Donmar Warehouse

Anna Ziegler is one of those American playwrights who has had a million hits back home and remains virtually unproduced over here, (the sole exception being Photograph 51, which was a stonking West End hit about 10 years ago – less because it was an all time classic and more because it had Nicole Kidman in it.) Evening all Afternoon isn’t necessarily one for the ages either. However, it’s pretty good, and more to the point the 90-minute two-hander is a tremendous vehicle for two actors. It enables an absolutely storming stage debut for Erin Kellyman, the 27-year-old Brit who has been making a name for herself as a screen actor since her teenage years and now ticks ‘being great on stage’ off with an effortlessness that recalls Jodie Comer’s belated theatre debut a couple of years back. She plays Delilah, the surly university-age American daughter to an unseen British father. He’s taken her back home to England where she studies, sulks and slowly disintegrates, marinating in a dangerous psychological stew of grief at her mother’s death and the isolation of the Covid lockdown. And also resentment, of her dad’s new wife Jennifer (Anastasia Hille). An absolutely storming stage debut for Erin Kellyman The play is built on a fascinating variation on the old Brit/Yank culture clash. With her fabulous frizz of fair and perpetual scowl, Kellyman’s Delilah is a brassy, DGAF, New York-raised hipster who absolutely does not care about speaking her mind or causing offence. This puts her...

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.

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.