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Access symbols used in this brochure Partner for ‘Macbeth’ on Tour Official Sound Partner of Cloud Services Partner Symbols used in this brochure the Olivier Theatre Captioned Relaxed Performance Touch Tour Lloyds Bank Private Banking Audio-Described Pouring Partner Sponsor of NT Live in the UK 2 3 The plays The plays Small Island Peter Gynt Tartuffe Downstate 17 Apr – 10 Aug 27 June – 8 Oct 9 Feb – 30 Apr 12 Mar – 27 Apr Rutherford and Son ANNA When We Have The Winter’s Tale Playing from 16 May 11 May – 15 June Sufficently Tortured 6 – 21 Feb Each Other Playing until 2 Mar Follies Top Girls The Curious Home, I’m Darling 12 Feb – 11 May Playing from 26 Mar Incident of the Dog Playing until 13 Apr in the Night-Time Playing until 27 Apr 4 5 Fri 14 7.30 APRIL Sat 15 2.00 Small Island 7.30 Wed 17 7.30 Mon 17 7.30 adapted by Helen Edmundson Thu 18 7.30 based on the novel by Andrea Levy Sat 20 7.30 JULY Tue 23 7.30 Wed 24 7.30 Thu 18 7.30 Thu 25 7.30 Fri 19 AD 7.30 Olivier Theatre Fri 26 7.30 Sat 20 AD *TT 2.00 Sat 27 2.00 7.30 7.30 Mon 22 7.30 See website Andrea Levy’s epic, Orange Prize-winning Mon 29 7.30 Tue 23 7.30 for production novel bursts to new life on the Olivier stage. Tue 30 7.30 Wed 24 2.00 7.30 MAY team A company of 40 tells a story which journeys Thu 25 7.30 from Jamaica to Britain, through the Second Fri 26 7.30 Cast includes Wed 1 7.00 Sat 27 CAP 2.00 Jacqueline World War to 1948 – the year the HMT Thu 2 7.30 7.30 ‘Empire Windrush’ docked at Tilbury. Fri 3 7.30 Boatswain Mon 29 7.30 Sat 4 2.00 Chereen Buckley Tue 30 7.30 Adapted for the stage by 7.30 Wed 31 2.00 Cavan Clarke Helen Edmundson, ‘Small Island’ follows Tue 14 7.30 7.30 Shiloh Coke Wed 15 2.00 three intricately connected stories. Hortense Image (Leah Harvey) by 7.30 Beatie Edney yearns for a new life away from rural *TT starts 12.30pm Gershwyn Franklyn Rodgers Thu 16 7.30 Jamaica, Gilbert dreams of becoming a Fri 17 7.30 For additional Eustache Jnr lawyer, and Queenie longs to escape her Talks and events Sat 18 2.00 performances Adam Ewan Lincolnshire roots. Hope and humanity 7.30 see p44 Creating the Music Mon 20 7.30 David Fielder meet stubborn reality as the play traces the National Theatre in ‘Small Island’ Tue 21 7.30 Amy Forrest Live: filmed live tangled history of Jamaica and the UK. Wed 22 7.30 Tue 14 May, 6.30 – 7.20pm, screening on Leah Harvey Thu 23 7.30 Cottesloe Room, £7/£5 Thu 27 June John Hastings Hundreds of £15 tickets Fri 24 7.30 Stephanie Jacob for every performance Caribbean Women’s Sat 25 2.00 Sandra Diaspora 7.30 Mon 27 7.30 James-Young Sat 18 May, 2 – 5pm, Tue 28 CAP 7.30 Trevor Laird Cottesloe Room,£30/£25/£7.50 Wed 29 7.30 Aisling Loftus ‘The Stuart Hall Project’ Thu 30 7.30 Fri 31 7.30 Johann Myers (film screening) Andrew Rothney Mon 20 May, 6.30 – 8.30pm, JUNE Cottesloe Room, £5/£3 Mon 10 7.30 Actors Leah Harvey Tue 11 7.30 and Aisling Loftus Wed 12 CAP 2.00 Production supported 7.30 by Areté Foundation / Fri 31 May, 3 – 4pm, Thu 13 7.30 Betsy & Ed Cohen Olivier, £7/£5 6 7 Fri 20 7.00 A co-production with Edinburgh International Festival JUNE Sat 21 1.00 7.00 Thu 27 7.00 Mon 23 7.00 Peter Gynt Fri 28 7.00 Tue 24 7.00 Sat 29 7.00 by David Hare Wed 25 7.00 after Henrik Ibsen JULY Thu 26 CAP 1.00 Fri 27 7.00 Mon 1 7.00 Sat 28 1.00 Tue 2 7.00 7.00 Olivier Theatre Wed 3 7.00 Mon 30 7.00 Thu 4 7.00 OCTOBER Fri 5 7.00 Cast includes Peter Gynt has always set his heart on Sat 6 7.00 Tue 1 1.00 Jonathan Coy being special, on being a unique individual, Mon 8 7.00 Wed 2 CAP 7.00 Tue 9 7.00 Caroline Deyga on being unlike anyone else. When he Thu 3 7.00 Wed 10 7.00 James McArdle steals the bride from a local wedding, he Fri 4 7.00 Fri 12 7.00 Sat 5 1.00 Ann Louise Ross sets