May – Sep 18 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. Exit the King Home, I’m Darling Hadestown Playing from 17 July 24 July – 5 Sep 2 Nov – 26 Jan 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 Travelex £15 tickets The National Theatre Sponsored by in partnership with Follies Pericles Translations Returns from 12 Feb 26 – 28 Aug 22 May – 11 Aug ® 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 Partner Julie Absolute Hell The Lehman Trilogy 31 May – 8 Sep Playing until 16 June Playing from 4 July Your carrier to the USA and beyond 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 An Octoroon The Star Seekers River Stage 7 June –18 July 8 Aug – 1 Sep 13 July – 12 Aug 2 3 J ULY Tue 17 7.30 Wed 18 7.30 Thu 19 7.30 Exit the King Fri 20 7.30 Sat 21 7.30 by Eugène Ionesco Mon 23 7.30 Tue 24 7.30 in a new version by Patrick Marber Wed 25 7.00 Thu 26 7.30 AUGUST Fri 3 7.30 Sat 4 2.00 7.30 Mon 6 7.30 Tue 7 7.30 Cast includes Somewhere in Europe the kingdom is Tue 14 7.30 Sarah Campbell disintegrating. It’s the last day of King Bérenger’s Wed 15 7.30 Debra Gillett Thu 16 2.00 Derek Griffiths life. Queen Marguerite is preparing for the end 7.30 Rhys Ifans and Queen Marie is in denial. The King is Fri 17 7.30 Sat 18 2.00 Amy Morgan 400 years old and dying, but he’s clinging on 7.30 Adrian Scarborough for dear life... Mon 20 7.30 Indira Varma Thu 30 7.30 Director This great tragi-comedy is brought to life on Fri 31 7.30 Patrick Marber the Olivier stage this summer, the first time S EPTEMBER Designer Eugène Ionesco’s work has been performed Sat 1 2.00 Anthony Ward 7.30 at the National Theatre. Mon 3 7.30 Lighting Designer Tue 4 2.00 Hugh Vanstone Patrick Marber (Three Days in the Country, 7.30 Music and Sound Hedda Gabler) directs his new version of Exit the Wed 5 7.30 Thu 6 7.30 Adam Cork King with Rhys Ifans (A Christmas Carol) in the Fri 7 AD 7.30 Movement title role and Indira Varma (Man and Superman) Sat 8 AD TT 2.00 ‘The king is dead. Naomi Said as his first Queen. 7.30 Additional Long live the king.’ performances to be announced Sponsored by Olivier Theatre Talks and events Free Will: Do We Exit the King Talks Have a Choice? Thu 6 Sep, Mon 6 Aug, 6 – 7pm, individual events £7/£5, Cottesloe Room, £7/£5 combined tickets £15/£12 Exploring Actors Rhys Ifans and Exit the King Indira Varma Wed 5 Sep, 3 – 4pm 10.30am – 4.30pm, Cottesloe Room, Three Perspectives £55/£40/£7.50 on Dying 4.30 – 5.30pm Director and Adapter Patrick Marber Photography (Rhys Ifans, Indira Varma, Amy Morgan, Debra Gillett, Derek Griffiths and Adrian Scarborough) by Jay Brooks. and Adrian Scarborough) Griffiths Debra Gillett, Derek Amy Morgan, by David Stewart Photography (Colin Morgan) (Rhys Ifans, Indira Varma, 6 – 6.45pm 5 A co-production with Theatr Clwyd J ULY Tue 24 7.30 Wed 25 7.30 Thu 26 7.30 How happily married Home, I’m Darling Fri 27 7.30 Sat 28 2.30 a new play by Laura Wade 7.30 are the happily married? Mon 30 7.30 Tue 31 7.00 AUGUST Wed 1 7.30 Thu 2 7.30 Fri 3 7.30 Sat 4 2.30 7.30 Thu 9 7.30 Cast includes Every couple needs a little fantasy to keep their Fri 10 7.30 Sara Gregory marriage sparkling. But behind the gingham Sat 11 7.30 Richard Harrington Mon 13 7.30 Barnaby Kay curtains, things start to unravel, and being a Tue 14 7.30 Katherine Parkinson domestic goddess is not as easy as it seems. Wed 15 7.30 Thu16 2.30 Sian Thomas Katherine Parkinson (The IT Crowd, Humans) 7.30 Director Fri 17 AD 7.30 Tamara Harvey plays Judy in this unsettling new comedy about Sat 18 AD TT 2.30 one woman’s quest to be the perfect 1950s 7.30 Designer Mon 20 7.30 Anna