2 September 2016
Ruth Wilson takes the title role in HEDDA GABLER in a new version by Patrick Marber, directed by Ivo van Hove.
Alexander Zeldin will direct LOVE, a co-production with Birmingham Repertory Theatre.
Elizabeth Debicki joins Mark Strong and Hope Davis in the cast of David Hare’s THE RED BARN, based on the novel, La Main, by Georges Simenon, and directed by Robert Icke.
Adam Gillen and Karla Crome join the cast of AMADEUS, Lucian Msamati as Salieri, directed by Michael Longhurst.
NT Live announces broadcasts of NO MAN’S LAND by Harold Pinter, with Ian McKellen and Patrick Stewart from the West End, Josie Rourke’s production of Bernard Shaw’s SAINT JOAN, with Gemma Arterton from the Donmar Warehouse and Ivo van Hove’s production of HEDDA GABLER with Ruth Wilson from the NT.
HEDDA GABLER Lyttelton Theatre Previews from 5 December, press night 12 December, continuing in repertoire with additional performances to be announced.
Just married. Bored already. Hedda longs to be free… Ivo van Hove, one of the world’s most exciting directors, makes his National Theatre debut with a modern production of Ibsen’s masterpiece.
In this vital new version by Patrick Marber (Three Days in the Country, The Red Lion), Ruth Wilson (Luther, The Affair) returns to the NT to play the title role alongside a cast which includes Chukwudi Iwuji, Kate Duchêne, Éva Magyar, Sinead Matthews and Kyle Soller. The production will have set and lighting design by Jan Versweyveld, costume design by An D’Huys and sound by Tom Gibbons. Hedda Gabler is supported by the Williams Charitable Trust.
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LOVE Dorfman Theatre Previews from 6 December, press night 13 December, in repertoire until 10 January
Alexander Zeldin will direct LOVE, a co-production with Birmingham Repertory Theatre from 6 December. In the run up to Christmas, three families are placed into cramped temporary accommodation. A middle-aged man and his elderly mum, a young family with a baby on the way, a newly arrived woman from Sunday. Strangers. Forced together. No space is personal.
This new work by Alexander Zeldin is written through a devising process with an ensemble of actors. The audience are invited to bear witness to an intimate story of family love for our times. LOVE continues this unique approach to theatre.
LOVE will be designed by Natasha Jenkins with lighting design by Marc Williams and sound design is by Josh Anio Grigg. The cast includes Emily Beacock, Darcey Brown, Anna Calder-Marshall, Luke Clarke, Grace Doherty, Janet Etuk, Nick Holder, Vitaly Outkine, Yonatan Pele’Roodner and Bobby Stallwood. The Dorfman Partner is Neptune Investment Management.
NEW DATES AND CASTING
THE RED BARN The Red Barn, a new play by David Hare, based on the novel, La Main, by Georges Simenon, and directed by Robert Icke, will now run until 17 January. Elizabeth Debicki (The Night Manager and The Man from U.N.C.L.E.) has joined the cast which includes Hope Davis, Michael Elwyn, Stuart Milligan, Anna Skellern, Mark Strong, Nigel Whitmey, Oliver Alvin-Wilson and Jade Yourell. Produced in association with Scott Rudin. Supported by Basil Alkazzi and Myoung-Cheul Chung.
AMADEUS Amadeus will now run until 26 January with further dates to be announced. The cast includes Sarah Amankwah, Hammed Animashaun, Geoffrey Beevers, Fleur de Bray, Karla Crome, Tom Edden, Adam Gillen, Matthew Hargreaves, Andrew Macbean, Alexandra Mathie, Lucian Msamati, Eamonn Mulhall, Robyn Allegra Parton, Hugh Sachs, Eleanor
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Sutton, Wendy Dawn Thompson, Peter Willcock. Amadeus is part of the Travelex £15 season with hundreds of seats at £15 for every performance. Amadeus is presented in association with Southbank Sinfonia.
A PACIFIST’S GUIDE TO THE WAR ON CANCER The full cast for Bryony Kimming’s new musical A Pacifist’s Guide to the War on Cancer is Naana Agyei-Ampadu, Amy Booth-Steel, Jenny Fitzpatrick, Hal Fowler, Amanda Hadingue, Francesca Mills, Golda Rosheuvel, Max Runham, Rose Shalloo, Gareth Snook, Lottie Vallis and Gary Wood. This co-production with Complicite Associates will run in the Dorfman Theatre until 29 November in association with HOME, Manchester. The book is by Bryony Kimmings and Brian Lobel, music by Tom Parkinson and lyrics by Bryony Kimmings. The Dorfman Partner is Neptune Investment Management.
