Against a new play by Christopher Shinn directed by Ian Rickson at the Almeida Saturday 12 August – Saturday 30 September will see Ben Whishaw return to the theatre after his performance in Bakkhai.
Silicon Valley. The future. A rocket launches. Luke is an aerospace billionaire who can talk to anyone. But God is talking to him. He sets out to change the world. Only violence stands in his way.
Christopher Shinn’s gripping new play, directed by Ian Rickson, features Ben Whishaw as Luke.
Against is one of the productions in the recently announced Spring season, which also includes:
THE TREATMENT, Martin Crimp’s contemporary satire, receives its first London revival after 24 years, directed by Lyndsey Turner
The cast includes Aisling Loftus as Anne and Matthew Needham as Simon
INK, a new play by James Graham, directed by Almeida Artistic Director Rupert Goold, explores the birth of this country’s most influential paper, The Sun, and the mythical world of Fleet Street in the 1960s
Figures of Speech – a major new digital film project which will interrogate the vitality of speech, rhetoric, and what visionary leadership sounds like.
