Apr – Nov 17 How to Book the Plays
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Apr – Nov 17 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 See p37 for Sunday and holiday opening times Other ways Friday Rush Follies Mosquitoes Oslo to get tickets £20 tickets are released online every Friday at 1pm Playing from 22 Aug 18 July – 28 Sep 5 – 23 Sep for the following week’s performances. For Angels in America see Ballot on p21 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 TT Touch Tour AD Audio-Described Jane Eyre The Majority Salomé 26 Sep – 21 Oct 11 – 28 Aug 2 May – 15 July TRAVELEX £15 TICKETS The National Theatre Partner for Innovation Partner for Learning Sponsored by in partnership with Partner for Connectivity Outdoor Media Partner Official Airline Official Hotel Partner Common Barber Shop Ugly Lies the Bone 30 May – 5 Aug Chronicles Playing until 6 June 30 May – 8 July Workshops Partner The National Theatre’s Supporter for new writing Pouring Partner International Hotel Partner Image Image Partner for Lighting and Energy Sponsor of NT Live in the UK TBC TBC Angels in America Angels in America Amadeus Part One Part Two Returning 2018 Playing until 19 Aug Playing until 19 Aug 2 3 AUGUST Tue 22 7.30 Wed 23 7.30 Fri 25 7.30 Sat 26 7.30 Follies Tue 29 7.30 Wed 30 7.30 book by James Goldman Thu 31 7.30 music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim SEPTEMBER Fri 1 7.30 Sat 2 2.00 7.30 Mon 4 7.30 Tue 5 2.00 7.30 Cast includes Wed 6 7.00 New York, 1971. There’s a party on the stage Thu 7 7.30 Josephine Barstow of the Weismann Theatre. Tomorrow the iconic Fri 8 7.30 Tracie Bennett building will be demolished. Thirty years after Sat 9 2.00 Di Botcher 7.30 Billy Boyle their final performance, the Follies girls gather Mon 11 7.30 Janie Dee to have a few drinks, sing a few songs and lie Tue 12 2.00 Geraldine Fitzgerald about themselves. 7.30 Peter Forbes Wed 13 7.30 Thu 14 7.30 Emily Goodenough Including such classic songs as Broadway Fri 15 7.30 Bruce Graham Baby, I’m Still Here and Losing My Mind, Sat 16 2.00 Fred Haig 7.30 Aimee Hodnett Stephen Sondheim’s legendary musical is Mon 18 7.30 Dawn Hope staged for the first time at the National Theatre. Tue 19 7.30 Liz Izen Wed 20 2.00 Alison Langer Tracie Bennett, Janie Dee and Imelda Staunton 7.30 Thu 21 7.30 Emily Langham play the magnificent Follies in this dazzling Fri 22 7.30 Sarah Marie Maxwell new production. Featuring a cast of 37 and an Sat 23 2.00 Kate Parr orchestra of 21, it’s directed by Dominic Cooke 7.30 Philip Quast Mon 25 7.30 Edwin Ray (Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom). Tue 26 7.30 Gary Raymond Adam Rhys-Charles Winner of Academy, Tony, Grammy and Olivier OCTOBER Jordan Shaw Awards, Sondheim’s previous work at the NT Mon 16 7.30 Imelda Staunton includes A Little Night Music, Sweeney Todd Tue 17 2.00 7.30 Barnaby Thompson and Sunday in the Park with George. Wed 18 CAP 7.30 Christine Tucker Wed 25 7.30 Alex Young Thu 26 2.00 Director 7.30 Dominic Cooke Fri 27 7.30 Official Hotel Partner Sat 28 CAP 2.00 Designer 7.30 Vicki Mortimer NOVEMBER Choreographer Wed 1 7.30 Bill Deamer Olivier Theatre Thu 2 2.00 Music Supervisor CAP 7.30 Nicholas Skilbeck Fri 3 AD 7.30 Sat 4 AD TT 2.00 Orchestrations 7.30 Jonathan Tunick Talks and events Additional Music Director Janie Dee and Dominic Cooke performances to Nigel Lilley Philip Quast Wed 18 Oct, 6 – 6.45pm, be announced Lighting Designer Thu 14 Sep, 3 – 4pm, Olivier, £7/£5 Paule Constable Olivier, £7/£5 The Works of Sound Designer The Future of Stephen Sondheim Paul Groothuis Musical Theatre Fri 3 Nov, 10.30am – 4.30pm, ‘Follies is one of the greatest Fri 15 Sep, 6 – 7pm, Cottesloe Room, £55/£40 musicals ever written’ Cottesloe Room, £7/£5 New York Times Photography by Marcus Palmqvist Photography by Marcus 5 JULY Tue 18 7.30 Wed 19 7.30 Thu 20 7.30 Fri 21 7.30 The strongest force in Mosquitoes Sat 22 7.30 a new play by Lucy Kirkwood Mon 24 7.30 the universe isn’t love. Tue 25 7.00 Wed 26 7.30 Thu 27 7.30 Fri 28 7.30 Sat 29 2.30 7.30 Mon 31 7.30 AUGUST Cast includes Tue 1 7.30 Alice is a scientist. She lives in Geneva. As the Wed 2 2.30 Amanda Boxer Large Hadron particle collider starts up in 2008, 7.30 Olivia Colman she is on the brink of the most exciting work of Thu 3 7.30 Olivia Williams Fri 4 7.30 her life, searching for the Higgs Boson. Director Sat 5 2.30 7.30 Rufus Norris Jenny is her sister. She lives in Luton. Mon 7 7.30 Designer She spends a lot of time Googling. Tue 8 7.30 Katrina Lindsay Wed 9 7.30 Tue 29 7.30 Lighting Designer When tragedy throws them together, Wed 30 2.30 Paule Constable the collision threatens them all with chaos. 