The Royal Court Theatre has announced the full cast and creative team for the world premiere of Are You Watching? by Georgie Dettmer.
The production runs at the Royal Court from Friday 29 May to Saturday 4 July 2026, with a press night on Thursday 4 June.
The play marks Dettmer’s professional playwriting debut, with Jess Edwards directing.
The cast includes Kosar Ali, Billy Bolt, Abby McCann, Lucy McCormick, Maimuna Memon and Nicholas Rowe.
Are You Watching? explores the intersections of pornography, deepfakes and violence against women, following a journalist wired to a machine and a mother whose grief is sold for clicks.
The play asks audiences to consider where the boundaries lie between entertainment and abuse, questioning complicity, power and control.
Georgie Dettmer said: “Are You Watching? originated from my own experience of witnessing horrors online and the grimy interplay between consumption and complicity. The play calls upon us, our bodies together in the room, to bear witness with no screens in sight! I look forward to welcoming audiences in May.”
Director Jess Edwards said: “It’s so exciting to be directing Are You Watching?, a show that asks us to look directly at where we invest our attention. Georgie has managed to bring together the darkest of human nature with catharsis and wit, inviting us to confront what makes us keep on watching, unable to tear our eyes away.”
The creative team includes designer Georgia Wilmot, lighting designer Bethany Gupwell, composer and sound designer XANA, casting director Saffeya Shebli, dramaturg Gillian Greer, intimacy coordinator Joana Nastari and assistant director Yanni Ng.
The production is supported by Genesis Next Generation at the Royal Court and the Concord Theatricals Unpublished Playwrights Award.
Listings and ticket information can be found here.
