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AD Audio-Described The National Theatre The National Theatre in partnership with in partnership with Mr Gum and Jellyfish Translations the Dancing Bear – 5 – 16 July Playing from 15 Oct the Musical! 25 July – 31 Aug Partner for Innovation Partner for Learning Founding corporate Outdoor Media Partner supporter for Public Acts Official Airline Partner Official Hotel Partner Official Transport Provider International Hotel Partner Small Island Rutherford and Son Peter Gynt Your carrier to the USA and beyond Playing until 10 Aug 16 May – 3 Aug 27 June – 8 Oct Supporter for new writing Official Sound Partner of Cloud Services Partner Pouring Partner the Olivier Theatre Sponsor of NT Live in the UK Follies Top Girls River Stage Playing until 11 May Playing until 20 July 5 July – 3 Aug 2 3 A UGUST Thu 22 7.30 Fri 23 7.30 Sat 24 7.30 Hansard Mon 26 7.30 Tue 27 7.30 a new play by Simon Woods Wed 28 7.30 Thu 29 7.30 Fri 30 7.30 Sat 31 7.30 SEPTEMBER Mon 2 7.30 Tue 3 7.00 Wed 4 7.30 Wed 11 7.30 Thu 12 7.30 Cast includes Hansard; noun Fri 13 7.30 Lindsay Duncan The official report of all parliamentary debates. Sat 14 2.15 Alex Jennings 7.30 Director It’s a summer’s morning in 1988 and Tory OCTOBER Simon Godwin politician Robin Hesketh has returned home to Thu 3 7.30 Set and Costume the idyllic Cotswold house he shares with his Fri 4 7.30 Designer Sat 5 2.15 wife of 30 years, Diana. But all is not as blissful 7.30 Hildegard Bechtler as it seems. Diana has a stinking hangover, a fox Thu 10 7.30 Lighting Designer Fri 11 AD 7.30 Jackie Shemesh is destroying the garden, and secrets are being Sat 12 AD TT 2.15 dug up all over the place. As the day draws on, 7.30 Music Mon 14 CAP 7.30 Michael Bruce what starts as gentle ribbing and the familiar Tue 15 7.30 Mon 21 7.30 Sound Designer rhythms of marital sparring quickly turns to Tue 22 CAP 7.30 Christopher Shutt blood-sport. Wed 23 7.30 Thu 24 7.30 Movement Director Simon Godwin (Antony & Cleopatra) Shelley Maxwell Additional directs Simon Woods’ witty and devastating performances to portrait of the governing class. be announced Lindsay Duncan and Alex Jennings, both two-time Olivier Award winners, return to the National Theatre to play Diana and Robin. Lyttelton Theatre Talks and events Director Simon Godwin Exploring Hansard and Writer Simon Woods Tue 15 Oct, Thu 12 Sep, 6 – 6.45pm, 10.30am – 4pm, Lyttelton, £9/£6 Cottesloe Room, £60/£40/£15 Parliamentary Voting: Personal Beliefs vs A witty and Party Line Mon 14 Oct, 6 – 7pm, devastating new play. Cottesloe Room, £9/£6 Photography (Alex Jennings and Lindsay Duncan) by Jay Brooks 5 SEPTEMBER Sat 21 7.30 Mon 23 7.30 Tue 24 7.30 ‘Master Harold’… Wed 25 7.30 Thu 26 7.30 Fri 27 7.30 Sat 28 2.15 and the boys 7.30 Mon 30 7.30 by Athol Fugard OCTOBER Tue 1 7.00 Wed 2 7.30 Mon 7 7.30 Tue 8 2.15 7.30 Cast includes St George’s Park Tea Room, Port Elizabeth, Wed 9 7.30 Hammed Animashaun 1950. On a long rainy afternoon, employees Wed 16 7.30 Lucian Msamati Thu 17 2.15 Sam and Willie practise their steps for the 7.30 Director finals of the ballroom dancing championship. Fri 18 7.30 Roy Alexander Weise Sat 19 2.15 Set and Costume Hally arrives from school to hide out in his 7.30 Designer Fri 25 7.30 parents’ tea room. These two men have Sat 26 2.15 Rajha Shakiry been unlikely best friends to Hally his whole 7.30 Lighting Designer Additional Paule Constable life. But it is apartheid era South Africa: he’s Master Harold, and they are the boys. performances to Movement Director be announced Shelley Maxwell This blistering masterwork explores the nature of friendship, and the ways people are capable of hurting even those they love. In Tony Award-winning playwright Athol Fugard’s semi-autobiographical and deeply moving play, racism lurks dangerously beneath liberalism. Roy Alexander Weise (Nine Night) directs Lucian Msamati (Amadeus) and Hammed Animashaun (Barber Shop Chronicles) as Sam and