Dana H. Tickets
Lucas Hnath’s Tony Award-winning verbatim play, using his mother’s own words, is a confronting and captivating theatrical experience.
Book Dana H Tickets For An Astonishing Theatre Experience
One of Broadway’s most talked-about plays of recent years makes its anticipated London debut in 2023, delivering a theatre experience that will challenge, provoke and captivate. Lucas Hnath’s Dana H., based on transcripts from his mother’s own life, was a Broadway sensation and won two major accolades at the 2022 Tony Awards. This taught, disconcerting and absolutely gripping play now arrives at the Royal Court Theatre for a limited season that will make you reconsider the boundaries of theatrical storytelling.About Dana H: A Groundbreaking Drama Based on a True Story
Told in her own words, Dana H. recounts psych ward chaplain Dana Higginbotham’s remarkable five-month ordeal, as she was held captive in numerous Florida motels by one of her patients back in 1997.In a bold and confronting move, the show uses Dana’s own voice from recorded interviews that are reconstructed by playwright Lucas Hnath - who is also Dana’s son. With Deirdre O’Connell lip-syncing throughout, audiences are faced with a work that blurs the lines between artifice and reality, good and evil, and defies expectations at every turn.
Sitting at a lean 75 minutes with no interval, this is a powerful piece of theatre that will keep London theatregoers transfixed, just as it did on Broadway. Key to the production is sound designer Mikhail Fiksel’s award-winning, richly-realised soundscape, which meets O’Connell’s understated but masterful performance to discomforting effect.
The Dana H. Cast and Creative Team
Dana H. is written by Obie Award-winning playwright Lucas Hnath (Red Speedo; The Christians), who developed his mother’s story for the stage using transcripts of her interviews with Steve Cosson. Rather than editing the interviews into a script, he has instead moulded the hours of dialogue into a swift but engrossing verbatim account, directed by Tony Award winner Les Waters.The creative team also includes sound designer Mikhail Fiksel, who won the Tony Award for Best Sound Design of a Play for his work.
Dana is played by acclaimed Broadway actress Deirdre O’Connell, who reprises the role direct from New York. O’Connell’s “virtuoso [and] astonishing” (Time Out NYC) performance earned her huge critical acclaim and the Tony Award for Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Play.
