Anatomy of a Suicide
Written by Alice Birch
Directed by Caroline Leslie
The Linbury Theatre
Friday 6 February - Thursday 12 February 2026
This is an amateur production.
Content warnings: Contains very strong language, suicide, death of a loved one, drug addiction, sterilisation, childbirth, depression, medical procedures, family trauma and sexually explicit content.
Creative Team
Director
Designer
Producer
Assistant Producer
Assistant Director
Intimacy & Movement Director
Voice Director
Lighting Designer
Sound Designer
Caroline Leslie*
Emily Nelson*
Rebecca Lyle*
Bobby Harding*
Magnús Thorlacius
Nicoletta Bonanni*
Molly Parker*
Ming Ong
Bastie Colclough
Production Team
Production Manager
Stage Manager on the Book
Assistant Stage Managers
Production Lx
Programmer / Dep Lx
Production Sound Engineer Dep PSE
Production Carpenter
Lighting Technician
Sound Technicians
Dep Carpenter
Construction Crew
Arthur Moore
Mimi Thorpe
Tilly Riley
Gray Wills
Torrin Gieler
Jackson Walsh
Angelika Marr
Phoebe Bennett
Nic Usher
Sam Haddock
Marcus Walton
Keira Waring
Phoenix Morgan
Manon Bonvoisin
Dani Gimmler
Max Goodwin
Rowan Lemonsky
Sara Salanki
Josh Short
Will Smith
Luke Warren
Costume Supervisor
Charlie Rowen*
*LAMDA staff member or visiting artist
Tim / Toby / Mark / Steve
John
Carol
Bonnie
Jo / Laura / May / Woman
Dan / Dave / Felix / Luke
Emma / Karen / Daisy / Esther / Child
Anna
Nurse / Anna / Lola / Diane / Child
Jamie
Maximillian Benton
Alexander Bittar
Allie-Rae Fossum
Phoebe Graham
Phoebe Jones
JP O’Brien
Madeline Parish
Elsa Rae
Vee Tames
William Walford
*LAMDA staff member or visiting artist
About the writer, Alice Birch
Alice is an award-winning playwright and screenwriter. Her recent plays include Romans: A Novel (Almeida), The House of Bernarda Alba (National Theatre); [BLANK] (Donmar Warehouse / Clean Break); Orlando (Schaubühne, Berlin) and Anatomy of a Suicide (Royal Court Theatre).
She co-wrote Die, My Love with Enda Walsh and Lynne Ramsay for Excellent Cadaver and Mubi. Directed by Ramsay, the feature is produced by Martin Scorsese and stars Jennifer Lawrence and Robert Pattinson. Alice wrote the critically acclaimed original series Dead Ringers, inspired by the Cronenberg film of 1988, for Annapurna and Amazon. She was the lead writer and an executive producer on the series, which starred Rachel Weisz. Previously Alice wrote on the TV adaptation of Normal People, alongside Sally Rooney and Mark O’Rowe, for which she and Sally were nominated for an Emmy. She also wrote on the TV adaptation of Conversations with Friends and she worked as Story Editor on Season 2 of Succession for HBO.
Her first feature was Lady Macbeth which won 5 British Independent Film Awards in 2017 including Best Screenplay. Her second feature was an adaptation of the Graham Swift novel Mothering Sunday for Number 9 Films and Film 4. She co-wrote The Wonder with Sebastián Lelio and Emma Donoghue, and most recently she wrote an adaptation of The End We Start From which was directed by Mahalia Belo and starred Jodie Comer.
Other Awards include: Winner Susan Smith Blackburn Prize 2018, George Devine Award (for Revolt. She Said. Revolt again); Arts Foundation Award for Playwriting.
*LAMDA staff member or visiting artist
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*LAMDA staff member or visiting artist
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