Temple (play)

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Temple
Written by Steve Waters
Date premiered26 May 2015 (2015-05-26)
Place premiered Donmar Warehouse
Original languageEnglish

Temple is a 2015 play by Steve Waters about the 2011 United Kingdom anti-austerity protests. [1] It premiered at the Donmar Warehouse from 21 May to 25 July 2015, directed by Howard Davies and featuring Simon Russell Beale as 'the Dean', [2] along with Anna Calder-Marshall, Paul Higgins, Rebecca Humphries, Shereen Martin and Malcolm Sinclair.

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References

  1. "Temple - Donmar Warehouse". Archived from the original on 2014-11-10. Retrieved 2014-11-28.
  2. "Voting in general elections gets TV treatment from Donmar and Channel 4". TheGuardian.com . 3 November 2014.