Full casting announced for world premiere of THE HUMAN BODY at Donmar Warehouse

Full casting has been announced for the world première of Lucy Kirkwood’s The Human Body, which plays at the Donmar Warehouse from 16 February-13 April.

Joining the previously announced Keeley Hawes as Iris and Jack Davenport as George will be Tom Goodman-Hill (Rabbit Hole, Hampstead Theatre) as Julian Elcock, Flora Jacoby Richardson (professional stage debut) as Laura Elcock, Audrey Kattan (Leopoldstadt, West End) as Laura Elcock, Pearl Mackie (Grenfell: In The Words Of Survivors, National Theatre) as Sylvia Samuels, and Siobhán Redmond (The Straw Chair, Finborough Theatre) as Helen Mackeson MP, with additional characters played by members of the company.

1948, Shropshire: the winter is freezing, austerity is biting and Iris Elcock, GP, Socialist and Labour party councillor, is working tirelessly to implement Nye Bevan’s National Health Service Act and its revolutionary promise of free health care for all. At home she is a mother, and wife to an ex-Navy man scarred by the war. But a chance meeting with George Blythe, a local boy who has made it to Hollywood, turns her quiet, certain world upside down.

Michael Longhurst reunites with Ann Yee to co-direct his final production as Artistic Director, following their collaboration on the critically acclaimed Next to Normal which transfers to the Wyndham’s Theatre later this year.

The creative team is completed by designer Fly Davis, lighting designer Joshua Pharo, sound designers and composers Ben and Max Ringham, video designers Nathan Amzi and Joe Ransom, and casting director Anna Cooper CDG.

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