Nov 18 – Apr 19 How to Book the Plays
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Nov 18 – Apr 19 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 Other ways Friday Rush to get tickets £20 tickets are released online every Friday at 1pm for the following week’s performances. Tartuffe Top Girls Downstate 9 Feb – 30 Apr Playing from 26 Mar 12 Mar – 27 Apr 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 Access symbols used in this brochure transaction for phone bookings. If you choose to have your CAP Captioned BSL British Sign Language tickets sent by post, a £1 fee applies per transaction. TT Touch Tour Relaxed Performance Postage costs may vary for group and overseas bookings. AD Audio-Described The National Theatre in partnership with When We Have Hadestown Follies Sufficiently Tortured Playing until 26 Jan Playing from 12 Feb Each Other 16 Jan – 2 Mar Partner for Innovation Partner for Learning Founding corporate Partner for Connectivity supporter for Public Acts Outdoor Media Partner Official Airline Partner Official Hotel Partner Official Transport Provider I’m Not Running War Horse Stories Your carrier to the USA and beyond Playing until 31 Jan 8 Nov – 5 Jan Playing until 28 Nov International Hotel Partner Supporter for new writing Partner for Macbeth on Tour Cloud Services Partner Lloyds Bank Private Banking Pouring Partner Partner for Lighting and Energy Sponsor of NT Live in the UK Antony & Cleopatra The Tell-Tale Heart The Winter’s Tale Playing until 19 Jan 5 Dec – 8 Jan 6 – 21 Feb 2 3 FEBR UARY Sat 9 7.30 Mon 11 7.30 Tue 12 7.30 Tartuffe Wed 13 7.30 Thu 14 7.30 b y Molière Fri 15 7.30 Sat 16 7.30 in a new version by John Donnelly Mon 18 7.30 Tue 19 7.30 Wed 20 7.30 Thu 21 7.00 Fri 22 7.30 Sat 23 2.15 7.30 Mon 25 7.30 Tue 26 7.30 Cast to be A ferocious new version of Molière’s Wed 27 2.15 announced comic masterpiece. 7.30 Director Thu 28 7.30 Blanche McIntyre Orgon is the man who has everything. Money, MARCH Set and Costume power, a beautiful home and family. But lately Fri 1 7.30 Designer he’s been questioning the point of it all. When Sat 2 2.15 Robert Jones 7.30 he invites the irresistible Tartuffe into his Mon 4 7.30 Lighting Designer seemingly perfect household, the stranger Tue 5 7.30 Oliver Fenwick Wed 6 2.15 unleashes a whirlwind of deception and 7.30 Music and Sound seduction that threatens everything. Thu 7 7.30 Ben and Max Ringham Fri 8 7.30 With Orgon under Tartuffe’s spell, can his family Sat 9 2.15 7.30 outwit this charismatic trickster? Are Tartuffe’s Mon 11 7.30 wild claims truth or fiction? This mysterious Tue 12 CAP 7.30 Wed 13 7.30 stranger may not be quite the villain he appears. Thu 14 2.15 7.30 A scalpel-sharp comedy looking at the lengths Fri 15 AD 7.30 we go to find meaning – and what happens if Sat 16 AD TT 2.15 7.30 we find chaos instead.Blanche McIntyre Mon 18 7.30 (The Writer) directs John Donnelly’s ( The Pass) APR IL new version. Tue 9 7.30 Wed 10 2.15 Hundreds of £15 tickets 7.30 for every performance Thu 11 7.30 Tue 23 7.30 Wed 24 2.15 CAP 7.30 Thu 25 7.30 Fri 26 7.30 Sat 27 CAP 2.15 7.30 Mon 29 7.30 Lyttelton Theatre Tue 30 7.30 Talks and events Writer John Donnelly and The Greatest Literary Director Blanche McIntyre Anti-Heroes Thu 28 Feb, 6 – 6.45pm, Wed 13 Mar, 6 - 6.45pm, Lyttelton, £7/£5 Lyttelton, £7/£5 A Short History Exploring of Molière’s Plays Tartuffe at the NT A whirlwind comedy of Mon 4 Mar, 6 – 7pm, Thu 25 Apr, Cottesloe Room, £7/£5 10.30am – 4.30pm, deception and seduction Cottesloe Room, £55/£40/£15 Photography by Pal Hansen 5 MARCH Tue 26 7.30 Wed 27 7.30 Thu 28 7.30 Top Girls Fri 29 7.30 Sat 30 7.30 by Caryl Churchill APR IL Mon 1 7.30 Tue 2 7.30 Wed 3 7.00 Thu 4 7.30 Fri 5 7.30 Sat 6 2.15 7.30 Mon 8 7.30 Fri 12 7.30 Cast to be Now hiring: top girls wanted for prestigious Sat 13 2.15 announced positions. Must be self-motivated go-getters 7.30 Director Mon 15 7.30 with an appetite for success. No timewasters. Tue 16 7.30 Lyndsey