Past productions 1996-2000
The first performances by the National Theatre took place in 1963 at the Old Vic. Listed here are productions from 1996 to 2000.
1996
STANLEY
by Pam Gems
Director John Caird
Cottesloe 1 February 1996
THE ENDS OF THE EARTH
by David Lan
Director Andrei Serban
Cottesloe 29 February 1996
FROGS
by Aristophanes
in a musical adaptation by Fiona Laird
Director Fiona Laird
Cottesloe 15 March (Mobile) 1996
MARY STUART
by Friedrich Schiller
translated by Jeremy Sams
Director Howard Davies
Lyttelton 21 March 1996
THE PRINCE'S PLAY
by Victor Hugo (Le Roi s'amuse)
verse translation by Tony Harrison
Director Richard Eyre
Olivier 19 April 1996
THE DESIGNATED MOURNER
by Wallace Shawn
Director David Hare
Cottesloe 24 April 1996
BLUE REMEMBERED HILLS
by Dennis Potter
Director Patrick Marber
Lyttelton 2 May 1996
WAR AND PEACE
adapted by Helen Edmundson
from the novel by Leo Tolstoy
Director Nancy Meckler & Polly Teale
Cottesloe 25 June 1996
(co-production with Shared Experience)
JOHN GABRIEL BORKMAN
by Henrik Ibsen
in a new version by Nicholas Wright
Director Richard Eyre
Lyttelton 11 July 1996
THE RED BALLOON
by Albert Lamorisse
adapted for the stage by Anthony Clark
with music by Mark Vibrans
Director Anthony Clark
Olivier 1 August 1996
BLINDED BY THE SUN
by Stephen Poliakoff
Director Ron Daniels
Cottesloe 3 September 1996
THE OEDIPUS PLAYS
Oedipus the King
and
Oedipus at Colonus
by Sophocles
translated by Ranjit Bolt
Director Peter Hall
Olivier 17 September 1996
VIOLIN TIME
by Ken Campbell
Director Colin Watkeys
Cottesloe 2 October 1996
THE ALCHEMIST
by Ben Jonson
Director Bill Alexander
Olivier 9 October 1996
(Co-production with Birmingham Repertory Theatre)
DEATH OF A SALESMAN
by Arthur Miller
Director David Thacker
Lyttelton 31 October 1996
FAIR LADIES AT A GAME OF POEM CARDS
a verse play by Peter Oswald based on an original work by Chikamatsu Monzaemon
Director John Crowley
Cottesloe 20 November 1996
GUYS AND DOLLS
based on a story and characters
of Damon Runyon
music & lyrics by Frank Loesser
book by Jo Swerling & Abe Burrows
Director Richard Eyre
Musical staging: David Toguri
Olivier 17 December 1996
1997
THE CRIPPLE OF INISHMAAN
by Martin McDonagh
Director Nicholas Hytner
Cottesloe 7 January 1997
LIGHT SHINING IN BUCKINGHAMSHIRE
by Caryl Churchill
Director Mark Wing-Davey
Cottesloe 10 January (Mobile) 1997
THE HOMECOMING
by Harold Pinter
Director Roger Michell
Lyttelton 23 January 1997
CARDIFF EAST
by Peter Gill
Director Peter Gill
Cottesloe 12 February 1997
LADY IN THE DARK
a musical play by Moss Hart
lyrics by Ira Gershwin
music by Kurt Weill
Director Francesca Zambello
Lyttelton 11 March 1997
KING LEAR
by William Shakespeare
Director Richard Eyre
Cottesloe 27 March 1997
THE CAUCASIAN CHALK CIRCLE
by Bertolt Brecht
version by Frank McGuinness
Director Simon McBurney
Olivier in-the-round 21 April 1997
THE PERSECUTION AND ASSASSINATION OF MARAT AS PERFORMED BY THE INMATES OF THE ASYLUM OF CHARENTON UNDER THE DIRECTION OF THE MARQUIS DE SADE
by Peter Weiss
English version by Geoffrey Skelton
verse adaptation by Adrian Mitchell
Director Jeremy Sams
Olivier in-the-round 14 May 1997
TWELFTH NIGHT
by William Shakespeare
Dir: Brigid Larmour
Cottesloe 16 May (Mobile) 1997
CLOSER
by Patrick Marber
Director Patrick Marber
Cottesloe 29 May 1997
AMY'S VIEW
by David Hare
Director Richard Eyre
Lyttelton 20 June 1997
CHIPS WITH EVERYTHING
