Till the Stars Come Down
a new play by Beth Steel
Booking and details
Tue and Thu selected performances at 6.30pm
Everyone loves a wedding…
It’s Sylvia and Marek’s wedding and you are all invited.
Over the course of a hot summer’s day, a family gathers to welcome a newcomer into their midst. But as the vodka flows and dances are shared, passions boil over and the limits of love are tested.
What happens when the happiest day of your life opens the door to a new, frightening and uncertain future?
Directed by Bijan Sheibani (A Taste of Honey, Barber Shop Chronicles), this new play by former National Theatre writer-in-residence Beth Steel (The House of Shades) is a passionate, heartbreaking and hilarious portrayal of a larger-than-life family struggling to come to terms with a changing world.
Cast includes
Lorraine Ashbourne
Aunty Carol
Lorraine Ashbourne
Lucy Black
Hazel
Lucy Black
Lisa McGrillis
Maggie
Lisa McGrillis
Sinéad Matthews
Sylvia
Sinéad Matthews
Derek Riddell
John
Derek Riddell
Ruby Stokes
Leanne
Ruby Stokes
Philip Whitchurch
Uncle Pete
Philip Whitchurch
Alan Williams
Tony
Alan Williams
Marc Wootton
Marek
Marc Wootton
Young performers
Sarah
Maggie Livermore
Maggie Livermore
Sarah
Cadence Williams
Cadence Williams
Sarah
Bodhi Rae Breathnach
Bodhi Rae Breathnach
Production team
Playwright
Beth Steel
Beth Steel
Director
Bijan Sheibani
Bijan Sheibani
Set and Costume Designer
Samal Blak
Samal Blak
Lighting Designer
Paule Constable
Paule Constable
Paule Constable is an Associate at the National Theatre and is a Royal Designer for Industry.
Choreographer and Movement Director
Aline David
Aline David
Sound Designer
Gareth Fry
Gareth Fry
Fight Director
Kev McCurdy
Kev McCurdy
Kevin McCurdy trained as an actor at Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama.
He is an Equity registered fight director, choreographer, actor, director, action performer and co-founder of The Academy of Performance Combat.
Casting Director
Alastair Coomer CDG
Alastair Coomer CDG
Alastair Coomer is the Head of Casting at the National Theatre. He was previously the Casting Director at the Donmar Warehouse.
Dialect Coach
Charmian Hoare
Charmian Hoare
For the National: The Motive and the Cue, The Lehman Trilogy, Jack Absolute Flies Again, Our Generation (also for Chichester), The Antipodes, The Deep Blue Sea, Angels in America, Consent, Peter Gynt, War Horse, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, I’m Not Running, Stories, The Barber Shop Chronicles, Peter Pan, Ugly Lies the Bone, Consent, Pinocchio, Network, John, The Great Wave, Absolute Hell and Translations.
Company Voice Work
Cathleen McCarron
Cathleen McCarron
Cathleen McCarron is Head of Voice at the National Theatre.
Company Voice Work
Tamsin Newlands
Tamsin Newlands
Tamsin Newlands is an actor and voice and dialect coach.
Staff Director
Stepan Mysko von Schultze
Stepan Mysko von Schultze
Ticket prices
Monday – Thursday evenings and all matinees:
£20, £30, £40, £45, £60
Friday & Saturday evenings:
£20, £30, £45, £50, £65
Previews 24 – 29 January:
£20, £25, £35, £40, £50
For concessions and discounts, see Ways to save
Please note the 6.30pm start time on the following performances: Thu 8 Feb, Tue 13 Feb, Thu 22 Feb and Tue 27 Feb.
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Prices may change according to demand
What's on Guide
Assisted performances
Captioned
BSL Interpreted
Audio described
Chilled performance
No Dementia-friendly performances available.
No Sensory adapted performances available.
The signer for the BSL performance will be announced closer to the performance date.
Audio-described performances are preceded by a Touch Tour, 90 minutes before the performance start time. Call the Access line on 020 7452 3961 to book Touch Tours.
We have an allocation of tickets held for members of our Access scheme and if any of the Access performances above are shown as “Sold Out”, tickets may still be available: Please log in to your account to access them, or call Box Office on 020 7452 3961
Smart caption glasses
Are planned to be available for performances of Till the Stars Come Down from 7.30pm, Wednesday 7 February.
Photography (Marc Wooten and Sinead Matthews) by Simon Sorted.