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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 …
You gotta keep him here, Miss Jeffries. He’s the goose who laid the golden egg. When local radio producer Marcia Jeffries interviews drunk drifter “Lonesome Rhodes” in his jail cell, she immediately sees his potential and gives him a slot on her show. But as Lonesome’s fans grow more clamorous and the politicians start taking …
Four people. 2000 years. The feeling of being hunted. Why book? Support the amazing creative team at Theatre 503 who champion new and under-represented voices. Tachwedd features an entirely Welsh cast in the play’s London premier, in an aim to prove the “real wealth of talent” in Wales. Meet for a chat with the author at …
From the Sadler’s Website: Pina Bausch/ Germaine Acogny & Malou AiraudoThe Rite of Spring / common ground Sell-out runs, an international tour and five-star reviews herald the return of this iconic double bill. The idea of ‘exchange’ is central in this two-part programme which marks the first collaboration between the Pina Bausch Foundation (Germany), École des Sables (Senegal) and Sadler’s …
Why book? We loved Tanika Gupta’s adaption of A Doll’s House at the Lyric Hammersmith Meera Syal is starring in this heart-breaking family drama about life, immigration and the Indian spiritual cycle of death or rebirth “An ambitious Michelin-Star chef, Queenie is used to having the last word. But when her children notice gaps in …
Starring the internationally renowned, multi award winning Mark Strong and Lesley Manville, Sophocles’ epic tragedy is transformed into an essential, explosive human thriller. After his revelatory Oresteia, visionary director Robert Icke (1984, The Doctor) reimagines another Ancient Greek tragedy, bringing the secrets of the past bursting into the present. Following hit runs at Internationaal Theater Amsterdam and the Edinburgh Festival, Oedipus comes to Wyndham’s Theatre …
