Melting Pot has officially announced the full cast and creative team for a major new West End revival of The Truth, the Olivier Award-nominated comedy written by Academy Award winner Florian Zeller. Joining the previously announced core lineup, actors Adam Morris and Roisin Rae complete the principal company for this sophisticated, fast-paced production.
The star-driven revival brings together four of the UK and Ireland’s most celebrated stage and screen performers to showcase their formidable comic talents. The production stars Tony Award nominee Stephen Mangan, making his highly anticipated return to the London stage, alongside comedy icon Ardal O’Hanlon, Miranda star Sarah Hadland, and double Olivier Award winner Janie Dee. Centered on two couples and a tangled web of secrets, the narrative follows Michel, a man embarking on an affair with his best friend’s wife while attempting to convince himself that honesty is entirely overrated. As his meticulously structured deceptions grow increasingly complex, the audience is left delightfully off-balance, questioning who is truly deceiving whom.
Translated by Christopher Hampton and directed by acclaimed filmmaker and theatre director Lindsay Posner, this wickedly funny play will run for a strictly limited 14-week engagement at the Apollo Theatre on Shaftesbury Avenue. Performances are scheduled to begin on Tuesday, June 9, 2026, ahead of an official national press night on Wednesday, June 24th at 7:30 PM.
The backstage creative team includes scenic and costume design by Lizzie Clachan, lighting design by Richard Howell, and sound design by Adam Cork. Producer Simon Friend, who previously collaborated with Zeller on the double Oscar-winning film adaptation of The Father, described the play as an ingenious puzzle that effortlessly evolves from a playful comedy about adultery into something much deeper. Friend noted that Hampton’s lean, witty translation has allowed them to assemble a dream cast for this exciting West End return. Packed with Zeller's trademark psychological insight and biting humor, this new staging explores the fragile stories we tell ourselves, promising a night of theatre that is as uproariously entertaining as it is thought-provoking.
