Nov 17 – May 18 How to Book the Plays
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Nov 17 – May 18 How to book The plays Online Select your own seat online nationaltheatre.org.uk By phone 020 7452 3000 Mon – Sat: 9.30am – 8pm In person South Bank, London, SE1 9PX Mon – Sat: 9.30am – 11pm Other ways Friday Rush to get tickets £20 tickets are released online every Friday at 1pm Macbeth Absolute Hell John for the following week’s performances. Playing from 26 Feb Playing from 18 Apr 17 Jan – 3 Mar Day Tickets £18/£15 tickets available in person on the day of the performance. No booking fee online or in person. A £2.50 fee per transaction for phone bookings. If you choose to have your tickets sent by post, a £1 fee applies per transaction. Postage costs may vary for group and overseas bookings. Access symbols used in this brochure CAP Captioned AD Audio-Described TT Touch Tour Relaxed Performance The Great Wave Nine Night Amadeus 10 Mar – 14 Apr 21 Apr – 26 May 11 Jan – 24 Apr Travelex £15 tickets The National Theatre Partner for Innovation Partner for Learning Sponsored by in partnership with Founding corporate Partner for Connectivity Outdoor Media Partner Official Airline supporter for Public Acts Pinocchio Barber Shop Network 1 Dec – 10 Apr Chronicles Playing until 24 Mar 20 Nov – 9 Jan Official Hotel Partner The National Theatre’s Supporter for new writing Cloud Services Partner International Hotel Partner Pouring Partner Partner for Lighting and Energy Sponsor of NT Live in the UK Saint George and Follies Oslo the Dragon Playing until 3 Jan Playing in the West End Playing until 2 Dec until 30 Dec 2 3 FEBRUARY Mon 26 7.30 Tue 27 7.30 MARCH Macbeth Thu 1 7.30 Fri 2 7.30 by William Shakespeare Sat 3 7.30 Mon 5 7.30 Tue 6 7.00 Wed 7 7.00 Thu 8 7.30 Fri 9 7.30 Sat 10 2.00 7.30 Fri 16 7.30 Sat 17 2.00 Cast includes The ruined aftermath of a bloody civil war. 7.30 Anne-Marie Duff Ruthlessly fighting to survive, the Macbeths Mon 19 7.30 Rory Kinnear Tue 20 7.30 are propelled towards the crown by forces Wed 21 2.00 Director of elemental darkness. 7.30 Rufus Norris Thu 22 7.30 Set Designer Shakespeare’s most intense and terrifying Fri 23 7.30 Rae Smith Sat 24 2.00 tragedy is directed by Rufus Norris. 7.30 Costume Designer Rory Kinnear and Anne-Marie Duff Mon 26 7.30 Moritz Junge Tue 27 2.00 play Macbeth and Lady Macbeth. 7.30 Lighting Designer Wed 28 7.30 James Farncombe APRIL Sound Designer Thu 12 7.30 Paul Arditti Fri 13 7.30 Sat 14 2.00 7.30 Mon 16 7.30 Tue 17 7.30 Wed 18 7.30 Thu 19 CAP 2.00 7.30 Thu 26 7.30 Fri 27 AD 7.30 Sat 28 AD TT 2.00 7.30 Mon 30 7.30 MAY Tue 1 2.00 7.30 Wed 2 CAP 7.30 Thu 3 7.30 Fri 4 7.30 Sponsored by Sat 5 2.00 7.30 Mon 7 7.30 Olivier Theatre Tue 8 7.30 Wed 9 7.30 Thu 10 7.00 Fri 11 7.30 Talks and events Sat 12 CAP 2.00 7.30 Shakespeare’s England in Macbeth Talks 1606 with James Shapiro Mon 30 Apr, times below, Additional Fri 2 Mar, 5.30 – 6.15pm, individual events £7/£5, performances to Dorfman, £7/£5 combined ticket £15/£12 be announced National Theatre Macbeth Student Anne-Marie Duff Live broadcast Conference and Rory Kinnear on Thu 10 May ‘Sleep no more...’ Thu 22 Mar, 3 – 4pm, CAP 10.30am – 3.30pm, Olivier, £7.50 Performing Shakespeare 4.30pm – 5.30pm, CAP Rufus Norris Photography (Rory Kinnear and Anne-Marie Duff) by Jack Davison Photography (Rory Kinnear and Anne-Marie Duff) 6 – 6.45pm, CAP 5 APRIL Wed 18 7.00 Thu 19 7.00 Fri 20 7.00 Sat 21 7.00 Absolute Hell Mon 23 7.00 Tue 24 7.00 by Rodney Ackland Wed 25 7.00 Thu 26 7.00 Fri 27 7.00 Sat 28 1.30 7.00 Mon 30 7.00 MAY Tue 1 1.30 7.00 Cast to be Bomb-blasted London. A Soho den in the Wed 2 7.00 announced hangover from World War II, where members Thu 3 7.00 Director Fri 4 7.00 drink into the darkness, night after night. Sat 5 1.30 Joe Hill-Gibbins Lying, fighting and seducing, these lost souls 7.00 Set Designer and bruised lovers struggle from the rubble of Mon 7 7.00 Lizzie Clachan Tue 8 7.00 war towards an unknown future. Wed 9 1.30 Costume Designer 7.00 Nicky Gillibrand Rodney Ackland’s extraordinarily provocative Thu 10 7.00 Fri 11 7.00 Lighting Designer play was condemned as ‘a libel on