MARYLEBONE THEATRE
LONDON, UK
Duration 2 hour 30 minutes
Premier took place on 14 September 2023
CREATIVE TEAM
Director Maxim Didenko
Writer Dmitry Glukhovsky
Set Designer and Costume Designer Galya Solodovnikova
Composer Louis Lebee
Lighting Designer Alex Musgrave
Sound Designer Julian Starr
Associate Set & Costume Designer Isabella Van Braeckel
Assistant Director Maria Zemlinskaya
Casting Director Helena Palmer CDG
Producers Belka Productions Ekaterina Kashyntseva & Oliver King
General Management Wild Yak
CAST
Paul-Hector Antoine
Lucas Allermann
Olivia Bernstone
Pearl Chanda
Leo Franky
James Garnon
Lewis Hart
Mark Quartley
Adrian Schiller
Matthew Spencer
Aron Yacobi
Spanning several decades, The White Factory explores the life of Yosef Kaufman, a Holocaust survivor from Lodz, haunted by his wartime experiences as he tries to build a new future in 1960’s Brooklyn.
This is the world premiere of a daring collaboration between Ukrainian, Russian and British creatives, led by writer Dmitry Glukhovsky, author of the bestselling Metro2033 franchise, and visionary theatre director Maxim Didenko – both of whom are political exiles and vehemently outspoken critics of the war against Ukraine.
This heart-wrenching drama of love, endurance, despair and hope follows one man’s journey from the Lodz ghetto of 1940s Poland to ‘sixties America, where the possibility of a new life is tested to the limit by the remnants of his past.
