The Donmar Warehouse today announces the full cast for Dominique Morisseau’s Skeleton Crew – the final production in Michael Longhurst’s tenure as Artistic Director. Olivier Award-winner Matthew Xia directs Tobi Bamtefa, Branden Cook, Pamela Nomvete, and Racheal Ofori.
Also announced today are the creative team joining Xia – designs are by ULTZ, lighting design by Ciarán Cunningham, composition and sound design by Nicola T. Chang, movement direction by Ingrid Mackinnon, the voice and dialect coach is Aundrea Fudge, and casting is by Anna Cooper CDG.
Morisseau’s 2016 play was nominated for three Tony Awards, including Best Play, for its 2022 Broadway run. This production, which marks the UK première, opens at Donmar Warehouse on 4 July and runs until 24 August with previews from 28 June.
In 2008 Detroit, one of the city’s last surviving car factories is threatened with closure. A tight-knit group of workers face crushing economic reality. Torn between loyalty to each other and their own self-interest, can they hang on to their dreams, to their ambitions, to hope?
Detroit-born playwright Dominique Morisseau’s masterful feeling for voice and character brings depth and authenticity to a story about the human effects of a global financial crisis.
