Dame Judi Dench to star in live election play 'The Vote' with real-life daughter Finty Williams (include rehearsal photos)

Dame Judi Dench (rehearsal photo: Johan Persson) and her real-life daughter Finty Williams are starring together in a new stage play that will be broadcast live on More4. Dench will play a voter who arrives at the station with her daughter, played by Williams.  

Rehearsal images (scroll down below) have been released of Judi Dench, Finty Williams, Mark Gatiss, Catherine Tate and the cast of The Vote at the Donmar Warehouse, which runs until May 7th. James Graham's The Vote - set in a fictional polling station - will make theatrical history when it is shown live on election night, as polls close on May 7 from 8.30pm. Consisting of 50 actors in total, it will also star Catherine Tate, Ripper Street's MyAnna Buring, and EastEnders' Timothy West.

Here's part of The Vote review and cast rehearsal photos via Radio Times...

The Vote starring Judi Dench and Mark Gatiss is fabulously acted and depressingly accurate

Politicians in the real election on 7 May will be hoping that voters clamour to the polls with the same enthusiasm shown by the several thousand people who have applied for tickets to this unique collaboration between London’s Donmar Warehouse and More4.

Real-life mother and daughter Judi Dench and Finty Williams feature as a mother and daughter whose bickering pushes the beleaguered Gatiss even closer to the edge; MyAnna Buring is a voracious journalist who senses a story; Bill Paterson is a gruff caretaker; and there’s a hilarious cameo from Paul Chahidi as an independent candidate fighting plans for a new one-way system.

See The Vote Thursday 7 May at 8.25pm on More4

Read full review here.

More The Vote info. via What's On Stage:

A real-time play for theatre and television. Set in the final ninety minutes of polling day 2015, live and in real time, The Vote will be an unprecedented national television event. Following their celebrated collaboration on Privacy, James Graham and Josie Rourke reunite to bring you The Vote, a unique drama, marking a national event, as it happens, live and in real-time. This live television event will take place on 7 May - broadcast on More4 at the precise time and date on which the play is set. Tickets for the limited run at the Donmar (24 April - 7 May) will be available via a ballot, details of which will be published separately.

The Vote - Cast Rehearsal Photos
featuring Judi Dench and her daughter Finty Williams

(source: photos by Johan Persson |  Radio Times)

See all The Vote cast and crew Rehearsal Photos here.