Full Casting Announced For Mikhail Durnenkov's THE WAR HAS NOT YET STARTED

Hannah Britland, Sarah Hadland and Mark Quartley will star in Mikhail Durnenkov's provocative work, The War Has Not Yet Started at Southwark Playhouse. Directed by Gordon Anderson, the play is a surreal and at times unsettling comedy about everyday people fighting everyday wars.

In twelve twisted parables for the modern age, Durnenkov taps into the fears and strangeness of our daily lives - sexual gamesmanship; what to do with ageing parents, those lying politicians, tensions at the airport, those lying journalists, infidelity and the absurdity implant.

Things happen but no one can see the connections in The War Has Not Yet Started, a strangely, prophetic study of our collective unease about living in the modern world.

Hannah Britland's stage credits include Pine (Hampstead Theatre), Crushed Shells & Mud (Southwark Playhouse), Our American Cousin (Finborough Theatre) and Hobson's Choice (Regent's Park Open Air Theatre). Her television credits include her long-standing role as Abigail in the Netflix series Lovesick, other credits include Fresh Meat, Death in Paradise, Uncle, Skins and Home and Away. Film credits include The Hard Way, Between Two Worlds, Still Romance and Rush.

Sarah Hadland's stage credits include most recently, The Norman Conquests (CFT), What's in a Name (Birmingham Rep); Raving (Hampstead Theatre), Decor Without Production (Royal Court Downstairs) and The Vegemite Tales (Riverside Studios). Her many television credits include Ratburger, The Moonstone, Inside No 9, Hoff the Record, Galavant, Ballott Monkeys, The Job Lot (RTS Nomination Best Comedy Performance); W1A, Radges, Stop/Start, Brotherhood, Marley's Ghosts, The Bleak Old Shop of Stuff, Waterloo Road, The Jury, Royal Wedding, How Not to Live Your Life, Miranda and That Mitchell and Webb Glimpse.

Mark Quartley's stage credits include playing Ariel in Greg Doran's The Tempest for the RSC (RST/Barbican), Strife (CFT), Another Country (Trafalgar Studios), Ghosts (Rose Theatre, Kingston), Written on the Heart and Measure for Measure (RSC 2011/12), Private Peaceful (Theatre Royal Haymarket), Macbeth (Trafalgar Studios). His television credits include a regular role in the television comedy Hoff the Record and Red Dwarf, Cuffs, In The Club, Siblings and Vera.

Russian playwright, Mikhail Durnenkov is a major stage, screen and television talent living in Moscow. His plays have been translated and staged all over the world and his play The Drunks, written with his brother, was produced by the Royal Shakespeare Company in 2009. Durnenkov is artistic director of the well-established young-playwrights festival Lubimovka.

Gordon Anderson is an award-winning television and theatre director. He was Artistic Director of ATC from 2001 to 2006, where he commissioned, produced and directed new and international work that toured extensively throughout the UK. He co-founded the League of Gentlemen comedy group, directing their earliest live performances. His television comedy includes the highly acclaimed Lovesick, The Inbetweeners, Fresh Meat, Shameless, The Catherine Tate Show, Rotters, which was part of Sky Arts Physical Comedy Season, Hoff the Record, starring David Hasselhoff.

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