The Vote

Mark Gatiss and Dame Judi Dench head up this groundbreaking play

In this groundbreaking collaboration with Channel 4, Josie Rourke (The Weir) will be staging a real-time, ninety-minute play set in the final minutes of Election Day 2015 - what makes this even more innovative is that the Donmar will be airing this live through C4 on election night itself (that's Thursday 7th May, in case you were wondering! The Vote is the natural follow-on collaboration between James Graham and Josie Rourke since their play, Privacy. Be prepared to watch your election unfold as you never thought it could.

THE PREMISE OF THE VOTE

The Vote is set in a fictional polling station during the final 90 minutes of Election Day 2015, where people of all backgrounds and circumstance will convene to cast - then count their votes. The play is more about the political process than party politics, getting into the nitty-gritty of what actually transpires at these stations.

Artistic Director Josie Rourke said of the premise, "Polling stations - unless you have small kids, they tend to be primary schools - are spaces that you don't enter except once every three or four years when you cast your vote. There is something essentially democratic about that moment. You're with your neighbours. You're with the people you live next to. That's an extraordinary moment in which to express the diversity of the electorate and the diversity of community and what those encounters are between people who don't ordinarily necessarily meet."