Donmar Warehouse reveals complete cast for ”When Winston Went to War with the Wireless”

The Donmar Warehouse has unveiled complete casting for Jack Thorne’s When Winston Went to War with the Wireless.

Thorne’s play is billed as “a true story about truth”, set during the General Strike of May 1926, when Britain came to a standstill. With the printing presses shut down, the only sources of news were the government’s The British Gazette, edited by Winston Churchill, and the independent British Broadcasting Company, led by John Reith. What follows is a fierce battle for control of the news and who gets to define the truth.

Joining previously announced cast members Stephen Campbell Moore (The History Boys) as Reith and Adrian Scarborough (Leopoldstadt) as Churchill will be Kitty Archer (as Isabel Shields), Ravin J Ganatra (as Archbishop of Canterbury/JCC Davidson), Haydn Gwynne (as Stanley Baldwin), Mariam Haque (as Muriel Reith), Kevin McMonagle (as Ernest Bevin), Luke Newberry (as Charlie Bowser), Seb Philpott (as Speaker of the House/Musician), Elliott Rennie (as Arthur Pugh/Musician), Laura Rogers (as Clemmie Churchill/Amelia Johnson), and Shubham Saraf (as Peter Eckersley).

Under the direction of Katy Rudd (The Ocean at the End of the Lane), the creative team includes designer Laura Hopkins, sound designers Ben and Max Ringham, lighting designer Howard Hudson, movement director Scott Graham, composer Gary Yershon, casting director Anna Cooper CDG, video designer and animator Andrzej Goulding, foley consultant Tom Espiner, voice coach Charlie Hughes-D’Aeth, dialect coach Penny Dyer, associate sound designer Ellie Isherwood, resident assistant director Adam Karim, assistant set and costume designer Jingyi, and assistant sound designer Raffaela Pancucci.

The show opens on 13 June, with previews from 2 June, and will run until 29 July.

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