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Running Time
Approximately one hour 30 minutes, without an intervalSuitable for ages
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Preview
PwC £10 Previews 23–27 SepAccess Performances
Audio Described:
Thursday 16 October, 7.30pm (Touch Tour 5.30pm)
Saturday 25 October, 2.30pm (Touch Tour 12noon)
British Sign Language (BSL) Interpreted:
Friday 24 October, 7.30pm
Saturday 25 October, 2.30pm
Captioned:
Saturday 25 October, 2.30pm
Monday 27 October, 7.30pm
Relaxed (also Audio Described, Captioned and BSL Interpreted):
Saturday 25 October, 2.30pm (Touch Tour 12noon)
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Dates
23 Sep–01 Nov 2025About the show
90 minutes.
70 years.
11 scenes.
5 Marys.
1 extraordinary life.
Starring Academy Award winner Susan Sarandon (Dead Man Walking, Thelma & Louise) and Academy Award nominee Andrea Riseborough (To Leslie, Matilda The Musical), The Old Vic presents the UK premiere of this vivid time-jumping mosaic of one woman’s life, by Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Tracy Letts.
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Andrea Riseborough

Andrea Riseborough
Theatre includes: The Pride (Lucille Lortel Theatre, New York); A Brief History of Helen of Troy, A Couple of Poor, Polish-Speaking Romanians (Soho); Burn/Chatroom/Citizenship (National Theatre); Measure for Measure (RSC); The Pain and the Itch (Royal Court); Ivanov (Donmar). Television includes: Alice & Jack, The Regime, ZeroZeroZero, Waco, Black Mirror, National Treasure, Bloodline. Film includes: To Leslie, Roald Dahl’s Matilda The Musical, Lee, Funny Birds, What Remains, Amsterdam, Please Baby Please, The Electrical Life of Louis Wain, Here Before, Luxor, Possessor, Nancy, The Death of Stalin, Mandy, Burden, Battle of the Sexes, The Grudge, Brighton Rock, Nocturnal Animals, Never Let Me Go, Resistance, Oblivion, The Silent Storm, Here Before, Birdman, The Kindness of Strangers, Made in Dagenham, Shadow Dancer.
Portrait: Nathan Seabrook.

Susan Sarandon

Susan Sarandon
Theatre includes: Exit the King (Broadway); A Coupla White Chicks Sitting Around Talking (Astor Place Theatre, New York); Extremities (Westside Theatre, New York); Happy Talk (Pershing Square Signature Center, New York). Television includes: Feud. Film includes: Thelma & Louise, Bull Durham, Dead Man Walking — Academy Award, SAG Award, The Rocky Horror Picture Show, Stepmom, The Client — BAFTA Award, Little Women, Lorenzo’s Oil, Atlantic City, The Hunger, The Witches of Eastwick, Bernard and Doris, Pretty Baby, Anywhere But Here, Tammy, Cloud Atlas, James and the Giant Peach, The Tempest, Enchanted, Shall We Dance?, The Meddler, Nonnas.
Portrait: Darren Tieste.

Daniella Arthur-Kennedy

Daniella Arthur-Kennedy
Mary Page Marlowe is Daniella’s professional stage debut. Training includes: The Brit School, RADA.

Eden Epstein

Eden Epstein
Theatre includes: Leopoldstadt (Broadway); Hester Street (Theatre J, Washington). Film includes: Blind, The Second Sun, Afterburn. Television includes: Sweetbitter, See.

Clare Hughes

Clare Hughes
Theatre includes: sitting, screaming (Old Fitz Theatre, Sydney). Television includes: Ponies, Ten Pound Poms, Ladies in Black. Training includes: National Institute of Dramatic Art.

