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Postage costs may vary for group and overseas bookings. Access symbols used in this brochure Partner for Macbeth on Tour Cloud Services Partner Pouring Partner Captioned British Sign Language Touch Tour Relaxed Performance Lloyds Bank Private Banking Audio-Described Partner for Lighting Sponsor of NT Live and Energy in the UK 2 3 The plays The plays Exit the King Home I’m Darling Julie Absolute Hell Playing from 17 July 24 July – 5 Sep 31 May – 8 Sep Playing until 16 June Hadestown Follies The Lehman Trilogy An Octoroon 2 Nov – 26 Jan Returns from 12 Feb Playing from 4 July 7 June – 18 July Pericles Translations The Star Seekers River Stage 26 – 28 Aug 22 May – 11Aug 8 Aug – 1 Sep 13 July – 12 Aug 4 5 JULY Exit the King Tue 17 7.30 by Eugène Ionesco Wed 18 7.30 in a new version by Patrick Marber Thu 19 7.30 Fri 20 7.30 Sat 21 7.30 Mon 23 7.30 Olivier Theatre Tue 24 7.30 Wed 25 7.00 Thu 26 7.30 Cast includes Somewhere in Europe the kingdom is Sarah Campbell disintegrating. It’s the last day of King AUGUST Debra Gillett Bérenger’s life. Queen Marguerite is Derek Griffiths preparing for the end and Queen Marie Fri 3 7.30 Sat 4 2.00 Rhys Ifans is in denial. The King is 400 years old and 7.30 Amy Morgan dying, but he’s clinging on for dear life... Mon 6 7.30 Adrian Scarborough This great tragi-comedy is brought to life Tue 7 7.30 Indira Varma Tue 14 7.30 on the Olivier stage this summer, the first Wed 15 7.30 Director time Eugène Ionesco’s work has been Thu 16 2.00 Patrick Marber performed at the National Theatre. Photography (Rhys Ifans, Indira Varma, 7.30 Amy Morgan, Debra Gillett, Derek Fri 17 7.30 Designer Patrick Marber (‘Three Days in the Country’, Griffiths and Adrian Scarborough) Sat 18 2.00 Anthony Ward ‘Hedda Gabler’) directs his new version of by Jay Brooks. 7.30 Mon 20 7.30 Lighting Designer ‘Exit the King’ with Rhys Ifans (‘A Christmas Talks and Events ‘Exit the King’ Talks Thu 30 7.30 Hugh Vanstone Carol’) in the title role and Indira Varma Free Will: Do We Thu 6 Sep, Fri 31 7.30 Music and Sound (‘Man and Superman’) as his first Queen. Have a Choice? individual events Adam Cork Mon 6 Aug, 6 – 7pm, £7/£5, combined SEPTEMBER tickets £15/£12 Movement Cottesloe Room, Sat 1 2.00 Naomi Said £7/£5 Actors Rhys Ifans 7.30 Exploring and Indira Varma Mon 3 7.30 3 – 4pm Tue 4 2.00 ‘Exit the King’ 7.30 Wed 5 Sep, Three Perspectives Wed 5 7.30 10.30am – 4.30pm, on Dying Thu 6 7.30 Cottesloe Room, 4.30 – 5.30pm Fri 7 AD 7.30 Sat 8 AD TT 2.00 £55/£40/£7.50 Director and 7.30 Adapter Patrick Sponsored by Marber Additional 6 – 6.45pm performances to be announced 6 7 A co-production with Theatr Clwyd JULY SEPTEMBER Tue 24 7.30 Sat 1 7.30 Home, I’m Darling Wed 25 7.30 Mon 3 7.30 Thu 26 7.30 Tue 4 7.30 a new play by Laura Wade Fri 27 7.30 Wed 5 2.30 Sat 28 2.30 7.30 7.30 Dorfman Theatre Mon 30 7.30 Tue 31 7.00 Cast includes Every couple needs a little fantasy to keep AUGUST Sara Gregory their marriage sparkling. But behind the Wed 1 7.30 Richard Harrington gingham curtains, things start to unravel, Thu 2 7.30 Barnaby Kay and being a domestic goddess is not as Fri 3 7.30 Katherine Parkinson easy as it seems. Sat 4 2.30 Sian Thomas 7.30 Katherine Parkinson (‘The IT Crowd’, Thu 9 7.30 Director ‘Humans’) plays Judy in this unsettling new Fri 10 7.30 Tamara Harvey comedy about one woman’s quest to be Sat 11 7.30 Mon 13 7.30 Designer the perfect 1950s housewife, written by Photography (Katherine Parkinson) Tue 14 7.30 Anna Fleischle Laura Wade (‘Posh’). Wed 15 7.30 by David