Fleischle housewife, written by Laura Wade (Posh). Tue 21 7.30 Lighting Designer Wed 22 7.30 Thu 23 2.30 Lucy Carter 7.30 Choreographer Fri 24 7.30 Jack Murphy Sat 25 7.30 Mon 27 7.30 Sound Designer Tue 28 7.30 Tom Gibbons Wed 29 7.30 Thu 30 7.30 Fri 31 7.30 SEPTEMBER Sat 1 7.30 Mon 3 7.30 Tue 4 7.30 Wed 5 2.30 7.30 Sponsored by Dorfman Theatre Talks and events Director Tamara Harvey Gender and Feminisim and Writer Laura Wade in the 1950s and Today Tue 4 Sep, 6 – 6.45pm, Mon 3 Sep, 6 – 7pm, Dorfman, £7/£5 Cottesloe Room, £7/£5 Actor Katherine Parkinson Pleasantville Wed 29 Aug, 4 – 5pm, (film screening) Dorfman, £7/£5 Mon 20 Aug, 5 – 7pm, Cottesloe Room, £5/£3 Photography (Katherine Parkinson) by David Stewart Stewart. 7 N OVEMBER Fri 2 7.30 Sat3 7.30 Mon 5 7.30 Hadestown Tue 6 7.30 Wed 7 7.30 music, lyrics and book by Anaïs Mitchell Thu 8 7.30 Fri 9 7.30 developed with Rachel Chavkin Sat 10 7.30 Mon 12 7.30 Tue 13 7.00 Wed 14 7.30 Thu 15 7.30 Fri 16 7.30 Sat 17 2.00 7.30 Mon 19 7.30 Cast to be Following record-breaking runs at New York Tue 20 2.00 announced Theatre Workshop and Canada’s Citadel Theatre, 7.30 Director Mon 26 7.30 Hadestown comes to the National Theatre prior Tue 27 2.00 Rachel Chavkin to Broadway. 7.30 Set Designer Wed 28 7.30 Rachel Hauck In the warmth of summertime, songwriter Thu 29 7.30 Costume Designer Orpheus and his muse Eurydice are living it up DECEMBER Michael Krass and falling in love. But as winter approaches, Wed 12 7.30 Thu 13 2.00 Lighting Designer reality sets in: these young dreamers can’t CAP 7.30 Bradley King survive on songs alone. Tempted by the promise Fri 14 7.30 Sound Designer of plenty, Eurydice is lured to the depths of Sat 15 2.00 Nevin Steinberg 7.30 industrial Hadestown. On a quest to save her, Fri 21 7.30 Choreographer Orpheus journeys to the underworld where their Sat 22 2.00 David Neumann 7.30 trust is put to a final test. Wed 26 7.30 Music Director Thu 27 CAP 2.00 Liam Robinson Celebrated singer-songwriter Anaïs Mitchell 7.30 Arrangements and and director Rachel Chavkin have transformed JA NUARY Orchestrations Mitchell’s acclaimed concept album into a Fri 4 7.30 Michael Chorney genre-defying new musical that mixes modern Sat 5 AD TT 2.00 Additional/ 7.30 Co-Arrangements American folk music with vintage New Orleans Mon 7 AD 7.30 and Orchestrations jazz to reimagine a sweeping ancient tale. Tue 8 2.00 7.30 Todd Sickafoose ‘Inventive. Beguiling. Luminous. Spellbinding.’ Tue 22 7.30 Wed 23 CAP 7.30 New York Times Thu 24 2.00 7.30 Fri 25 7.30 Sat 26 2.00 Produced in association with 7.30 Mara Isaacs, Dale Franzen, Hunter Arnold and Tom Kirdahy Olivier Theatre Co-conceived by Ben t Matchstick Talks and events To be announced later in the year ‘Hadestown will be your next musical theatre obsession.’ Vogue 9 2019 DATES FEBRUARY Thu 14 7.30 Fri 15 7.30 Follies Sat 16 7.30 Mon 18 7.30 book by James Goldman Tue 19 7.30 music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim Sat 23 2.00 7.30 Tue 26 7.30 Wed 27 2.00 7.30 Thu 28 7.30 MARCH Fri 1 7.30 Cast includes After a sold-out run, Follies, winner of the Olivier Sat 2 2.00 7.30 Janie Dee Award for Best Musical Revival, returns in 2019. Peter Forbes Fri 8 7.30 Sat 9 2.00 Director New York, 1971. There’s a party on the stage 7.30 Dominic Cooke of the Weismann Theatre. Tomorrow the iconic Mon 11 7.30 Tue 12 7.30 Designer building will be demolished. Thirty years after Wed 13 2.00 Vicki Mortimer their final performance, the Follies girls gather 7.30 Choreographer to have a few drinks, sing a few songs and lie Thu 14 7.30 Bill Deamer Fri 15 7.30 about themselves.