PETER PAN Peter Pan will now run until 28 January with further dates to be announced. The full cast is Saikat Ahamed, Suzanne Ahmet, Marc Antolin, Benji Bower, Will Bower, Lois Chimimba, Richie Crago, Laura Cubitt, Phoebe Fildes, Ruth Hammond, Felix Hayes, Paul Hilton, John Leader, Amaka Okafor, John Pfumojena, Ekow Quartey, Jessica Temple, Sophie Thompson (Captain Hook/Mrs Darling), Dan Wheeler, Madeleine Worrall (Wendy). Peter Pan is a co-production with Bristol Old Vic, devised by the Companies based on the work by J.M. Barrie. It is directed by Sally Cookson (Jane Eyre, NT & Bristol Old Vic). Half price tickets are available for under-18s. A relaxed performance of Peter Pan will take place on Saturday 21 January at 2pm.
NATIONAL THEATRE LIVE
Following a celebrated run on Broadway and a UK tour, No Man’s Land by Harold Pinter, with Ian McKellen and Patrick Stewart will be broadcast from Wyndham’s Theatre on 15 December. Produced by Playful Productions. Josie Rourke’s production of Bernard Shaw’s Saint Joan, with Gemma Arterton, will be broadcast from the Donmar Warehouse on 16 February. Ivo van Hove’s production of Hedda Gabler by Henrik Ibsen, in a new version by Patrick Marber, and with Ruth Wilson in the title role, will be broadcast from the NT on 9 March. For venue information and booking details, please visit ntlive.com
NT IN THE WEST END The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, adapted by Simon Stephens from Mark
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Haddon’s best-selling book and directed by Marianne Elliott enters its fifth year in London, continuing its run at the Gielgud Theatre on Shaftesbury Avenue. Joseph Ayre leads the West End cast as Christopher Boone, with tickets currently on sale until 18 February 2017. Its official card partner is American Express.
NT TOURING The North American tour of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time begins at Rochester’s Auditorium Theater on 27 September and will go on to play more than 30 cities in its first season, including Washington DC, Chicago and Los Angeles.
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time begins a second major tour of the UK and Ireland at The Lowry in Salford in January 2017 (with its national press night at the Lowry on Wednesday 25 January at 7.30pm), continuing its journey to Aylesbury, Edinburgh, Leeds, Canterbury, Bath, Southampton, Nottingham, Belfast, Dublin, Cardiff, Sheffield, Oxford, Newcastle, Bristol, Plymouth, Birmingham, Liverpool, Bradford, Aberdeen, Glasgow, Norwich and finishing in Milton Keynes on 16 September 2017.
Sally Cookson’s energetic and imaginative new adaptation of Charlotte Brontë’s masterpiece Jane Eyre, a co-production between the National Theatre and Bristol Old Vic, begins a tour of the UK at the Lowry in Salford on 8 April 2017 (with its press night on 12 April at 7.30pm), continuing its journey to Sheffield, Aylesbury, Plymouth, Southampton, Edinburgh, York, Woking, Glasgow, Canterbury, Cardiff, Newcastle, Milton Keynes, Norwich, Brighton, Leeds, Aberdeen, Birmingham, and finishing at the Theatre Royal in Bath on 30 September 2017.
The National Theatre’s acclaimed production of War Horse based on Michael Morpurgo’s novel, and directed by Marianne Elliott and Tom Morris begins its second major tour of the UK on 15 September 2017 at the Marlowe Theatre in Canterbury, where it will run until 14 October 2017. It continues its journey to the Bristol Hippodrome (18 October - 11 November 2017), the Empire Theatre, Liverpool (15 November – 2 December 2017), New Theatre, Oxford (13 December 2017 – 6 January 2018), Brighton Centre (25 January – 10 February 2018), Bradford Alhambra Theatre (14 February – 10 March 2018), the Nottingham Royal Concert Hall (14 March – 7 April 2018) and the Festival Theatre, Edinburgh (18 April – 12 May 2018). Further dates and venues are yet to be announced. warhorseonstage.com
PLATFORMS An eclectic programme of talks, discussions and interviews, offering the chance to learn
