Mary Page Marlowe Revival
Ages: 16+
Closing: November 01, 2025Mary Page Marlowe - 2025 West End History , Info & More
Old Vic Theatre
The Cut, South Bank London
Mary Page Marlowe is an accountant from Ohio. She's led an ordinary life, making the difficult decisions we all face as we try to figure out who we really are and what we really want. As Tracy Letts brings us moments-both pivotal and mundane-from Mary's life, a portrait of a surprisingly complicated woman emerges. Intimate and moving, Mary Page Marlowe shows us how circumstance, impulse and time can combine to make us mysteries...even to ourselves.
Mary Page Marlowe - 2025 - West End Cast
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Susan Sarandon and Andrea Riseborough bring brilliance to a fractured story
6 / 10
A formidable army of female talent has gone into the Old Vic's staging of Mary Page Marlowe, a 2016 play by American writer Tracy Letts (August: Osage County) that's very loosely inspired by his late mother's life story. This enigmatic, hard drinking woman is played by no fewer than five actors, including both Andrea Riseborough (who brilliantly embodied another alcoholic in the 2022 film To Leslie) and a 79-year-old Susan Sarandon making her belated London stage debut. To be a woman is to play a part, we're told. And if all these bodies somehow fail to fit together into a single living, breathing portrait of an actual person, each still brings some brilliance of its own to this fractured story.
Susan Sarandon is effortlessly sexy in her UK stage debut
6 / 10
We see Sarandon first at the dinner table with what turns out to be Mary’s third husband, her deceptively artless performance at once sexy, tricky, playful, effortlessly lived in. There is a hint, also, of past crisis – a hallmark of Letts’s non-chronological format, which lets slip little shards of information that only later make sense. She is also terrific a few scenes later in a hospital ward, reckoning with a life’s pile-up of failures with battle-hardened humour, and refusing to sugar-coat the fact she is dying.
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Review: MARY PAGE MARLOWE, Starring Susan Sarandon and Andrea Riseborough
by Laura Jones - October 9, 2025
by Laura Jones - October 9, 2025
Watching Mary Page Marlowe you feel like you're constantly trying to piece together a mosaic of one woman’s life, glimpsed in snapshots, lit by moments of clarity, yet never forming a complete picture. Under Matthew Warchus’s direction, in his final season as Artistic Director at the Old Vic, the production stages Tracy Letts’s play non-chronologically, across 11 scenes spanning seven decades, that show Mary at various ages.
Review Roundup: What Did the Critics Think of Susan Surandon's London Debut in MARY PAGE MARLOWE?
by Aliya Al-Hassan - October 9, 2025
by Aliya Al-Hassan - October 9, 2025
Mary Page Marlowe is an accountant from Ohio. She's led an ordinary life, making the difficult decisions we all face as we try to figure out who we really are and what we really want. As Tracy Letts brings us moments-both pivotal and mundane-from Mary's life, a portrait of a surprisingly complicated woman emerges. Intimate and moving, Mary Page Marlowe shows us how circumstance, impulse and time can combine to make us mysteries...even to ourselves. Susan Surandon makes her London stage debut, alongside Andrea Riseborough, who returns to the stage after 15 years.
Susan Sarandon to Make London Stage Debut with Andrea Riseborough in Tracy Letts' MARY PAGE MARLOWE
by A.A. Cristi - June 30, 2025
by A.A. Cristi - June 30, 2025
The Old Vic has announced the UK premiere of Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Tracy Letts’ Mary Page Marlowe, starring Academy Award winner Susan Sarandon and Academy Award nominee Andrea Riseborough.
Mary Page Marlowe History
Other Productions of Mary Page Marlowe
| 2016 | Chicago |
Steppenwolf Original Production Chicago |
| 2018 | Off-Broadway |
Second Stage Theater New York Premiere Off-Broadway |
| 2025 | West End |
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