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The National Theatre’s Supporter for Pouring Partner International Hotel Partner New Writing Access symbols used in this brochure Captioned Partner for Lighting Sponsor of NT Live Audio-Described and Energy in the UK Touch Tour 2 3 The plays The plays Follies Mosquitoes Common Barber Shop Chronicles Playing from 22 Aug 18 July – 28 Sep 30 May – 5 Aug 30 May – 8 July Oslo Jane Eyre Ugly Lies the Bone Angels in America Part One 5 – 23 Sep 26 Sep – 21 Oct Playing until 6 June Playing until 19 Aug The Majority Salomé Angels in America Part Two Amadeus 11 – 28 Aug 2 May – 15 July Playing until 19 Aug Returning 2018 4 5 Wed 18 CAP 7.30 AUGUST Wed 25 7.30 Thu 26 2.00 Tue 22 7.30 7.30 Follies Wed 23 7.30 Fri 27 7.30 Fri 25 7.30 Sat 28 CAP 2.00 book by James Goldman Sat 26 7.30 7.30 music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim Tue 29 7.30 Wed 30 7.30 NOVEMBER Thu 31 7.30 Olivier Theatre Wed 1 7.30 Thu 2 2.00 SEPTEMBER Cast New York, 1971. There’s a party on the CAP 7.30 Fri 3 AD 7.30 Fri 1 7.30 Josephine Barstow stage of the Weismann Theatre. Tomorrow Sat 4 AD TT 2.00 Sat 2 2.00 the iconic building will be demolished. Thirty 7.30 Tracie Bennett 7.30 Di Botcher years after their final performance, the Mon 4 7.30 Additional Follies girls gather to have a few drinks, sing Tue 5 2.00 Billy Boyle performances to a few songs and lie about themselves. 7.30 Janie Dee be announced Including such classic songs as ‘Broadway Wed 6 7.00 Geraldine Fitzgerald Thu 7 7.30 Peter Forbes Baby’, ‘I’m Still Here’ and ‘Losing My Mind’, Fri 8 7.30 Stephen Sondheim’s legendary musical Emily Goodenough Sat 9 2.00 is staged for the first time at the Photography by Marcus Palmqvist 7.30 Bruce Graham National Theatre. Mon 11 7.30 Fred Haig Tue 12 2.00 Tracie Bennett, Janie Dee and Imelda Aimee Hodnett 7.30 Staunton play the magnificent Follies in Wed 13 7.30 Dawn Hope this dazzling new production. Featuring Talks and events Thu 14 7.30 Liz Izen Fri 15 7.30 a cast of 37 and an orchestra of 21, it’s Janie Dee and Philip Quast Alison Langer directed by Dominic Cooke (‘Ma Rainey’s Sat 16 2.00 Thu 14 Sep, 3 – 4pm, 7.30 Emily Langham Black Bottom’). Olivier, £7/£5 Mon 18 7.30 Sarah-Marie Tue 19 7.30 Winner of Academy, Tony, Grammy and The Future of Musical Theatre Maxwell Wed 20 2.00 Olivier Awards, Sondheim’s previous work Fri 15 Sep, 6 – 7pm, at the NT includes ‘A Little Night Music’, 7.30 Kate Parr Cottesloe Room, £7/£5 Thu 21 7.30 Philip Quast ‘Sweeney Todd’ and ‘Sunday in the Park Fri 22 7.30 Edwin Ray with George’. Dominic Cooke Sat 23 2.00 Wed 18 Oct, 6 – 6.45pm, Gary Raymond 7.30 Olivier, £7/£5 Mon 25 7.30 Adam Rhys-Charles Tue 26 7.30 Jordan Shaw The Works of Official Hotel Partner Stephen Sondheim Imelda Staunton OCTOBER Fri 3 Nov, 10.30am – 4.30pm, See website for full Cottesloe Room, £55/£40 Mon 16 7.30 cast and creative team Tue 17 2.00 7.30 6 7 Production supported by the Winton Charitable Foundation and Rosetrees Tue 12 7.30 JULY Trust. A recipient of the Edgerton Foundation New Plays Award Wed 13 CAP 2.30 7.30 Tue 18 7.30 Thu 14 7.30 Wed 19 7.30 Fri 15 AD 7.30 Mosquitoes Thu 20 7.30 Sat 16 AD TT 2.30 Fri 21 7.30 a new play by Lucy Kirkwood 7.30 Sat 22 7.30 Mon 18 7.30 Mon 24 7.30 Tue 19 7.30 Tue 25 7.00 Wed 20 2.30 Wed 26 7.30 7.30 Thu 27 7.30 Thu 21 7.30 Dorfman Theatre Fri 28 7.30 Fri 22 7.30 Sat 29 2.30 Sat 23 2.30 7.30 Cast Alice is a scientist. She lives in Geneva. 