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Shows:
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All's Well That Ends Well
Set against a background of sexism, snobbery and a battle between the generations, Shakespeare’s All’s Well That Ends Well turns fairytale logic on its head. A wondrous, bittersweet story.
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The Black Album
Hanif Kureishi’s witty stage adaptation of his strikingly prescient and acclaimed novel, humorously considers how the events of 1989 have shaped today’s world, where fundamentalism battles liberalism.
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Blackout
One of a season of specially commissioned plays to be staged by young people.
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Carbón Club
A tale of broken hearts, pit disasters and unrequited bisexual love in the coal mines of the Basque Country.
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England People Very Nice
A riotous journey through four waves of immigration from the 17th century to today. As the French Huguenots, the Irish, the Jews and the Bangladeshis in turn enter the chaotic world of Bethnal Green.
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Every Good Boy Deserves Favour 2010
A dissident is locked up in an asylum. If he accepts that he was ill, has been treated and is now cured, he will be released. Tom Stoppard’s darkly funny and provocative play asks if denying the truth is a price worth paying for liberty.
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Heartbreak Beautiful
One of a season of specially commissioned plays to be staged by young people.
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The Heights
One of a season of specially commissioned plays to be staged by young people.
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Lolita
Richard Nelson has adapted one of the best known and most controversial stories of the 20th century for a 90-minute monologue.
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Macbeth: Who is that Bloodied Man?
Teatr Biuro Podròzy’s award-winning adaptation of Macbeth returns to the National following its sell-out run at last year’s Watch This Space
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Mother Courage and Her Children
Fiona Shaw returns to the National to take the title role in Tony Kushner’s inventive and vigorous translation of Bertolt Brecht’s uncompromising masterpiece.
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Nation
Following His Dark Materials, Coram Boy and War Horse, the National stages Mark Ravenhill’s exhilarating adaptation of Terry Pratchett’s latest witty and challenging adventure story.
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The Observer
On the eve of an election, one woman can decide the fate of a nation.
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Otsoko (Wolf)
From the Basque Country in Spain comes a powerful retelling of the Little Red Riding Hood story.
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Our Class
Polish playwright, Tadeusz Slobodzianek, confronts his country’s involvement in the atrocities of the last century and follows the one-time classmates into the next.
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Phèdre
Helen Mirren takes the title role in this savage play by Jean Racine, translated into muscular free verse by the late Poet Laureate, Ted Hughes.
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The Pitmen Painters
Lee Hall’s new play is a humorous, deeply moving and timely look at art, class and politics.
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Rojo (Red)
Follow two itinerant wanderers from their monochromatic life into the fantasy of their dreams. For audiences aged 8+
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The Séance
One of a season of specially commissioned plays to be staged by young people.
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Six Parties
One of a season of specially commissioned plays to be staged by young people.
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Success
One of a season of specially commissioned plays to be staged by young people.
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Swiniopolis (Pigs)
Teatr Biuro Podròży’s Swinioplois (Pigs), a deceptively simple Orwellian tale, returns to the National
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The Things She Sees
One of a season of specially commissioned plays to be staged by young people.
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Three More Sleepless Nights
Caryl Churchill’s engaging play is a powerful look at human interaction and relationships.
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Time and the Conways
The Conways, celebrating Kay’s 21st birthday in 1919, seem a golden family – safe and well after the Great War, looking forward to future careers, marriages, and a brave new world.
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The Vikings and Darwin
One of a season of specially commissioned plays to be staged by young people.
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War Horse in the West End
Following its sell out run, War Horse transfers to The New London Theatre, Drury Lane, Covent Garden, from 31 March 2009.
Platforms:
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In Conversation with Margaret Tyzack
Margaret Tyzack talks about her current role and her career.
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An Experiment with Time… and the Conways
Physicist Jeff Forshaw and writer Anthony Peake discuss time theories and those that influenced J B Priestley's play.
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Andrew Motion and Claire Tomalin on Keats
Andrew Motion, former Poet Laureate and biographer of Keats, joins Claire Tomalin to discuss and read from her selection of Keats’ work.
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Bijan Sheibani on Our Class
The director discusses his production of the new play by Tadeusz Slobodzianek.
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David Edgar
The founder of Britain’s first university playwriting course 20 years ago, playwright David Edgar analyses how plays function.
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Felix Barrett and Tom Morris
Directors Felix Barrett and Tom Morris talk about their production of Every Good Boy Deserves Favour
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Fiona Shaw and Deborah Warner on Mother Courage
As they take on Brecht in the Olivier, Fiona Shaw and Deborah Warner discuss their latest collaboration.
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Gregory Doran
Compiled by RSC associate director Gregory Doran, The Shakespeare Almanac is a cornucopia of the family occasions, changing seasons, local customs and global events that made up Shakespeare’s world, illustrated with quotations from his plays and
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Griff Rhys Jones
The comedian, actor, presenter and writer, Griff Rhys Jones, returns to the National, to talk about his new book, Rivers.
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Hanif Kureishi & Jatinder Verma
The writer and director discuss the production of The Black Album
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Helen Mirren
Helen Mirren reflects on her hugely diverse career and returning to the National.
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In Conversation with Conleth Hill
One of a series of informal conversations with company members chatting about their work and answering your questions.
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Janet Suzman: Acting in Shakespearean Comedy
The Acting Series... revisited. Twenty years on from the 1980s BBC series of acting masterclasses, the ‘masters’ revisit their topics and look back to see how their work and approach have changed – or not.
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Joan Bakewell
Joan Bakewell's first novel tells a stirring tale of living life to the full and the virtue of integrity and patriotism in a wartime Manchester girls’ school.
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Maria Aitken: Acting in High Comedy
The Acting Series... revisited. Twenty years on from the 1980s BBC series of acting masterclasses, the ‘masters’ revisit their topics and look back to see how their work and approach have changed – or not.
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Michael Palin
In the second volume of his diaries, Michael Palin, looks back on the decade that took him from the end of the Pythons, to the beginnings of Around the World in 80 Days.
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New Connections Writers’ Forum
As the annual season of new plays for young people ends its run at the National, the writers look back on their experiences of the programme.
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Richard Eyre
Richard Eyre offers a unique insight into the working lives of 41 major theatre practitioners.
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Roald Dahl Day with Quentin Blake and friends
To celebrate the fourth annual Roald Dahl Day, his principal illustrator Quentin Blake once again draws live on stage, and is joined by actors reading from Dahl’s wonderful work.
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Shakespeare’s Soul: Jonathan Bate
A new biography of Shakespeare, Soul of the Age, explores the Elizabethan beliefs and obsessions, private passions and political intrigues that shaped and informed Shakespeare’s mind.
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Vera Lynn
The Forces’ Sweetheart, Vera Lynn, marks the 70th anniversary of the start of WWII, with a new memoir of her extraordinary career in momentous times.
