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TABLE 17

17 Sep–24 Oct 2026

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Kiln Theatre in association with Jamie Wilson Productions and Mark Cortale presents

Table 17

by Douglas Lyons

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Two exes. One dinner. What could go wrong?

Would you go to dinner with your ex? The one you were engaged to, but haven’t spoken to in years? You’re over them – right?!

Jada and Dallas are hashing things out in this sharp, hilarious new comedy. Can they leave 7 years of baggage at the door to give their love a second chance? Is the spark even still there? Or will the weight of their past pull them apart before the night ends?

Following sold-out runs in New York and LA, Douglas Lyons’ (Chicken & Biscuits) award-winning play, directed by Tony Award-winner Zhailon Levingston (CATS The Jellicle Ball), makes its UK premiere at Kiln. Featuring Olivier Award-nominees Marisha Wallace as Jada, Jamael Westman as Dallas, and Michael Rishawn as River/Eric, get ready to give love a second chance this autumn.

 

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Special Performances

Alcohol Free Performance: 5 October, 7.30pm
Post show Q&A and Supporters’ Evening: 1 October, 7.30pm
Supporters’ Matinee: 7 October, 2.30pm

Access Performances

Audio Described Performance, preceded by a Touch Tour: 22 October, 7.30pm
Captioned Performance: 8 October, 7.30pm
Relaxed Performance: 14 October, 2.30pm

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Ticket Prices

£15 – £45

Duration

1 hour and 35 minutes with no interval

Dates

17 Sep–24 Oct 2026

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Rehearsal photos by Steve Gregson

Tables for two

Coming to see Table 17 with a date? Or an ex…

Make it a date with our VIP table experience. Book or upgrade your ticket to our new cabaret tables and enjoy two drinks and a playtext per couple*

  • Jada’s Cocktail – A tropical and bold passion fruit daiquiri
  • Dallas’ Mocktail – A warm and spiced smooth mocktail
  • Talma Verdejo white wine or Talma Garnacha red wine
  • Reserve St Michel rose wine
  • Peroni Nastro Azzurro Lager
  • Asahi Super Dry Japanese Lager Non Alcoholic 0%
  • Coca Cola or Coca Cola Zero
  • Belvoir elderflower or ginger beer

Collect your drink from the bar prior to the performance, and settle in for the messiest drama on stage.

*Seats must be booked in pairs. Cabaret tables for three are not included in this offer.

Cast

Michael Rishawn

River, Eric & Others
Michael Rishawn

River, Eric & Others

Michael Rishawn is an award-winning, classically trained actor whose work spans theatre, television, film, and voiceover. He is the recipient of a Lucille Lortel Award, an Outer Critics Circle Award, and Drama Desk recognition. He appeared on Broadway in Ain’t No Mo’ and originated roles in Table 17 (MCC Theater/Geffen Playhouse) and Handjob (Echo Theater Company). Additional stage work includes performances with L’Alliance New York at Florence Gould Hall and at Carnegie Hall.

Screen credits include: And Just Like That…, FBI: Most Wanted, Raising Dion, Survival of the Thickest, Bunk’d and Crutch. He received classical theatre training in England as part of his formation at The Hartt School, trained at Shakespeare Theatre Company of DC under Michael Kahn, and holds an M.F.A. from UC San Diego.

Marisha Wallace

Jada
Marisha Wallace

Jada

Marisha Wallace is a two-time Olivier nominee. She recently starred in the UK Premiere of Something Rotten! at the Manchester Opera House. Prior to this, Marisha returned to Broadway to take on the role of Sally Bowles in Cabaret at the Kit Kat Club – her performance was featured as one of the 16 best theatre moments of 2025 by the New York Times.

She is a double Olivier Award nominee for her work in Sir Nick Hytner’s Guys and Dolls (Bridge Theatre – Evening Standard Award nomination) and Oklahoma! (Young Vic Theatre). She also recently played the role of Happy in Todrick Hall’s Midnight at Sadler’s Wells East.

Theatre credits include: Bea in Something Rotten! (Manchester Opera House); Happy in Midnight (Sadler’s Wells East); Sally Bowles in Cabaret (Kit Kat Club Broadway/West End); Miss Adelaide in Guys and Dolls (Bridge Theatre – Olivier Award nomination for Best Actress in a Musical); Ado Annie in Oklahoma! (Young Vic – WhatsOnStage, Evening Standard and Olivier Award nominations for Best Supporting Actress in a Musical); Becky in Waitress (Adelphi Theatre); Motormouth Maybelle in Hairspray (Coliseum); Effie in Dreamgirls (Savoy Theatre); Aladdin (Broadway); and Something Rotten! (Broadway).

Screen credits include: Feel Good, Jingle Jangle, Almost Never, and Aladdin.

