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Matthew Barker - who played Joe Gascoyne in Husbands and Sons, the National Theatre's acclaimed adaptation of three D H Lawrence dramas - will play Joe's older brother Luther Gascoyne in The Daughter-in-Law.

Matthew Barker - who played Joe Gascoyne in Husbands and Sons, the National Theatre's acclaimed adaptation of three D H Lawrence dramas - will play Joe's older brother Luther Gascoyne in The Daughter-in-Law.

Arcola Theatre and Dippermouth's production of THE DAUGHTER-IN-LAW will transfer to the Arcola's main house in January 2019.

The Daughter-in-Law bristles with working class reality buoyed by dialect and accent rooted in the Nottinghamshire pits - but the characters never emerge from that backdrop and the play leaves one with an unsatisfying sense of disbelief.

A rare production of D H Lawrence's The Daughter-in-Law, a searing and unforgettable drama about heartache, inequality and the ties that bind, set in the heat of the 1912 miners' strike, is receiving its first London production in over 15 years, staged in the round, at Arcola Theatre from Wednesday 23 May - Saturday 23 June.

Rehearsal photos have been released for a rare production of D H Lawrence's The Daughter-in-Law, a searing and unforgettable drama about heartache, inequality and the ties that bind, set in the heat of the 1912 miners' strike. View the cast in action below!

Final casting is announced for a rare production of D H Lawrence's The Daughter-in-Law, a searing and unforgettable drama about heartache, inequality and the ties that bind, set in the heat of the 1912 miners' strike.

Bette (Leila Sykes) and Vera (Madeleine Gould) travel the country in an official capacity hosting tea dances to try to improve the morale of the troops in 1942 England. As their real purpose is discovered, three young men from the Royal Canadian Air Force threaten to blow up the women's organisation.