The Donmar's latest season opens in high spirits with Anthony Weigh's new version of
Jean Anouilh's
Le Voyageur Sans Bagage, relocated to New York State in 1959
as
Welcome Home, Captain Fox! Among her various charitable projects, aspiring
socialite Marcee DuPont-DuFort (Katherine Kingsley) discovers Gene (Rory Keenan,) a
WWII veteran in a military mental hospital, who doesn't remember anything before he
woke up in in a French battlefield 15 years earlier. The wealthy Hamptons matriarch
Mrs Fox (Sian Thomas) had a son who went MIA around that time, and Marcee is
convinced she's found a match - and one that could get her a few rungs up the social
ladder. Mrs Fox and her eldest son George (Barnaby Kay) are skeptical at first, but
as soon as they see Gene they're convinced he's the missing Jack. But being in what
he's told is his childhood home doesn't prompt any memories to come back, and he's
not sure if he wants them to.
