The production will run at the theatre from the 5th to the 29th March.
It has been confirmed that Madeleine Brettingham’s play Dear Martin is heading to the Arcola Theatre next month.
Directed by Wiebke Green, the cast for the production includes: Alex Mugnaioni, Ben Simpson, Edward Judge and Amelia Donkor.
Dave is the long-suffering husband. Martin is the psychopath who’s been exchanging erotic letters with Dave’s wife from a high-security hospital.
When Dave finally gathers up the courage to confront him, Martin proposes a bargain: he will help Dave reignite his marriage if Dave helps convince Martin’s psychiatrist he’s actually made a friend.
Dear Martin is a darkly comic play about mental health, redemption, and two men finding a moment of connection in their otherwise lonely lives.
Talking about the play Madeleine Brettingham said, “Dear Martin is a play about why we relate. I wanted to explore what makes relationships work, why we’re drawn to some people and repelled by others and what relating is, through the prism of a funny, flawed and unusual friendship between two people who are struggling with it in different ways. Dear Martin is a play about exploitation and love and the inability of either to completely account for the things that we do. I’m very excited to see this brilliant director and theatre bring it to life.”
Meanwhile, the creative team behind the show includes: set and costume design by Kit Hinchcliffe and sound design by Julian Starr.
To book tickets visit: https://www.arcolatheatre.com/whats-on/dear-martin/