7.30 Music Thu 31 7.30 Adam Cork Olivia Colman and Olivia Williams play the sisters in this new drama from Chimerica writer SEPTEMBER Sound Designer Fri 1 7.30 Paul Arditti Lucy Kirkwood, directed by Rufus Norris. Sat 2 2.30 7.30 Video Designers Mon 4 7.30 Finn Ross and Tue 5 2.30 Ian William Galloway 7.30 Wed 6 7.30 Thu 7 7.30 Fri 8 7.30 Sat 9 2.30 7.30 Mon 11 CAP 7.30 Tue 12 7.30 Wed 13 CAP 2.30 7.30 Thu 14 7.30 Fri 15 AD 7.30 Sat 16 AD TT 2.30 7.30 Production supported by the Mon 18 7.30 Winton Charitable Foundation Tue 19 7.30 and Rosetrees Trust. A recipient Wed 20 2.30 of the Edgerton Foundation 7.30 Dorfman Theatre New Plays Award Thu 21 7.30 Fri 22 7.30 Sat 23 2.30 7.30 Talks and events Mon 25 7.30 Tue 26 2.30 Semiconductor – Designing Mosquitoes 7.30 Creating Scientific Art Mon 25 Sep, 10.30am – 1.30pm, Wed 27 CAP 7.30 Fri 21 July, 6 – 6.45pm, Dorfman and Duffield Studio, Thu 28 7.30 Cottesloe Room, £6/£5 £30/£20/£7.50 Lucy Kirkwood and Making Mosquitoes with Rufus Norris designer Katrina Lindsay Thu 7 Sep, 6 – 6.45pm, Mon 25 Sep, 5.45 – 6.30pm, Dorfman, £7/£5 Dorfman, £7/£5 Photography by David Stewart 7 SEPTEMBER The Lincoln Center Theater production Tue 5 7.30 Wed 6 7.30 Thu 7 2.00 7.30 ‘Can we make peace with Oslo Fri 8 7.30 a new play by J.T. Rogers Sat 9 2.00 enemies? Oslo gives us hope’ 7.30 Mon 11 7.30 New York Daily News Tue 12 7.00 Wed 13 7.30 Thu 14 2.00 7.30 Fri 15 7.30 Sat 16 2.00 CAP 7.30 Mon 18 7.30 Cast to be Direct from Broadway for a limited season Tue 19 7.30 announced Wed 20 2.00 Director In 1993, in front of the world’s press, the leaders 7.30 Thu 21 7.30 Bartlett Sher of Israel and Palestine shook hands on the lawn Fri 22 AD 7.30 Set Designer of the White House. Few watching would have Sat 23 AD TT 2.00 Michael Yeargan guessed that the negotiations leading up to this 7.30 Costume Designer iconic moment started secretly in a castle in the Catherine Zuber middle of a forest outside Oslo. Lighting Designer Donald Holder Oslo tells the true story of two maverick Sound Designer Norwegian diplomats who coordinated Peter John Still top secret talks and inspired seemingly Projections impossible friendships. Their quiet heroics led 59 Productions to the groundbreaking Oslo Peace Accords. Bartlett Sher’s acclaimed production of this new play by J.T. Rogers (Blood & Gifts, The Overwhelming, NT) sets a deeply personal story against an epic historical landscape. This darkly funny political thriller comes to the National Theatre following a sell-out run in New York, prior to a West End run later this autumn. ‘Vivid and thoughtful, crackling theatre.’ The New York Times Lyttelton Theatre West End Continues at the Harold Pinter Theatre from October. Tickets available from the National Theatre. In association with ATG Talks and events Mona Juul on the Oslo Accords Fri 15 Sep, 6 – 6.45pm, Lyttelton, £7/£5 9 SEPTEMBER A co-production with Bristol Old Vic Tue 26 7.00 HHHHH Wed 27 7.00 Thu 28 1.30 7.00 ‘Captures the beating Jane Eyre Fri 29 7.00 based on the novel by Charlotte Brontë Sat 30 1.30 heart of the novel.’ 7.00 devised by the original company Mail on Sunday OCTOBER Mon 2 7.00 Tue 3 1.30 7.00 Wed 4 7.00 Thu 5 7.00 Fri 6 7.00 Cast Sat 7 1.30 ‘A fresh, exciting and endlessly 7.00 Hannah Bristow inventive production.’ Mon 9 7.00 Matthew Churcher Evening Standard Tue 10 1.30 Nadia Clifford 7.00 Ben Cutler Wed 11 7.00 Tim Delap Following a critically acclaimed season at the Thu 12 7.00 Alex Heane National Theatre and a UK tour, Jane Eyre Fri 13 7.00 Jenny Johns returns this September.