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Fri 20 Jun 2025 - Sat 9 Aug 2025
INTIMATE APPAREL
BY LYNN NOTTAGE
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INTIMATE APPAREL

BY LYNN NOTTAGE
SAMIRA WILEY
Fri 20 Jun 2025 - Sat 9 Aug 2025

LIMITED TICKETS AVAILABLE 

Best availability for 35 AND UNDER £20 TICKETS from 1 August 

 

★★★★★ “One of the cultural events of the year” The Telegraph

★★★★★ "The acting is incredibly fine: Lynette Linton’s great gift is to see people from every angle” The Guardian

★★★★★ “Lynn Nottage’s masterpiece... Beautifully staged and acted... Samira Wiley mesmerises... Absolutely exquisite” Sunday Express

★★★★★ “Powered by an astonishing central performance by Samira Wiley" WhatsOnStage

★★★★★ “An exceptional cast... This is high couture drama, tailored to perfection in Lynette Linton’s seamless staging. Unmissable.” Daily Mail

★★★★★ “Lynn Nottage’s play shimmers with quality… one of the year’s best performances” Mail on Sunday

★★★★★ “Triumphant, moving and evocative... Samira Wiley is amazing” The Rendition

★★★★★ “A timeless exploration of love, identity and human connection…not to be missed” Afridiziak

★★★★★ “Riveting… a perfectly crafted show: not a stitch wasted” London Theatre

★★★★★ “This is storytelling at its finest... a beautifully woven triumph” Theatre Weekly

"Do you think there's something wrong with a woman alone?"

New York, 1905. Emmy Award winner Samira Wiley plays Esther, who sews exquisite lingerie for women from all walks of life. Successful and fiercely independent, she dreams of opening her own beauty salon, but can’t shake the longing to fall in love. When she begins to receive beautiful letters from a lonesome stranger, it looks like it could just be her ticket to happiness.

Double Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Lynn Nottage reunites with director Lynette Linton (Critics’ Circle Best Director for Blues for an Alabama Sky) for this new production of one of Nottage’s most acclaimed plays, following their sell-out productions of Sweat and Clyde’s for the Donmar.

With special thanks to our Season Supporter, Charles Holloway OBE

 

RUNNING TIME
Approximately 2 hours and 25 minutes including a 20 minute interval. 

 

CONTENT GUIDANCE

PLEASE NOTE this production contains haze, loud music and the smoking of herbal cigarettes on stage.

 

Please see our content guidance here.

PERFORMANCE TIMES
Evenings Mon – Sat 7.30pm
Thursday & Saturday matinees 2.30pm

TICKET PRICES*
£60 | £45 | £25

£15 standing tickets will be released at a later date

*Tickets are subject to a £1.50 transaction fee, waived for Members

35 AND UNDER £20 TICKETS
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ACCESS
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Captioned performance Monday 28 July at 7.30pm

Audio described performance Saturday 2 August at 2.30pm

 

Cast, Creative

Nicola Hughes

Actor

Claudia Jolly

Actor

Kadiff Kirwan

Actor

Faith Omole

Actor

Alex Waldmann

Actor

Samira Wiley

Actor

Lynn Nottage

Writer

Lynette Linton

Director

Alex Berry

Designer

Jai Morjaria

Lighting Designer

George Dennis

Sound Designer

Cynthia De La Rosa

Wigs, Hair and Make Up Designer

XANA

Composer and Musical Director

Gino Ricardo Green

Video Designer

Shelley Maxwell

Movement and Intimacy Coordinator

Lotte Hines CDG

Casting Director

Anna Cooper CDG

Casting Director

Hazel Holder

Voice & Dialect Coach

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Production Photography by Helen Murray

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