New Plays by Tom Basden, Sam Holcroft, DC Moore, and Prasanna Puwanarajah Set for Royal National Theatre’s Double Feature

The Royal National Theatre is set to present four short plays by writers new to the National Theatre under the collective title Double Feature, July 8-August 30, at the Cottesloe Theatre. A live band and a single group of performers and theatre-makers will premiere the two double-bills, directed by Polly Findlay and Lyndsey Turner.

The first double bill will include Edgar & Annabel by Sam Holcroft, which paints a picture of a police state in crisis and The Swan by DC Moore, a touching and funny play about a fractured family settling their accounts. The second double bill will feature Prasanna Puwanarajah’s Nightwatchman, a vivid exploration of the search for the meaning of home and Tom Basden’s There Is a War, a journey into the dark heart of a strange and surreal conflict and a miniature epic explores the mad savagery of war with biting black comedy.

The cast will include Pippa Bennett-Warner, Karina Fernandez, Trystan Gravelle, Nitin Kundra, and Stephanie Street. Soutra Gilmour will design, with lighting by James Farncombe, sound by Carolyn Downing, and fight direction by Bret Yount.

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