Downton's Michelle Dockery & Janet McTeer Will Lead Les Liaisons Dangereuses at Donmar Warehouse; Fall Season Set

Emmy and Golden Globe nominee Michelle Dockery, Tony and Olivier winner Janet McTeer and Dominic West will star in Les Liaisons Dangereuses as part of the Donmar Warehouse’s 2015 fall season. Also in the lineup is the first major London production of The Iron Lady screenwriter Abi Morgan’s Splendour and the U.K. premiere of Teddy Ferrara by Christopher Shinn.

The season kicks off on July 30 with Splendour, Morgan’s play that puts four women: a photojournalist about to shoot a portrait of a dictator, the dictator’s wife, her best friend and an interpreter, in a dangerous assembly in the opulent drawing room of the Presidential Palace. The cast will include Zawe Ashton as Gilma, Sinéad Cusack as Micheleine, Michelle Fairley as Genevieve and Genevieve O’Reilly as Kathryn. Robert Hastie will direct. Performances will run through September 26; opening night is set for August 4.

Shinn’s Teddy Ferrara will run from October 1 through December 5 under the direction of Dominic Cooke. The play follows Gabe, a college senior and chair of the LGBT Students Group and a series of unexpected events that reveal the darker, lonelier world of Teddy, a freshman at the university. The play will star Luke Newberry and Ryan McParland as Gabe and Teddy, respectively, as well as Nancy Crane, Oliver Johnstone, Kadiff Kirwan, Matthew Marsh, Anjli Mohindra, Pamela Nomvete and Nathan Wiley. The production will open officially on October 7.

Lastly, Les Liaisons Dangereuses will begin on December 11. The production, directed by artistic director Josie Rourke, will open on December 17 and run through February 13, 2016. Christopher Hampton’s adaptation of the classic 1782 novel first premiered in 1985. Dockery, known for her performance as Lady Mary Crawley in Downton Abbey, will take on the role of Madame de Tourvel, McTeer, an Oscar nominee for Albert Nobbs and Tumbleweed, will play Marquise de Merteuil and stage and screen vet West will play Vicomte de Valmont.