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Feb – July 2017 020 7452 3000 nationaltheatre.org.uk Find us online How to book TRAVELEX £15 TICKETS Sponsored by Online Select your own seat online nationaltheatre.org.uk By phone 020 7452 3000 Mon – Sat: 9.30am – 8pm The National Theatre Partner for Learning Outdoor Media Partner in partnership with In person South Bank, London, SE1 9PX Mon – Sat: 9.30am – 11pm See p47 for Sunday and holiday opening times Other ways Friday Rush to get tickets £20 tickets are released online every Friday at 1pm Offi cial Airline Offi cial Hotel Partner Workshops Partner for the following week’s performances. of the National Theatre For ‘Angels in America see Ballot’ on p12 Day Tickets £18 / £15 tickets available in person on the day of the performance The National Theatre’s Supporter for New Writing The Dorfman Partner No booking fee online or in person. A £2.50 fee per transaction International Hotel Partner for phone bookings. 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Access symbols used in this brochure Pouring Partner Partner for Lighting Sponsor of NT Live and Energy in the UK Captioned Audio-Described Touch Tour 2 3 The plays The plays Salomé Common Ugly Lies the Bone My Country; 2 May – 15 July Playing from 30 May Playing from 22 February a work in progress 28 February – 22 March Barber Shop Chronicles Angels in America Lost Without Words Consent 30 May – 8 July Part One 4 – 18 March 28 March – 17 May 11 April – 19 August Angels in America Twelfth Night Hedda Gabler Amadeus Part Two 15 February – 13 May Playing until 21 March Returning 2018 24 April – 19 August 4 5 MAY NT Live Broadcast on Thu 22 June Tue 2 7.30 Salomé Wed 3 7.30 Thu 4 7.30 a new play by Yaël Farber Fri 5 7.30 Sat 6 7.30 Mon 8 7.30 Tue 9 7.00 Olivier Theatre Wed 10 2.00 7.30 Cast includes The story has been told before, but never Thu 11 7.30 Mon 15 7.30 Philip Arditti like this. Tue 16 2.00 Paul Chahidi An occupied desert nation. A radical from 7.30 Ramzi Choukair the wilderness on hunger strike. A girl Wed 17 7.30 Thu 18 7.30 Uriel Emil whose mysterious dance will change the Fri 19 7.30 Olwen Fouéré course of the world. Sat 20 2.00 Roseanna Frascona This charged retelling turns the infamous 7.30 biblical tale on its head, placing the girl we Mon 22 7.30 Aidan Kelly Tue 23 7.30 Yasmin Levy call Salomé at the centre of a revolution. JUNE Theo TJ Lowe Internationally acclaimed director Photography (Isabella Niloufar) by Sebastian Nevols Isabella Niloufar Yaël Farber (‘Les Blancs’) draws on Mon 12 7.30 Lubana al Quntar multiple accounts to create her urgent, Tue 13 7.30 hypnotic production on the Olivier stage. Wed 14 7.30 Raad Rawi Talks and events Thu 19 7.30 Stanley Townsend ‘Epic. A near-perfect production.’ In Context – Religious and Tue 20 7.30 ‘Guardian’ (on ‘Les Blancs’) Ancient Text on Stage Wed 21 7.30 Director Thu 22 7.30 Wed 17 May, 2 – 5pm, Yaël Farber Thu 29 7.30 Cottesloe Room, £25/£20 Fri 30 AD 7.30 In Context – Acts of Violence JULY See website for full and Salomé production team Mon 12 June, 2 – 5pm, Sat 1 AD TT 2.00 7.30 Cottesloe Room, £25/£20 Tue 4 7.30 Talk – Mothers / Wed 5 2.00 CAP 7.30 Daughters / Sisters Thu 6 7.30 Wed 21 June, 6 – 7pm, Thu 13 7.30 Cottesloe Room, £6/£5 Fri 14 7.30 Sponsored by Sat 15 2.00 Yaël Farber on ‘Salomé’ 7.30 Fri 14 July, 6pm, Olivier, £5/£4 6 7 A co-production with Headlong MAY Tue 30 7.30 Common Wed 31 7.30 a new play by DC Moore JUNE Thu 1 7.30 Fri 2 7.30 Sat 3 7.30 Mon 5 7.30 Olivier Theatre Tue 6 7.00 Wed 7 2.00 7.30 Cast includes Mary’s the best liar, rogue, thief and Thu 8 7.30 Anne-Marie Duff faker in this whole septic isle. And now Thu 15 7.30 Trevor Fox she’s back. Fri 16 7.30 Sat 17 2.00 Director As the factory smoke of the industrial 7.30 Jeremy Herrin revolution belches out from the cities, Fri 23 7.30 Designer Mary is swept up in the battle for Sat 24 2.00 Richard Hudson her former home. The common land, 7.30 belonging