World Premiere
Out of Joint and Hampstead Theatre present
Andersen's English 
by Sebastian Barry
directed by Max Stafford-Clark

The acclaimed Out of Joint present the world premiere of a haunting and humorous new play. Hans Christian Andersen arrives, unannounced, for a stay at the home of Charles Dickens and his large, charismatic family, in the Kent marshes. To the lonely and eccentric guest, members of Dickens’s household seem to live a life of unattainable bliss. But, with his broken English, Andersen doesn’t at first see the storms brewing within the family.

Sebastian Barry won the 2008 Costa Prize for his novel The Secret Scripture and has twice been nominated for the Booker Prize. His plays include The Steward of Christendom, Our Lady of Sligo and Hinterland.