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BY ANTON CHEKHOV IN A VERSION BY BENEDICT ANDREWS Can anyone persuade Ranevskaya and her aristocratic household that the world is changing, and they must too? Following internationally acclaimed productions of The Seagull (Belvoir St Theater, Sydney) and Three Sisters (Young Vic, London), director Benedict Andrews has a reputation as one of the world’s leading interpreters of Chekhov. For the Donmar …
This five-star, award-winning production returns for a strictly limited season this autumn. Winner of 6 Olivier Awards and 5 WhatsOnStage Awards, this "utterly beguiling" (The Stage) and "jaw-dropping" (Metro) staging of the celebrated 1988 animated feature film is brought to stage by the Royal Shakespeare Company. Hailed as "a tender and remarkably beautiful show" (Financial Times), My …
"You bring such scandal to my house. In the domaine of Bernarda Alba, a daughter who disobeys is no longer a daughter." Forced to live under their mother's tight grip as they mourn their father's death, can five sisters survive when young Adela dares for passion and freedom? Olivier Award-winner, and Tony and Emmy Nominee Dame Harriet Walter (Julius …
A minute of this is an infinity. Five women in Northern California lie outside on chaises longues and philosophise. Annie Baker's (The Flick, The Antipodes) new play is a surprisingly funny inquiry into the complexity of suffering, and what it means to desire in a body that's failing you. James MacDonald (The Welkin, John) directs this bold, dreamlike story, …
O, full of scorpions is my mind A spellbinding story of love and murder, the renewing power of nature, and the internal struggles of a damaged man as he tries to control his destiny. This bracingly fresh production of the Scottish play places us inside the mind of Macbeth, asking are we ever really responsible …
1968: Russian tanks have rolled into Czechoslovakia, and Syd Barrett has been dumped by Pink Floyd. Jan, a visiting postgrad at Cambridge, breaks with his old professor Max, a Marxist philosopher, and heads home to Prague with his suitcase full of "socially negative music". Rock 'n' Roll covers the ensuing 21 years in the lives of …
Young Vic Theatre 15th January 2024 Olivier-nominated Matthew Dunster (2:22 A Ghost Story) directs a bold, spare refocusing of Harold Pinter's powerful masterpiece. Max, Sam, Lennie, Joey, Teddy and Ruth. In a small house in East London lives a family of butchers, boxers and brutes. When academic son Teddy returns home from America, with a wife …
Broadway smash-hit and winner of two Tony Awards, Dana H. will have its UK premiere at the Royal Court Theatre in January 2024. Dierdre O'Connell makes her London stage debut reprising her Tony-winning tour-de-force performance as Dana, a psych ward chaplain who was held captive by a patient in a series of Florida motels for …
Do you want this hanging over your kitchen table to remind you of your Daddy? Modern day Germany. Nicola and Phillipp argue as they clear out their late father's house. When they find an old painting stashed in the attic, things get savage. The painting is a quaint street scene from 1920s Vienna; the work of …
The great American novel reimagined Forced to travel West in search of a promised land, the Joad family embark on an epic journey across America in the hope of finding work and a new life in California. Their story is one of false hopes, wrong turns and broken dreams, but also a hymn to human …
Full of laughter, song and healing, Katori Hall’s (Tina: The Tina Turner Musical, The Mountaintop) Pulitzer Prize-winning comedy makes its London debut in a fiery new production directed by Roy Alexander Weise (‘Master Harold’… and the Boys, Nine Night). According to the NYT: Katori Hall’s genial play, built around a cooking contest in Memphis, uses a sitcom structure to explore …
The iconic ballet, reimagined. Following acclaimed performances around the world, and sold-out shows in Manchester and Bristol in 2023, Akram Khan’s Giselle returns to Sadler’s Wells Theatre in London for the first time in five years. As the curtain rises, dancers in shadow push against a forbidding wall. From that moment on, this ground-breaking production stuns with …