to all, is disappearing. Mon 26 7.30 Lighting Designer Photography (Anne-Marie Duff) Tue 27 7.30 Paule Constable DC Moore’s dark and funny new play by Lawrence Winram Wed 28 2.00 is an epic tale of unsavoury action and 7.30 Music England’s lost land. JULY Stephen Warbeck Talks and events Headlong’s Artistic Director, Jeremy Talk – History of Fri 7 7.30 Sound Designer Herrin (‘People, Places and Things’, ‘This Ian Dickinson Common Land Sat 8 CAP 2.00 House’) directs Anne-Marie Duff as Mary. 7.30 Thu 15 June, 6pm, Mon 10 CAP 7.30 Cottesloe Room, £6/£5 Tue 11 2.00 Jeremy Herrin and 7.30 Wed 12 7.30 DC Moore Fri 16 June, 6pm, Additional Olivier, £5/£4 performances to In Context – Revolt: be announced the world of Common Wed 19 July, 2 – 5pm, Cottesloe Room, £25/£20 Sponsored by 8 9 A co-production with Fuel & West Yorkshire Playhouse MAY Tue 30 8.00 Barber Shop Chronicles Wed 31 8.00 a new play by Inua Ellams JUNE Thu 1 8.00 Fri 2 8.00 Sat 3 8.00 Mon 5 8.00 Dorfman Theatre Tue 6 8.00 Wed 7 7.00 Thu 8 2.00 Cast to be Newsroom, political platform, local hot 8.00 announced spot, confession box, preacher-pulpit and Fri 9 8.00 Director football stadium. For generations, African Sat 10 2.00 Bijan Sheibani men have gathered in barber shops to 8.00 discuss the world. Mon 12 8.00 Designer Tue 13 8.00 Rae Smith This dynamic new play leaps from a barber Wed 14 2.00 shop in London to Johannesburg, Harare, 8.00 Lighting Designer Kampala, Lagos and Accra. These are Thu 15 8.00 Jack Knowles Photography by Dean Chalkley Fri 16 8.00 places where the banter can be barbed Sat 17 2.00 Movement Director and the truth is always telling. 8.00 Aline David ‘Barber Shop Chronicles’ is Inua Ellams’ Mon 19 8.00 Inua Ellams Tue 20 2.00 Sound Designer third play at the National, following the Talks and events Mon 19 June, 6.30pm, 8.00 Gareth Fry exhilarating ‘The 14th Tale’ and ‘Black In Depth – Working Dorfman, £5/£4 Wed 21 8.00 T-Shirt Collection’. as a Producer Thu 22 CAP 2.00 Fri 19 May, Men and 8.00 Co-commissioned by Fuel and the 10.30am – 4.30pm, Mental Health MAY National Theatre. Development funded Cottesloe Room, Tue 20 June, 6pm, £50/£40/£7.50 Cottesloe Room, Wed 5 8.00 by Arts Council England with the support Thu 6 CAP 8.00 of Fuel, National Theatre, West Yorkshire In Context – £6/£5 Fri 7 AD 8.00 Playhouse, The Binks Trust, British Spoken Word and Sat 8 AD TT 2.00 Council ZA, Òran Mór and A Play, a Pie Monologues 8.00 and a Pint. in Black Theatre Also playing at Sat 10 June, 2 – 5pm, West Yorkshire The Dorfman Partner Cottesloe Room, Playhouse £25/£20 12 – 29 July 10 11 Part One: JUNE Millennium Approaches Angels in America Tue 13 1.00 APRIL 7.00 A Gay Fantasia on National Themes Two-show days Tue 11 7.00 by Tony Kushner Wed 12 7.00 APRIL Sat 15 7.00 Fri 28 7.00 Sat 29 1.00 MAY 7.00 Lyttelton Theatre MAY Wed 3 7.00 Cast includes America in the mid-1980s. In the midst of Sat 6 7.00 Thu 4 1.00 Stuart Angell the AIDS crisis and a conservative Thu 11 7.00 7.00 Fri 12 7.00 Sat 13 1.00 Mark Arnold Reagan administration, New Yorkers Mon 15 7.00 7.00 Arun Blair-Mangat grapple with life and death, love and sex, Wed 17 7.00 Tue 16 1.00 Susan Brown heaven and hell. Thu 18 7.00 7.00 Laura Caldow Tue 23 7.00 Wed 24 1.00 This new staging of Tony Kushner’s Fri 26 7.00 7.00 Andrew Garfi eld multi-award-winning two-part play is JUNE Sat 27 1.00 Denise Gough directed by Olivier and Tony award-winning 7.00 Kate Harper Image by Ryan Hopkinson/ director Marianne Elliott (‘The Curious Thu 1 7.00 Andrew Stellitano JUNE John Hastings Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time’ Fri 2 7.00 Claire Lambert and ‘War Horse’). ‘Part One: Millennium Thu 8 7.00 Sat 3 1.00 Nathan Lane Approaches’ was fi rst performed at the Talks and events Fri 9 7.00 7.00 Amanda Lawrence Mon 12 CAP 7.00 Sat 10 1.00 National Theatre in 1992 and was followed In Depth – Modern Fri 30 7.00 7.00 James McArdle by ‘Part Two: Perestroika’ the following year.