• Highly anticipated world premiere at the National Theatre in London in the fall of 2015 • London production directed by Ian Rickson, with Wallace Shawn and Josh Hamilton • Four star review in The Guardian • Wallace Shawn is an accomplished playwright and well-known screen actor - Four of Shawn’s plays – The Designated Mourner, Marie and Bruce, My Dinner with Andre, and The Fever – were adapted into film. The film version of The Designated Mourner was directed by famed writer and director David Hare. - The film My Dinner with Andre went on to become a cinematic standard and highly revered material in the study of film. - Shawn translated and adapted a widely acclaimed version of the theatrical classic The Threepenny Opera by Bertolt Brecht. - His most recent work was a translation of Henrik Ibsen’s classic A Master Builder, which was also adapted for film by Jonathan Demme.