Marisha is an international singer-songwriter. She will be making her debut at Ronnie Scott’s this autumn on 11 October with two sold out concerts. She frequently collaborates on new music with songwriting legends Toby Gad (Beyoncé, John Legend) and Steve Anderson (Kylie Minogue).

Other TV appearances include Royal Variety Show, Strictly Come Dancing, The Festival of Remembrance, and Celebrity Big Brother.

Instagram/X/TikTok – @MarishaWallace

Jamael Westman

Dallas
Jamael Westman

Dallas

Theatre credits include: An Ideal Husband (Lyric Hammersmith & Bristol Old Vic); Wolves on Road (Bush Theatre); London Tide (National Theatre); Imposter 22, Torn (The Royal Court); Patriots (Almeida
Theatre); Hamilton Eliza Tour (Pantages Theatre-LA); The Lorax (The Old Vic); Hamilton (Victoria
Palace Theatre) and The White Devil (Shakespeare’s Globe).

Screen credits include: Star Wars: Star Fighter, Hedda, Good Grief, Munch, Animals,  The Witcher, Get Millie Black, The Essex Serpent, Anne Boleyn and BBW.

Creative Team

Douglas Lyons

Writer
Douglas Lyons

Writer

Douglas Lyons is a GLAAD, NAACP and Emmy nominated writer, an Audelco award-winning playwright, actor, and composer whose work has spanned Television, Broadway, Off-Broadway, and Film. Douglas served as a writer and composer on Apple TV’s Fraggle Rock. His Broadway playwriting debut Chicken and Biscuits was the 2nd most produced play in the U.S. in 2022-23. His other theatrical works include the Off Broadway hit: Beau, the Lucille Lortell award-winning Table 17,  Don’t Touch My Hair, Polkadots, Five Points, Pure Glitter, and Mother. Daughter. Father. Son. Douglas’ Broadway acting credits include Beautiful, the Tony award-winning revival of Parade and the Book of Mormon. He is currently developing television with SkyDance and Ryan Reynolds’ Maximum Effort as well as writing the script for the stage adaption of the Warner Brothers animated classic Happy Feet.  

Zhailon Levingston

Director
Zhailon Levingston

Director

Now playing on Broadway at the Broadhurst Theater, Cats: The Jellicle Ball has received 9 Tony Award nominations, including Best Revival of a Musical and Best Direction of a Musical for Zhailon alongside co-director Bill Rauch. 

Zhailon’s first “Broadway” job was selling tickets to Broadway shows in Times Square. In 2017, he sold concessions for multiple Broadway theatres. At 27 years old, he became the youngest Black director in Broadway history, directing the Broadway production of Chicken and Biscuits. His other directing credits include Wonderful Town at New York City Center Encores; Reconstructing at Brooklyn Academy of Music (co-directed with Rachel Chavkin); Little Miss Perfect (Olney Theatre Center); Patience at Second Stage Theatre; and Table 17 at MCC Theater (Lortel Award nominee for Outstanding Direction) and Los Angeles’ Geffen Playhouse (NAACP Theater Award nominee for Best Director of a stage play). 

Levingston is the board chair of the Broadway Advocacy Coalition, Artistic Director of Inheritance Theatre Project, and co- created a ‘Theatre of Change’ course at Columbia University School of Law that is still being taught today. Once a year he returns to his hometown of Shreveport, Louisiana to direct theatre as a way to stay connected to his roots.

Amy Jane Cook

Set and Costume Designer
Amy Jane Cook

Set and Costume Designer

Amy Jane Cook is a set and costume designer with experience working across the UK and internationally. She was the recipient of Best Design at the Wales Theatre Awards. She has also been nominated for Best Set Design at the San Diego Theatre Critics Circle awards (for Ride) and has been nominated for four Off West End Awards for Best Set Design.

Previous theatre credits include: Boys from the Black Stuff (National Theatre/Garrick Theatre, Liverpool Royal Court/UK Tour); Jellyfish (National Theatre/Bush Theatre); Bank of Dave (Lowry/Curve Theatre); Who’s afraid of Virginia Woolf? (Curve Theatre); Tick, Tick…Boom!, The Rise and Fall of Little Voice, Insignificance, Wave Me Goodbye, To Dream Again (Theatr Clywd); Ride (Southwark Playhouse/Charing Cross Theatre/The Old Globe, San Diego); The Funeral Director (Southwark Playhouse); Bronco Billy The Musical (Set Design – Charing Cross); There’s a Bear on My Chair (Queen Elizabeth Hall, Southbank Centre); The Children, Lava (Nottingham Playhouse); Private Lives (Bolton Octagon/UK Tour); The Swell (Orange Tree Theatre); Protest (Northern Stage/Fuel Theatre); The Suspicions of Mr Whicher, The Importance of Being Earnest (Watermill Theatre, Newbury); Wolf Cub (Hampstead Theatre); All My Sons (The Queens Theatre); Baskerville (Mercury Theatre Colchester); The Season (Royal & Derngate/New Wolsey and Ipswich); You Stupid Darkness (Plymouth Drum); Two of Us, Absurd Person Singular (Watford Palace); Not Talking (Arcola Theatre); Constellation Street (The Other Room) and Insignificance (Langham Place, New York).

