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Tue 1 Apr 2025 - Sat 12 Apr 2025
BACKSTROKE
BY ANNA MACKMIN
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BACKSTROKE

BY ANNA MACKMIN
TAMSIN GREIG & CELIA IMRIE
Tue 1 Apr 2025 - Sat 12 Apr 2025

A LIMITED NUMBER OF TICKETS ARE AVAILABLE NOW

OTHER WAYS TO GET TICKETS

  • With Donmar Daily, an allocation of tickets will be released every morning, Monday – Saturday at 10am for performances seven days later. These include £15 standing tickets.
  • 35 and under £20 tickets are available - best availability from 5 April. Find out more about signing up
  • Returns are released online when they become available.
  • Access seats may be available - please login if you’re registered for our access scheme to book. Find out more
  • Patrons (from Bronze level upwards) can book tickets right up to the day of the performance, by accessing our special allocation of house seats. Find out more


★★★★ "Celia Imrie is mesmerising … Tamsin Greig also delivers a wonderful performance in Anna Mackmin’s ferociously unsentimental play" The Times

★★★★ “Stays with you long after you leave the theatre behind” Radio Times

★★★★ “An extraordinary play about a mother and daughter relationship” The Arts Desk

★★★★ “Anna Mackmin’s witty, heartfelt and immaculately acted portrait of a lifelong mother-daughter relationship” Theatre Cat

“Original and moving”  The Guardian

“Confirms Greig as one of our finest actresses” The Telegraph

“Imrie delivers her colourful dialogue with devilish delight” The Independent

“Just let go. Let your body float. You’ll still be here but it’ll feel like flying in a dream.”

Bo is busy - balancing the pressures of work and the needs of her struggling daughter. When her mother, the irrepressible force-of-nature Beth, is admitted to hospital following a stroke, the practical realities of the present collide with the complexities of their past.

Celia Imrie and Tamsin Greig play mother and daughter in this kaleidoscopic and compassionate new play, written and directed by Anna Mackmin.


With special thanks to our Season Supporter, Charles Holloway OBE

 

RUNNING TIME

Approximately 2 hours and 20 minutes including a 20 minute interval.

 

CONTENT ADVICE
PLEASE NOTE: This production contains the smoking of herbal cigarettes. 

 

The show contains scenes that some people may find difficult to watch. Read content advice here.

PERFORMANCE TIMES
Evenings Mon – Sat 7.30pm
Thursday & Saturday matinees 2.30pm

TICKET PRICES*
£60 | £45 | £25

PREVIEW PRICES* (first three performances)
£55 | £40 | £20

£15 standing tickets will be released at a later date

*Tickets are subject to a £1.50 transaction fee, waived for Members

 

35 AND UNDER £20 TICKETS
Aged 16-35? Sign up here to our exclusive email list to book tickets for £20 for any performance. 

 

ACCESS
Find out more about Access at the Donmar here.


Captioned performance Monday 31 March at 7.30pm

Audio described performance Saturday 5 April at 2.30pm, touch tour at 12.30pm

Cast, Creative

Tamsin Greig

Actor

Celia Imrie

Actor

Lucy Briers

Actor

Anita Reynolds

Actor

Georgina Rich

Actor

Anna Mackmin

Writer & Director

Lez Brotherston

Designer

Paule Constable

Lighting Designer

Christopher Shutt

Sound Designer

Gino Ricardo Green

Video Designer

Scarlett Mackmin

Choreographer

Anna Cooper CDG

Casting Director

Fiona Dunn

Associate Director

Rehearsal Photography by Johan Persson