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![The-Hot-Wing-King-National-Theatre-mobile-v2 A collage of four photos featuring six men against a red background. In the top-left, two men pose with one pointing forward. In the top-right, another man wearing a crown makes a surprised face. The bottom-right shows two men back-to-back, and the bottom-left features a man with a crown looking up. All are wearing white clothes.](https://images.nationaltheatre.org.uk/uploads/2024/07/The-Hot-Wing-King-National-Theatre-mobile-v2.jpg?resize=160%2C100&gravity)
The Hot Wing King
Katori Hall’s Pulitzer Prize-winning comedy makes its London debut in a fiery new production directed by Roy Alexander Weise.
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![Mnemonic-2024-National-Theatre-2000x2000 Artwork with two superimposed images, one of a very blurred human face over which is a translucent image of a leaf. On top of these is a meandering line in blue, red and blue again, that could be a river, or capilliaries.](https://images.nationaltheatre.org.uk/uploads/2024/01/Mnemonic-2024-National-Theatre-2000x2000-1.jpg?resize=160%2C100&gravity)
Mnemonic
25 years after its first staging, Complicité bring their ‘Astonishing, transfixing, transcendent production’ (New York Times) back to the National Theatre.
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![The-Grapes-of-Wrath-National-Theatre-artwork-v2-mobile A woman and two men sit together in front of the open flap of a canvas tent. Packing boxes and canvas bags are either side of them and an open fore is before them.](https://images.nationaltheatre.org.uk/uploads/2024/05/The-Grapes-of-Wrath-National-Theatre-artwork-v2-mobile.jpg?resize=160%2C100&gravity)
The Grapes of Wrath
Carrie Cracknell (Julie, The Deep Blue Sea) directs Frank Galati’s Tony Award-winning adaptation of John Steinbeck’s masterpiece.
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![The-Grapes-of-Wrath-National-Theatre-artwork-v2-mobile A woman and two men sit together in front of the open flap of a canvas tent. Packing boxes and canvas bags are either side of them and an open fore is before them.](https://images.nationaltheatre.org.uk/uploads/2024/05/The-Grapes-of-Wrath-National-Theatre-artwork-v2-mobile.jpg?resize=160%2C100&gravity)
The Grapes of Wrath
Carrie Cracknell (Julie, The Deep Blue Sea) directs Frank Galati’s Tony Award-winning adaptation of John Steinbeck’s masterpiece.
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![The-Hot-Wing-King-National-Theatre-mobile-v2 A collage of four photos featuring six men against a red background. In the top-left, two men pose with one pointing forward. In the top-right, another man wearing a crown makes a surprised face. The bottom-right shows two men back-to-back, and the bottom-left features a man with a crown looking up. All are wearing white clothes.](https://images.nationaltheatre.org.uk/uploads/2024/07/The-Hot-Wing-King-National-Theatre-mobile-v2.jpg?resize=160%2C100&gravity)
The Hot Wing King
Katori Hall’s Pulitzer Prize-winning comedy makes its London debut in a fiery new production directed by Roy Alexander Weise.
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![Coriolanus-David-Oyelowo-National-Theatre-v2a-2000x2000 A shirtless man with a muscular build stands defiantly behind a marble pedestal between two large, classical columns, set against a textured marble background. He wears worn and dirty brown trousers, has a determined expression and has leather strapping wound around one hand and the wrist of his other arm.](https://images.nationaltheatre.org.uk/uploads/2024/05/Coriolanus-David-Oyelowo-National-Theatre-v2a-2000x2000-1.jpg?resize=160%2C100&gravity)
Coriolanus
David Oyelowo makes his highly anticipated return to the London stage in Lyndsey Turner’s thrilling new production of Shakespeare’s timeless political tragedy.
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![A-Tupperware-of-Ashes-National-Theatre-2000x2000 A blurred or shaken photo of a woman (Meera Syal), smiling and wearing gold jewellry and a blue dress.](https://images.nationaltheatre.org.uk/uploads/2024/05/A-Tupperware-of-Ashes-National-Theatre-2000x2000-1.jpg?resize=160%2C100&gravity)
A Tupperware of Ashes
Meera Syal is Queenie in Tanika Gupta's new play, a vivid and heart-breaking family drama about life, immigration and the Indian spiritual cycle of death and rebirth.
