Sinead Cusack to Star in SPLENDOUR at the Donmar Warehouse

The Daily Mail reports that Sinead Cusack will return to the Donmar Warehouse for Abi Morgan's SPLENDOUR, directed by Robert Hastie.

Cusack will be joined by Zawe Ashton and GAME OF TRHONES' Michelle Fairley.

This will be SPENDLOUR's first big London production after a UK tour via Plaines Plough in 2000.

Plaines Plough describes the play: "In decadent state splendour on one side of town, world famous photo-journalist Kathryn awaits the soon-to-be deposed dictator. On the other, civil war rages. It gradually becomes clear to all, he has fled, leaving his Prada-wearing wife, Micheleine to entertain the woman. She does so with the aid of Gilma, a greasy-lipped, kleptomaniac interpreter. As the avenging crowd gets closer - hungry for blood - Micheleine offers Kathryn a somewhat different photo opportunity. Not the shot of the heroic dictator, but the 'before and after' of his kitten-heeled wife. After all, as Kathryn has realised, behind every great man.... How can she refuse?"

West End stage vet Cusack started out with the Abbey Theatre in Dublin before moving to the Royal Shakespeare Company in the '70s. One of her most noted roles as in OUR LADY OF SLIGO in the late '90s, which played in Ireland, on Broadway and at the National.

A two-time Tony Award nominee, Cusack has appeared on Broadway in ROCK 'N' ROLL, CYRANO DE BERGERAC and MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING.

Pictured: Sinead Cusack in ROCK 'N' ROLL on Broadway in 2007. Photo by Joan Marcus.