Past productions 1986-1990
The first performances by the National Theatre took place in 1963 at the Old Vic. Listed here are productions from 1986 to 1990.
1986
HAMLET
by William Shakespeare
Director Cicely Berry
Cottesloe 9 January (Mobile) 1986
NOT ABOUT HEROES
by Stephen MacDonald
Director Michael Simpson
Cottesloe 13 February 1986
BRIGHTON BEACH MEMOIRS
by Neil Simon
Director Michael Rudman
Lyttelton 25 February 1986
THE THREEPENNY OPERA
by Bertolt Brecht & Kurt Weill
translated by Robert David MacDonald
Director Peter Wood
Olivier 13 March 1986
FUTURISTS
by Dusty Hughes
Director Richard Eyre
Cottesloe 17 March 1986
DALLIANCE
Arthur Schnitzler's Liebelei
in a version by Tom Stoppard
Director Peter Wood
Lyttelton 27 May 1986
NEAPTIDE
by Sarah Daniels
Director John Burgess
Cottesloe 2 July 1986
JACOBOWSKY AND THE COLONEL
original play by Franz Werfel
English-language version by S N Behrman
Director Jonathan Lynn
Olivier 22 July 1986
THE PETITION
by Brian Clark
Director Peter Hall
Lyttelton 30 July 1986
THE AMERICAN CLOCK
by Arthur Miller
Director Peter Wood
Cottesloe 6 August 1986
THE BAY AT NICE
and
WRECKED EGGS
by David Hare
Director David Hare
Cottesloe 9 September 1986
THE MAGISTRATE
by Arthur W Pinero
Director Michael Rudman
Lyttelton 24 September 1986
TONS OF MONEY
by Will Evans & Valentine
Director Alan Ayckbourn
Lyttelton 6 November 1986
THE PIED PIPER
by Adrian Mitchell
from Robert Browning
Devised & Director by Alan Cohen
Music Dominic Muldowney
Olivier 18 November 1986
KING LEAR
by William Shakespeare
Director David Hare
Olivier 11 December 1986
THE MOTHER
by Bertolt Brecht
translated by Steve Gooch
Director Di Trevis
Cottesloe 11 December (Mobile) 1986
1987
COMING IN TO LAND
by Stephen Poliakoff
Director Peter Hall
Lyttelton 7 January 1987
THREE MEN ON A HORSE
by George Abbott & John Cecil Holm
Director Jonathan Lynn
Cottesloe 22 January 1987
SCHOOL FOR WIVES
by Molière
translated by Robert David MacDonald
Director Di Trevis
Lyttelton 29 January 1987
A VIEW FROM THE BRIDGE
by Arthur Miller
Director Alan Ayckbourn
Cottesloe 12 February 1987
SIX CHARACTERS IN SEARCH OF AN AUTHOR
by Luigi Pirandello
version by Nicholas Wright
Director Michael Rudman
Olivier 18 March 1987
YERMA
by Federico García Lorca
translated by Peter Luke
Director Di Trevis
Cottesloe 26 March 1987
ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA
by William Shakespeare
Director Peter Hall
Olivier 9 April 1987
ROSMERSHOLM
by Henrik Ibsen
version by Frank McGuinness
Director Sarah Pia Anderson
Cottesloe 6 May 1987
A SMALL FAMILY BUSINESS
by Alan Ayckbourn
Director Alan Ayckbourn
Olivier 21 May 1987
FATHERS AND SONS
by Brian Friel, after Turgenev's novel
Director Michael Rudman
Lyttelton 9 July 1987
MEAN TEARS
by Peter Gill
Director Peter Gill
Cottesloe 22 July 1987
THE WANDERING JEW
by Michelene Wandor & Mike Alfreds
from Eugene Sue's novel
Director Mike Alfreds
Lyttelton 8 August 1987
TING TANG MINE
by Nick Darke
Director Michael Rudman
Cottesloe 23 September 1987
ENTERTAINING STRANGERS
by David Edgar
Director Peter Hall
Cottesloe 15 October 1987
WAITING FOR GODOT
by Samuel Beckett
Director Michael Rudman
Lyttelton 25 November 1987
COUNTRYMANIA
a trilogy by Carlo Goldoni
(Country Fever, Country Hazards, Country Harvest)
in a version by Mike Alfreds
Director Mike Alfreds
Olivier 12 December 1987
1988
CAT ON A HOT TIN ROOF
by Tennessee Williams
Director Howard Davies
Lyttelton 3 February 1988
A PLACE WITH THE PIGS
by Athol Fugard
Director Athol Fugard
Cottesloe 16 February 1988
'TIS PITY SHE'S A WHORE
by John Ford
Director Alan Ayckbourn
Olivier 3 March 1988
FANSHEN
by David Hare
Director Les Waters
Cottesloe 31 March (Mobile) 1988
THE SHAUGHRAUN
by Dion Boucicault
Director Howard Davies
Olivier 11 May 1988
THE WINTER'S TALE
by William Shakespeare
Director Peter Hall
Cottesloe 18 May 1988
THE TEMPEST
by William Shakespeare
Director Peter Hall
Cottesloe 19 May 1988
CYMBELINE
by William Shakespeare
Director Peter Hall
Cottesloe 20 May 1988
THE STRANGENESS OF OTHERS
by Nick Ward
Director Nick Ward
Cottesloe 21 June 1988
THE CHANGELING
by Thomas Middleton & William Rowley
Director Richard Eyre
Lyttelton 23 June 1988
MRS KLEIN
by Nicholas Wright
Director Peter Gill
Cottesloe 10 August 1988
WHEN WE WERE WOMEN
by Sharman Macdonald
Director John Burgess