by Arnold Wesker
Director Howard Davies
Lyttelton 4 September 1997
OTHELLO
by William Shakespeare
Director Sam Mendes
Cottesloe 18 September 1997
(co-production with Salzburg Festival)
AN ENEMY OF THE PEOPLE
by Henrik Ibsen
version by Christopher Hampton
Director Trevor Nunn
Olivier 19 September 1997
THE INVENTION OF LOVE
by Tom Stoppard
Director Richard Eyre
Cottesloe 1 October 1997
THEATRE STORIES
Solo show by Ken Campbell
Director Colin Watkeys
Cottesloe 17 October 1997
MUTABILITIE
by Frank McGuinness
Director Trevor Nunn
Cottesloe 20 November 1997
PETER PAN
by JM Barrie
in a new version by John Caird and Trevor Nunn
Dir: John Caird with Fiona Laird
Olivier 16 December 1997
1998
THE DAY I STOOD STILL
by Kevin Elyot
Dir: Ian Rickson
Cottesloe 22 January 1998
FLIGHT
by Mikhail Bulgakov
in a new adaptation by Ron Hutchinson
Dir: Howard Davies
Olivier 12 February 1998
NOT ABOUT NIGHTINGALES
by Tennessee Williams
Dir: Trevor Nunn
Cottesloe 05 March 1998
A co-production with Moving Theatre and in association with Alley Theater, Houston
THE LONDON CUCKOLDS
by Edward Ravenscroft
in a new adaptation by Terry Johnson
Dir: Terry Johnson
Lyttelton 24 March 1998
OUR LADY OF SLIGO
by Sebastian Barry
Dir: Max Stafford-Clark
Cottesloe 16 April 1998
A co-production with Out of Joint
COPENHAGEN
by Michael Frayn
Dir: Michael Blakemore
Cottesloe 28 May 1998
THE PRIME OF MISS JEAN BRODIE
in a newly revised version by Jay Presson Allen
adapted from the novel by Muriel Spark
Dir: Phyllida Lloyd
Lyttelton 25 June 1998
OKLAHOMA!
music by Richard Rodgers
book and lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II
Dir: Trevor Nunn
Olivier 15 July 1998
PIDGIN MACBETH
Presented by Ken Campbell
Director Ken Campbell with Toby Sedgwick
Cottesloe 25 Jul
CLEO, CAMPING, EMMANUELLE AND DICK
by Terry Johnson
Dir: Terry Johnson
Lyttelton 21 September 1998
HAROUN AND THE SEA OF STORIES
by Salman Rushdie
in a new adaptation by Tim Supple and David Tushingham
Dir: Tim Supple
Cottesloe 01 October 1998
ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA
by William Shakespeare
Dir: Sean Mathias
Olivier 20 October 1998
GUIDING STAR
by Jonathan Harvey
Dir: Gemma Bodinetz
Cottesloe 11 November 1998
A co-production with the Everyman Theatre, Liverpool
BETRAYAL
by Harold Pinter
Dir: Trevor Nunn
Lyttelton 24 November 1998
PETER PAN
by JM Barrie in a version by John Caird & Trevor Nunn
Dir: Fiona Laird
Olivier 17 December 1998
1999
THE FOREST
by Alexander Ostrovsky
in a new version by Alan Ayckbourn
Dir: Anthony Page
Lyttelton 28 January 1999
THE RIOT
by Nick Darke
Dir: Mike Shepherd
Cottesloe 11 February 1999
A co-production with Kneehigh Theatre, Cornwall
TROILUS AND CRESSIDA
by William Shakespeare
Dir: Trevor Nunn
Olivier 15 March 1999
CANDIDE
music by Leonard Bernstein
book adapted from Voltaire by Hugh Wheeler in a new version by John Caird
lyrics by Richard Wilbur
additional lyrics by Stephen Sondheim, John Latouche, Lillian Hellman, Dorothy Parker and Leonard Bernstein
Dir: John Caird assisted by Trevor Nunn
Olivier 13 April 1999
SLEEP WITH ME
by Hanif Kureishi
Dir: Anthony Page
Cottesloe 22 April 1999
PRIVATE LIVES
by Noel Coward
Dir: Philip Franks
Lyttelton 13 May 1999
MONEY
by Edward Bulwer-Lytton
Dir: John Caird
Olivier 03 June 1999
SPARKLESHARK
by Philip Ridley
Dir: Terry Johnson
Lyttelton 07June 1999
in association with BT
THE MERCHANT OF VENICE