Gilbert Kyem Jnr

Gilbert Kyem Jnr
Theatre includes: Hamlet/Oresteia (Almeida/Park Avenue Armoury, New York); The Lonely Londoners (Kiln/Jermyn Street); A Raisin in the Sun (Lyric Hammersmith/Leeds Playhouse/Nottingham Playhouse); Never Not Once (Park Theatre). Television includes: Rivals, Prizefighter: The Life of Jem Belcher. Training includes: LAMDA.

Melanie La Barrie

Melanie La Barrie
Theatre includes: Dr. Seuss’s The Lorax (The Old Vic); Hadestown — WhatsOnStage Award for Best Supporting Performer in a Musical, Wicked, Matilda the Musical, Les Misérables, Mary Poppins (West End); & Juliet (West End/Broadway); Dick Whittington (National Theatre); Bakkhai (Almeida); Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom (Liverpool Everyman & Playhouse). Television includes: EastEnders, Casualty, Riot Women. Film includes: London Road.

Rosy McEwen

Rosy McEwen
Theatre includes: Othello (National Theatre); Timon of Athens, Tamburlaine (RSC); The Cherry Orchard (Royal Exchange, Manchester/Bristol Old Vic). Television includes: Black Mirror, Scarpetta, Close To Me. Film includes: Mission, Harvest, Rabbit Trap, Blue Jean.

Kingsley Morton

Kingsley Morton
Theatre includes: Cry-Baby The Musical (Arcola); SuperYou (Leicester Curve); Heathers The Musical, The Addams Family (UK tour); Frostbite: Who Pinched My Muff? (Garden Theatre). Television includes: Doctors. Training includes: ArtsEd.

Hugh Quarshie

Hugh Quarshie
Theatre includes: Othello, Julius Caesar, The Rover, Macbeth, Romeo and Juliet, The Two Noble Kinsmen, Faust (RSC); The Great White Hope — Critics’ Circle Theatre Award for Best Actor (The Mermaid); Someone Who’ll Watch Over Me (Hampstead); Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom (National Theatre); Guys & Dolls (Deutsches Schauspielhaus, Hamburg). Television includes: Holby City, The Marlow Murder Club, Stephen, McDonald & Dodds, Breeders, Vera, Riches, Maryland, Absentia, White Heat. Film includes: The Murder of Stephen Lawrence, The Rainmaker, The Dogs of War, Highlander, La Chiesa, Nightbreed, Wing Commander, Star Wars: Episode I — The Phantom Menace, Conspiracy of Silence, Red Sparrow, The Railway Children Return, Book Club: The Next Chapter, The Return.

Ronan Raftery

Ronan Raftery
Theatre includes: The Real Thing (Broadway); Ravens: Spassky vs Fischer (Hampstead); The Silver Tassie (National Theatre); The Comedy of Errors (Shakespeare’s Globe); Juno and the Paycock (National Theatre); A View from the Bridge (Royal Exchange, Manchester). Television includes: Obituary, Gangs of London, The Rook, The Terror, Moone Boy, Crossing Lines, Fresh Meat. Film includes: Royal Rendezvous, Mortal Engines, Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, The Siege of Jadotville, Death of a Superhero, Captain America: The First Avenger.

Paul Thornley

Paul Thornley
Theatre includes: Harry Potter and the Cursed Child (West End/Broadway); A Chorus of Disapproval, Spend Spend Spend, Scrooge (West End); Dear England, London Road, Noises Off, The Miracle (National Theatre); In the Red and Brown Water (Young Vic); Kiss Me, Kate, Paint Your Wagon, The Tempest (Regent’s Park Open Air); The Habits (Hampstead). Television includes: Grantchester, Maigret, Call the Midwife, Sexy Beast, The Gold, Vera, Lockwood & Co., Royal B**tards: Rise of the Tudors, Shakespeare & Hathaway, The Crown, Silk, Just William, Poirot, Murderland, Foyle’s War. Film includes: The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry, The Mercy, Minions, The Brothers Grimsby, London Road, Man Up, Les Misérables, Broken, Metamorphosis.

