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This production began performances on 9th September 2016 and closed on 9th January 2018.

★★★★★
A play for today. The blazingly talented James Graham has penned a super, soaraway smash.

Daily Telegraph

Fleet Street. 1969. The Sun rises. A young and rebellious Rupert Murdoch asks the impossible and launches The Sun’s first editor’s quest: to give the people what they want. No matter the cost.

★★★★
A gripping piece of theatre

The Guardian

Following a sell-out season at the Almeida, Ink, written by James Graham (This House) and directed by Rupert Goold (King Charles III), transfers to the Duke of York’s Theatre for a strictly limited season. With a cast featuring Bertie Carvel (Doctor Foster, Matilda) and Richard Coyle (The Associate, The Lover), this ruthless, red-topped new play leads with the birth of this country’s most influential newspaper.

★★★★
Rupert Goold’s production pulses with energy

Evening Standard

CAST

OLIVER BIRCH

RACHEL CAFFREY 

BERTIE CARVEL

PEARL CHANDA

JONATHAN COY

RICHARD COYLE

GEOFFREY FRESHWATER

JACK HOLDEN

JUSTIN SALINGER

SOPHIE STANTON

TIM STEED

TONY TURNER

RENE ZAGGER

NATALIE LAW – Ensemble

ANDREW MCDONALD – Ensemble

JONNY MCPHEARSON – Ensemble

OWEN OLDROYD – Ensemble

JOEL SAMUELS – Ensemble

CREATIVES

JAMES GRAHAM – Playwright

RUPERT GOOLD – Director

BUNNY CHRISTIE – Designer

NEIL AUSTIN – Lighting Designer

ADAM CORK – Sound and Composition

JON DRISCOLL – Video

LYNNE PAGE – Choreography and Movement Direction

ANNE MCNULTY CDG – Casting

REBECCA FRECKNALL – Associate Director

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