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From two-time Pulitzer Prize winner Lynn Nottage (The Secret Life of Bees, Sweat), Mlima's Tale makes its UK premiere at the Kiln Theatre. They call him Mlima, the mountain. Killed for his magnificent tusks, killed for greed, killed for ivory, his spirit journeys through the ivory trade market, marking those complicit in his barbaric death. Directed …
Based on Anton Chekhov's Uncle Vanya, Simon Stephens' new adaptation Vanya will see Andrew Scott (Present Laughter, Hamlet) performing every role in this masterpiece. Director Sam Yates and Designer Rosanna Size bring this classic tale of love, art, sex, and attempted murder to life, in this highly anticipated West End run in the autumn. We expect that these will be some of the …
In the bustling kitchen of a run-down Pennsylvania truck stop, the formerly incarcerated staff members have been given a second chance. Under the tyrannical eye of their boss Clyde, this unlikely team strives to create the perfect sandwich, as they dream of leaving their past mistakes behind for a better life. Double Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Lynn …
But I do have a job. "I am a professional viscount" Things aren't looking good for Theodore "Tug" Bungay. His mother, Lady Agrippina, has a plan to cut off his funds. His fed-up fiancee wants to drag him up the aisle. An oligarch is eyeing up his beloved Northumberland castle. Is Tug's dissolute life about to …
"Warwickshire, 1582. Agnes Hathaway, a natural healer, meets the Latin tutor, William Shakespeare. Drawn together by powerful but hidden impulses, they create a life together and make a family. When the plague steals 11-year old Hamnet from his loving parents, they must confront their loss alone. And yet, out of the greatest suffering, something of …
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 …
