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NT Press Conference 17 Sept
The National Theatre’s Annual Report 2007-08 was published today, 17 September. A summary of the contents can be found in the Press section and the full Report can be downloaded in the Annual Report/Review section .
At a press conference to mark the publication of the Annual Report, Nicholas Hytner, Director of the National, also announced some forthcoming productions in the 2009 repertoire. Travelex £10 Tickets continue for a seventh year in the Olivier; the season will include a new play by Richard Bean, England People Very Nice directed by Nicholas Hytner; Death and the King’s Horseman by Wole Soyinka, directed by Rufus Norris; Shakespeare’s All’s Well That Ends Well, directed by Marianne Elliott; Buchner’s Danton’s Death, directed by Michael Grandage; and Brecht’s Mother Courage, with Fiona Shaw in the title role, directed by Deborah Warner.
Helen Mirren returns to the National in June 2009 in the title role of Racine’s Phèdre, directed by Nicholas Hytner in the Lyttelton Theatre, in a production sponsored by Coutts & Co. Also in the Lyttelton, Rupert Goold will direct Time and the Conways by JB Priestley. In the Cottesloe, Dido, Queen of Carthage by Christopher Marlowe will be directed by James Macdonald.
Public booking for England People Very Nice and Death and the King’s Horseman will open in November; public booking for later productions will be announced next year.
17 September 2008