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![The-Other-Place-National-Theatre-image-v2-2000x2000 A person with short brown hair wearing a white tank top lies on their side on a grassy surface looking slightly upward. The image is taken from an angle that makes it appear as if the person is standing against a vertical grass wall, with a blue sky background.](https://images.nationaltheatre.org.uk/uploads/2024/05/The-Other-Place-National-Theatre-image-v2-2000x2000-1.jpg?resize=160%2C100&gravity)
The Other Place
Emma D’Arcy is Annie in this retelling of the classic Antigone story, from Alexander Zeldin (The Confessions). With music by Yannis Philippakis (Foals).
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![Coriolanus-David-Oyelowo-National-Theatre-v2a-2000x2000 A shirtless man with a muscular build stands defiantly behind a marble pedestal between two large, classical columns, set against a textured marble background. He wears worn and dirty brown trousers, has a determined expression and has leather strapping wound around one hand and the wrist of his other arm.](https://images.nationaltheatre.org.uk/uploads/2024/05/Coriolanus-David-Oyelowo-National-Theatre-v2a-2000x2000-1.jpg?resize=160%2C100&gravity)
Coriolanus
David Oyelowo makes his highly anticipated return to the London stage in Lyndsey Turner’s thrilling new production of Shakespeare’s timeless political tragedy.
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![The-Other-Place-National-Theatre-image-v2-2000x2000 A person with short brown hair wearing a white tank top lies on their side on a grassy surface looking slightly upward. The image is taken from an angle that makes it appear as if the person is standing against a vertical grass wall, with a blue sky background.](https://images.nationaltheatre.org.uk/uploads/2024/05/The-Other-Place-National-Theatre-image-v2-2000x2000-1.jpg?resize=160%2C100&gravity)
The Other Place
Emma D’Arcy is Annie in this retelling of the classic Antigone story, from Alexander Zeldin (The Confessions). With music by Yannis Philippakis (Foals).
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![A-Tupperware-of-Ashes-National-Theatre-2000x2000 A blurred or shaken photo of a woman (Meera Syal), smiling and wearing gold jewellry and a blue dress.](https://images.nationaltheatre.org.uk/uploads/2024/05/A-Tupperware-of-Ashes-National-Theatre-2000x2000-1.jpg?resize=160%2C100&gravity)
A Tupperware of Ashes
Meera Syal is Queenie in Tanika Gupta's new play, a vivid and heart-breaking family drama about life, immigration and the Indian spiritual cycle of death and rebirth.
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![The-Importance-of-Being-Earnest-National-Theatre-artwork-2-mobile A man, wearing top hat and tails, is running, against a bright pink background.](https://images.nationaltheatre.org.uk/uploads/2024/05/The-Importance-of-Being-Earnest-National-Theatre-artwork-2-mobile.jpg?resize=160%2C100&gravity)
The Importance of Being Earnest
Olivier Award-winner Sharon D Clarke is joined by Ncuti Gatwa and Hugh Skinner, in Max Webster’s joyful and flamboyant production of Oscar Wilde’s most celebrated comedy.
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Ballet Shoes
The beloved best-selling book is spectacularly reinvented for the stage in this new adaptation by Kendall Feaver.
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Ballet Shoes
The beloved best-selling book is spectacularly reinvented for the stage in this new adaptation by Kendall Feaver.
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![The-Importance-of-Being-Earnest-National-Theatre-artwork-2-mobile A man, wearing top hat and tails, is running, against a bright pink background.](https://images.nationaltheatre.org.uk/uploads/2024/05/The-Importance-of-Being-Earnest-National-Theatre-artwork-2-mobile.jpg?resize=160%2C100&gravity)
The Importance of Being Earnest
Olivier Award-winner Sharon D Clarke is joined by Ncuti Gatwa and Hugh Skinner, in Max Webster’s joyful and flamboyant production of Oscar Wilde’s most celebrated comedy.
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![Dear-England-National Theatre-2000x2000 A lone figure stands, his back to us, wearing a waistcoat, shirt and trousers, in the centre of the red cross of the England flag that appears as a landscape rolling off into the distance.](https://images.nationaltheatre.org.uk/uploads/2023/02/Dear-England-National-Theatre-2000x2000-1.jpg?resize=160%2C100&gravity)
Dear England
James Graham’s Olivier-Award winning smash-hit returns to the National Theatre, directed by Rupert Goold.
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![Dear-England-National Theatre-2000x2000 A lone figure stands, his back to us, wearing a waistcoat, shirt and trousers, in the centre of the red cross of the England flag that appears as a landscape rolling off into the distance.](https://images.nationaltheatre.org.uk/uploads/2023/02/Dear-England-National-Theatre-2000x2000-1.jpg?resize=160%2C100&gravity)
Dear England
James Graham’s Olivier-Award winning smash-hit returns to the National Theatre, directed by Rupert Goold.
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