Cottesloe 15 September (Studio) 1988
THE SECRET RAPTURE
by David Hare
Director Howard Davies
Lyttelton 4 October 1988
ROOTS
by Arnold Wesker
Dir: Simon Curtis
Cottesloe 19 October (Mobile) 1988
BARTHOLOMEW FAIR
by Ben Jonson
Director Richard Eyre
Olivier 20 October 1988
MOUNTAIN LANGUAGE
by Harold Pinter
Director Harold Pinter
Lyttelton 20 October 1988
THE FATHER
by August Strindberg
in a new version by John Osborne
Director David Leveaux
Cottesloe 26 October 1988
SINGLE SPIES
by Alan Bennett
An Englishman Abroad
Director Alan Bennett
and
A QUESTION OF ATTRIBUTION
Director Simon Callow
Lyttelton 1 December 1988
THE MAGIC OLYMPICAL GAMES
by Graeme Garden
Director Ken Campbell
Olivier 8 December 1988
1989
FUENTE OVEJUNA
by Lope de Vega, new version by
Adrian Mitchell
Dir: Declan Donnellan
Cottesloe 10 January 1989
SPEED-THE-PLOW
by David Mamet
Director Gregory Mosher
Lyttelton 25 January 1989
HEDDA GABLER
by Henrik Ibsen
in a new version by Christopher Hampton
Director Howard Davies
Olivier 2 February 1989
JUNO AND THE PAYCOCK
by Sean O'Casey
Director Peter Gill
Lyttelton 22 February 1989
BED
by Jim Cartwright
Director Julia Bardsley
Cottesloe 8 March 1989
HAMLET
by William Shakespeare
Director Richard Eyre
Olivier 16 March 1989
MARCH ON RUSSIA
by David Storey
Director Lindsay Anderson
Lyttelton 6 April 1989
GHETTO
by Joshua Sobol
in a version by David Lan
songs translated & music arranged by Jeremy Sams
Director Nicholas Hytner
Olivier 27 April 1989
THE MISANTHROPE
by Molière
English version by Tony Harrison
Director Paul Unwin
Lyttelton 31 May 1989
(co-production with Bristol Old Vic)
THE VOYSEY INHERITANCE
by Harley Granville Barker
Director Richard Eyre
Cottesloe 27 June 1989
THE LONG WAY ROUND
by Peter Handke
Translated by Ralph Manheim
Director Stephen Unwin
Cottesloe 6 July (Studio) 1989
SCHISM IN ENGLAND
by Calderon
in a new translation by John Clifford
Director John Burgess
Cottesloe 26 July (Studio) 1989
MAN, BEAST AND VIRTUE
by Luigi Pirandello
in a new version by Charles Wood
Director William Gaskill
Cottesloe 7 September 1989
THE MAGIC CARPET
devised by the Company
Director Stephen Unwin
Cottesloe 25 September 1989
MA RAINEY'S BLACK BOTTOM
by August Wilson
Director Howard Davies
Cottesloe 25 October 1989
SALOME
by Oscar Wilde
Director Steven Berkoff
Lyttelton 7 November 1989
THE BEAUX' STRATAGEM
by George Farquhar
Director Peter Wood
Lyttelton 14 November 1989
(co-production with Belgrade, Coventry)
THE GOOD PERSON OF SICHUAN
by Bertolt Brecht
translated by Michael Hofmann
Director Deborah Warner
Olivier 28 November 1989
WHALE
by David Holman
Director Tim Supple
Lyttelton 12 December 1989
1990
BENT
by Martin Sherman
Director Sean Mathias
Lyttelton 19 January 1990
RACING DEMON
by David Hare
Director Richard Eyre
Cottesloe 8 February 1990
PEER GYNT
by Henrik Ibsen
in an English version by Kenneth McLeish
Director Declan Donnellan
Olivier 28 February 1990
SUNDAY IN THE PARK WITH GEORGE
Music & lyrics by Stephen Sondheim
Book by James Lapine
Director Steven Pimlott
Lyttelton 15 March 1990
THE TRACKERS OF OXYRHYNCHUS
by Tony Harrison
Director Tony Harrison
Olivier 27 March 1990
THE SCHOOL FOR SCANDAL
by Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Director Peter Wood
Olivier 24 April 1990
BERENICE
by Jean Racine
translated by Neil Bartlett
Director Tim Albery
Cottesloe 9 May 1990
TARTUFFE
translated from the play by Molière
Director Jatinder Verma
Cottesloe 19 April 1990
THE CRUCIBLE
by Arthur Miller
Director Howard Davies
Olivier 31 May 1990
AFTER THE FALL
by Arthur Miller
Director Michael Blakemore
Cottesloe 20 June 1990
RICHARD III
by William Shakespeare
Director Richard Eyre
Lyttelton 25 July 1990
KING LEAR
by William Shakespeare
Director Deborah Warner
Lyttelton 26 July 1990
PIANO
by Trevor Griffiths
Director Howard Davies
Cottesloe 8 August 1990
ONCE IN A WHILE THE ODD THING HAPPENS
by Paul Godfrey
Director Paul Godfrey
Cottesloe 18 September 1990
MORE TALES FROM THE MAGIC CARPET
stories from around the world
Devised by Chris Barton & the Company
Director Chris Barton
Cottesloe 1 October 1990
THE SHAPE OF THE TABLE
by David Edgar
Director Jenny Killick
Cottesloe 8 November 1990
THE WIND IN THE WILLOWS
by Kenneth Grahame
adapted by Alan Bennett
Director Nicholas Hytner
Olivier 12 December 1990
