Dec 19 – June 20 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. Jack Absolute Manor All of Us Flies Again Playing from 7 Apr 18 Mar – 16 May Day Tickets Playing from 15 Apr £20/£15 tickets available in person on the day of the performance. No booking fee online or in person. A £3 fee per Access symbols used in this brochure transaction for phone bookings. If you choose to have your AD Audio-Described tickets sent by post, a £1.50 fee applies per transaction. Relaxed Performance TT Touch Tour SA Sensory Adapted Performance Postage costs may vary for group and overseas bookings. CAP Captioned The National Theatre The National Theatre in partnership with in partnership with The Visit, or The Old The Welkin Three Sisters Lady Comes to Call 15 Jan – 23 May 3 Dec – 19 Feb 31 Jan – 13 May Partner for Innovation Partner for Learning Founding corporate Outdoor Media Partner supporter for Public Acts Ofcial Airline Partner Ofcial Hotel Partner Supporter for new writing Ofcial Sound Partner of the Olivier Theatre My Brilliant Friend Death of England The Seven Streams Parts One and Two 31 Jan – 7 Mar of the River Ota Your carrier to the USA and beyond Playing until 22 Feb 6 – 22 Mar Cloud Services Partner Pouring Partner Sponsor of NT Live in the UK Sea Sick The Ocean at the Hamlet 22 Apr – 7 May End of the Lane 30 Mar – 9 Apr 3 Dec – 25 Jan 2 3 APRIL Wed 15 7.30 Thu 16 7.30 Fri 17 7.30 Jack Absolute Sat 18 7.30 Mon 20 7.30 Tue 21 7.30 Wed 22 7.30 Flies Again Thu 23 7.30 Fri 24 7.30 by Richard Bean and Oliver Chris Sat 25 2.00 based on Richard Brinsley Sheridan’s The Rivals 7.30 Mon 27 7.30 Tue 28 7.00 Wed 29 7.30 Thu 30 2.00 7.30 Cast to be July 1940. After an aerial dog fi ght, Pilot Offi cer MAY announced Jack Absolute fl ies home to rejoin his intrepid Director Fri 1 7.30 young Hurricane squadron at RAF Fontwell Sat 2 2.00 Thea Sharrock (formerly Malaprop Hall, East Sussex). 7.30 Set and Costume Designer Wed 6 7.30 Mark Thompson Thu 7 2.00 Back on British soil, Jack is shocked to fi nd his 7.30 Lighting Designer old fl ame, Lydia, on the base. Setting his sights Fri 8 7.30 Bruno Poet on winning her heart, Jack’s advances turn to Sat 9 2.00 7.30 Music anarchy when the young heiress demands to Fri 15 7.30 Adrian Johnston be loved on her own terms. Sat 16 2.00 Sound Designer 7.30 Paul Arditti Mon 18 7.30 Staged to coincide with the 80th anniversary Tue 19 7.30 Video Designer of the Battle of Britain, Thea Sharrock Wed 20 7.30 Jeff Sugg (After The Dance) directs a riotous new version Thu 21 2.00 7.30 of Sheridan’s The Rivals, co-written by Richard Fri 22 7.30 Bean (One Man, Two Guvnors) and Oliver Chris. Sat 23 CAP 2.00 7.30 Mon 25 7.30 Tue 26 7.30 Wed 27 7.30 Thu 28 7.30 Fri 29 7.30 Sat 30 2.00 7.30 JUNE Thu 11 7.30 Fri 12 7.30 Sat 13 2.00 7.30 Mon 15 7.30 Tue 16 CAP 7.30 Wed 17 2.00 7.30 Olivier Theatre Thu 18 7.30 Fri 19 AD 7.30 Sat 20 AD TT 2.00 7.30 Talks and Events Further Designing Jack Absolute Playwriting at the performances Wed 6 May, 6 – 7pm, NT with Richard Bean to be announced Cottesloe Room, £9/£6 Sat 16 May, 10.30am – 1pm, Writers Richard Bean Cottesloe Room, £40/£25 and Oliver Chris Fri 8 May, 6 – 6.45pm, Making the Show: Love is in the air. Olivier, £9/£6 Jack Absolute Tue 16 June, 2 – 5pm, Cottesloe Room, £35/£20/£7.50 Illustration by The Red Dress 5 APRIL Tue 7 7.30 Wed 8 7.30 This place is Thu 9 7.30 Manor Sat 11 7.30 about to blow. Mon 13 7.30 a new play by Moira Buffi ni Tue 14 7.30 Wed 15 7.00 Thu 16 7.30 Fri 17 7.30 Sat 18 2.15 7.30 Thu 23 7.30 Fri 24 7.30 Sat 25 2.15 7.30 Mon 27 7.30 Cast includes A violent storm sweeps the coast. Diana Stuckley MAY Michele Austin and her daughter are struggling to keep the Peter Bray Mon 4 7.30 Nancy Carroll roof on their run-down manor house, when Tue 5 CAP 2.15 Ben Daniels neighbours and strangers begin to appear on 7.30 Wed 6 7.30 Gillian Dean their doorstep, seeking shelter from the fl oods. Tue 12 7.30 Amy Forrest Wed 13 CAP 7.30 Edward Judge One of these unexpected arrivals is Ted Thu 14 2.15 Shaniqua Okwok Farrier, the charismatic leader of a right-wing 7.30 Eliot Salt Fri 15 7.30 organisation: he could be Diana’s saviour – Sat 16 2.15 Director or pull the fragile household to pieces. 