For the first time since Mike Leigh's 2005 play Two Thousand Years, the National Theatre is putting a Jewish family centre stage.

Ryan Craig's new play The Holy Rosenbergs, which opens next March, is set in Edgware and will star Henry Goodman as the patriarch of a Jewish family who attempts to save both his ailing catering business and his cherished standing in the Jewish community. As his eldest son fights for Israel in Gaza, his daughter investigates war crimes in the conflict, while his youngest son goes off the rails and refuses to join David's business.