With an all-star solid together with Lily Allen and Steve Pemberton, Matthew Dunster directs the primary main revival and West End season of Martin McDonagh’s electrifying and savagely humorous Olivier Award-winning play The Pillowman.
Performances start on the intimate Duke of York’s Theatre on Saturday 10 June, for a strictly restricted 12-week run by way of to Saturday 2 September 2023.
Martin McDonagh, who has simply gained the Best Screenplay Award on the Venice Film Festival for his new, critically-acclaimed film The Banshees of Inisherin, can also be the multi Olivier, BAFTA and Academy Award-winning playwright and screen-writer accountable for Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri, In Bruges, Seven Psychopaths and Six Shooter.
Lily Allen, who made her West End debut in 2:22 – A Ghost Story on the Noel Coward Theatre in a job for which she was awarded Best Female-Identifying Role in a Play on the Whatsonstage Awards and Olivier nominated, will play Katurian, the primary time the position has been performed by a girl. Up subsequent, Allen will star within the new Sky unique comedy Dreamland which is able to premiere in 2023. Lily can also be an internationally famend singer and songwriter.
Steve Pemberton is a member of The League of Gentlemen with Reece Shearsmith, Mark Gatiss and Jeremy Dyson. He co-wrote and appeared in Psychoville and Inside No. 9 for which he gained the BAFTA for Best Male Comedy Performance in 2019. His different tv credit embrace: Killing Eve, Good Omens, Worzel Gummidge, Doctor Who, Benidorm, Blackpool, Shameless, Whitechapel, Happy Valley and Mapp and Lucia. His stage work contains enjoying Mr Hardcastle in She Stoops to Conquer on the National Theatre. Steve will play Tupolski.
Further casting is but to be introduced.
In a totalitarian state a Writer is questioned by the authorities a few spate of murders that bear similarities to her brief tales. Is this life imitating artwork or one thing extra sinister? This black comedy broadly considered one of many best performs of the previous 25 years, examines the position of the artist in society and asks what worth can we pay for freedom of expression.
Martin McDonagh’s Olivier Award-winning Hangmen ran efficiently within the West End and on Broadway. His different performs embrace The Beauty Queen of Leenane, A Skull in Connemara, The Lonesome West, The Lieutenant of Inishmore, The Cripple of Inishmaan, A Behanding in Spokane and A Very Very Very Dark Matter.