Carrie Cracknell

Feature adaptation of Jane Austen novel, starring Dakota Johnson and Cosmo Jarvis.

By Marina Carr

Broadway transfer of Simon Stephen's SEA WALL, starring Jake Gyllenhaal, and Nick Payne's A LIFE starring Tom Sturridge presented in a double bill

Simon Stephen's SEA WALL, starring Jake Gyllenhaal, and Nick Payne's A LIFE starring Tom Sturridge presented in a double bill at The Public Theater.

By Polly Stenham after Strindberg, World Premiere
"Cracknell’s direction is astonishing." - The Stage

By Ella Hickson, World Premiere
"bold, playful and scorchingly ambitious...very well directed by Carrie Cracknell" - The Guardian; "directed with great tonal dexterity by Carrie Cracknell" - The Independent.

by Terence Rattigan
"Carrie Cracknell directs with total assurance..."The Times
"this splendid new production from Carrie Cracknell is intoxicating..." The Telegraph

Dir: Carrie Cracknell and Lucy Guerin
"Bold, visceral and topical" - Financial Times; "Stylish and daring" - Evening Standard

By Euripides in a version by Ben Power
"Carrie Cracknell's version is a tragic force to be reckoned with...avoids quasi-operatic grandeur to present us with a recognisable human being who is alive with contradictions" - The Guardian; "This thrilling and merciless production leaves you feeling both appalled and strangely elated" - The Telegraph

By Simon Stephens, World Premiere
"Carrie Cracknell's production is ceaselessly inventive" - The Guardian; "Carrie Cracknell's smart production create[s] a world both repellent and seductive in this glittering moral fable for our celebrity-obsessed times" - WhatsOnStage; "There's a sharp visual language, courtesy of director Carrie Cracknell." - The Evening Standard

Created by Nick Payne and Carrie Cracknell, World Premiere
"Carrie Cracknell's show cunningly exposes gender inequality [with]...explosive scenes...niftily staged" - The Guardian
“Has a visceral kick which makes you sit up and think, or rethink.” New York Times

New York transfer
"a harrowing account, directed with breathless momentum by Carrie Cracknell." - New York Times Critic's Pick

West End transfer
"A shattering production of a classic play...thrilling [and] often savagely funny." - The Metro

By Suhalya El-Bushra in Weekly Rep, World Premiere

By E.V. Crowe

A new version by Simon Stephens, opening in 2012 and revived in 2013.
Nominated for the Evening Standard Best Director Award 2012
"If you ever see a production of the play, see this one.' - Sunday Telegraph*****; ‘An intense emotional thriller.’ - Sunday Express*****; "I have never seen a more gripping and emotionally truthful account of Ibsen's brilliantly plotted and still disturbing play" - Daily Telegraph*****; "A stunning production" - The Stage; "Carrie Cracknell’s fantastically assured production...loyally serves Ibsen's stark vision" - The Telegraph****; "Carrie Cracknell's deft production [is] a bracing vision of sacrifice and conscience" - The Evening Standard****

A new version by Nick Payne;
“Nick Payne's urgent new version of Sophocles's Electra is another in a long line of boundary-breaking offerings and thus an apt farewell production from Cracknell. For this is not Greek tragedy as Aristotle knew it but an astute study of a deeply disturbed family.” The Evening Standard.

"an inventive fusion of movement, music and text, creating haunting dreamscapes and evocative imagery that really capture the overwhelming aura of grief permeating this play" - oughttobeclowns.blogspot.co.uk

"deeply ­moving" - The Guardian

A new version by Lucy Kirkwood"a Hedda for our times" - The Guardian

Nominated for a South Bank Show Award (Dance)
“This exquisite miniature is intensely alive, even as it deals in the currency of death.”
"...absorbing... [Carrie Cracknell] creates a geometry that's rich but uncluttered" - The Independent

by Lukas Barfuss, British Premiere
“This knotty piece, at once brutal and clinical, is the first under the Gate’s new duo of artistic directors, Carrie Cracknell and Natalie Abrahami. Brave, unsettling and given an inventive, highly physical production by Cracknell, it makes a promising star to the pair’s regime.” - The Times

by Renato Gabrielli, British Premiere

by Jack Thorne, World Premiere

by Ryan Craig, World Premiere
Fringe First Award
“Exceptional stuff, that like the best theatre makes you see the world in a slightly different way.” Metro

by Renato Gabrielli, British Premiere
Herald Angel Award
“Delivers a dramatic punch that takes the breath away. An experience too disturbing to forget.” The Scotsman

Opening December 2023

Olivier nomination for Best New Opera Production
Conducted by Edward Gardner
"Cracknell’s concept is realised with terrific theatrical flair and filled with rich naturalistic detail" - The Daily Telegraph; "This is Carrie Cracknell’s operatic debut; she must be invited back at the earliest opportunity" - Evening Standard; "...[Cracknell's] staging seeps into your conciousness and won't let go...an outstanding achievement to which no one can remain indifferent" - The Guardian

Directed and co-written with Nick Payne