Donmar Warehouse

And sometimes you get them, sometimes you don't.

I quite liked Ilfer Boy at the Donmar, which is by Denny Lee Winter, the actor, author's second ever play.

Very sweet, very touching.

I was not so enamored of Some Woman at the National Theater in the Dorfman.

And there's not enough of them for there to be like a wealth of great work.

So even at these smaller spaces, you don't get a fringy or edgy it's still a lot of like star-led plays like at the Almeida Theatre it's a revival at the moment of Golden Boy starring Josh O'Connor from The Crown and Challengers and the Donmar Warehouse is another smaller venue but it's still a lot of like star-led plays and that kind of a thing I'll think of something as soon as we finish recording this and I'll send you some recommendations but I don't know if we have no that

was a hypothetical I'm not literally getting on a plane tomorrow

Oh, OK.

And I'd seen him on stage as well

look I'd seen him at the Donmar roundabout that time and maybe even something else I'm forgetting but yeah.

Yeah I mean how often is it I mean it must be that you you bring people back that you've seen before and what was it in particular about Josh that you were like I need to see him again for this?

So we had been on quite a long process and we'd seen amazing actors and let me just stress that the people who do not get the part are also very often amazing.

And we had all produced each other's shows and been in each other's shows and collaborated, you know, 25 years ago, longer.

And one of them runs the Donmar Warehouse and one of them's a successful producer.

One of them's a successful children's novelist and one of them's a famous actor.

And we were all sort of standing next to each other, walking into the Olivier's together.

It's all about a young guy growing up in Ilford in the mid-90s, and it's absolutely fantastic.

And it's at the Donmar Warehouse, everyone.

Fancy.

In London.

Old Wick.

An Ilford Boy by Danny Lee Winter at the Donmar Warehouse about, well, a boy living in Ilford and a bit more than that as well.

I spoke to one of our favourite people, Ronke Adekulejo, who is currently starring in Blood of My Blood at the Royal Court.

And Bridgerton's Isabella Way, who is in The Hungry Ghost at the Bush Studio, answered our five questions.

Thank you, Romco, for being with us on the London Theatre Review.

Thank you so much, Nancy, for having me.

Our second review this week is Ilford Boy at the Donmar Warehouse, written by Danny Lee Winter.

This follows the trials and tribulations of mixed-race teenager Ted as he grows up in 90s East London.

We call ourselves world-class theatre makers because that's what we are.

Where the production values that we put on every single show that we produce now is something that could sit beautifully in the Dorfman or the Royal Court or the Donmar or anything like that.

What's going on in Swansea right now is really exciting,

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She played Annie.

She went on to star in many big stage productions, as The Go-Between, Little Red Riding Hood, in Donmar Warehouse in 1998.

She was Tallulah in the National Youth Theatre production of Bugsy Malone.

She was in Tin Pan Ali.

Daniel York Lowe is an actor, writer, filmmaker and musician.

As an actor, he has appeared at the Royal Shakespeare Company, the National Theatre, the Donmar Warehouse, the Royal Court and in the West End.

He recently starred opposite Sheridan Smith in the critically acclaimed drama, I Fought the Law.

As an activist, he has served on the Equity Race Equality Committee and was honoured on the Diversity Power List 2022 to 2023.