by William Shakespeare
Dir: Trevor Nunn
Cottesloe17 June 1999
Olivier 29.11.1999
ROSE
by Martin Sherman
Dir: Nancy Meckler
Cottesloe 24 June 1999
LOOK BACK IN ANGER
by John Osborne
Dir: Gregory Hersov
Lyttelton 15 July 1999
THE DARKER FACE OF THE EARTH
by Rita Dove
Dir: James Kerr
Cottesloe 05 August 1999
SUMMERFOLK
by Maxim Gorky in a new version by Nick Dear
Dir: Trevor Nunn
Olivier 03 September 1999
REMEMBER THIS
by Stephen Poliakoff
Dir: Ron Daniels
Lyttelton 14 October 1999
DIARY OF ONE WHO VANISHED
By Leos Janacek, text by Ozef Kalda, english translation by Seamus Heaney
Director Deborah Warner
Lyttelton 3 November 1999
Co-production with English National Opera
THE ORESTEIA
1. The Home Guard
2. The Daughters of Darkness
by Aeschylus in a new version by Ted Hughes
Dir: Katie Mitchell
Cottesloe 01 December 1999
BATTLE ROYAL
by Nick Stafford
Dir: Howard Davies
Lyttelton 09 December 1999
HONK! THE UGLY DUCKLING
music by George Stiles
book and lyrics by Anthony Drewe
Dir: Julia McKenzie
Olivier 16 December 1999
THE MYSTERIES
The Nativity, The Passion and Doomsday
Medieval mystery plays
in a version by Tony Harrison
Dir: Bill Bryden
Cottesloe 18 December 1999
2000
WIDOWERS' HOUSES
by Bernard Shaw
Dir: Bill Bryden
Cottesloe (Mobile) 11 January 2000
BABY DOLL
by Tennessee Williams
Dir: Lucy Bailey
Lyttelton 07 March 2000
Birmingham Repertory Theatre in collaboration with the Royal National Theatre
THE VILLAINS' OPERA
after John gay's The Beggar's Opera
by Nick Dear
Dir: Tim Supple
Olivier 11 April 2000
BLUE/ORANGE
by Joe Penhall
Dir: Roger Michell
Cottesloe 13 April 2000
AS YOU LIKE IT
by William Shakespeare
Dir: Sean Holmes
Cottesloe (Mobile) 09 May 2000
Lloyds TSB Live! in association with the Royal National Theatre
ALBERT SPEER
by David Edgar
based on Gita Sereny's book Albert Speer: His Battle With Truth
Dir: Trevor Nunn
Lyttelton 25 May 2000
THE WAITING ROOM
by Tanika Gupta
Dir: Indhu Rubasingham
Cottesloe 30 May 2000
THE HEIRESS
by Ruth and Augustus Goetz
based on the novel Washington Square by Henry James
Dir: Philip Franks
Lyttelton Theatre 13 June 2000
presented by the Royal National Theatre and Sheffield Theatres
ALL MY SONS
By Arthur Miller
Director Howard Davies
Cottesloe 6 Jul 2000
Lyttelton 7 Aug 2001
HOUSE/GARDEN
Two linked plays by Alan Ayckbourn
Director Alan Ayckbourn
Lyttelton/Olivier 9 Aug 2000
KEN CAMPBELL'S HISTORY OF COMEDY PART ONE: VENTRILOQUISM
By Ken Campbell
Director Collin Watkeys
Cottesloe 29 Aug 2000
HAMLET
By William Shakespeare
Director John Caird
Lyttelton 5 Sep 2000
Olivier 11 Jun 2001
THE CHERRY ORCHARD
By Anton Chekhov in a new version by David Lan
Dir: Trevor Nunn
Cottesloe 21 Sep 2000
Olivier 3 Feb 2001
ROMEO AND JULIET
By William Shakespeare
Dir: Tim Supple
Olivier 3 Oct 2000
NOISES OFF
By Michael Frayn
Dir: Jeremy Sams
Lyttelton 5 Oct 2000
FURTHER THAN THE FURTHEST THING
By Zinne Harris
Dir: Irina Brown
Cottesloe 10 Oct 2000
PEER GYNT
By Henrik Ibsen in a version by Frank McGuinness
Dir: Conall Morrison
Olivier 13 Nov 2000
IN EXTREMIS
By Neil Bartlett
and
DE PROFUNDIS
By Oscar Wilde, edited by Merlin Holland
Dir: Corin Redgrave and Trevor Nunn
Cottesloe 7 Nov 2000
REMEMBRANCE OF THINGS PAST
By Marcel Proust adapted by Harold Pinter and Di Trevis
Dir: Di Trevis
Cottesloe 23 Nov 2000
Olivier 23 Feb 2001
LIFE X3
By Yasmina Reza
translated by Christopher Hampton
Dir: Matthew Warchus
Lyttelton 7 Dec 2000
