For a strictly limited run, Lucy Kirkwood‘s THE HUMAN BODY is coming to the Donmar Warehouse.
Two worlds meet in a romantic drama which sees stars of film and TV, Keeley Hawes and Jack Davenport, make their long-awaited returns to the London stage.
THE HUMAN BODY is a story of political and private passions from multi-award-winning writer Lucy Kirkwood (The Witches, Mosquitoes, Chimerica). In his final production as Artistic Director of the Donmar Warehouse, Michael Longhurst directs together with Ann Yee, with whom he previously collaborated on Next to Normal and Caroline, or Change.
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1948, Shropshire: the winter is freezing, austerity is biting and Iris Elcock, GP, Socialist and Labour party councillor, is working tirelessly to implement Nye Bevan’s National Health Service Act and its revolutionary promise of free health care for all. At home she is a mother, and wife to a fellow GP, an ex-Navy man scarred by the war. But a chance meeting with George Blythe, a local boy who has made it to Hollywood, turns her quiet, certain world upside down.
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2hrs 45mins, including interval.
Jack Davenport, Tom Goodman-Hill, Flora Jacoby Richardson, Keeley Hawes, Audrey Kattan, Pearl Mackie, Siobhán Redmond
Lucy Kirkwood (Writer), Michael Longhurst (Director), Ann Yee (Director), Joshua Pharo (Lighting Designer), Ben and Max Ringham (Sound Designers), Nathan Amzi (Video Designer), Joe Ransom (Video Designer)
