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AD Audio-Described The National Theatre The National Theatre in partnership with in partnership with The Antipodes The Ocean at the ‘Master Harold’… 21 Oct – 23 Nov End of the Lane and the boys 3 Dec – 25 Jan 21 Sep – 17 Dec Partner for Innovation Partner for Learning Founding corporate Outdoor Media Partner supporter for Public Acts Official Airline Partner Official Hotel Partner Official Transport Provider Supporter for new writing Peter Gynt Translations Hansard Playing until 8 Oct 15 Oct – 18 Dec 22 Aug – 25 Nov Your carrier to the USA and beyond Official Sound Partner of Cloud Services Partner Pouring Partner Sponsor of NT Live in the UK the Olivier Theatre The Secret River Rutherford and Son Mr Gum and 22 Aug – 7 Sep Playing until 3 Aug the Dancing Bear – the Musical! 25 July – 31 Aug 2 3 Part One A co-production with Rose Theatre Kingston NOVEMBER Tue 12 7.30 Wed 13 7.30 Fri 15 7.30 My Brilliant Friend Tue 19 7.30 Thu 21 7.30 Parts One and Two Mon 25 7.30 Thu 28 7.30 based on Elena Ferrante’s Neapolitan Novels adapted by April De Angelis D ECEMBER Wed 4 7.30 Fri 20 7.30 JA NUARY Mon 6 CAP 7.30 Thu 9 7.30 Cast includes Mon 13 7.30 Justin Avoth HHHH Tue 14 7.30 Adam Burton ‘As if Ferrante has materialised in front of us.’ Thu 16 7.30 Niamh Cusack Observer Part Two Catherine McCormack Ira Mandela Siobhan When the most important person in her life NOVEMBER Victoria Moseley goes missing without a trace, Lenu Greco, Thu 14 7.30 Emily Mytton now a celebrated author, begins to recall a Fri 22 7.30 Badria Timimi Wed 27 7.30 relationship of more than 60 years. Emily Wachter D ECEMBER Toby Wharton First meeting on the dangerous streets of post- Fri 6 7.30 Director Melly Still war Naples, friends Lila and Lenu experience JA NUARY Tue 7 7.30 Set and Costume turbulent social and political change, from the rise of the Camorra to the sexual revolution and Fri 10 7.30 Designer Tue 14 AD 2.00 Soutra Gilmour the transformation of their neighbourhood, Wed 15 CAP 7.30 Music city and nation. Even as life repeatedly tries to Fri 17 7.30 Jim Fortune pull them in separate directions, they remain Two-show days Lighting Designer inextricably bound to one another. Malcolm Rippeth NOVEMBER Sound Designer Based on the celebrated novels by Elena Sat 16 2.00 Ferrante – published in over 50 countries – Wed 20 2.00 Jon Nicholls Sat 23 2.00 Movement Director My Brilliant Friend is an epic story of love, Tue 26 1.30 Sarah Dowling violence, ambition and self-destruction. D ECEMBER Fight Directors Thu 5 2.00 Rachel Bown-Williams Following a sold-out run at Rose Theatre Sat 7 2.00 and Ruth Cooper-Brown Kingston, the acclaimed two-part adaptation Sat 21 CAP 2.00 for Rc-Annie Ltd by April De Angelis (Jumpy) is reworked for Mon 23 2.00 Fri 27 2.00 Puppetry the Olivier stage by Melly Still (Coram Boy). Sat 28 CAP 2.00 Toby Olié Niamh Cusack and Catherine McCormack Mon 30 2.00 Casting return to play Lenu and Lila. JA NUARY Charlotte Sutton CDG & Thu 2 2.00 Bryony Jarvis-Taylor Fri 3 2.00 Sat 4 AD TT 2.00 Olivier Theatre AD 7.30 Wed 8 2.00 Sat 11 2.00 Sat 18 2.00 Talks and events Additional performances to Love, Honour, Jealousy Making My Brilliant Friend be announced and Marriage in Italy: Thu 16 Jan, 1945 –1970s 10.30am – 4pm, HHHH Wed 8 Jan, 6 – 7pm, Cottesloe Room, Cottesloe room, £9/£6 £60/£40/£15 ‘As addictive as the books.’ Actors Niamh Cusack A Short History of and Catherine McCormack Modern Italy Time Out Fri 10 Jan, 3 – 4pm, Fri 17 Jan, 6 – 7pm, Photography (Niamh Cusackand Catherine McCormack) by Jillian Edelstein Olivier, £9/£6 Cottesloe Room, £9/£6 5 A co-production with Fuel D ECEMBER Tue 3 7.30 Wed 4 7.30 Thu 5 7.30 Three Sisters Fri 6 7.30 Sat 7 7.30 a new play by Inua Ellams Mon 9 7.30 Tue 10 7.00 after Chekhov Wed 11 7.30 Thu 12 7.30 Thu 19 7.30 Fri 20 7.30 Sat 21 2.15 7.30 Mon 23 7.30 Thu 26 7.30 Fri 27 7.30 Cast includes Chekhov’s iconic characters are relocated Sat 28 2.15 Ronke Adekoluejo to Nigeria in this bold new adaptation. 