Lauren Ward

Lauren Ward
Theatre includes: The Philadelphia Story (The Old Vic); Stranger Things: The First Shadow, Dear Evan Hansen, The Sound of Music, The Vagina Monologues, Du Barry Was a Lady, Elegies (West End); Caroline, or Change (West End/Hampstead/Chichester); Matilda the Musical (West End/RSC/Broadway); Follies, 1776, The Heiress, Carousel (Broadway); Stalled (King’s Head); Bat Boy the Musical (Southwark Playhouse); A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Camelot (Regent’s Park Open Air); The Winter’s Tale, Pericles (RSC); Johnny Johnson (Sadler’s Wells). Television includes: Kiss Me First, Doctors, A Touch of Frost, Torchwood, Broken News, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit. Film includes: Story of a Bad Boy, The Last Days of Lehman Brothers, Joe Gould’s Secret.

Noah Weatherby

Noah Weatherby
Theatre includes: Lord of the Flies (The Marlowe, Canterbury). Television includes: Too Much. Training includes: Guildhall School of Music and Drama.

Alisha Weir

Alisha Weir
Mary Page Marlowe is Alisha’s professional stage debut. Television includes: Darklands. Film includes: Abigail, Wicked Little Letters, Roald Dahl’s Matilda The Musical — Dublin Film Critics Circle Award for Breakthrough Artist, Don’t Leave Home.

