We’re counting down to the official opening of the European premiere of Anna Zeigler’s Actually. Yasmin Paige and Simon Manyonda star in this provocative new play by the author of Photograph 51. Check out our gallery of first-look production photography – and then get booking!
Actually receives its European premiere at the West End’s Trafalgar Studios, where it runs from 6 to 31 August 2019, with a post-show Q&A chaired by Mate Terri Paddock on Friday 9 August and a press night on Monday 12 August.
One night. Two people. Three truths.
Terri Paddock chairs an Actually post-show Q&A at Trafalgar Studios on Friday 9 August 2019. Click here for tickets!
Amber and Tom hook up at a party at their elite American university and spend the night together. They agree on the drinking, they agree on the attraction, but what actually happened between them?
Through conflicting accounts of a college hook up, Actually boldly delves into the messiest of grey areas and the intersectional complexities of race, religion and gender, controversially picking at our individual biases and internalised prejudices in ‘he said, she said’ cases of sexual consent.
In our age of fake news, victim shaming and #MeToo, Actually is an urgent exploration into our need for an absolute truth when faced with opposing versions. Can we ever truly know what happened between two people behind closed doors?
Actually was first seen in Los Angeles in 2017 and later that year received its Off-Broadway premiere at the Manhattan Theatre Club. Yasmin Paige and Simon Manyonda star in this European premiere production of Actually, directed by Oscar Toeman and presented by Announcement Productions.
This is American dramatist Anna Ziegler‘s first play in London since the 2015 European premiere of Photograph 51, directed by Michael Grandage and starring Nicole Kidman.
Show photos
Production photography by Lidia Crisafulli.
