For all the women who are still waiting for an apology.
The Apology is an act of theatrical imagination: a ritual in which V conjures her dead father to confront the abuse he inflicted on her as a child.
Written by V (formerly known as Eve Ensler, Tony and Obie Award-winning writer of The Vagina Monologues), The Apology stars Emmy Award-winner Tobias Menzies (The Crown) alongside V herself and a choral ensemble.
Complicité’s artistic director Simon McBurney (The Encounter, Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead, Mnemonic) directs this world premiere, bringing her extraordinary work to the stage.
This marks Complicité’s return to the Royal Court following the award-winning production of The Chairs, translated by Martin Crimp, and 2017’s stage adaptation of Hollywood studio executive Robert Evans’s memoir The Kid Stays in the Picture.
V, Writer, said: “It’s a dream come true to have The Apology premiere at the Royal Court. It is a place I have long admired for birthing boundary-pushing luminous new work and supporting some of the most original, compelling theater artists in the world. It has been an amazing process working with the visionary Simon McBurney and the brilliant Tobias Menzies, transforming what was once a letter into a theatrical event. I sense we are onto something subversive, transformative, and ultimately liberating.”
Simon McBurney, Director, said: “In The Apology, V does something extra-ordinary. She summons her dead father to speak the words he never spoke in life, forcing him to confront the truth of what he did. It is an astonishing act of courage and imagination. But it asks something of us, too. Can imagining what never happened change our relationship to what did? And if we can reimagine the past, might we transform the present, and make a different future possible?”
The Apology plays at Jerwood Theatre Downstairs from Friday 19 March – Saturday 24 April 2027.
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