Eleanor Worthington-Cox

Eleanor Worthington-Cox
Theatre includes: Jerusalem, Matilda the Musical — Olivier Award for Best Actress in a Musical (West End); Next to Normal (West End/Donmar); Much Ado About Nothing (RSC); The Little Foxes (Young Vic); The Secret Life of Bees (Almeida); Tomcat (Southwark Playhouse); Bugsy Malone (Lyric Hammersmith); To Kill a Mockingbird (Regent’s Park Open Air). Television includes: Britannia, The Irregulars, The Enfield Haunting, Cucumber, Hetty Feather. Film includes: Gwen, Action Point, Maleficent.
Felix Anderson
Griffin Ashton
Dexter Pulling
Tracy Letts
Tracy Letts
Theatre as Writer includes: August: Osage County — Pulitzer Prize for Drama, Tony Award for Best Play, Drama Desk Award for Best Play (Broadway/West End); Superior Donuts, Linda Vista, The Minutes, Fire & Rain (Broadway); Man from Nebraska (Second Stage Theater, New York/Steppenwolf, Chicago); Bug, The Scavenger’s Daughter (Steppenwolf, Chicago); Killer Joe (Next Lab Theater, Chicago). Theatre as Actor includes: Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? — Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play, Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Actor in a Play, The Realistic Joneses, All My Sons (Broadway). Television as Actor includes: The Lowdown, Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty, Homeland, The Sinner. Film as Actor includes: A House of Dynamite, Saturday Night, Ford v Ferrari, Little Women, Lady Bird, Eric Larue, The Post, The Big Short, Rosebush Pruning.
Matthew Warchus
Matthew Warchus
Theatre includes: Oedipus, The Constituent, Lungs, Present Laughter, ‘Art’, The Caretaker, The Master Builder, Future Conditional, Speed-the-Plow, OLD VIC: IN CAMERA — A Christmas Carol, Faith Healer, Three Kings, Lungs (The Old Vic); A Christmas Carol, Groundhog Day, The Norman Conquests (The Old Vic/Broadway); Life x 3 (The Old Vic/National Theatre/Broadway); Matilda the Musical (RSC/West End/Broadway/International tour); Ghost the Musical (West End/Broadway/South Korea); La Bête (West End/Broadway); God of Carnage, ‘Art’ (West End/Broadway/LA); Juno and the Paycock, Deathtrap, Endgame (West End); Our House, Much Ado About Nothing (West End/UK tour); Boeing-Boeing (West End/Broadway/UK tour); The Lord of the Rings (West End/Toronto); Buried Child, Volpone (National Theatre); Follies (Broadway); True West (Donmar/Broadway); The Unexpected Man (RSC/West End/Broadway); Hamlet, Henry V (RSC); Betrayal, Death of a Salesman, The Plough and the Stars, Fiddler on the Roof, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, True West, Peter Pan (Leeds Playhouse). Opera includes: Falstaff, Così Fan Tutte (ENO); The Rake’s Progress (RBO/WNO). Film includes: Roald Dahl’s Matilda The Musical, Pride — BIFA Best British Independent Film, Simpatico. Matthew was an Associate Director at Leeds Playhouse and Artistic Associate at The Old Vic before being appointed Artistic Director of the theatre in 2014.
Rob Howell
Rob Howell
Theatre includes: Eureka Day, Lungs, Present Laughter, Dr. Seuss’s The Lorax, The Caretaker, The Master Builder, Future Conditional, A Flea in Her Ear, Inherit the Wind, Speed-the-Plow, Complicit, OLD VIC: IN CAMERA — A Christmas Carol, Faith Healer (The Old Vic); A Christmas Carol — two Tony Awards for Best Costume Design and Best Scenic Design, The Norman Conquests, Groundhog Day (The Old Vic/Broadway); The Hills of California (West End/Broadway); Matilda the Musical — Olivier Award for Best Set Design, Tony Award for Best Scenic Design (RSC/West End/Broadway/International tour); The Ferryman — two Tony Awards for Best Costume Design and Best Scenic Design (Royal Court/West End/Broadway). Film as Costume Designer includes: Roald Dahl’s Matilda The Musical. Rob has also worked at other venues including the National Theatre, Almeida, Donmar, Young Vic, Bristol Old Vic, Chichester, RBO and Metropolitan Opera.
Hugh Vanstone
Hugh Vanstone