Turner Wed 17 7.30 Set Designer Marlene is the first woman to head the Top Girls Thu 18 2.15 Ian MacNeil 7.30 employment agency. But she has no plans to stop Sat 20 2.15 Costume Designer there. With Maggie in at Number 10 and a spirit of 7.30 Merle Hensel optimism consuming the country, Marlene knows Mon 22 7.30 Lighting Designer that the future belongs to women like her. Additional Jack Knowles performances to be announced Sound Designer For the first time, the National Theatre stages Christopher Shutt Caryl Churchill’s wildly innovative play about a country divided by its own ambitions. Churchill’s work includes Far Away, A Number and Escaped Alone. Lyndsey Turner (Light Shining in Buckinghamshire, Chimerica) directs. Lyttelton Theatre Talks and events Talks and events to be announced later in the year ‘Caryl Churchill has made every theatre trip an adventure.’ Guardian Photography by Rosaline Shahnavaz 7 A co-production with Steppenwolf Theatre Company MARCH Tue 12 7.30 Wed 13 7.30 Thu 14 7.30 Downstate Fri 15 7.30 Sat 16 7.30 a new play by Bruce Norris Mon 18 7.30 Tue 19 7.30 Wed 20 7.00 Thu 21 2.30 7.30 Fri 22 7.30 Sat 23 2.30 7.30 Mon 25 7.30 Tue 26 7.30 Wed 27 7.30 Cast In downstate Illinois, four men convicted of Thu 28 2.30 Glenn Davis sex crimes against minors share a group home 7.30 Francis Guinan Fri 29 7.30 Tim Hopper where they live out their lives in the shadow of Sat 30 2.30 Aimee Lou Wood the offences they committed. A man shows up 7.30 Cecilia Noble to confront his childhood abuser – but does he APRIL K. Todd Freeman want closure or retribution? Mon 1 7.30 Eddie Torres Tue 2 7.30 Matilda Ziegler This provocative new play zeroes in on the limits Wed 3 2.30 Director 7.30 of our compassion and what happens when Thu 4 7.30 Pam MacKinnon society deems anyone beyond forgiveness. Fri 5 7.30 Set Designer Sat 6 2.30 Todd Rosenthal Bruce Norris is the Pulitzer Prize-winning 7.30 Mon 8 7.30 Costume Designer writer of Clybourne Park and The Low Road. Tue 9 CAP 7.30 Clint Ramos Directed by Pam MacKinnon, Downstate Wed 10 7.30 Thu 11 2.30 Lighting Designer comes to the National Theatre direct from its 7.30 Adam Silverman world premiere at Steppenwolf in Chicago. Fri 12 AD 7.30 Sound Designer Sat 13 AD TT 2.30 Carolyn Downing 7.30 Mon 15 7.30 Tue 16 CAP 7.30 Wed 17 2.30 7.30 Thu 18 7.30 Sat 20 2.30 7.30 Mon 22 7.30 Tue 23 7.30 Wed 24 2.30 7.30 Thu 25 7.30 Fri 26 7.30 Sat 27 2.30 7.30 Dorfman Theatre Talks and events Director Pam MacKinnon Forgiving the Unforgivable and Writer Bruce Norris Wed 24 Apr, 6 – 7pm, Fri 15 Mar, 6 – 6.45pm, Cottesloe Room, £7/£5 Cottesloe Room, £7/£5 HHHH Questioning Justice with Helena Kennedy ‘Blazingly acted, intellectually rigorous. Wed 27 Mar, 6 – 6.45pm, Dorfman, £7/£5 A must-see play.’ Chicago Tribune 9 JANUARY Wed 16 8.00 Thu 17 8.00 Fri 18 8.00 When We Have Sat 19 8.00 Mon 21 8.00 Tue 22 8.00 Wed 23 7.00 Sufficiently Tortured Thu 24 8.00 Fri 25 8.00 Sat 26 2.30 8.00 Each Other Mon 28 8.00 Tue 29 8.00 Twelve Variations on Samuel Richardson’s Pamela Wed 30 8.00 Thu 31 2.30 a new play by Martin Crimp 8.00 FEBRUARY Fri 1 8.00 Sat 2 2.30 8.00 Mon 4 8.00 Cast This new play breaks through the surface of Wed 6 8.00 Cate Blanchett contemporary debate to explore the messy, Thu 7 2.30 Babirye Bukilwa 8.00 Stephen Dillane often violent nature of desire and the fluid, Fri 8 8.00 Jessica Gunning complicated roles that men and women play. Sat 9 2.30 Emma Hindle 8.00 Craig Miller Using Samuel Richardson’s novel, Pamela, Mon 11 8.00 Tue 12 8.00 Director as a provocation, six characters act out Wed 13 8.00 Katie Mitchell a dangerous game of sexual domination Thu 14 2.30 and resistance. 8.00 Set Designer Fri 15 CAP 8.00 Vicki Mortimer Sat 16 2.30 The production reunites Martin Crimp Costume Designer 8.00 (Attempts on her Life, In the Republic of Mon 18 8.00 Sussie Juhlin-Wallén Tue 19 2.30 Lighting Designer Happiness) and director Katie Mitchell (Waves, 8.00 James Farncombe Cleansed).