The actor and director Alan Rickman is to direct a new London production of Strindberg's play Creditors, in an adaptation by playwright David Greig. The play - a grittily comic tale of honour, jealousy and revenge, about a sculptor awaiting the return of his new wife - opens at the Donmar Warehouse in September. It will not be the first time in the director's chair for Rickman, who is now casting the production. He directed the hit play My Name Is Rachel Corrie at the Royal Court in 2005, and The Winter Guest at the Almeida 10 years before.
"Alan Rickman has already proved himself to be a wonderful director as well as a wonderful actor," says the Donmar's artistic director, Michael Grandage. "As we continue to explore the European repertoire here at the Donmar, he felt like the perfect match for this material."