Matt Haskins

Lighting Designer
Matt Haskins

Lighting Designer

Theatre credits include: A Tupperware of Ashes (National Theatre); The Empress (Royal Shakespeare Company); Marie & Rosetta (@sohoplace/Chichester Festival Theatre); Peter Pan Goes Wrong (Apollo Theatre/Ethel Barrymore Theatre/Canadian Tour/Australasia Tour); Miss Saigon (Göteborgsoperan/ Folketeateret Oslo) Jesus Christ Superstar (Folketeateret Oslo); The Clinic (Almeida); Hakawatis (Shakespeare’s Globe); Midsomer Murders: Killings at Badger’s Drift (UK Tour); Liberation, Hobson’s Choice (Manchester Royal Exchange); Wedding Band, Jack and the Beanstalk, School Girls; Or, The African Mean Girls Play (Lyric Hammersmith); Bird Grove, King James, Mary, I & You, The Cost of Living, Folk (Hampstead Theatre); Living (Sheffield Theatre); A Thousand Splendid Suns, The Lovely Bones (Birmingham Rep); Girls & Boys, Private Peaceful (Nottingham Playhouse);  Wish You Were Here (Gate Theatre); Great Apes, Double Act (Arcola); Fair Play (Bush); The Girls of Slender Means (Royal Lyceum) and The Smile of Her (Marylebone Theatre).

 

Opera credits include: Glare, The Virtues of Things, Coraline, The Commission/Café Kafka (Royal Opera House); Sukanya (Royal Festival Hall); Turn of the Screw, La traviata, Don Giovanni, La Cenerentola, Snow Maiden, Hänsel und Gretel (Opera North); Anna Bolena, Maria Stuarda (Welsh National Opera); Norma, La Bohème, La Cenerentola, Don Pasquale (Irish National Opera); Roberto Devereux (Teatro Real/Teatro de la Maestranza); Romeo and Juliet, Der fliegende Holländer (Estonian National Opera); La Bohème (Opéra Orchestre national Montpelier); A Quiet Place (Opera Zuid); Wuthering Heights (Opéra national de Lorraine); Albert Herring (Maggio Musicale Fiorentino); La Cenerentola (Malmö/ Teatro Regio di Torino); Tamerlano (London Handel Festival) and Macbeth (Grange Festival).

George Dennis

Sound Designer
George Dennis

Sound Designer

Theatre credits include: Cleansed, Roots, The Duchess of Malfi, Three Sisters (Almeida Theatre); Clarkston, The Homecoming (Trafalgar Theatre – Olivier Award nomination for Best Sound Design); Intimate Apparel, Clyde’s (Donmar Warehouse); Twelfth Night (Barbican Theatre/Royal Shakespeare Company); Born With Teeth (Wyndham’s Theatre); Alterations, Blues for an Alabama Sky, An Octoroon (National Theatre); Love’s Labour’s Lost, English, Venice Preserved (Royal Shakespeare Company); The Seagull, Lemons, Lemons, Lemons, A Slight Ache & The Dumb Waiter, The Lover & The Collection, One for the Road & Mountain Language (Harold Pinter Theatre); The Architect, Julie (Internationaal Theater Amsterdam); The Effect (The Shed, NY/National Theatre); Sweat (Gielgud Theatre/Donmar Warehouse); Nine Night (Trafalgar Theatre/National Theatre); The Importance of Being Earnest (Vaudeville Theatre); You’re So Special (Soho Theatre); The Cabinet Minister (Menier Chocolate Factory); The Homecoming, Further Than The Furthest Thing, The Mountaintop (Young Vic); Straight Line Crazy (The Shed/Bridge Theatre); Treasure Island (Bristol Old Vic); Mom, How Did You Meet The Beatles, Sing Yer Heart Out For The Lads, The Deep Blue Sea, The Norman Conquests (Chichester Festival Theatre); A Taste of Honey, Glee & Me (Royal Exchange); The Southbury Child, Two Ladies (Bridge Theatre); Talent, Frost/Nixon, Tribes (Crucible Theatre); Killer (Shoreditch Town Hall – Off West End Award for Best Sound Design); The Pitchfork Disney (Shoreditch Town Hall); Much Ado About Nothing, Imogen, The Taming of the Shrew (Shakespeare’s Globe); Harrogate, Fireworks, Liberian Girl (Royal Court); Hedda Tesman and Spring Awakening (Headlong).

