DONMAR WEST END AT THE WYNDHAM’S THEATRE
Madame de Sade by Yukio Mishima
Translated from the Japanese by Donald Keene

FULL CASTING ANNOUNCED FOR MADAME DE SADE
Director: Michael Grandage; Designer: Christopher Oram; Lighting Designer: Neil Austin; Composer & Sound Designer: Adam Cork; Video Designer: Lorna Heavey 13 March – 23 May
Press night: Wednesday 18 March
Judi Dench and Rosamund Pike will be joined by Frances Barber, Fiona Button, Deborah Findlay and Jenny Galloway to complete the company of Madame de Sade – the third production in the Donmar’s year long residency at the Wyndham’s Theatre. The season ends with Michael Grandage directing Jude Law as Hamlet.

Against her mother’s wishes, Renée remains vehemently devoted to her husband, the Marquis de Sade, the notorious aristocrat imprisoned in the Bastille for his lurid escapades and licentious behaviour. Set in Paris, as it hurtles towards a violent revolution, Mishima’s poetic masterpiece brings to life the fascinating story of the Marquis de Sade told through the eyes of six remarkable women.

Frances Barber plays Comtesse de Saint-Fond. She previously appeared at the Donmar in Insignificance. For theatre, her recent credits include King Lear & The Seagull (RSC), Antony and Cleopatra (Shakespeare’s Globe), Aladdin (Old Vic) and One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (Edinburgh Festival & Gielgud Theatre). For television, her work includes Hotel Babylon, Beautiful People, Hustle, The I.T. Crowd, Bremner Bird and Fortune, Manchild and Real Women; and for film, Goal, Photographing Fairies and Prick Up Your Ears.

Fiona Button plays Anne. For theatre, her work includes Hay Fever (Manchester Royal Exchange), Ring Round the Moon (Playhouse Theatre) and Rock ‘n’ Roll (Duke of York’s Theatre). Her television credits include The Omid Djalili Show and The Palace.

Judi Dench plays Madame de Montreuil. Dench’s theatre credits include Hay Fever, The Breath of Life (Haymarket Theatre), Merry Wives of Windsor, All’s Well That Ends Well (RSC), Amy’s View (National Theatre and Broadway) and A Little Night Music (National Theatre). For television, her credits include Cranford, As Time Goes By and Last of the Blonde Bombshells; and for film, The Quantum of Solace, Notes on a Scandal, Casino Royale, Mrs Henderson Presents, Pride and Prejudice, Iris, Chocolat, Shakespeare in Love (Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress) and Mrs Brown.