Almeida Artistic Director, Rupert Goold (Tammy Faye, Patriots), directs this deadly new play of treachery and trickery by The Sunday Times Playwriting Award-winner Lulu Raczka (Antigone, Nothing).
Full casting includes Leo Bill (The Duchess of Malfi; Posh), Carly-Sophia Davies (Spring Awakening; The Eternal Daughter), Aurora Dawson-Hunte (Queens; Cherry Orchard) Ioanna Kimbook (The Duchess of Malfi; Bitter Wheat), Nathan Laryea (Spring Awakening; Tartuffe), Lydia Leonard (Little Eyolf; Wolf Hall), Alison Oliver (Best Interest; Conversations with Friends) and Lola Shalam, who is making her professional debut.
A war is brewing. Rumours are flying. A household is in crisis.
โฆand the Devilโs having some fun.
For Lady Elizabeth nothing is more important than protecting her familyโs legacy and their ancestral home. When that comes under threat, she elicits the help of Agnes, a young servant suspected of witchcraft.
But Agnes has dark dreams of her own for this house.
Women, Beware the Devilย isย directed byย Rupert Goold.ย Set design is byย Miriam Buetherย andcostume design byย Evie Gurney, withย lighting design byย Tim Lutkin.ย Adam Corkย is bothsound designer and composer,ย andย casting directorย isAmy Ball.
The Genesis Foundationย Kickstart Fund has supported Lulu Raczka on the development ofย Women, Beware the Devil.
