Mary Page Marlowe

Proving you’re never too old to make your London stage debut, the great Susan Sarandon will do so aged 78 as she shares the title role of this acclaimed drama by Tracy Letts with our own Andrea Riseborough. Both brilliant screen actors who have drifted away from the stage, it’s coup for Matthew Warchus to have bagged them for his UK premiere production of Letts’s intriguing sounding play that tells the life story of its title character in willfully jumbled, mosaic-like order. It’s the first production in Warchus’s final season in charge at the Old Vic and will see the theatre reconfigured into an in the round staging that wil remain in place for the whole season.