7.30 Mon 31 7.30 Amanda Boxer As the Large Hadron Collider starts up Mon 25 7.30 Tue 26 2.30 Olivia Colman in 2008, she is on the brink of the most Olivia Williams exciting work of her life, searching for the AUGUST 7.30 Higgs boson. Wed 27 CAP 7.30 Director Tue 1 7.30 Thu 28 7.30 Rufus Norris Jenny is her sister. She lives in Luton. Wed 2 2.30 She spends a lot of time Googling. 7.30 Designer Thu 3 7.30 Katrina Lindsay When tragedy throws them together, Photography by David Stewart Fri 4 7.30 Lighting Designer the collision threatens them all with chaos. Sat 5 2.30 7.30 Paule Constable Olivia Colman and Olivia Williams Talks and events Mon 7 7.30 Music play the sisters in this new drama from Tue 8 7.30 Adam Cork ‘Chimerica’ writer Lucy Kirkwood, Semiconductor – Wed 9 7.30 directed by Rufus Norris. Tue 29 7.30 Sound Designer Creating Scientific Art Wed 30 2.30 Paul Arditti Fri 21 July, 6 – 6.45pm, 7.30 Cottesloe Room, £6/£5 Thu 31 7.30 Video Designers Finn Ross and Lucy Kirkwood and SEPTEMBER Ian William Galloway Rufus Norris Thu 7 Sep, 6 – 6.45pm, Fri 1 7.30 See website for full Dorfman, £7/£5 Sat 2 2.30 production team Designing ‘Mosquitoes’ 7.30 Mon 25 Sep, 10.30am – Mon 4 7.30 Tue 5 2.30 1.30pm, Dorfman and Duffield 7.30 Studio, £30/£20/£7.50 Wed 6 7.30 Making ‘Mosquitoes’ with Thu 7 7.30 Fri 8 7.30 designer Katrina Lindsay Sat 9 2.30 Mon 25 Sep, 5.45 – 6.30pm, 7.30 Dorfman, £7/£5 Mon 11 CAP 7.30 8 9 The Lincoln Center Theater production SEPTEMBER Tue 5 7.30 Oslo Wed 6 7.30 Thu 7 2.00 a new play by J T Rogers 7.30 Fri 8 7.30 Sat 9 2.00 7.30 Mon 11 7.30 Tue 12 7.00 Lyttelton Theatre Wed 13 7.30 Thu 14 2.00 Cast to be Direct from Broadway for a 7.30 announced limited season Fri 15 7.30 Sat 16 2.00 Director In 1993, in front of the world’s press, the CAP 7.30 Bartlett Sher leaders of Israel and Palestine shook Mon 18 7.30 hands on the lawn of the White House. Tue 19 7.30 Set Designer Wed 20 2.00 Michael Yeargan Few watching would have guessed that 7.30 the negotiations leading up to this iconic Costume Designer Thu 21 7.30 moment started secretly in a castle in the Fri 22 AD 7.30 Catherine Zuber middle of a forest outside Oslo. Sat 23 AD TT 2.00 7.30 Lighting Designer ‘Oslo’ tells the true story of two maverick Donald Holder Norwegian diplomats who coordinated Sound Designer top secret talks and inspired seemingly Talks and events Peter John Still impossible friendships. Their quiet Mona Juul on the Projections heroics led to the groundbreaking Oslo Oslo Accords 59 Productions Peace Accords. Fri 15 Sep, 6 – 6.45pm, Bartlett Sher’s acclaimed production of Lyttelton, £7/£5 this new play by J T Rogers (‘Blood & West End Gifts’, ‘The Overwhelming’) sets a deeply Continues at the Harold Pinter personal story against an epic historical Theatre from October.Tickets landscape. This darkly funny political available from the National thriller comes to the National Theatre Theatre. In association following a sell-out run in New York, prior with ATG to a West End run later this autumn. ‘Vivid and thoughtful, crackling theatre.’ ‘The New York Times’ 10 11 A co-production with Bristol Old Vic SEPTEMBER Tue 26 7.00 Jane Eyre Wed 27 7.00 Thu 28 1.30 based on the novel by Charlotte Brontë 7.00 devised by the original company Fri 29 7.00 Sat 30 1.30 7.00 OCTOBER Lyttelton Theatre Mon 2 7.00 Tue 3 1.30 Cast ‘A fresh, exciting and endlessly 7.00 Hannah Bristow inventive production.’ Wed 4 7.00 Matthew Churcher Evening Standard Thu 5 7.00 Nadia Clifford Following a critically acclaimed season Fri 6 7.00 Ben Cutler Sat 7 1.30 at the National Theatre and a UK tour, 7.00 Tim Delap ‘Jane Eyre’ returns this September.