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14 Sept, 6.30pm – Sue Laurie and Alexander Technique in the Theatre, Dorfman 15 Sept, 6pm – Jonathan Kent in conversation, Olivier 21 Oct, 6pm – Jeremy Herrin and Sean McEvoy in conversation, Lyttelton 25 Oct, 6pm – NT: 40 Years as a Space for Plays, Lyttelton 27 Oct, 6pm – Bryony Kimmings in conversation, Dorfman 31 Oct, 6pm – Michael Longhurst in conversation, Olivier 1 Nov, 5.45pm – Staging Suez: The 60th Anniversary of the Suez Crisis, Lyttelton 7 Nov, 6pm – David Hare and John Simenon in conversation, Lyttelton 9 Nov, 6pm – The Nick Darke Writers’ Award Ceremony, Dorfman 22 Nov, 6pm – The Jocelyn Herbert Lecture - Rae Smith, 3D Imagination, Lyttelton 23 Nov, 6pm – Alan Bennett: Keeping on Keeping On, Lyttelton 25 Nov, 5.15pm – A Poem for Every Night of the Year with Helena Bonham Carter, Helen McCrory and Allie Esiri, Olivier 13 Dec, 5.45pm – An Evening with Private Eye, Lyttelton 16 Dec, 5.30pm – The Theatre Quiz with Emma Freud, Lyttelton 4 Jan, 6pm – Alexander Zeldin in conversation, Dorfman 11 Jan, 5.45pm – Lucian Msamati in conversation, Olivier 20 Jan, 5.30pm – Sally Cookson in conversation, Olivier 23 Jan, 3pm – Ruth Wilson in conversation, Lyttelton 27 Jan, 5.45pm – Peter Pan – archetypal adolescent with Ann Yeoman 31 Jan, 6pm – Ivo van Hove and Patrick Marber in conversation, Lyttelton
EVENTS Short debates, and in-depth explorations in the Clore Learning Centre: 12 Sep, 5.45 – 6.45pm – In Focus: Cult Fiction on Stage 15 Sep, 10.30am – 4.30pm – In Depth: Rattigan Returns 21 Sep, 6pm – In Focus: Theatre in Scotland – A Field of Dreams with Joyce McMillan 24 Sept, 10.30am – In Depth: The Dublin Plays, Clore Learning Centre 26 Sept, 2pm – In Context: Chekhov, the early work 6 Oct, 1pm – Lightbulb Walks with Artists Helen Stratford and Idit Nathan 2 Nov, 10.30am – 3.30pm – In Depth: Devising and Performance Explored 2 Nov, 10.30am – In Depth: Devising for Performance Explored 3 Nov, 5.30pm – In Focus: Amadeus, the music 10 Nov, 11.30am & 6.15pm – Sharp Shots: The State of the States 16 Jan, 2pm – In Context: Shaffer at the NT 16 Jan, 6pm – In Focus: Designing for The Red Barn 17 Nov, 7pm – Theatre Dialogue Club sparks up at the NT 15 Dec, 5.30pm – In Focus: Performing without a Home 27 Jan, 5.45pm – Peter Pan – archetypal adolescent 31 Jan, 10.30am – In Depth: Adapt or Die – adaptations from the NT 10 Feb, 2pm – In Context: Recreating Ibsen’s Women
NATIONAL DEBATES A new series of panel discussions in the Dorfman Theatre responding to issues raised by the repertoire or affecting the nation as a whole: 29 Sep, 6pm – Youth – culture and identity 3 Nov, 5.45pm – Nationhood – Ireland and Scotland 24 Nov, 5.45pm – Death – final matters
FILM SCREENINGS In the Clore Learning Centre and linked to the programme on our stages: 12 Nov, 10.30am – Emil and the Detectives and Red Balloon
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9 Dec, 5.30pm – Cathy Come Home 12 Dec, 5.30pm – Dark Days in collaboration with the Homeless Film Festival 19 Nov, 10.30am – The Wind in the Willows
EXHIBITIONS Free, and open daily Concrete Reality: Denys Lasdun and the Architecture of the NT – Olivier Circle Gallery Adapt or Die – How adaptations have influenced programme at the NT – Lyttelton Lounge from 7 Oct The Art of Make Believe: Staging Children’s Stories – Wolfson Gallery from 14 Nov Exhibition Walk Around and Archive Handling Session – Lyttelton Lounge on 28 Oct, 25 Nov, 27 Jan, 24 Feb at 12.30pm
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PLAY THEATRE PRESS NIGHT CONTACT YOUNG CHEKHOV Lyttelton Opened 3 August Mary Parker THE DEEP BLUE Lyttelton Opened 8 June Mary Parker SEA OUR LADIES OF Dorfman Opened 10 August Martin Shippen PERPETUAL SUCCOUR THE Olivier Opened 26 May Martin Shippen THREEPENNY OPERA THE PLOUGH AND Lyttelton Opened 27 July Martin Shippen THE STARS AMADEUS Olivier 26 October Mary Parker A PACIFIST’S Dorfman 19 October Emma Hardy GUIDE TO THE WAR ON CANCER THE RED BARN Lyttelton 17 October Martin Shippen PETER PAN Olivier 23 November Emma Hardy HEDDA GABLER Lyttelton 12 December Martin Shippen LOVE Dorfman 13 December Martin Shippen WAR HORSE UK tour Nada Zakula
JANE EYRE UK tour 12 April 2017 at Nada Zakula The Lowry, Salford THE CURIOUS Gielgud Theatre Nada Zakula INCIDENT OF THE
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DOG IN THE UK tour 25 January 2017 NIGHT-TIME at The Lowry, Salford NT Live UK Mary Parker and Martin Shippen PLATFORMS Louisa Terry CLORE LEARNING Martin Shippen CENTRE
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