Past productions 1991-1995
The first performances by the National Theatre took place in 1963 at the Old Vic. Listed here are productions from 1991 to 1995.
1991
ACCIDENTAL DEATH OF AN ANARCHIST
by Dario Fo
English version by Alan Cumming & Tim Supple
Director Tim Supple
Cottesloe 4 January (Mobile) 1991
THE FEVER
written & performed by Wallace Shawn
Cottesloe 8 February 1991
(co-production with Royal Court) 1991
WHITE CHAMELEON
by Christopher Hampton
Director Richard Eyre
Cottesloe 14 February 1991
THE TRIAL
by Franz Kafka
adapted by Steven Berkoff
Director Steven Berkoff
Lyttelton 5 March 1991
INVISIBLE FRIENDS
by Alan Ayckbourn
Director Alan Ayckbourn
Cottesloe 13 March 1991
BLACK SNOW
by Keith Dewhurst
from the novel by Mikhail Bulgakov
Director William Gaskill
Cottesloe 25 April 1991
THE MISER
by Molière
in a new translation by Jeremy Sams
Director Steven Pimlott
Olivier 9 May 1991
LONG DAY'S JOURNEY INTO NIGHT
by Eugene O'Neill
Director Howard Davies
Lyttelton 21 May 1991
(co-production with Bristol Old Vic)
THE WHITE DEVIL
by John Webster
Director Philip Prowse
Olivier 13 June 1991
NAPOLI MILIONARIA
by Eduardo de Filippo
English version by Peter Tinniswood
Director Richard Eyre
Lyttelton 27 June 1991
THE COUP
by Mustapha Matura
Director Roger Michell
Cottesloe 18 July 1991
THE RESISTIBLE RISE OF ARTURO UI
by Bertolt Brecht
translated by Ranjit Bolt
Director Di Trevis
Olivier 8 August 1991
AT OUR TABLE
by Daniel Mornin
Director Jenny Killick
Cottesloe 19 September 1991
MURMURING JUDGES
by David Hare
Director Richard Eyre
Olivier 10 October 1991
THE MADNESS OF GEORGE III
by Alan Bennett
Director Nicholas Hytner
Lyttelton 28 November 1991
THE LITTLE CLAY CART
attributed to Shudraka
new version by Jatinder Verma
additional verse & songs by Ranjit Bolt
Director Jatinder Verma
Cottesloe 5 December 1991
THE SEA
by Edward Bond
Director Sam Mendes
Lyttelton 12 December 1991
BLOOD WEDDING
by Federico Garcia Lorca
translated by Gwenda Pandolfi
Director Yvonne Brewster
Cottesloe 17 December (Mobile) 1991
1992
ANGELS IN AMERICA
Part One: Millennium Approaches
by Tony Kushner
Director Declan Donnellan
Cottesloe 23 January 1992
THE NIGHT OF THE IGUANA
by Tennessee Williams
Director Richard Eyre
Lyttelton 6 February 1992
UNCLE VANYA
by Anton Chekhov
version by Pam Gems
Director Sean Mathias
Cottesloe 25 February (Studio) 1992
THE RECRUITING OFFICER
by George Farquhar
Director Nicholas Hytner
Olivier 12 March 1992
PYGMALION
by Bernard Shaw
Director Howard Davies
Olivier 9 April 1992
LE BOURGEOIS GENTILHOMME
by Molière, with music by Jean-Baptiste Lully
version by Nick Dear
Director Richard Jones
Lyttelton 5 May 1992
THE RISE AND FALL OF LITTLE VOICE
by Jim Cartwright
Director Sam Mendes
Cottesloe 16 June 1992
A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM
by William Shakespeare
Director Robert Lepage
Olivier 9 July 1992
STREET OF CROCODILES
based on stories by Bruno Schulz
devised by the Company from an
adaptation by Simon McBurney & Mark Wheatley
Director Simon McBurney
Cottesloe 13 August 1992
(co-production with Theatre de Complicite)
AN INSPECTOR CALLS
by J B Priestley
Dir: Stephen Daldry
Lyttelton 11 September 1992
KINGS
an account of Books I & II of Homer's Iliad
