Play Without Words

devised by Matthew Bourne
music by Terry Davies

Inspired by Joseph Losey’s film
by special arrangement with StudioCanal
Based on The Servant by Robin Maugham

A collaboration between the National Theatre & New Adventures

Play Without Words, winner of Olivier Awards for Best Entertainment and Best Theatre Choreographer, returns to the National by huge public demand.

'An absolute cracker - funny, sexy, sinister, nostalgic, brilliantly stylish and blazingly original'
Daily Telegraph

A vibrant, wicked satire of class conflict and sexual desire set in Swinging Sixties London and told exclusively through movement and music… seduction is everywhere
The Times

Matthew Bourne’s cast possess such exquisite and hilarious mastery of their body language that it is hard to believe not a line of dialogue has been uttered
Guardian

Act One is probably the most flawless and intricate thing that Bourne has ever choreographed. In Act Two, where sexual subversiveness turns into alarming reality, Bourne’s work goes yet further. A major event in British theatre
Financial Times

Play Without Words finished on: 6 March 2004