Initial casting has been announced for the UK premiere of The Wanderers at Marylebone Theatre in London.
The Wanderers is playing at the Marylebone Theatre from 17 October to 29 November 2025.
This new production of the acclaimed play by Anna Ziegler (Photograph 51, Actually) is directed by award-winner Igor Golyak (Our Class, The Orchard), and designed by Jan Pappelbaum, Head of Set Design at Berlin’s Schaubühne theatre.
The Wanderers will star Katerina Tannenbaum (And Just Like That, Gossip Girl) as Esther, Paksie Vernon (People, Places and Things) as Sophie, and Anna Popplewell (The Chronicles of Narnia) as Julia Cheever.
Further casting is to be announced.
In The Wanderers, two narratives intertwine in a story about longing, connection, and the invisible threads that bind us across generations.
Abe is a celebrated writer with a restless spirit and certain disdain for religion—including his own. He is married to Sophie, another writer, whose first book was overlooked. She doubts she has a second book in her— Abe has his doubts too. Their marriage, while rooted in love, is marked by tension, quiet rivalry, and unresolved discontent. Then an unexpected email from a movie star sets Abe on a flirtatious and increasingly risky journey. What starts as curiosity spirals into something deeper—an unravelling of long-buried truths – threatening his marriage, his sense of self, and the life he thought he built.
Meanwhile, in another time and place, Esther and Schmuli are shy young Orthodox Jews entering an arranged marriage after only one meeting. Gradually, Esther finds herself suffocated by the strictures of her ultra-religious world. A dissatisfaction that couldn’t have higher stakes when it starts to jeopardise her family and the foundation of the only life she’s ever known.
The Wanderers comes to London following an Off-Broadway run at Roundabout Theatre Company in 2023.
Anna Ziegler is currently adapting her play Photograph 51 for film, to be directed by Tom Hooper. In 2026, her new work Antigone (This Play I Read in High School) will premiere at The Public Theatre in New York.
Igor Golyak is a Ukrainian-born, award-winning director and founder of -Arlekin! and Zero Gravity (zero-G) Theater Lab.
The Wanderers is produced by Sarig Peker of Grapevine Shoot Productions & Keren Misgav of Norel Productions.
Writer Anna Ziegler said in a statement: “I couldn’t be more thrilled to bring these five characters—each restless, each full of yearning—to wander in London under Igor Golyak’s inventive, poetic, and emotionally rigorous eye.”
Director Igor Golyak said: “Theatre, at its essence, is a quiet conversation with the soul, unravelling the delicate threads between tradition and change. In The Wanderers, we see the poetic tragedy of longing—beautiful, endless, and profoundly human.”
The Wanderers is running at the Marylebone Theatre from 17 October to 29 November 2025.
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