the British Sat 12 1.30 Jon Clark people’ when first performed in 1952. Now it 7.00 Movement Director emerges as an intoxicating plunge into Mon 14 CAP 7.00 Jenny Ogilvie Tue 15 7.00 post-war Soho; full of despair and longing. Wed 16 7.00 Sound Designer Joe Hill-Gibbins returns to the NT to direct Thu 17 7.00 Paul Arditti a large ensemble in this new production. Fri 18 AD 7.00 Sat 19 AD TT 1.30 Music Director 7.00 Harvey Brough Mon 21 7.00 Tue 22 CAP 1.30 7.00 Wed 23 7.00 Additional performances to be announced Lyttelton Theatre Talks and events Censorship in Soho Then and Now Post-War Theatre Wed 16 May, 6 – 7pm, Fri 27 Apr, 6 – 7pm, Cottesloe Room, £7/£5 Cottesloe Room, £7/£5 Absolute Hell – British Theatre after the Blitz An intoxicating plunge Tue 15 May, 2 – 5pm, Cottesloe Room, into post-war Soho. £30/£20/£7.50 7 JANUARY Wed 17 7.00 Thu 18 7.00 Fri 19 7.00 Sat 20 7.00 John Mon 22 7.00 Tue 23 7.00 by Annie Baker Wed 24 7.00 Thu 25 7.00 Fri 26 7.00 Sat 27 1.30 7.00 Mon 29 7.00 Tue 30 7.00 Wed 31 1.30 7.00 Cast The week after Thanksgiving. A bed and FEBRUARY Marylouise Burke breakfast in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. Thu 1 7.00 Tom Mothersdale Fri 2 7.00 Anneika Rose A cheerful host welcomes a young couple Sat 3 1.30 June Watson struggling to salvage their relationship, while 7.00 Mon 5 7.00 Director thousands of inanimate objects look on. Tue 6 1.30 James Macdonald 7.00 An uncanny new play by Annie Baker, Wed 7 7.00 Designer whose Pulitzer Prize-winning The Flick Thu 8 7.00 Chloe Lamford had a sold-out run at the National in 2016. Fri 9 7.00 Lighting Designer Sat 10 1.30 Peter Mumford James Macdonald directs. 7.00 Wed 14 7.00 Sound Designer Thu 15 7.00 Christopher Shutt Fri 16 7.00 Sat 17 1.30 7.00 Mon 19 7.00 Tue 20 CAP 7.00 Wed 21 1.30 7.00 Thu 22 7.00 Fri 23 AD 7.00 Sat 24 AD TT 1.30 7.00 Mon 26 7.00 Tue 27 CAP 1.30 7.00 Wed 28 7.00 MARCH Thu 1 7.00 Fri 2 7.00 Sat 3 CAP 1.30 Dorfman Theatre Talks and events Annie Baker American Theatre with Fri 19 Jan, 5.45 – 6.30pm, Christopher Bigsby Cottesloe Room, £7/£5 Tue 20 Feb, 5.30 – 6.30pm, Cottesloe Room, £7/£5 Chloe Lamford and James Macdonald Thu 1 Feb, 5.30 – 6.15pm, ‘Casts a unique and brilliant light.’ Dorfman, £7/£5 New Yorker Photography by Felicity McCabe 9 MARCH A co-production with the Tricycle Theatre Sat 10 7.30 Mon 12 7.30 Tue 13 7.30 Wed 14 7.30 An epic new thriller. The Great Wave Thu 15 7.30 Fri 16 7.30 a new play by Francis Turnly Sat 17 2.30 7.30 Mon 19 7.00 Tue 20 7.30 Wed 21 2.30 7.30 Thu 22 7.30 Fri 23 7.30 Sat 24 2.30 7.30 Cast includes On a Japanese beach, teenage sisters Hanako Mon 26 7.30 Kae Alexander and Reiko are caught up in a storm. Reiko Tue 27 2.30 Rosalind Chao 7.30 Tuyen Do survives while Hanako is lost to the sea. Their Wed 28 7.30 Vincent Lai mother, however, can’t shake the feeling that her Thu 29 7.30 Kwong Loke Sat 31 2.30 missing daughter is still alive, and soon family 7.30 Frances Mayli McCann tragedy takes on a global political dimension. Kirsty Rider APRIL Leo Wan Set in Japan and North Korea, Francis Mon 2 7.30 David Yip Tue 3 2.30 Turnly’s epic new thriller is directed by 7.30 Director Indhu Rubasingham in a co-production Wed 4 7.30 Indhu Rubasingham with the Tricycle Theatre. Thu 5 7.30 Designer Fri 6 AD 7.30 Tom Piper Sat 7 AD TT 2.30 7.30 Video Designer Mon 9 7.30 Luke Halls Tue 10 CAP 2.30 7.30 Lighting Designer Wed 11 7.30 Oliver Fenwick Thu 12 CAP 7.30 Music Fri 13 7.30 Sat 14 CAP 2.30 David Shrubsole 7.30 Sound Designer Alex Caplen Movement Director Polly Bennett Fight Director Kev McCurdy Dorfman Theatre Talks and events Indhu Rubasingham and Inside the World’s Most Francis Turnly Secretive Nation Mon 26 Mar, 6 – 6.45pm, Tue 10 Apr, 6 – 7pm, Dorfman, £7/£5 Cottesloe Room, £7/£5 Designing The Great Wave with Tom Piper Wed 28 Mar, 5.30 – 7pm, Duffield Studio, £7/£5 Photography (Kae Alexander) by Linda Brownlee 11 APRIL Sat 21 7.30 Mon 23 7.30 Tue 24 7.30 Wed 25 7.30 Nine Night Thu 26 7.30 Fri 27 7.30 a new play by Natasha Gordon Sat 28 7.30 Mon 30 7.00 MAY Tue 1 7.30 Wed 2 7.30 Thu 3 2.30 7.30 Fri 4 7.30 Sat 5 2.30 Cast includes Gloria is gravely sick.