This production began performances on 24 January and closes on 15 June 2024.
★★★★★
'Jez Butterworth's magnificent, moving new play... Rich, funny, brilliantly layered drama'
Financial Times
This house. It’s called ‘Sea View’. It’s just I’ve looked out of every window, and you can’t. You can’t see the sea.
Blackpool, 1976. The driest summer in 200 years. The beaches are packed. The hotels are
heaving. In the sweltering backstreets, far from the choc ices and donkey rides, the Webb
Sisters are returning to their mother's run-down guest house, as she lies dying upstairs.
★★★★★
'Devastatingly moving, bitterly funny, tender, cruel and wise'
The Stage
Following their multi-award-winning triumph, The Ferryman, Jez Butterworth, writer of Jerusalem, and Sam Mendes, director of The Lehman Trilogy, return to the West End to bring you The Hills of California. The latest play from the acclaimed playwright will run at Harold Pinter Theatre, for a limited season, from 27 January 2024.
Casting for the production will be announced in due course.
★★★★
'Witty, closely observed study of family relations and of the cycle of birth and death, impeccably performed by both young and older cast members'
Evening standard
CAST
LAURA DONNELLY
LEANNE BEST
OPHELIA LOVIBOND
HELENA WILSON
BRYAN DICK
SHAUN DOOLEY
COREY JOHNSON
RICHARD LUMSDEN
NATASHA MAGIGI
NANCY ALLSOP
SOPHIA ALLY
LARA MCDONNELL
NICOLA TURNER
WILL BARRATT
GEORGINA HELLIER
ALFIE JACKSON
LUCY MORAN
STEVIE RAINE
JASMYN BANKS
JESSICA ELISA BOYD
MONICA FALDES
WILLIAM LAWLOR
ANGELA PHINNIMORE
CREATIVES
JEZ BUTTERWORTH – Writer
SAM MENDES – Director
ROB HOWELL – Designer
NATASHA CHIVERS – Lighting Designer
NICK POWELL – Sound Designer, Composer and Arranger
ELLEN KANE – Choreographer
CANDIDA CALDICOT – Musical Supervisor and Arranger
AMY BALL CDG – Casting Director
VERITY NAUGHTON CDG – Young Persons' Casting Director
ZOÉ FORD BURNETT – Associate Director