Here’s a look at Marys Seacole, which is now on at the Donmar Warehouse until June 4.
Directed by Nadia Latif, it is the UK premiere of Pulitzer Prize winner Jackie Sibblies Drury’s new play, which explores what it means to be a woman who is paid to care and how, ultimately, no-one is in charge of their own story.
Mary Seacole was the pioneering Jamaican nurse who bravely voyaged to heal soldiers in the Crimean War. She was a traveller, a hotelier and a businesswoman. She was the most impressive woman you’ve ever met.
The cast includes Déja J Bowens, Llewella Gideon, Kayla Meikle, Esther Smith, Olivia Williams and Susan Wooldridge.
The design is by Tom Scutt, lighting design by Jessica Hung Han Yan, sound design and composition by Xana, movement direction by Theo TJ Lowe, casting by Anna Cooper CDG, costume supervision by Lucy Martin, hair and makeup consultation by Dominique Hamilton, voice and dialect coaching by Hazel Holder, dialect coaching by Nia Lynn, fight direction by Kev McCurdy, props supervision by Chris Marcus and Jonathan Hall, associate design by David Allen, assistant sound design by Iman Muhammad, assistant lighting design by Ayana Enomoto-Hurst with Resident Assistant Director Josh Parr.