June – Nov 16 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 p33 for Sunday and holiday opening times Amadeus The Red Barn Peter Pan Playing from 19 October Playing from 6 October Playing from 16 November Other ways Friday Rush to get tickets £20 tickets are released online every Friday at 1pm for the following week’s performances Day Tickets £15 / £18 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. Our Ladies of A Pacifist’s Guide to Young Chekhov Perpetual Succour the War on Cancer 14 July – 8 October 8 August – 1 October 14 October – 29 November Access symbols used in this brochure Captioned Touch Tour Audio-Described TRAVELEX £15 TICKETS The National Theatre NT Future is Partner for Sponsored by in partnership with supported by Connectivity The Plough and the Stars The Threepenny Opera The Deep Blue Sea 20 July – 22 October Playing until 1 October Playing until 21 September Outdoor Media Partner The National Theatre’s Partner for Lighting The Dorfman Partner International Hotel Partner and Energy A National Theatre Pouring Partner Official Hotel Partner IT Partner of the National Theatre Sunset at the Villa Thalia The Suicide River Stage Playing until 4 August Playing until 25 June 29 July – 29 August 2 3 OCTOBER Wed 19 7.30 Thu 20 7.30 Fri 21 7.30 Amadeus Sat 22 7.30 Mon 24 7.30 by Peter Shaffer Tue 25 7.30 Wed 26 7.00 Thu 27 7.30 Fri 28 7.30 Sat 29 2.00 7.30 Mon 31 7.30 NOVEMBER Tue 1 2.00 Cast includes Vienna: the music capital of the world. 7.30 Lucian Msamati Wed 2 7.30 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, a rowdy young Thu 3 7.30 Director Fri 4 7.30 prodigy, arrives determined to make a splash. Sat 5 2.00 Michael Longhurst 7.30 Designer Awestruck by his genius, court composer Mon 7 7.30 Chloe Lamford Tue 8 2.00 Antonio Salieri has the power to promote his 7.30 Music Director and talent or destroy his name. Mon 28 7.30 Additional Music Tue 29 2.00 Simon Slater Seized by obsessive jealousy he begins a war 7.30 Wed 30 7.30 Choreographer with Mozart, with music and, ultimately, Imogen Knight with God. DECEMBER Lighting Designer Mon 5 7.30 Jon Clark Peter Shaffer’s iconic play premiered at the Tue 6 2.00 National Theatre in 1979, winning multiple 7.30 Sound Designer Olivier and Tony awards before being adapted Mon 12 7.30 Paul Arditti Tue 13 2.00 into an Academy Award-winning film. 7.30 Fri 30 7.30 In this new production, Lucian Msamati Sat 31 2.00 (Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom) plays Salieri. Additional With live orchestral accompaniment by performances to Southbank Sinfonia. be announced In association with Southbank Sinfonia Production supported by Olivier Theatre Amadeus appeal donors Sponsored by Hundreds of seats at £15 for every performance Talks and events Michael Longhurst Mon 31 Oct, 6pm Photography (Lucian Msamati) by Seamus Ryan 5 OCTOBER Thu 6 7.30 Fri 7 7.30 Sat 8 7.30 The Red Barn Mon 10 7.30 Tue 11 7.30 a new play by David Hare Wed 12 7.30 Thu 13 7.30 based on the novel, La Main, by Georges Simenon Fri 14 7.30 Sat 15 2.15 7.30 Mon 17 7.00 Tue 18 7.30 Wed 19 2.15 Mon 24 7.30 Tue 25 7.30 Cast to be Wed 26 2.15 Connecticut, 1969. On their way back from a 7.30 announced party, two couples struggle home through the Thu 27 7.30 snow. Not everyone arrives safely... Fri 28 7.30 Director Sat 29 2.15 Robert Icke The great detective writer Georges Simenon 7.30 Designer Mon 31 7.30 Bunny Christie escaped France at the end of World War Two, and arrived in the USA to start again. With his NOVEMBER Lighting Designer American wife, he settled at Shadow Rock Tue 1 7.30 Paule Constable Wed 2 7.30 Farm in Lakeville. Years later, he wrote La Main, Sound Designer Thu 3 2.15 7.30 Tom Gibbons a psychological thriller set in a New England farmhouse. David Hare has taken this novel, Fri 4 7.30 Video Designer Sat 5 2.15 Tim Reid and forged from it a startling new play. 7.30 Mon 7 7.30 Tue 