Theatre as an Associate Artist includes: The Constituent, ‘Art’, No’s Knife, The Caretaker, The Master Builder, Future Conditional (The Old Vic); Groundhog Day, A Christmas Carol (The Old Vic/Broadway/Australia). Theatre includes: Juno and the Paycock, Back to the Future, Anything Goes, The Height of the Storm, Mary Poppins, The Birthday Party, Venus in Fur, Dreamgirls (West End); Matilda the Musical (West End/Broadway); Hillary and Clinton, The Boys in the Band (Broadway); Double Feature, The Snail House, The Forest (Hampstead); Exit the King, The Red Lion (National Theatre). Awards include three Olivier Awards, two Tony Awards and a Molière Award. Hugh is an Honorary Fellow of the Guildhall School of Music and Drama.
Simon Baker
Simon Baker
Theatre includes: The Constituent, Present Laughter, The Caretaker, The Master Builder, Future Conditional, High Society, Electra, The Norman Conquests, Hedda Gabler, OLD VIC: IN CAMERA — A Christmas Carol, Faith Healer, Three Kings, Lungs (The Old Vic); Girl from the North Country (The Old Vic/West End/Broadway/Worldwide); Groundhog Day, A Christmas Carol — Tony Award for Best Sound Design for a Play (The Old Vic/Broadway); Wise Children (The Old Vic/UK tour); Matilda the Musical — Olivier Award for Best Sound (RSC/West End/Broadway/Worldwide); Hamnet (RSC/West End); Shakespeare in Love (West End); The Artist (Theatre Royal Plymouth); Hex, The Light Princess, Amen Corner (National Theatre); Wuthering Heights (National Theatre/UK & International tour); Buddha of Suburbia (RSC); North By Northwest, Blue Beard (UK tour); Malory Towers (York Theatre Royal/UK tour); Twelfth Night, A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Shakespeare’s Globe).
Jim Carnahan, CSA
Jim Carnahan, CSA
Theatre includes: Oedipus, Groundhog Day, Eureka Day, The 47th, Speed-the-Plow (The Old Vic); Evita, The Seagull, An Enemy of the People, Lemons Lemons Lemons Lemons Lemons, Mad House, Betrayal, Glengarry Glen Ross, The Glass Menagerie (West End); Stranger Things: The First Shadow, Plaza Suite (West End/Broadway); Waiting for Godot, Oedipus, Just In Time, The Hills of California, SUNSET BLVD., Cult of Love, Pirates! The Penzance Musical, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, Moulin Rouge! The Musical, Appropriate, Merrily We Roll Along, A Beautiful Noise, A Doll’s House, Take Me Out, Leopoldstadt, Funny Girl (Broadway). Television includes: Glee. Film includes: Beau Is Afraid.
Sam Stevenson, CDG
Sam Stevenson, CDG
Theatre includes: Labour of Love, Breakfast at Tiffany’s, Waiting for Godot (West End); Noises Off (Lyric Hammersmith/West End); Translations, Home, I’m Darling, Tartuffe, Blood and Gifts, Common, The Great Wave (National Theatre); 55 Days (Hampstead); For Services Rendered (Chichester); The Royale (Bush); Hamlet (Bristol Old Vic). Television includes: Emma, Silent Witness, Our World War, Don’t Take My Baby, Nightshift, Money, Consuming Passion, Glasgow Girls. Film includes: My Policeman, Private Peaceful, Leave to Remain, Babel, Rule Breakers.
Amy Beadel, CDG for Grindrod Burton Casting
Amy Beadel, CDG for Grindrod Burton Casting
Theatre as Children’s Casting Director includes: MJ the Musical, Aspects of Love, Elf The Musical (West End); Matilda the Musical (West End/UK & Ireland tour); The Time Traveller’s Wife (West End/Storyhouse, Chester); Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (Almeida); The Parent Agency (Storyhouse, Chester); Sinatra The Musical (Birmingham Rep); Starter for Ten (Bristol Old Vic); Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat (UK tour). Theatre as Casting Director includes: Mamma Mia! (West End/UK & International tour); My Fair Lady (UK & Ireland tour). Film includes: Hamnet, Roald Dahl’s Matilda The Musical, Disenchanted, Zombies 4.
Charlie Hughes-D’Aeth
Charlie Hughes-D’Aeth
Theatre includes: The Brightening Air, Oedipus, The Real Thing, The Constituent, Machinal, Just For One Day, Pygmalion, Groundhog Day, Sylvia, Eureka Day, Camp Siegfried, Lungs, A Very Expensive Poison, Present Laughter, The American Clock, A Monster Calls, Girl from the North Country, The Divide, A Christmas Carol, Woyzeck, ‘Art’, The Caretaker, The Master Builder, Future Conditional (The Old Vic); Cymbeline (Shakespeare’s Globe); When Winston Went to War with the Wireless (Donmar); What’s New Pussycat? (Birmingham Rep); Fantastically Great Women Who Changed the World (UK tour); Consultant Voice Coach for Matilda the Musical (Resident 2010–14), The Gods Weep, The Tempest, Much Ado About Nothing (RSC).
