1. © Johan Persson
    © Johan Persson
  2. © Hugo Glendinning
    © Hugo Glendinning |

    Josie Rourke (artistic director)

Donmar Warehouse

This Covent Garden studio attracts a 'Who's Who' of big theatre names
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Time Out says

Perched on the edge of Seven Dials, the 251-seater Donmar Warehouse can more than hold its own against the West End big hitters that surround it. This ultra bijou space had a reputation for slumming celebrities and impossible-to-get-hold-of tickets during the tenures of its now famous first two ADs Sam Mendes and Michael Grandage. Third boss Josie Rourke shook things up a bit: there were still big names in small shows, but also much more modern work. Talented current director Michael Longhurst has shifted the programming still further towards the avant garde; Caryl Churchill revivals sit alongside new work with an international outlook.

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41
Earlham Street
Seven Dials
London
WC2H 9LX
Transport:
Tube: Covent Garden/Leicester Square
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Evening All Afternoon

US playwright Anna Ziegler had a massive West End hit in 2015 with Photograph 51 – albeit almost a hit be default thanks to the presence of Nicole Kidman as its lead. Little of her work has been seen here since, although we got a transfer of her off-Broadway hit The Wanderers at the end of last year. And that was just the beginning of the UK Zieg-naissance, as the Donmar bags the world premiere of Evening All Afternoon, which stars the wondrous Anastasia Hille and – in her stage debut – Erin Kellyman of the 28 Years Later films as a woman trying desperately to make friends with her future stepdaughter. Rising star Diyan Zora directs.
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Mass

A fine cast let by Adeel Akhtar, Monica Dolan, Paul Hilton and Lyndsey Marshal star in actor and filmmaker Fran Kranz’s debut play, It’s an adaptation of his own well-recieved indie film about two couples painfully attempting to reconcile in the wake of a high school shooting in which one couple’s child took the life of the other’s and then himself. Carrie Cracknell directs, in her Donmar debut.
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The Guilty

Having only (co-)directed a single non-Punchdrunk show previously, Felix Barrett – boss of the legendary immersive theatre company – made a fine return to ‘straight’ theatre last year with the genuinely creepy Paranormal Activity. Now he’s back at it with another film adaptation, with Russell Tovey starring in Chloë Moss’s version of the Danish film Den Skyldige and its US remake The Guilty. Here Russell Tovey stars as a 999 operator who is plunged into an alarming web of danger after a cryptic call. Expect techy surpises galore from Barrett and team. 
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