The production will run at the Marylebone Theatre from the 17th October until the 29th November.
It has been announced that Anna Ziegler’s The Wanderers will receive its UK premiere this autumn, playing at the Marylebone Theatre directed by Award-winning director Igor Golyak (winner of four Off Broadway Awards for Our Class).
The news comes as the play made its Off-Broadway debut at the at the Laura Pels Theatre in 2023.
Officially opening in London on the 22nd October, this new production of the play will feature designs by Berlin based-Jan Pappelbaum, Head of Set-Design-Department of Schaubühne theatre in Berlin since 2000.
Abe is a celebrated writer with a restless spirit and certain disdain for religion—including his own. He is married to Sophie, another writer, whose first book was overlooked. She doubts she has a second book in her— Abe has his doubts too. Their marriage, while rooted in love, is marked by tension, quiet rivalry, and unresolved discontent.
Then an unexpected email from a movie star sets Abe on a flirtatious and increasingly risky journey. What starts as curiosity spirals into something deeper—an unravelling of long-buried truths – threatening his marriage, his sense of self, and the life he thought he built.
Meanwhile, in another time and place, Esther and Schmuli are shy young Orthodox Jews entering an arranged marriage after only one meeting. Gradually, Esther finds herself suffocated by the strictures of her ultra-religious world. A dissatisfaction that couldn’t have higher stakes when it starts to jeopardise her family and the foundation of the only life she’s ever known.
Full casting and creative team have yet to be announced.
Anna Ziegler is an award-winning playwright and screenwriter whose work has been staged around the world, from New York to London to Tokyo. She is best known for Photograph 51, which starred Nicole Kidman in the West End and won the WhatsOnStage Award for Best New Play. She is currently adapting the play for film, to be directed by Tom Hooper. Talking about The Wanderers coming to London she said: “I couldn’t be more thrilled to bring these five characters—each restless, each full of yearning—to wander in London under Igor Golyak’s inventive, poetic, and emotionally rigorous eye. I can’t wait to see their world unfold on his watch.”
Director Igor Golyak commented, “Theatre, at its essence, is a quiet conversation with the soul, unravelling the delicate threads between tradition and change. In The Wanderers, we see the poetic tragedy of longing—beautiful, endless, and profoundly human.”
To book tickets visit: https://www.marylebonetheatre.com/productions/the-wanderers