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  • August: Osage County

    August: Osage County

    Explosive, unexpected and uproariously dark. Broadway's biggest hit comes to London.

    2009

  • War Horse

    War Horse

    Following its sell out run, War Horse returns to the National. From 10 September.

    2009

  • Gethsemane

    Gethsemane

    This richly imagined ensemble play about British public life looks at the way business, media and politics are now intertwined to nobody’s advantage.

    2009

  • Oedipus with Ralph Fiennes

    Oedipus

    Sophocles’ magnificent tragedy in an intense and raw new version by Frank McGuinness.

    2009

  • Every Good Boy Deserves Favour

    Every Good Boy Deserves Favour

    A dissident is locked up in an asylum. If he accepts that he was ill, has been treated and is now cured, he will be released. Tom Stoppard’s darkly funny and provocative play asks if denying the truth is a price worth paying for liberty.

    2009

  • Mrs Affleck

    Mrs Affleck

    Samuel Adamson’s new play takes Ibsen’s Little Eyolf as the inspiration for a passionate and tragic tale of obsessive love, set in 1950s England.

    2009

  • The Pitmen Painters

    The Pitmen Painters

    Lee Hall’s new play is a humorous, deeply moving and timely look at art, class and politics.

    2009

  • England People Very Nice

    England People Very Nice

    A riotous journey through four waves of immigration from the 17th century to today. As the French Huguenots, the Irish, the Jews and the Bangladeshis in turn enter the chaotic world of Bethnal Green.

    2009

  • Macbeth

    A National Theatre touring production for younger audiences.

    2009

  • Berlin

    Berlin

    To celebrate the 20th anniversary of the fall of the wall, David Hare reads a 55-minute meditation about Germany’s restored capital – both what it represents in European history, and the peculiar part it has played in his own life.

    2009

  • Burnt by the Sun

    Burnt by the Sun

    Poised at the beginning of Stalin’s Great Terror, Burnt by the Sun shows a brutal future encroaching on the last days of a fading world.

    2009

  • Stovepipe

    Stovepipe

    When a mercenary goes missing en route to Iraq, his closest surviving friend embarks on a hunt across the post-war Middle East. A promenade performance in Shepherd's Bush.

    2009

  • Dido, Queen of Carthage

    Dido, Queen of Carthage

    The wit, daring and sheer poetry of Christopher Marlowe’s first play were so new and exciting in English theatre that Hamlet was still talking about it seventeen years later.

    2009

  • Death and the King's Horsemen

    Death and the Kings Horseman

    Nigeria, 1943. The King is dead, and tonight his Horseman must escort him to the Ancestors.

    2009

  • Time and the Conways

    Time and the Conways

    The Conways, celebrating Kay’s 21st birthday in 1919, seem a golden family – safe and well after the Great War, looking forward to future careers, marriages, and a brave new world.

    2009

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