The Donmar Warehouse have announced full casting for the UK première of Jackie Sibblies Drury’s Marys Seacole, which runs from 15 April-4 June. 

Directed by Nadia Latif, the production stars Déja J. Bowens (Mamie), Llewella Gideon (Duppy Mary), Kayla Meikle (Mary), Esther Smith (Miriam), Olivia Williams (May), and Susan Wooldridge (Merry).

Mary Seacole was the pioneering Jamaican nurse who bravely voyaged to heal soldiers in the Crimean War. She was a traveller, a hotelier and a businesswoman. She was the most impressive woman you’ve ever met.

Putting the concept of a biopic through a kaleidoscope, Marys Seacole is a dazzling exploration across oceans and eras of what it means to be a woman who is paid to care, and how, ultimately, no one is in charge of their own story.

The UK premiere of Pulitzer Prize winner Jackie Sibblies Drury’s celebrated new play reunites the team behind her critically-acclaimed Fairview in 2019.

Marys Seacole is designed by Tom Scutt, with lighting by Jessica Hung Han Yun, sound and composition by Xana, and movement by Theo TJ Lowe.

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