off on a lifetime journey which will take Sat 13 1.00 7.00 him to Florida, to Egypt, to a mountain 7.00 Director Mon 7 7.00 Mon 15 7.00 Jonathan Kent of trolls, and finally, only when death Tue 8 7.00 Tue 16 7.00 approaches, back to his home in Scotland. Set and Costume SEPTEMBER *TT starts 11.30am Original photography by Marko Zupan Designer In this radical new version, David Hare Playing at Tue 10 7.00 Richard Hudson kidnaps Ibsen’s most famous hero and Edinburgh Wed 11 7.00 runs away with him into the 21st century. International Lighting Designer Thu 12 7.00 Festival Mark Henderson James McArdle takes the title role in this Fri 13 AD 7.00 epic story of transformation, following in August Sound Designer Talks and events Sat 14 AD *TT 1.00 his acclaimed performances in ‘Platonov’ 7.00 Additional Christopher Shutt and ‘Angels in America’. He is reunited ‘Peer Gynt’ productions Mon 16 CAP 7.00 performances to Movement Director at the NT: 1990, 2000 Tue 17 7.00 be announced with David Hare and Jonathan Kent, the Wed 18 1.00 Polly Bennett partnership behind the triumphant ‘Young and 2019 Thu 19 7.00 Chekhov’ at Chichester Festival Theatre Tue 16 July, 5.30 – 6.30pm, and the National Theatre. Cottesloe Room, £7/£5 Henrik Ibsen: Maker of In Conversation: Creating ‘Revelatory’ Modern Theatre and Performing ‘Peter Gynt’ ‘Time Out’ on ‘Young Chekhov’ Thu 19 Sep, 2 – 5pm, Tue 1 Oct, 6.30 – 8.30pm, Cottesloe Room, Olivier, £12/£7 ‘Translated with wit and freshness by £30/£20/£7.50 David Hare and superbly staged Exploring ‘Peter Gynt’ by Jonathan Kent.’ Mon 23 Sep, ‘Financial Times’ on ‘Young Chekhov’ 10.30am – 4pm, Cottesloe Room, £55/£40/£15 8 9 MAY Rutherford and Son Thu 16 7.30 by Githa Sowerby Fri 17 7.30 Sat 18 7.30 Mon 20 7.30 Tue 21 7.30 Wed 22 7.30 Lyttelton Theatre Thu 23 7.30 Fri 24 7.30 Sat 25 2.15 Cast includes In a Northern industrial town, John 7.30 Roger Allam Rutherford rules both factory and family Mon 27 7.30 Tue 28 7.00 Justine Mitchell with an iron will. But even as the furnaces Wed 29 7.30 Director burn relentlessly at the Glassworks, at Thu 30 2.15 Polly Findlay home his children begin to turn against him. 7.30 Set and Costume Githa Sowerby’s astonishing play was JUNE Designer inspired by her own experience of growing Mon 3 7.30 Lizzie Clachan up in a family-run factory in Gateshead. Tue 4 2.15 Lighting Designer Writing in 1912, when female voices were 7.30 seldom heard on British stages, she now Photography (Roger Allam) by Wed 5 7.30 Charles Balfour David Stewart Thu 6 7.30 claims her place alongside Ibsen and Movement Director Thu 13 7.30 Bernard Shaw with this searing depiction Fri 14 CAP 7.30 Polly Bennett of class, gender and generational warfare. Sat 15 2.15 Sound Designer Talks and events 7.30 Roger Allam (‘Les Misérables’, Mon 17 CAP 7.30 Paul Arditti The life and works of ‘The Thick of It’) returns to the National Tue 18 CAP 2.15 Githa Sowerby 7.30 Music for the first time in a decade to play Fri 24 May, 6 – 7pm, Wed 19 7.30 Kerry Andrew Rutherford in this new production directed Cottesloe Room, £7/£5 by Polly Findlay (‘Beginning’). Additional Courtship, Romance performances to be announced and Forbidden Love in the 1900s Fri 14 June, 6 – 7pm, Cottesloe Room, £7/£5 Exploring ‘Rutherford and Son’ Mon 17 June, 2 – 5pm, Cottesloe Room, £30/£20/£7.50 10 11 Tue 11 3.00 MAY 7.30 ANNA Wed 12 6.30 Sat 11 6.30 8.45 Created by Ella Hickson, Ben and Max Ringham Mon 13 6.30 Thu 13 CAP 6.30 Tue 14 6.30 8.45 8.45 Fri 14 6.30 Thu 16 6.30 8.45 Fri 17 8.45 Sat 15 3.00 Sat 18 8.45 Dorfman Theatre 7.30 Mon 20 6.30 8.45 *TT on Fri 7 June Tue 21 7.00 Cast includes Anna and Hans are married, in love and starts 5pm Nathalie Armin moving up in the world – but it is a world Wed 22 6.30 Max Bennett ruled by suspicion.