8 7.30 Wed 9 2.15 7.30 Thu 10 7.30 Fri 11 7.30 Sat 12 2.15 7.30 Mon 14 7.30 Tue 15 7.30 Wed 16 2.15 7.30 Thu 17 7.30 Fri 18 7.30 Sat 19 2.15 7.30 Additional performances to be announced Produced in association Lyttelton Theatre with Scott Rudin Talks and events Stuff Happens David Hare and A rehearsed reading of John Simenon David Hare’s landmark play. Mon 7 Nov, 6pm Wed 6 July, 7.30pm. See p26 Illustration by Bill Bragg 7 NOVEMBER A co-production with Bristol Old Vic Wed 16 7.00 Thu 17 7.00 Fri 18 7.00 Peter Pan Sat 19 2.00 Mon 21 7.00 devised by the Companies, Tue 22 7.00 Wed 23 7.00 based on the works of JM Barrie Thu 24 7.00 Fri 25 7.00 Sat 26 2.00 7.00 DECEMBER Thu 1 7.00 Fri 2 7.00 Cast includes Sat 3 2.00 HHHHH Saikat Ahamed 7.00 ‘Exhilarating. Witty. Wonderful’ Wed 7 7.00 Suzanne Ahmet Thu 8 1.00 Marc Antolin Daily Telegraph 7.00 Lois Chimimba Fri 9 7.00 Laura Cubitt HHHHH Sat 10 2.00 Phoebe Fildes ‘Something to delight the whole family’ 7.00 Wed 14 7.00 Felix Hayes The Times Paul Hilton Thu 15 7.00 Fri 16 7.00 John Leader All children, except one, grow up... Sat 17 2.00 Amaka Okafor 7.00 Sophie Thompson This winter, JM Barrie’s much-loved tale takes Mon 19 7.00 Madeleine Worrall flight. When Peter Pan, the leader of the Lost Tue 20 7.00 Wed 21 7.00 Director Boys, loses his shadow during a visit to London, Thu 22 2.00 Sally Cookson headstrong Wendy helps him reattach it. In 7.00 return she is invited to Neverland – where Fri 23 7.00 Dramaturg Mon 26 7.00 Mike Akers Tinker Bell the fairy, Tiger Lily and the vengeful Tue 27 2.00 Set Designer Captain Hook await. 7.00 Michael Vale Wed 28 7.00 Following the acclaimed Jane Eyre, Thu 29 2.00 Costume Designer 7.00 Katie Sykes Sally Cookson brings her wondrously inventive Peter Pan to the NT after a sell-out run at Additional Lighting Designer performances, Aideen Malone Bristol Old Vic. Exploring the possibilities and including pain of growing up, it’s a riot of magic, mischief, a relaxed Music music and make-believe. performance, to Benji Bower be announced Sound Designer Suitable for 7yrs+ Dominic Bilkey Movement Director Dan Canham Aerial Director Gwen Hales Fight Directors Rachel Bown-Williams and Ruth Cooper-Brown of RC-ANNIE Ltd Puppet Director and Designer Toby Olié Half-price tickets for under 18s Olivier Theatre Exclusions apply – see p34 Projects, workshops and events for Key Stage 2 and 3 students and families nationaltheatre.org.uk/peterpanlearning Photography by Sam Robinson 9 AUGUST National Theatre of Scotland and Live Theatre co-production Mon 8 8.00 Tue 9 8.00 Wed 10 7.00 Our Ladies of Thu 11 8.00 Fri 12 8.00 Sat 13 5.30 9.00 Perpetual Succour Mon 15 8.00 Tue 16 8.00 ‘Fresh, funny and poignant’ adapted by Lee Hall, from the novel The Sopranos by Alan Warner Wed 17 8.00 Thu 18 8.00 Daily Telegraph Fri 19 5.30 9.00 Sat 20 5.30 9.00 Mon 22 8.00 Cast HHHHH Tue 23 8.00 Melissa Allan Edinburgh Evening News, The Herald, The Scotsman, Wed 24 8.00 Caroline Deyga Thu 25 8.00 Kirsty Findlay The Skinny, The Times Fri 26 5.30 Karen Fishwick 9.00 Joanne McGuiness HHHH Sat 27 5.30 Kirsty MacLaren Daily Telegraph, Independent, The List, Time Out 9.00 Mon 29 8.00 Frances Mayli McCann ‘Full of show-stopping musical moments Tue 30 8.00 Dawn Sievewright Wed 31 8.00 delivered to perfection’ The Scotsman The Band SEPTEMBER Laura Bangay Winner of a Scotsman Fringe First Award, Herald Angel Award and Stage Ensemble Award at the Fringe 2015. Thu 1 8.00 Becky Brass Fri 2 5.30 Emily Linden 9.00 Amy Shackcloth Funny, sad and raucously rude, our ladies are Sat 3 5.30 young, lost and reckless. 9.00 Director Mon 5 8.00 Vicky Featherstone Lee Hall (Billy Elliot) has adapted Alan Warner's Tue 6 8.00 Wed 7 8.00 Music Arranger brilliant novel about six girls on the cusp of Thu 8 8.00 and Supervisor change, as they face up to love, lust, pregnancy Fri 9 5.30 Martin Lowe and death over the course of a single day.