The production will run at the Kiln Theatre from the 3rd April until the 10th May 2025.
The Kiln Theatre in association with Paines Plough has announced that Katie Posner, Joint Artistic Director of Paines Plough, will direct the world premiere of Amy Ng’s Shanghai Dolls.
Tickets for the production, which concludes Amit Sharma’sinaugural season as Kiln’s Artistic Director and CEO, for Kiln Card holders and Kiln Theatre donors are on sale today, 13 September at 12pm; with general on sale from 16 September at 12pm.
When two penniless actresses meet in Shanghai at auditions for Ibsen’s A Doll’s House, they quickly become inseparable. But as political upheaval rips through China, their tumultuous friendship will alter not only the course of their lives, but the course of history. One will become China’s first female director. The other, the architect of the Cultural Revolution.
Casting and further creative team have yet to be announced.
Amy Ng’s previous plays include: Under the Umbrella (Belgrade Theatre Coventry, UK Tour), Acceptance (Hampstead Theatre) and Shangri-La (Finborough Theatre).
Katie Posner joined Paines Plough as Joint Artistic Director with Charlotte Bennett in August 2019. For Paines Plough, Katie has most recently directed Fringe First award winning play Strategic Love Play by Miriam Battye, You Bury Me by Ahlam (winner of the Women’s Prize for Playwriting) which premiered at Bristol Old Vic, Edinburgh Lyceum and the Orange Tree, Hungry (Soho Theatre/Roundabout Edinburgh), Really Big and Really Loud and Black Love (Co-Director for Roundabout) and You Bury Me staged reading for the Edinburgh International Festival (Paines Plough/ Ellie Keel Productions/ 45 North).
For more information about the production visit: https://kilntheatre.com/whats-on/shanghai-dolls/