Willie. Lyttelton Theatre Talks and events Breaking the Law: Further talks and events Theatre and Apartheid to be announced later in in South Africa the year Tue 8 Oct, 6 – 7pm, Cottesloe Room, £9/£6 An Introduction to the 1950. Apartheid South Africa. Work of Athol Fugard Wed 16 Oct, 6 – 7pm, Cottesloe Room, £9/£6 Photography (Lucian Msamati and Hammed Animashaun) by Sebastian Nevols 7 A Sydney Theatre Company Production A UGUST Thu 22 7.00 Fri 23 7.00 Sat 24 1.00 The Secret River 7.00 Mon 26 7.00 by Kate Grenville Tue 27 7.00 Wed 28 7.00 adapted for the stage by Andrew Bovell Thu 29 1.00 7.00 Fri 30 7.00 Sat 31 1.00 7.00 S EPTEMBER Mon 2 CAP 7.00 Tue 3 7.00 Cast to be A deeply moving and unflinching journey Wed 4 CAP 1.00 announced into Australia’s dark history. Adapted from 7.00 Director Thu 5 7.00 Kate Grenville’s acclaimed novel, this Fri 6 AD 7.00 Neil Armfield multi-award-winning production from Sat 7 AD TT 1.00 Artistic Associate Sydney Theatre Company tells the story of 7.00 Stephen Page two families divided by culture and land. Playing at Set Designer Edinburgh Stephen Curtis International William Thornhill arrives in New South Wales a Festival Costume Designer convict from the slums of London. Upon earning 2 – 11 August Tess Schofield his pardon he discovers that this new world Lighting Designer offers something he didn’t dare dream of: a place Mark Howett to call his own. But as he plants a crop and lays Composer claim to the soil on the banks of the Hawkesbury Iain Grandage River, he finds that this land is not his to take. Sound Designer Steve Francis Its ancient custodians are the Dharug people. Neil Armfield directs a large ensemble cast, with live music by composer Iain Grandage. This hauntingly poetic production was conceived in collaboration with Aboriginal artists and is performed in Dharug as well as English. ‘Astonishingly beautiful… deeply affecting. Essential viewing.’ Sun Herald The Secret River 2019 tour is supported by Ian Narev & Frances Allan, Gretel Packer and commissioning patrons Catriona Mordant AM & Simon Mordant AM and David Gonski AC & Orli Wargon OAM. This project has been assisted by the Australian Government’s Major Festivals Initiative, managed by the Australia Council its arts funding and advisory body, in association with the Confederation of Australian International Arts Festivals Inc., Sydney Festival, Perth International Arts Festival and The Centenary of Canberra. Olivier Theatre Talks and events Director Neil Armfield ‘A stunning and shattering Wed 28 Aug, 5.45 – 6.30pm, piece of theatre.’ Cottesloe Room, £7/£5 Sunday Telegraph (Australia) © Tom Huntley, The Advertiser Huntley, © Tom 9 J ULY Thu 25 7.00 Fri 26 7.00 Sat 27 2.00 Mr Gum and Mon 29 7.00 Tue 30 2.00 7.00 Wed 31 7.00 the Dancing Bear – A UGUST Thu 1 7.00 Fri 2 7.00 the Musical! Sat 3 2.00 7.00 book and lyrics by Andy Stanton Tue 6 2.00 Wed 7 2.00 music by Jim Fortune 7.00 Fri 9 2.00 7.00 Sat 10 2.00 7.00 Tue 13 2.00 Cast to be Who likes bears? Everyone likes bears! Well, Thu 15 2.00 announced 7.00 not quite everyone... Mr Gum is a complete Fri 16 2.00 Director horror who hates children, animals and fun of 7.00 Amy Hodge any kind – so when a big bear called Padlock Sat 17 ® 2.00 7.00 Set and Costume strolls into town, trouble can’t be far off. Can Designer Tue 20 2.00 nine-year-old Polly and her band of misfit friends Wed 21 2.00 Georgia Lowe 7.00 Music Director help Padlock escape the villain’s evil clutches? Fri 23 2.00 Tarek Merchant Or will Mr Gum and his gruesome butcher 7.00 sidekick prevail? Sat 24 2.00 Lighting Designer 7.00 Lee Curran Tue 27 CAP 2.00 Based on the hilariously anarchic, Choreographer Wed 28 2.00 7.00 Fleur Darkin award-winning children’s books, Mr Gum and the Dancing Bear – the Musical! promises to be Fri 30 2.00 Sound Designer AD 7.00 Carolyn Downing an all-singing, all-dancing, occasionally-burping Sat 31 AD TT 2.00 7.00 Puppetry extravaganza for children and adults alike.