Stewart. Thu16 2.30 Lighting Designer 7.30 Lucy Carter Talks and Events Fri 17 AD 7.30 Choreographer Sat 18 AD TT 2.30 Actor Katherine Parkinson 7.30 Jack Murphy Wed 29 Aug, 4 – 5pm, Mon 20 7.30 Sound Designer Dorfman, £7/£5 Tue 21 7.30 Wed 22 7.30 Tom Gibbons Director Tamara Harvey Thu 23 2.30 and Writer Laura Wade 7.30 Tue 4 Sep, 6 – 6.45pm, Fri 24 7.30 Sat 25 7.30 Dorfman, £7/£5 Mon 27 7.30 Gender and Feminisim Tue 28 7.30 in the 1950s and Today Wed 29 7.30 Thu 30 7.30 Mon 3 Sep, 6 – 7pm, Fri 31 7.30 Cottesloe Room, £7/£5 ‘Pleasantville’ (film screening) Sponsored by Mon 20 Aug, 5 – 7pm, Cottesloe Room, £5/£3 8 9 Hadestown NOVEMBER JANUARY Fri 2 7.30 Fri 4 7.30 music, lyrics and book by Anaïs Mitchell Sat 3 7.30 Sat 5 AD TT 2.00 developed with Rachel Chavkin Mon 5 7.30 7.30 Tue 6 7.30 Mon 7 AD 7.30 Wed 7 7.30 Tue 8 2.00 Thu 8 7.30 7.30 Olivier Theatre Fri 9 7.30 Tue 22 7.30 Sat 10 7.30 Wed 23 CAP 7.30 Mon 12 7.30 Thu 24 2.00 Cast to be Following record-breaking runs at New York Tue 13 7.00 7.30 announced Theatre Workshop and Canada’s Citadel Wed 14 7.30 Fri 25 7.30 Theatre, ‘Hadestown’ comes to the National Thu 15 7.30 Sat 26 2.00 Director Fri 16 7.30 7.30 Rachel Chavkin Theatre prior to Broadway. Sat 17 2.00 In the warmth of summertime, songwriter 7.30 Set Designer Mon 19 7.30 Rachel Hauck Orpheus and his muse Eurydice are Tue 20 2.00 living it up and falling in love. But as 7.30 Costume Designer Mon 26 7.30 Michael Krass winter approaches, reality sets in: these young dreamers can’t survive on songs Tue 27 2.00 Lighting Designer 7.30 alone. Tempted by the promise of plenty, Wed 28 7.30 Bradley King Eurydice is lured to the depths of industrial Thu 29 7.30 Sound Designer Hadestown. On a quest to save her, Nevin Steinberg Orpheus journeys to the underworld where Talks and Events DECEMBER Choreographer their trust is put to a final test. To be announced later Wed 12 7.30 David Neumann in the year Thu 13 2.00 Celebrated singer-songwriter Anaïs CAP 7.30 Music Director Mitchell and director Rachel Chavkin have Fri 14 7.30 Liam Robinson transformed Mitchell’s acclaimed concept Sat 15 2.00 7.30 Arrangements album into a genre-defying new musical that mixes modern American folk music with Fri 21 7.30 and Orchestrations Sat 22 2.00 Michael Chorney vintage New Orleans jazz to reimagine a 7.30 sweeping ancient tale. Wed 26 7.30 Additional/ Thu 27 CAP 2.00 Co-Arrangements ‘Inventive. Beguiling. Luminous. 7.30 and Orchestrations Spellbinding.’ Todd Sickafoose ‘New York Times’ Produced in association with Mara Isaacs, Dale Franzen, Hunter Arnold and Tom Kirdahy Co-conceived by Ben t Matchstick 10 11 2019 DATES Follies FEBRUARY book by James Goldman music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim Thu 14 7.30 Fri 15 7.30 Sat 16 7.30 Mon 18 7.30 Tue 19 7.30 Olivier Theatre Sat 23 2.00 7.30 Tue 26 7.30 Cast includes After a sold-out run, ‘Follies’, winner of Wed 27 2.00 Janie Dee the Olivier Award for Best Musical Revival, 7.30 Peter Forbes returns in 2019. Thu 28 7.30 Director New York, 1971. There’s a party on the stage Dominic Cooke MARCH of the Weismann Theatre. Tomorrow the Designer iconic building will be demolished. Thirty Fri 1 7.30 Vicki Mortimer years after their final performance, the Follies Sat 2 2.00 girls gather to have a few drinks, sing a few 7.30 Choreographer Fri 8 7.30 Bill Deamer songs and lie about themselves. Sat 9 2.00 Stephen Sondheim’s legendary musical 7.30 Music Supervisor Mon 11 7.30 Nicholas Skilbeck includes such classic songs as Broadway Tue 12 7.30 Baby, I’m Still Here and Losing My Mind.