Initial cast announced for The Vote

THE DONMAR IN PARTNERSHIP WITH CHANNEL 4 ANNOUNCES

• Initial casting for Josie Rourke’s production of the vote by James Graham: Fisayo Akinade, Madalena Alberto, Jade Anouka, Nicholas Burns, Paul Chahidi, Jackie Clune, Pandora Colin, Rosalie Craig, Heather Craney, Judi Dench, Rachel Denning, Hadley Fraser, Mark Gatiss, Llewella Gideon, Alice Hewkin, Kadiff Kirwan, Aïcha Kossoko, Wanda Opalinska, Bill Paterson, Prasanna Puwanarajah, Nina Sosanya, Catherine Tate, Yusra Warsama, Timothy West And Finty Williams.
• Set in a fictional London polling station, The Vote dramatises the final ninety minutes before the polls close in this year’s General Election. On that exact day, May 7, at that precise time 8.30 – 10pm, the play will be broadcast live on More4 from the Donmar stage.
• A national television event and a first for theatre and television, the vote is an unprecedented experiment and a major innovation in theatre and television from channel 4, the Donmar and the team behind Educating Yorkshire.
• There will be two weeks of performances at the Donmar in the run-up to the live broadcast on May 7. All of these tickets will be available through a ballot. The ballot opens 10am on Monday 30 March 2015.