Donmar All New Seasons

Not much it could be from the past 10 years or so.... Band's Visit, Gentlemens Guide or Great Comet (which would be ambitious for Donmar as it requires a large cast).

No way! For real? I'm so excited! And seems like a perfect space for such an intimate show.

Wouldn’t it have been more interesting/commercial to have done A Doll’s House in rep too ? I assume prior knowledge of “Part 1” is useful for Part 2 ?

Months (years?) ago Baz said that Laurie Metcalf was supposed to reprise her Tony winning performance, I hope it's still an option

I thought Donmar was going to announce their season this week but apparently not. Anyonme have any inside knowedgle on what shows?

I just read that Laurie Metcalf just booked a new TV series so hope that doesnt count out ADH2.

Sounds like the Donmar are following the RSC down the amateur actor path under cover of community engagement. 

Also quite amusing to hear him trying to defend the recent lengthy building works there on grounds of environmental sustainability - it all looked utterly pointless to me - moving a bar a few metres to one side for no good reason, a tiny sliver of extra space in the foyer etc. - might as well have left it the same and saved all the CO2 generated making the new concrete.   

And now officially announced!

I know generally in the subsidised theatre that runs are quite short to give the piece the best chance of transferring to the West End. However it seems mad to finish this run on 03rd December, I would have thought they would keep the show open until the New Year, it is going to easily sell out and will likely transfer to the West End, so don't understand why they are closing when they are.

A transfer isn't guaranteed by any means, just look at Fun Home.

It's a fair point, often overlooked that concrete is one of the biggest villains when it comes to generation of CO2, but if they did make proper changes to the heating and ventilation systems, then they could more than make up for it. That's opposed to a renovation to have carpets in this season's colours etc.


My friend did his PhD on the environmental burdens and costs of constructing and using buildings, it's the running costs/burdens that matter. The problem is that most of the time buildings are built by people who want to sell them on, so they build them cheap with all of the running costs (and associated environmental impacts) passed onto the user.

I like the look of the new programme with a good mix. I'm intrigued by the 12 Angry School Kids production, but what could be brilliant could also be awful. Hopefully the former.

Good ventilation isn't the same as opening a bunch of windows - that was desperation.... For what it's worth he seems to be playing into the production rather than the reasons they gave before the changes were made - namely that they needed to improve access (hence the wider gangways, shifted bars etc) and completely replace their main electrical plant, which also offered the chance to improve the ventilation. Anything else they did was the architects getting to play at the client's expense.

Not so enthused by the slate - suspect I might only go for Pt 2.

Fun Home is a great example, however surprisingly the Young Vic production wasn’t great, it was nowhere near to the New York production. Saying that I am surprised it hasn’t been done in the regional theatre since, in a better production this could be a route back to the West End. Same with Spelling Bee which was done in the same venue, that didn’t transfer too.

If The Band’s Visit did transfer it would be in a very small theatre, could even be the Other Palace as they seem to be a receiving house now.

However let’s just say we have 2 cracking productions coming over.