by Christopher Logue
Director Liane Aukin
Cottesloe 17 September 1992
SQUARE ROUNDS
by Tony Harrison
Dir: Tony Harrison
Olivier 1 October 1992
DRAGON
by Yevgeny Shvarts
English version by Alan Cumming & Ultz
Director Ultz
Olivier 6 November 1992
STAGES
by David Storey
Director Lindsay Anderson
Cottesloe 18 November 1992
CAROUSEL
music by Richard Rodgers
book & lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein
based on the play Liliom by Ferenc Molnár
as adapted by Benjamin F Glaser
Director Nicholas Hytner
Choreography Kenneth MacMillan
Lyttelton 10 December 1992
BILLY LIAR
by Keith Waterhouse & Willis Hall
Director Tim Supple
Cottesloe 15 December (Mobile) 1992
1993
THE GAME OF LOVE AND CHANCE
by Pierre Marivaux
translated by Neil Bartlett
Director Mike Alfreds & Neil Bartlett
Cottesloe 11 January 1993
(co-production by Cambridge Theatre Company & Gloria in association with the National)
THE DAY AFTER TOMORROW
by Roel Adam
translated by Noel Clark
Director Anthony Clark
Cottesloe (Education) 4 February 1993
TRELAWNY OF THE WELLS
by Arthur W. Pinero
Director John Caird
Olivier 18 February 1993
MR A'S AMAZING MAZE PLAYS
by Alan Ayckbourn
Director Alan Ayckbourn
Cottesloe 4 March 1993
MACBETH
by William Shakespeare
Director Richard Eyre
Olivier 1 April 1993
ARCADIA
by Tom Stoppard
Director Trevor Nunn
Lyttelton 13 April 1993
SPRINGBOARDS - WORK FROM STUDIO THEATRES:
THE NEIGHBOUR by Meredith Oakes
Director John Burgess
Cottesloe 21 April 1993
SOMEWHERE by Judith Johnson
Cottesloe 24 April 1993
(Studio/Liverpool Playhouse co-production)
HOVE devised by the Studio and Talking Tongues
Dir David Farr
Cottesloe 28 April 1993
BABY DOLL chamber opera by Andrew Poppy
from original screenplay by Tennessee Williams
Director Julia Bardsley
Cottesloe 5 May 1993
(Studio /Leicester Haymarket co-production)
HE WHO SAW EVERYTHING fragments from the
Epic of Gilgamesh in a verse translated by Robert Temple
Director Tim Supple
Cottesloe 12 May 1993
ON THE LEDGE
by Alan Bleasdale
Director Robin Lefevre
Lyttelton 27 April 1993
(co-production with Nottingham Playhouse)
SWEENEY TODD
music & lyrics by Stephen Sondheim
book by Hugh Wheeler from an adaptation by Christopher Bond
Director Declan Donnellan
Cottesloe 2 June 1993
INADMISSIBLE EVIDENCE
by John Osborne
Director Di Trevis
Lyttelton 17 June 1993
THE MOUNTAIN GIANTS
by Luigi Pirandello
version by Charles Wood
Director William Gaskill
Cottesloe 14 July 1993
THE ABSENCE OF WAR
by David Hare
Director Richard Eyre
Olivier 2 October 1993
(presented as THE DAVID HARE TRILOGY with Racing Demon and Murmuring Judges)
JAMAIS VU
by Ken Campbell
Director Colin Watkeys
Cottesloe 7 October 1993
(presented as trilogy with Furtive Nudist and Pigspurt)
MACHINAL
by Sophie Treadwell
Director Stephen Daldry
Lyttelton 15 October 1993
ANGELS IN AMERICA: Part Two
Perestroika
by Tony Kushner
Director Declan Donnellan
Cottesloe 20 November 1993
(presented with Part One: Millennium Approaches)
MOTHER COURAGE AND HER CHILDREN
by Bertolt Brecht
version by Hanif Kureishi
with lyrics by Sue Davies
Director Anthony Clark
Cottesloe 6 December (Mobile) 1993
1994
THE SKRIKER
by Caryl Churchill
Director Les Waters
Cottesloe 27 January 1994
WICKED, YAAR!