7.30 Jude Akuwudike Mon 30 7.30 Ken Nwosu Owerri, 1967, on the brink of the Biafran Civil Tue 31 2.15 Racheal Ofori War. Lolo, Nne Chukwu and Udo are grieving the JA NUARY Sule Rimi Wed 1 7.30 Natalie Simpson loss of their father. Months before, two ruthless Thu 2 7.30 Director military coups plunged the country into chaos. Fri 3 CAP 7.30 Nadia Fall Fuelled by foreign intervention, the conflict Sat 4 2.15 7.30 Set and Costume encroaches on their provincial village, and Designer the sisters long to return to their former home Additional Katrina Lindsay performances to in Lagos. be announced Lighting Designer Peter Mumford Following his smash-hit Barber Shop Chronicles, Movement Director Inua Ellams returns to the National Theatre Polly Bennett with this heartbreaking retelling, directed by Music Director and Nadia Fall (Home, Dara). Vocal Arranger Michael Henry ‘Warmth, wisdom and global reach.’ Daily Telegraph on Barber Shop Chronicles ‘Vital theatre. Funny, moving, unflinching.’ Sunday Times on The Half God of Rainfall Hundreds of £15 tickets for every performance Production supported by Lyttelton Theatre Leila Maw Straus Talks and events Talks and events to be announced later in the year Chekhov’s masterpiece moves to Nigeria. 7 S EPTEMBER Mon 9 7.30 Tue 10 7.30 ‘An essential watch.’ Wed 11 7.30 Faith, Hope and Thu 12 7.30 Time Out on LOVE Fri 13 7.30 Sat 14 7.30 Mon 16 7.30 Charity Tue 17 7.00 Wed 18 7.30 a new play by Alexander Zeldin Thu 19 2.30 7.30 Fri 20 7.30 Sat 21 2.30 7.30 Mon 23 7.30 Tue 24 7.30 Cast includes In a run-down community hall on the edge Wed 25 2.30 Nick Holder of town, a woman has been cooking lunch 7.30 Susan Lynch Thu 26 7.30 Cecilia Noble for those in need. Fri 27 7.30 Hind Swareldahab Sat 28 CAP 2.30 Alan Williams A choir is starting up, run by a volunteer 7.30 who’s looking for a new beginning. A mother Mon 30 7.30 Director OCTOBER Alexander Zeldin is seeking help in her fight to keep her young daughter from being taken into care. An older Tue 1 7.30 Set and Costume Wed 2 2.30 Designer man sits silently in the corner, the first to arrive, 7.30 Natasha Jenkins the last to leave. Outside the rain is falling. Thu 3 7.30 Fri 4 AD 7.30 Lighting Designer Sat 5 AD TT 2.30 Marc Williams Faith, Hope and Charity is the culmination 7.30 Movement Director of a trilogy that began with Beyond Caring – Mon 7 CAP 7.30 Marcin Rudy ‘Unforgettable’ (The Times) – and followed by Tue 8 CAP 2.30 7.30 Sound Designer LOVE – ‘the National’s play of the year, Wed 9 7.30 Josh Anio Grigg and then some’ (Evening Standard). Thu 10 7.30 Fri 11 7.30 Alexander Zeldin’s new play promises to Sat 12 2.30 be another uncompromising theatrical 7.30 experience that goes to the heart of our uncertain times. Production supported by Dorfman Theatre The Polonsky Foundation Talks and events Playwriting at the NT with National Debates: Are our Alexander Zeldin Social Systems Broken? Sat 21 Sep, 10.30am – 1pm, Mon 30 Sep, 5.45 – 6.45pm, Cottesloe Room, £40/£25 Cottesloe Room, £9/£6 Director Alexander Zeldin Creativity from Tue 24 Sep, 6 – 6.45pm, The Choir with No Name Dorfman, £9/£6 Wed 2 Oct, 6 – 7pm, Cottesloe Room, £9/£6 Photography by David Stewart 9 OC TOBER Mon 21 7.30 Tues 22 7.30 Wed 23 7.30 The Antipodes Thu 24 7.30 Fri 25 7.30 by Annie Baker Sat 26 2.30 7.30 Mon 28 7.30 Tue 29 7.30 Wed 30 7.00 Thu 31 2.30 7.30 N OVEMBER Fri 1 7.30 Sat 2 2.30 Cast includes Following acclaimed runs of The Flick and John, 7.30 Matt Bardock Pulitzer Prize-winner Annie Baker returns to the Mon 4 7.30 Arthur Darvill Tue 5 7.30 Imogen Doel National Theatre with her latest extraordinary play.