Starring Zoë Wanamaker, Barbara Flynn and Nina Sosanya, the world premiere of new Nick Payne play Elegy sees the complexities of human behaviour laid bare following radically unprecedented advances in medical science.

Artistic Director Josie Rourke explores a strikingly plausible near-future in which medicine offers the ability to augment – and even extend – human life itself.

Mapping and decoding every neuron, cataloguing, comprehending and predicting each and every facet of human behaviour, the world of Elegy is free from the mysteries and erraticism of the human brain. But at what price comes such understanding?

Through Elegy at the Donmar Warehouse, Payne, along with two-time Olivier Award-winner Wanamaker and fellow stars of stage and screen Flynn and Sosanya, weaves tells the tale of three women – Lorna, Carrie and Miriam – each making a choice between love and survival.