Blood, sand and euphoria – take a look at these stunning production images from the UK premiere of Sinners – The English Professor, then book your tickets!
The taut drama, which stars Nicole Ansari, runs at the Playground Theatre until 14 March 2020.
Layla, a University professor in an unnamed Muslim country, is denounced for an affair with her former student, Nur, and is waiting to be stoned to death for adultery. Nur can save his own life by throwing the first stone. What choice will he make?
The play, written by Joshua Sobol, examines both Layla’s and Nur’s choices for love and survival, and the striving for freedom in a patriarchal culture.
Sobol, who wrote Sinners – The English Professor in 2008, is an Israeli novelist and playwright whose work includes Alice and Martin, Bereaved and the Evening Standard Award-winning Ghetto.
Ansari, who plays Layla, boasts stage credits including Rock ‘n’ Roll (Royal Court Theatre/Duke of York’s Theatre/Bernard B. Jacobs Theater), Daybreak (Beckett Theater) I am Antigone (Theater for the New City) and Hamlet (The Mirror Rep). She is joined in Sinners – The English Professor by Adam Sina, whose London productions include When My Mama was a Hittite (Park Theatre), War Horse (New London Theatre) and A Moon for the Misbegotten (The Old Vic).
Brian Cox, best known for acting roles including Succession and Nuremberg, directs.
Sinners rehearsal gallery