Penny Dyer
Penny Dyer
Penny has worked on numerous theatre, TV and film productions since the 1980s. Theatre includes: The Constituent, Groundhog Day, Eureka Day, Faith Healer, A Very Expensive Poison, Present Laughter, The American Clock, Girl from the North Country, A Christmas Carol, The Caretaker (The Old Vic); Hello, Dolly!, Long Day’s Journey into Night, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (West End); Ballet Shoes, The Corn is Green, The Normal Heart, Follies, This House (National Theatre); The Human Body, When Winston Went to War with the Wireless, Roots (Donmar); Linda, Posh (Royal Court). Television includes: Mandrake, Mr Bates vs The Post Office, Scoop, Wednesday. Film includes: Roald Dahl’s Matilda The Musical, After Love, The Mauritanian, The Danish Girl, Pride, Philomena, The Queen, The Damned United, Elizabeth.
Lilac Yosiphon
Lilac Yosiphon
Theatre as Director includes: Kaleidoscopes (West End); Kiss Me Quickstep (Derby Theatre); Scenes from RENT (Leicester Curve); Oh What A Lovely War (Leicester Curve/De Montfort University); I Want to Live (Theatre Royal Stratford East); Heroes (Vault Festival); The Glass Will Shatter (Omnibus Theatre); Home Sweet Home (Stratford Circus Arts Centre/Jacksons Lane); One Last Thing (For Now) (Old Red Lion Theatre). Theatre as Associate/Assistant Director includes: Oedipus, The Real Thing (The Old Vic); The House of Bernarda Alba (National Theatre); Billy Elliot the Musical, The Wizard of Oz (Leicester Curve); Chariots of Fire (Sheffield Theatres); Odd and the Frost Giants (Unicorn); Robin Hood and the Major Oak (Derby Theatre).
Lucy Gaiger
Lucy Gaiger
Theatre includes: The Constituent, Lungs, A Christmas Carol, ‘Art’ (The Old Vic); Juno and the Paycock, The Hills of California, Much Ado About Nothing, Venus in Fur, Bombay Dreams, Into the Woods (West End); Mamma Mia! (West End/Broadway/Worldwide); The Ferryman (Royal Court/West End/Broadway); The Phantom of the Opera (West End/UK tour); The Light in the Piazza (West End/Chicago); Arcadia, The Madness of George III, Wind in the Willows, Cardiff East, The Skriker, The Caucasian Chalk Circle (National Theatre); Young Marx (The Bridge); Heartbreak House (Almeida); The Blue Room, Nine (Donmar); 8 Hotels (Chichester). Television includes: In the Long Run. Film includes: Lift, Wicked, The Madness of King George, Roald Dahl’s Matilda The Musical.
Emma Laxton
Emma Laxton
Theatre as Sound Designer includes: WALDEN, That Face, My Name Is Rachel Corrie, Emilia — Oliver Award for Best Sound Design (West End); The Collaboration (Broadway); A Single Man (RBO/Factory International, Manchester); Dancing at Lughnasa (National Theatre); Titus Andronicus, The Merry Wives of Windsor, Much Ado About Nothing (RSC); A Face in the Crowd, Hamlet, Blood Wedding (Young Vic); Robin Hood: The Legend. Rewritten, Antigone (Regent’s Park Open Air); Trouble in Butetown, The York Realist, The Recruiting Officer, Measure for Measure, Coriolanus (Donmar); Living Newspaper, A Kind of People, Superhoe (Royal Court). Theatre as Associate Sound Designer includes: A Christmas Carol (The Old Vic); Equus, War Horse (West End).
Campbell Young Associates
Campbell Young Associates
Theatre includes: Oedipus, Eureka Day, Present Laughter, Dr. Seuss’s The Lorax, The Master Builder, High Society, Electra, Sweet Bird of Youth (The Old Vic); A Christmas Carol, Groundhog Day (The Old Vic/Broadway); Hercules, Mrs Warren’s Profession, Waiting for Godot, Hello, Dolly!, 42nd Street, Crazy For You, Rosmersholm, Gypsy (West End); Stranger Things: The First Shadow, The Hills of California, Back to the Future, Leopoldstadt, To Kill a Mockingbird, The Ferryman, Tina: The Tina Turner Musical (West End/Broadway); Kinky Boots, Calamity Jane (UK tour); The Fear of 13 (Donmar); Sing Street (Lyric Hammersmith); Starlight Express (Troubadour Wembley Park); Top Hat (Chichester); Guys & Dolls (The Bridge); Come Fall in Love, A Knight’s Tale (Manchester Opera House); Muriel’s Wedding (Leicester Curve).