D.E.M. Productions & Theatre503 to Premiere Ken Urban's SENSE OF ENDING

D.E.M. Productions in association with Theatre503 presents the world première of award-winning playwright Ken Urban's Sense of an Ending.Jonathan O'Boyle will direct the production which opens at Theatre503 on 15 May, with previews from 12 May, and runs until 6 June.

'The sound of the crying, it never ceases...'

Charles, a disgraced New York Times journalist, arrives in Rwanda for an exclusive interview with two Hutu nuns. Charged with war crimes, the nuns must convince the world of their innocence during the 1994 genocide. When an unknown survivor contradicts the nuns' story, Charles must decide between saving his career or saving the nuns from a guilty verdict: he must choose between truth and forgiveness.

Ken Urban's Sense of an Ending shines a light on journalistic truth and morality amid the atrocity of the Rwandan genocide. This is the first of Urban's works to be presented in Europe, and the script was awarded the prize for Best New Play at the prestigious Williamstown Theatre Festival. Directed byJonathan O'Boyle, and marking the 21st anniversary of the genocide, this compelling political thriller asks if forgiveness is possible in a world where truth is never simple.

Ken Urban is a playwright and screenwriter based in New York and a Core Writer at the Playwrights' Centre. He has had a wide range of plays produced across America and won numerous prestigious awards for his work. His major plays include A Future Perfect, A Guide for the Homesick, Nibbler, The Absence of Weather, The Awake, The Correspondent, The Female Terrorist Project, The Happy Sad, The Privates Lives of Eskimos andWasps. Awards include the Weissberger Playwriting Award, Huntington Playwriting Fellowship, Djerassi Artist Residency, Dramatist Guild Fellowship, MacDowell Colony Fellowships, and SPF/Donmar Warehouse Residency. He wrote the screenplay for a feature film adaptation of this play The Happy Sad, which received significant distribution across festivals and cinemas.

Jonathan O'Boyle directs. As a director, his work includes the critically acclaimed Bash Latterday Plays (Old Red Lion, then transferring to Trafalgar Studios). As an Associate Director, his work includes This Is My Family (Sheffield Theatres and national tour), Bull (Young Vic and Sheffield Theatres). He recently assisted Jonathan Church on Amadeus (Chichester Festival Theatre) and Susan Stroman on The Scottsboro Boys (Young Vic). He worked as an assistant director under Daniel Evans' mentorship at Sheffield Crucible during 2012/13. The Guardian featured him recently as a rising stage star of 2014.

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