and Peter Sullivan. Theatre tickets for the show are currently on sale.

The Late Middle Classes by Simon Grey centres on the Celia, a bored wife and mother with a particular taste for gin and tennis. Her husband Charles is buried in work and as their son is beginning the lessons of life. The play combines wit with melancholy, and reveals the guilt, secrecy and self-oppression of the English middle classes in the 1950’s.

This will be Eleanor Bron’s debut at the Donmar Warehouse in the London theatre. Previous theatre credits include In Extremis at The Globe, All About My Mother at the Old Vic and Dona Rosita The Spinster at The Almeida. She also has many TV credits including Fat Friends, Absolutely Fabulous and Vanity Fair, and film credits such at Alfie, Wimbledon and Iris.

Robert Glenister is a familiar face on screen in Hustle and Spooks. He has also appeared on the London stage in The Winterling at the Royal Court and Never So Good at the National Theatre.

Peter Sullivan plays Charles, and has recently appeared at the National in The Power of Yes, as well as Rock N Roll, The Pain and The Itch and Stoning Mary at the Royal court. Screen credits include New Tricks, Extras and Spooks.

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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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The Donmar Warehouse, under the artistic direction of Michael Grandage, is always looking for new ways to expand and new projects to undertake. Last year, it enjoyed phenomenal success with a West End residency at Wyndhams Theatre. Not only did the critics love the shows which included ‘Twelfth Night’ and ‘Hamlet’, the audiences loved them with the shows contributing to the West End’s record sales of theatre tickets.

Now the Donmar has announced that from this year it will have a three month season at the Trafalgar Studios, which will showcase the best in young directing talent. The first season will open on September 30th.

The first production will be Beau Willimon’s ‘Lower Ninth’ directed by Charlotte Westenra. This will be followed by ‘Novecento’ which is an adaptation of an Italian play about a jazz musician, written by Alessandro Baricco and directed by Roisin McBrinn. The season concludes with Jean Cocteau’s ‘Les Parents Terribles directed by Christopher Rolls. Theatre tickets for all shows, which promise to sell out quickly, are on sale.

Christopher Rolls has previously assisted at the National Theatre in London, the Donmar Warehouse and the Royal Shakespeare Company. His own productions have included a superb ‘The Beaver Coat’ at the Finborough Theatre.

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Michael Grandage and the Donmar Warehouse continue to dominate sales of theatre tickets in London. However, they are not content with commercial success. They are also receiving critical accolades. The latest evidence of this is no less than four Critics’ Circle Awards. The award for best director went, of course, to Grandage himself for ‘Ivanov’ and ‘The Chalk Garden’. The star of ‘Ivanov’, Kenneth Branagh took the award for best actor and best actress went to Margaret Tyzack for ‘The Chalk Garden’. The fourth award was for best Shakespearean performance which went to Derek Jacobi for his portrayal of Malvolio in ‘Twelfth Night’.

The casting for the final production of the Donmar’s year long season at Wyndhams Theatre has been announced. From the beginning of the season everybody knew that Jude Law would play Hamlet. Originally he was to be directed by Kenneth Branagh, but Hollywood came calling and Branagh is now busy directing the forthcoming film about the superhero Thor. Michael Grandage has taken over the job and has now assembled an exciting cast.

Fresh from his success as a diminutive Sir Toby Belch, Ron Cook joins Penelope Wilton, Gwilym Lee, Peter Eyre, Kevin R McNally, Matt Ryan, Alex Waldmann, John MacMillan and Gugu Mbatha-Raw.