The Donmar Warehouse's U.K. premiere of Dominique Morisseau’s Skeleton Crew, the final production in Michael Longhurst’s tenure as artistic director, officially opens July 3 following previews that began June 28.
Olivier winner Matthew Xia directs the production, which is currently scheduled through August 24. The cast features Tobi Bamtefa as Reggie, Branden Cook as Dez, Pamela Nomvete as Faye, and Racheal Ofori as Shanita.
Skeleton Crew is set in 2008 Detroit at one of the city’s
last surviving car factories, which is threatened with closure. A
tight-knit group of workers is torn between loyalty to each other and
their own self-interest.
The production also has designs by ULTZ, lighting design by Ciarán Cunningham, composition and sound design by Nicola T. Chang, movement direction by Ingrid Mackinnon, voice and dialect coaching by Aundrea Fudge, and casting by Anna Cooper.
For its 2022 Broadway run, Morisseau’s 2016 play was nominated for three Tony Awards, including Best Play. Phylicia Rashad won the Tony for her performance as Faye.
Morisseau is the author of The Detroit Project, a three-play cycle that includes Skeleton Crew (Atlantic Theater Company), Paradise Blue (Signature Theatre), and Detroit ’67 (Public Theater, Classical Theatre of Harlem and NBT) as well as Pipeline (Lincoln Center Theater), Sunset Baby (LAByrinth Theatre), Blood at the Root (National Black Theatre), and Follow Me to Nellie’s (Premiere Stages). She is also the Tony-nominated book writer of Ain’t Too Proud – The Life and Times of the Temptations.
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