Nicholai La Barrie

Associate Director
Nicholai La Barrie

Associate Director

Nicholai La Barrie is a theatre and film director and has been a MOBO Fellow. He is Associate Director at the Lyric Hammersmith Theatre.

Theatre credits include: An Ideal Husband, Jack and the Beanstalk, Aladdin, Liar, Heretic, Thief, God of Carnage (Lyric Hammersmith); Just For One Day (Resident Director – Garrick Theatre); Stars in the Moring Sky, The Amen Corner (LAMDA); Two Strangers (Carry A Cake Across New York) (Criterion Theatre); Romeo & Juliet (Royal Exchange Theatre); Tina – The Tina Turner Musical (Associate Director – Australian Tour/Resident Director – Aldwych Theatre); Statements After an Arrest Under the Immorality Act (Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama); Grey, There is Nothing There (Oval House); White (Edinburgh Festival); Gob (London International Festival of Theatre); The Book of Disquiet (Blue Elephant Theatre); I’ll Take You There (Gate); Chet Baker: Speedball (606 Jazz Club) and Portrait For Posterity (Arcola Theatre).

As dramaturg, theatre credits include: Heart of Hammersmith, Feels and The Mob Reformers (Lyric Hammersmith Theatre).

Film credits include: Go Between, Hamlet Sort Of, North East South West, Aingeal, and Dark Stranger (2009 Official selection Caribbean Film Festival).

Carlotta De Gregori

Intimacy Director

Maybelle Laye

Costume Supervisor

Dominique Hamilton

Wigs, Hair and Make-Up Supervisor
Dominique Hamilton

Wigs, Hair and Make-Up Supervisor

Theatre credits includes: Carousel, Aida, Satyagraha, Iolanthe, A Midsummer Night’s Dream (English National Opera); Bat out of Hell (London Coliseum); Little Shop of Horrors (Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre); 42nd Street, The Tempest, Much Ado About Nothing (Theatre Royal Drury Lane); Fairview (Young Vic Theatre); Oklahoma!, Mandela (Young Vic Theatre); Bagdad Cafe (Old Vic Theatre); Harry Potter and the Cursed Child (Palace Theatre); Secret Life of Bees (Almeida Theatre); Stranger Things: The First Shadow (Phoenix Theatre); Evita (London Palladium); Bacchae, Ballet Shoes (As Senior Technician, National Theatre) and Mass (Donmar Warehouse).

Theatre as WHAM Designer and/or Supervisor: Wuthering Heights (Old Vic/Bristol Old Vic/National Theatre); Arcadia (Old Vic Theatre/ Duke of York’s Theatre); A Strange Loop (Barbican Theatre); The Flea (2025/2025), The Glass Menagerie (The Yard Theatre); Skeleton Crew (Donmar Warehouse); A Raisin in The Sun (Lyric Hammersmith Tour with Headlong Theatre Company); Play On! (Talawa Theatre Company); Noughts and Crosses (Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre); Paranormal (Ambassador’s Theatre); The Harder They Come (2026/2026) (Theatre Royal Stratford East); Small Island (Leeds Playhouse/Birmingham Rep/Nottingham Playhouse) and End of the Rainbow (Soho Theatre Walthamstow).

Screen credits as Hair and Makeup Designer include: Unremarkable, A Fragile Life, Lessons and Home Safe (shorts).

Screen credits as Crowd Hair and Makeup Artist include: Matilda and Wicked.

Screen credits as Main Team Junior Hair and Makeup Artist include Crongton.

Screen credits as Daily Hair and Makeup Artist include Tommy and Tuppence.

Production Team

Production Manager

Titch Gosling

Deputy Production Manager

Muriel de Palma

Company Stage Manager

Catriona McHugh

Deputy Stage Manager

Olga Morisse

Assistant Stage Manager

Emily Mei-Ling Pearce

Technician

Aoife Lennon

Associate Costume Supervisor / Wardrobe Manager

Charlotte Jade Murray

Wigs, Hair and Make-up Manager

Milicia Rosellini

Technican Assistant Stage Manager

Oyin Adesina

Tech Swing

Riri Bain

Production Carpeneter

Calum Walker

Rigger

Jess Wilson

Production Electrician

Paul Salmon

Production Sound Engineer

Michael Woods

Lighting Programmer

Tamykha Patterson

Video Programmer

Jodi Rabinowitz

Set LX

Paul Salmon, James Smellie, James Milne and Calum Walker

Wig Maker

Faye Booth

Set Built By

Scenic Projects

Lighting Supplied By

Christie Lites

Video Supplied By

Universal Pixel

Sound Supplied By

Autograph

Special thanks to Karen Millen