The Lady from the Sea

With more than 20 years in the industry Dawn began her directing career at the Royal Court Theatre. She is Founder, and former Artistic Director and Chief Executive, of Eclipse Theatre, the UK's principal Black-led national production company. In 2020, Dawn was awarded the OBE for services to Theatre. 

Theatre includes: The Death of a Black Man (Hampstead Theatre); ​​​​​​Antigone (Mercury Theatre); The Gift (Eclipse Theatre / Belgrade Theatre / Theatre Royal Stratford East); salt (Schaubühne / Public Theater / Royal Court / Summerhall / Theatre Bristol / Yorkshire Festival); Red Dust Road (National Theatre of Scotland / EIF / HOME); Black Men Walking (Eclipse Theatre / Royal Court / Royal Exchange / UK Tour).

Nominated for UK Theatre Award for Best New Play and Writer’s Guild Award for Best Play); The Princess and the Hustler (Eclipse Theatre / Bristol Old Vic / UK Tour); A Raisin in the Sun (Eclipse Theatre / Crucible Theatre / UK Tour, nominated for UK Theatre Award for Best Touring Production); One Monkey Don’t Stop No Show (Eclipse Theatre / Tricycle Theatre / UK Tour); Jonzi D - Lyrikal Feata: The Letter (Sadler’s Wells); The Hounding of David Oluwale (Eclipse Theatre / West Yorkshire Playhouse, nominated for TMA Award for Best Director); Oxford Street (nominated for Olivier Award for Outstanding Achievement in an Affiliate Theatre).

Television: salt (Performance Director for BBC 4).

Film: Samuels Trousers; 10by10 – series of 10 original short film dramas.

Radio/Podcasts: The Last Flag – BBC Radio 4 Afternoon Drama; White Open Spaces – six original short audio dramas.

Henrik Ibsen was a major 19th-century Norwegian playwright, theatre director, and poet. He is often referred to as “the father of prose drama” and is one of the founders of Modernism in the theatre. His major works include Brand, Peer Gynt, An Enemy of the People, Emperor and Galilean, A Doll’s House, Hedda Gabler, Ghosts, The Wild Duck, Rosmersholm, and The Master Builder.

Elinor Cook is a playwright whose work includes: a version of Ibsen's The Lady from the Sea (Donmar Warehouse, 2017); Out of Love (Paines Plough/Theatr Clwyd/Orange Tree tour, 2017); Pilgrims (HighTide/Theatr Clwyd/The Yard, 2016); Image of an Unknown Young Woman (Gate Theatre, London, 2015); and The Girl’s Guide to Saving the World (HighTide, 2014).

She was the winner of the George Devine Award for Most Promising Playwright in 2013.

Contains themes of illness/death and child loss, and brief references to drowning, eating disorder, mental health, murder and suicide. 

This amateur production of “The Lady from the Sea” is presented by arrangement with Nick Hern Books 

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