7.30 Fiona Buffi ni Tue 26 7.30 Set and Costume Designer Stranded together, this explosive mix of people Wed 27 2.15 Lez Brotherston 7.30 must survive the weather, and each other. Thu 28 7.30 Lighting Designer Fri 29 AD 7.30 Paule Constable Nancy Carroll plays Diana and Ben Daniels Sat 30 AD TT 2.15 7.30 Composer and plays Ted in this thrilling, witty new play. Sound Designer Writer Moira Buffi ni is reunited with director JUNE Jon Nicholls Fiona Buffi ni for the fi rst time since the Mon 1 7.30 Video Designer acclaimed Dinner. Tue 2 7.30 Andrzej Goulding Wed 3 2.15 7.30 Fight Director Thu 4 7.30 Kate Waters Fri 5 7.30 Sat 6 CAP 2.15 7.30 Further performances to be announced Lyttelton Theatre Talks and events Director Fiona Buffi ni Theatre and the and Writer Moira Buffi ni Environment Wed 6 May, 6 – 6.45pm, Tue 2 June, 6 – 7pm, Lyttelton, £9/£6 Cottesloe Room, £9/£6 Actors Nancy Carroll Making the Show: Manor and Ben Daniels Thu 4 June, 10.30am – 4pm, Thu 28 May, 3 – 4pm, Cottesloe Room, Lyttelton, £9/£6 £60/£40/£15 Original artwork by Martin Klimas 7 MARCH Wed 18 7.30 Thu 19 7.30 Sat 21 7.30 All of Us Mon 23 7.30 Wed 25 7.30 a new play by Francesca Martinez Thu 26 7.00 Sat 28 7.30 Tue 31 7.30 APRIL Wed 1 7.30 Fri 3 7.30 Sat 4 ® 7.30 Mon 6 7.30 Wed 8 7.30 Thu 9 7.30 Cast includes Jess has a job she loves, great friends and Sat 11 SA 3.00 Chris Anderson a sharp sense of humour. So, when the life Tue 14 7.30 Lucy Briers Wed 15 SA 7.30 Crystal Condie she has worked hard to build is threatened, Fri 17 7.30 Bryan Dick she decides to take a stand. Sat 18 AD TT 7.30 Mon 20 7.30 Kevin Hely This powerful and timely drama explores life, Tue 21 ® 7.30 Francesca Martinez Thu 23 AD TT 7.30 Francesca Mills love and the struggle to survive for those Fri 24 7.30 Director who don’t fi t in during a time of austerity. Tue 28 3.00 Ian Rickson Wed 29 CAP 7.30 Set and Costume Designer Writer and comedian Francesca Martinez MAY Georgia Lowe leads an ensemble cast in her debut play, Fri 1 ® 7.30 Sat 2 7.30 Lighting Designer directed by Ian Rickson (Translations). Mon 4 7.30 Anna Watson Tue 5 7.30 Composer Thu 7 3.00 Fri 8 7.30 Stephen Warbeck Accessible Performances Tue12 ® CAP 3.00 Sound Designer Wed 13 7.30 Gregory Clarke Fri 15 7.30 Sat 16 7.30 Fight Director There is a range of accessible performances available Terry King for All of Us, including captioned, audio-described, relaxed and sensory-adapted performances. For more information about accessible performances, see page 35, visit nationaltheatre.org.uk/access or email [email protected] Dorfman Theatre Talks and events Writer/Actor Further talks to be Francesca Martinez announced later in Sat 11 Apr, 6 – 6.45pm, the year Dorfman, £9/£6 National Debate: What would a humane welfare A new play about system look like? Tue 12 May, 6 – 7pm, what defines us. Dorfman, £9/£6 (Captioned) Photography (Francesca Martinez) by Spencer Murphy 9 JANUARY Fri 31 7.00 FEBRUARY The Visit Sat 1 7.00 Mon 3 7.00 Tue 4 7.00 or The Old Lady Comes to Call Wed 5 7.00 Thu 6 7.00 based on the play by Friedrich Dürrenmatt Fri 7 7.00 adapted by Tony Kushner Sat 8 7.00 Mon 10 7.00 Original English version by Maurice Valency Tue 11 7.00 Wed 12 7.00 Thu 13 7.00 Fri 14 7.00 Sat 15 1.00 Cast includes In the town of Slurry, New York, post-war 7.00 Charlotte Asprey recession has bitten.