by Garry Lyons
Director John Turner
Cottesloe 8 March (Mobile) 1994
THE BIRTHDAY PARTY
by Harold Pinter
Director Sam Mendes
Lyttelton 17 March 1994
JOHNNY ON A SPOT
by Charles MacArthur
Director Richard Eyre
Olivier 31 March 1994
LES PARENTS TERRIBLES
by Jean Cocteau
translated by Jeremy Sams
Director Sean Mathias
Lyttelton 21 April 1994
PERICLES
by William Shakespeare
Director Phyllida Lloyd
Olivier 19 May 1994
RUTHERFORD AND SON
by Githa Sowerby
Director Katie Mitchell
Cottesloe 2 June 1994
SWEET BIRD OF YOUTH
by Tennessee Williams
Director Richard Eyre
Lyttelton 16 June 1994
THE SEAGULL
by Anton Chekhov
version by Pam Gems
Director John Caird
Olivier 7 July 1994
LE CID
by Pierre Corneille
translated by Ranjit Bolt
Director Jonathan Kent
Cottesloe 28 July 1994
BROKEN GLASS
by Arthur Miller
Director David Thacker
Lyttelton 4 August 1994
THE DEVIL'S DISCIPLE
by Bernard Shaw
Director Christopher Morahan
Olivier 8 September 1994
TWO WEEKS WITH THE QUEEN
adapted by Mary Morris
from the novel by Morris Gleitzman
Director Alan Ayckbourn
Cottesloe 20 September 1994
(co-production with Stephen Joseph Theatre, Scarborough)
THE CHILDREN'S HOUR
by Lillian Hellman
Director Howard Davies
L:yttelton 22 September 1994
ALICE'S ADVENTURES UNDER GROUND
by Christopher Hampton
adapted from the writings of Lewis Carroll, in collaboration with Martha Clarke
Director Martha Clarke
Cottesloe 8 November 1994
OUT OF A HOUSE WALKED A MAN...
musical scenes from the writings of Daniil Kharms
devised by Theatre de Complicite
Director Simon McBurney
Lyttelton 1 December 1994
(co-production with Theatre de Complicite)
1995
LEAVE TAKING
by Winsome Pinnock
Director Paulette Randall
Cottesloe 4 January (Mobile) 1995
THE MERRY WIVES OF WINDSOR
by William Shakespeare
Director Terry Hands
Olivier 26 January 1995
DEALER'S CHOICE
by Patrick Marber
Director Patrick Marber
Cottesloe 9 February 1995
WHAT THE BUTLER SAW
by Joe Orton
Director Phyllida Lloyd
Lyttelton 2 March 1995
WOMEN OF TROY
by Euripides
translated by Kenneth McLeish
Director Annie Castledine
Olivier 16 March 1995
THE BLUE BALL
by Paul Godfrey
Director Paul Godfrey
Cottesloe 30 March 1995
UNDER MILK WOOD
by Dylan Thomas
Director Roger Michell
Olivier 13 April 1995
1995
SKYLIGHT
by David Hare
Director Richard Eyre
Cottesloe 4 May 1995
ABSOLUTE HELL
by Rodney Ackland
Director Anthony Page
Lyttelton 23 May 1995
RICHARD II
by William Shakespeare
Director Deborah Warner
Cottesloe 2 June 1995
LA GRANDE MAGIA
by Eduardo de Filippo
translated by Carlo Ardito
Director Richard Eyre
Lyttelton 13 July 1995
TITUS ANDRONICUS
by William Shakespeare
Director Gregory Doran
Cottesloe 18 July 1995
(Market Theatre Johannesburg
in association with the Studio)
VOLPONE
by Ben Jonson
Director Matthew Warchus
Olivier 27 July 1995
THE MACHINE WRECKERS
by Ernst Toller
in a version by Ashley Dukes
Director Katie Mitchell
Cottesloe 11 August 1995
WILD OATS
by John O'Keeffe
Director Jeremy Sams
Lyttelton 7 September 1995
A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC
music & lyrics by Stephen Sondheim
book by Hugh Wheeler
Director Sean Mathias
Olivier 26 September 1995
THE WAY OF THE WORLD
by William Congreve
Director Phyllida Lloyd
Lyttelton 19 October 1995
CYRANO
by Edmond Rostand
adapted by Jatinder Verma
rendered into verse by Ranjit Bolt
Director Anuradha Kapur
Cottesloe 25 October 1995
(co-production with Tara Arts)
MOTHER COURAGE AND HER CHILDREN
by Bertolt Brecht
version by David Hare
Director Jonathan Kent
Olivier 14 November 1995
ROSENCRANTZ AND GUILDENSTERN ARE DEAD
by Tom Stoppard
Director Matthew Francis
Lyttelton 14 December 1995
