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People, Places and Things announces West End return season

Published on

March 14, 2024

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Duncan Macmillan's smash hit play People, Places and Things is to return to the West End with Denise Gough reprising her Olivier Award-winning role for a limited season.

People Places and Things

The original, smash hit production of People, Places and Things will make a triumphant return to London’s West End, this spring.  Duncan Macmillan’s intoxicating play, directed by the acclaimed, award-winning Jeremy Herrin and originally co-produced by the National Theatre and Headlong, will run at the Trafalgar Theatre from 3 May until 10 August 2024.  Tickets will go on sale to the public, on Friday 15 March at 10am, from £20. BOOK TICKETS FOR PEOPLE PLACES AND THINGS Denise Gough will reprise her Olivier Award-winning role as Emma, a struggling actress whose life is spinning recklessly out of control.  Gough won ‘Best Actress’ at the 2016 Olivier Awards and at the Critics’ Circle Theatre Awards for her ‘career defining performance’ (Evening Standard) in People Places and Things at the National Theatre in 2015.

Emma was having the time of her life.  Now she’s in rehab.  Her first step is to admit that she has a problem.  But the problem isn’t with Emma, it’s with everything else.  She needs to tell the truth.  But she’s smart enough to know that there’s no such thing.  When intoxication feels like the only way to survive the modern world, how can she ever sober up?

Denise Gough, said: “I am beyond excited and so grateful to be returning to the role of Emma in People, Places and Things. Duncan Macmillan’s incredible play was a life changing experience for me and many others. It brought me pure joy, night after night, to take to the stage to share Emma’s story and I can’t wait to bring her back to new audiences and to give voice, and space, to people that live with or have experienced any form of addiction”

The creative team includes director, Jeremy Herrin; set designer, Bunny Christie; costume designer, Christina Cunningham; lighting designer, James Farncombe; music, Matthew Herbert; sound designer, Tom Gibbons; video designer, Andrzej Goulding; movement director, Polly Bennett; casting by Jessica Ronane CDG CSA; and original casting by Wendy Spon.  Further casting to be announced.

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