THE EFFECT Will Play At The Shed’s Griffin Theater Next Year
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It has been announced that The Effect, the acclaimed play examining love and ethics by Lucy Prebble (HBO’s “Succession”) and directed by Jamie Lloyd (Cyrano de Bergerac at BAM) will be opening next year in New York.
Presented with the National Theatre in association with The Jamie Lloyd Company, The Effect will play for a strictly limited four-week run in The Shed’s Griffin Theater, March 3rd – 31st, 2024, with an opening day scheduled for March 13th.
The cast of The Effect features Paapa Essiedu (I May Destroy You, The Lazarus Project) as “Tristan” and Taylor Russell (Bones and All, Waves) as “Connie,” participants in a clinical drug trial who begin an illicit romance, alongside Michele Austin (This Is Going to Hurt, Cyrano de Bergerac) as “Dr. Lorna James” and Kobna Holdbrook-Smith (Tina Turner: The Musical) as “Dr. Toby Sealey”.
As Connie and Tristan explore their attraction to each other, how can they be sure it’s the real thing and not an exhilarating side effect of the new antidepressant they’re taking? The supervising doctors begin to ask themselves questions too: where do they draw the line between love and ethics?
"The concurrent mastery of cinematic performances, sculptural lighting design, and immersive hip-hop influenced score is just the kind of interdisciplinary theater making that is so compelling for our times. It’s an honor to premiere The National Theater's production of this modern classic for our New York audiences,” said Alex Poots, The Shed’s Artistic Director.
The creative team includes set and costume design by Soutra Gilmour, lighting design by Jon Clark, composition by Michael “Mikey J” Asante, sound design by George Dennis, movement direction by Sarah Golding and Yukiko Masui (SAY), fight direction by Kate Waters, intimacy coordination by Ingrid Mackinnon, and casting by Alastair Coomer CDG.
This production of The Effect was originally produced in London by the National Theatre in association with The Jamie Lloyd Company and ran August 1 through October 7, 2023. The play was first produced in 2012 in London by the National Theatre.
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