New season at London’s Donmar to include ‘shocking’ play on climate crisis

Dawn King's dystopian courtroom drama The Trials, dubbed 12 Angry Young People', is part of a programme that also includes European premieres of The Band's Visit and A Doll's House, Part 2

The Donmar Warehouse in London is to stage a searing" dystopian play in which a teenage jury hold their elders to account for crimes against the climate. The Trials, written by British playwright Dawn King (Foxfinder), is set in a near future in which a radical green government is in power and must manage scarce resources.

The Donmar's artistic director, Michael Longhurst, who has dubbed the courtroom drama 12 Angry Young People", described it as a punchy, galvanising and quite shocking" play which changed his perception of the world.