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Mar – Aug 18 How to Book Mar – Aug 18 How to book 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 for the following week’s performances. 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 Captioned Audio-Described Touch Tour Relaxed Performance 2 Travelex £15 Tickets The National Theatre Partner for Innovation Sponsored by in partnership with Partner for Learning Founding corporate Partner for Connectivity supporter for Public Acts Outdoor Media Partner Official Airline Official Hotel Partner of the National Theatre The National Theatre’s Supporter for Partner for Macbeth International Hotel Partner New Writing on Tour Cloud Services Partner Pouring Partner Partner for Lighting and Energy Sponsor of NT Live in the UK 3 The plays Translations Julie Playing from 22 May Playing from 31 May The Lehman Trilogy An Octoroon Playing from 4 July 7 June – 18 July Absolute Hell The Great Wave 18 Apr – 16 June 10 Mar – 14 Apr 4 The plays Nine Night Pinocchio 21 Apr – 26 May 1 Dec – 10 Apr Amadeus Network 11 Jan – 24 Apr Playing until 24 Mar Macbeth Beginning Playing until 23 June Playing in the West End until 24 Mar 5 Translations by Brian Friel Olivier Theatre Cast includes Owen, the prodigal son, returns to Dermot Crowley rural Donegal from Dublin. With Adetomiwa Edun him are two British army officers. Ciarán Hinds Their ambition is to create a map of Laurence Kinlan the area, replacing the Gaelic names Colin Morgan with English. It is an administrative Seamus O’Hara act with radical consequences. Judith Roddy Brian Friel’s modern classic is a powerful Director account of nationhood, which sees the Ian Rickson turbulent relationship between England and Designer Ireland play out in one quiet community. Rae Smith Colin Morgan (‘Humans’, ‘Merlin’) plays Lighting Designer Owen and Ciarán Hinds (‘Girl from the Neil Austin North Country’, ‘There Will Be Blood’) plays Music his father. Ian Rickson directs. Stephen Warbeck Sound Designer ‘This is Brian Friel’s finest and most Ian Dickinson universal play.’ Sunday Times Sponsored by 6 MAY Tue 22 7.30 Translations Wed 23 7.30 Thu 24 7.30 Fri 25 7.30 Sat 26 7.30 Mon 28 7.30 Tue 29 7.30 Wed 30 7.00 JUNE Wed 6 7.30 Thu 7 2.00 7.30 Fri 8 7.30 Sat 9 2.00 7.30 Mon 11 7.30 Tue 12 7.30 Wed 13 2.00 Photography (Colin Morgan) 7.30 by David Stewart Mon 25 7.30 Tue 26 2.00 Talks and Events 7.30 Wed 27 2.00 Disappearing Languages Wed 6 June, 6 – 7pm, JULY Cottesloe Room, £7/£5 Introduction to Fri 6 7.30 Sat 7 2.00 Irish Drama: CAP 7.30 Boucicault to Friel Fri 8 June, 2 – 5pm, Cottesloe Room, Additional performances to £30/£20/£7.50 be announced Ian Rickson Fri 8 June, 6 – 6.45pm, Olivier, £7/£5 A Short History of Ireland with Alvin Jackson Tue 12 June, 6 – 7pm, Cottesloe Room, £7/£5 7 Julie by Polly Stenham after Strindberg Lyttelton Theatre Cast includes Wild and newly single, Julie throws a Thomasin Gulgec late night party. In the kitchen, Jean and Vanessa Kirby Kristen clean up as the celebration Eric Kofi Abrefa heaves above them. Dak Mashava Crossing the threshold, Julie initiates a Michela Meazza power game with Jean. It descends into Beatriz Meireles a savage fight for survival. Ashley Morgan- Davies Fuelled by social division, Strindberg’s Yuyu Rau masterpiece remains shocking and Petra Söör fiercely relevant in this new version by Director Polly Stenham (‘That Face’, ‘Neon Demon’). Carrie Cracknell Carrie Cracknell (‘The Deep Blue Sea’) Designer directs a cast including Vanessa Kirby Tom Scutt (‘The Crown’) and Eric Kofi Abrefa (‘The Amen Corner’). Lighting Designer Guy Hoare Movement Director Ann Yee Music Stuart Earl Sound Designer Christopher Shutt Sponsored by 8 MAY Julie Thu 31 7.30 JUNE Fri 1 7.30 Sat 2 7.30 Mon 4 7.30 Tue 5 7.30 Wed 6 7.30 Thu 7 7.00 Fri 8 7.30 Sat 9 2.30 7.30 Mon 11 7.30 Tue 19 7.30 Wed 20 7.30 Thu 21 7.30 Fri 22 7.30 Sat 23 2.30 7.30 Photography (Vanessa Kirby and Mon 25 7.30 Eric Kofi Abrefa) by Rosaline Shahnavaz JULY Talks and Events Exploring ‘Julie’ Thu 19 7.30 Fri 20 AD 7.30 and the work of Sat 21 ADTT 2.30 August