The National Theatre and Neal Street Productions introduced right this moment that Michael Balogun, Hadley Fraser and Nigel Lindsay will play the Lehman brothers, and a solid of characters together with their sons and grandsons, when the critically acclaimed, five-time Tony Award® profitable manufacturing of The Lehman Trilogy returns to London’s West End. Written by Stefano Massini, tailored by Ben Power and directed by multi-award-winning director, Sam Mendes with set design by Es Devlin, The Lehman Trilogy is a rare feat of storytelling instructed in three elements on a single night. Playing for a restricted 17-week run on the Gillian Lynne Theatre from 24 January till 20 May 2023. Tickets can be found from £20.
Michael Balogun (Death of England: Delroy, Macbeth, National Theatre) will play the function of Emanuel Lehman with Hadley Fraser (The Antipodes, National Theatre; Coriolanus, Donmar Warehouse) taking part in the function of Mayer Lehman and Nigel Lindsay (The Pillowman, A Small Family Business, National Theatre) taking part in the function of Henry Lehman. They will probably be joined by pianist, Yshani Perinpanayagam.
Returning to carry out the understudy roles will probably be, Ravi Aujla as Emanuel Lehman, Will Harrison-Wallace as Mayer Lehman and Leighton Pugh as Henry Lehman. Erika Gundesen would be the understudy pianist.
On a chilly September morning in 1844, a younger man from Bavaria stands on a New York dockside dreaming of a brand new life within the new world. He is joined by his two brothers, and an American epic begins. 163 years later, the agency they set up – Lehman Brothers – spectacularly collapses out of business, triggering the biggest monetary disaster in historical past. Weaving collectively almost two centuries of household historical past, The Lehman Trilogy charts the common-or-garden beginnings, outrageous successes, and devastating failure of the monetary establishment that might finally carry the worldwide economic system to its knees.
The Lehman Trilogy was essentially the most awarded play on Broadway earlier this 12 months, profitable Best Play, Best Director, Best Set Design, Best Lighting Design and Best Actor on the 2022 Tony Awards®. It additionally gained the Drama League Award for Best Play and 6 Outer Critics Circle Awards, together with Best Play.
Mendes is joined by set designer, Es Devlin; costume designer, Katrina Lindsay; video designer, Luke Halls; lighting designer Jon Clark; composer and sound designer, Nick Powell; co-sound designer, Dominic Bilkey; music director, Candida Caldicot; motion director, Polly Bennett and West End director, Zoé Ford Burnett. Company voice work is by Charmian Hoare with casting by Jessica Ronane CDG. They are joined by affiliate director, Rory McGregor; affiliate casting director Abby Galvin and affiliate designer, Amalie White.
First commissioned by Neal Street Productions and developed and co-produced with the National Theatre on the Lyttelton theatre in 2018, adopted by an acclaimed sold-out run on the Park Avenue Armory within the Spring of 2019, The Lehman Trilogy returned to London for a 16-week sold-out run on the Piccadilly Theatre within the West End from May till August 2019. Following Broadway’s 18-month shutdown, The Lehman Trilogy was the primary British play to return to Broadway — the place it had beforehand performed 4 performances in March 2020 — for a much-lauded restricted engagement on the Nederlander Theatre from September 2021 till January 2022. A Los Angeles switch to Center Theatre Group’s Ahmanson Theatre adopted from March till April 2022.
Prior to this, the world premiere of Stefano Massini’s The Lehman Trilogy opened on the Piccolo Teatro in Milan in 2015. It turned out to be Artistic Director Luca Ronconi’s closing manufacturing earlier than his demise. A protracted-term admirer of Ronconi’s, Sam Mendes was impressed to start planning an English adaptation for Neal Street Productions. Ben Power was commissioned by Neal Street Productions to create a brand new model of this epic play, utilizing a literal English translation by Mirella Cheeseman.
The Lehman Trilogy within the West End is supported by American Express, the National Theatre’s Preferred Card Partner.