As you probably know, if you live in the UK, there is a General Election happening in May, and The Donmar Warehouse is celebrating this event with “A national television event and a first for theatre and television“. A lot to live up to you might think, but The Vote is certainly on track to be such a huge event.

The play is set in a fictional London polling station, in the final ninety minutes before the polls close in this year’s General Election. There will be two weeks of performances at the Donmar from Friday 24 April to Wednesday 6 May, then on the 7th, at 8.30 until 10pm, the performance will be broadcast live on More4 from the Donmar stage.

There is a stellar cast performing this new play by James Graham, including some with TVO connections – of course!

Among the cast are Nathan Barley himself, Nicholas Burns, who was also The King in The Mighty Boosh, had a guest role in The IT Crowd, appeared in Surrealissimo with Noel Fielding and Julian Barratt, and more recently has appeared in Uncle. Nina Sosanga also appeared in Nathan Barley and W1A. 

Dame Judi Dench was Philomena alongside Steve Coogan, Catherine Tate was in Big Train and Psychobitches, while Mark Gatiss also took part in Psychobitches, Surrealissimo, The Crimson Petal and the White with Chris O’Dowd, Fear of Fanny and of course Nighty Night with Julia Davis.

Llewella Gideon, also starred in Nighty Night, Big Train and more recently the Paddington movie and Crims, which also starred Kadiff Kirwan. Timothy West starred in the first episode of Inside No. 9 and Not Going Out.

Also in the cast is Rachel Denning, who was in the Life’s Too Short Easter Special, Hadley Fraser who had parts in The Wrong Mans and Pompidou, Wanda Opalinski from Cardinal Burns.

Tickets to see the live performances will be made available through a ballot, which opens on Monday 30 March at 10am and runs until midnight on Tuesday 7 April. For more information about performances, tickets and the cast click on this link.