Strindberg 7.30 Wed 20 June, Mon 23 CAP 7.30 10.30am – 4.30pm, Tue 24 2.30 Cottesloe Room, 7.30 £55/£40/£7.50 AUGUST Feminism and Hierarchy on Stage Wed 1 7.30 Wed 18 July, 6 – 7pm, Thu 2 7.30 Fri 3 7.30 Cottesloe Room, £7/£5 Sat 4 2.30 ‘Cries and Whispers’ 7.30 (film screening) Mon 23 July, Additional 5.30 – 7pm, performances to Cottesloe Room, £5/£3 be announced 9 A co-production with Neal Street Productions The Lehman Trilogy by Stefano Massini adapted by Ben Power Lyttelton Theatre Cast includes Told in three parts on a single evening. Adam Godley On a cold September morning in 1844 Ben Miles a young man from Bavaria stands on a Simon Russell Beale New York dockside. Dreaming of a new life Director in the new world, he is joined by his two Sam Mendes brothers and an American epic begins. Set Designer 163 years later, the firm they establish – Es Devlin Lehman Brothers – spectacularly collapses Video Designer into bankruptcy, and triggers the largest Luke Halls financial crisis in history. Costume Designer Sam Mendes returns to the National to Katrina Lindsay direct Ben Power’s English version of Stefano Massini’s vast and poetic play, Lighting Designer a hit across Europe. Jon Clark Music and Sound Adam Godley, Ben Miles and Nick Powell Simon Russell Beale play the Lehman brothers, their sons and grandsons. 10 JULY Wed 4 7.00 The Lehman Trilogy Thu 5 7.00 Sat 7 7.00 Mon 9 7.00 Tue 10 7.00 Wed 11 7.00 Thu 12 7.00 Fri 13 7.00 Sat 14 1.00 7.00 Mon 16 7.00 Tue 17 1.00 7.00 Wed 18 7.00 Wed 25 7.00 Thu 26 7.00 Fri 27 7.00 New York photography courtesy Sat 28 1.00 National Archives and Records 7.00 Administration. Tightrope walker Mon 30 7.00 Tue 31 1.00 photography by Sorted. 7.00 Talks and Events AUGUST The Stages of Translating a Play Mon 6 CAP 7.00 Tue 10 July, Tue 7 1.00 7.00 5.30 – 6.30pm, Wed 8 CAP 7.00 Cottesloe Room, £7/£5 Adam Godley, Additional Ben Miles and Simon performances to Russell Beale be announced Thu 26 July, 3 – 4pm, Lyttelton, £7/£5 Up Close: Talks and Show package Tue 7 Aug, 10.30am – 5.30pm and Wed 8 Aug, 10am – 4.30pm, Cottesloe Room, £175/£165 11 A co-production with the Orange Tree Theatre An Octoroon by Branden Jacobs-Jenkins Dorfman Theatre Cast includes Described by the New York Times Cassie Clare as ‘this decade’s most eloquent Emmanuella Cole statement on race in America today’, Celeste Dodwell Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’ extraordinary Iola Evans play comes to the National Theatre after Ken Nwosu a sold-out run at the Orange Tree Theatre. Alistair Toovey In 1859, white Irish playwright Kevin Trainor Dion Boucicault writes a hit play about Director America. Today, a black American Ned Bennett playwright attempts to do the same. Designer Both old and new, ‘An Octoroon’ Georgia Lowe gleefully remixes a Victorian melodrama Lighting Designer into ‘a dazzling deconstruction of racial Elliot Griggs representation’ (‘WhatsOnStage’). Movement Director ‘It’s bold, fearless playwriting: laughing Ivan Blackstock in the face of racism as well as allowing Music the horror of history to spell itself out.’ Theo Vidgen ‘Time Out’ Sound Designer George Dennis Puppetry Jimmy Grimes Music Director Michael Henry Fight Director Kev McCurdy 12 JUNE Thu 7 7.30 An Octoroon Fri 8 7.30 Sat 9 7.30 Mon 11 7.30 Tue 12 7.30 Wed 13 7.30 Thu 14 7.00 Fri 15 7.30 Sat 16 2.00 7.30 Mon 18 7.30 Tue 19 2.00 JULY Mon 2 7.30 Tue 3 7.30 Wed 4 2.00 7.30 Thu 5 CAP 7.30 Photography (Ken Nwosu) Fri 6 7.30 by Sebastian Nevols Sat 7 2.00 7.30 Talks and Events Mon 9 7.30 Tue 10 7.30 The Untold History Wed 11 7.30 of Blackface Thu 12 7.30 Tue 19 June, 6 – 7pm, Fri 13 AD 7.30 Cottesloe Room, £7/£5 Sat 14 AD TT 2.00 7.30 The Lasting Impact Mon 16 7.30 of the Slave Trade Tue 17 CAP 2.00 7.30 Tue 3 July, 6 – 7pm, Cottesloe Wed 18 2.00 Room, £7/£5 Ned Bennett and Branden Jacobs-Jenkins Fri 6 July, 6 – 6.45pm, Dorfman, £7/£5 ‘All That Jazz’ (film screening) Mon 9 July, 5 – 7pm, Cottesloe Room, £5/£3 13 Absolute Hell by Rodney Ackland Lyttelton Theatre See website for Bomb-blasted London.
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