Kevin R McNally as Lear running until 14 October at Shakespeare’s Globe. Photo by Marc Brenner
NATIONAL THEATRE
SOUTHBANK
SE1 9PX
020 7452 3000
Mosquitoes
To 28 September
By Lucy Kirkwood
Alice is a scientist. She lives in Geneva. As the Large Hadron Collider starts up in 2008, she is on the brink of the most exciting work of her life, searching for the Higgs Boson. Jenny is her sister. She lives in Luton. She spends a lot of time Googling. When tragedy throws them together, the collision threatens them all with chaos.
Follies
To 3 January
Book by James Goldman, music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim
New York, 1971. There’s a party on the stage of the Weismann Theatre. Tomorrow the iconic building will be demolished. Thirty years after their final performance, the Follies girls gather to have a few drinks, sing a few songs and lie about themselves.
Jane Eyre
26 September to 21 October
By Charlotte Brontë
A co-production with Bristol Old Vic. Following a critically acclaimed season at the National Theatre and a UK tour, Jane Eyre returns this September.
Network
4 November to 24 March 2018
Adapted by Lee Hall, based on the Paddy Chayefsky film
Howard Beale, news anchorman, isn’t pulling in the viewers. In his final broadcast he unravels live on screen. But when the ratings soar, the network seize on their newfound populist prophet, and Howard becomes the biggest thing on TV. Network depicts a dystopian media landscape where opinion trumps fact. Hilarious and horrifying by turns, the iconic film by Paddy Chayefsky won four Academy Awards in 1976.
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CANADA WATER CULTURE SPACE
21 SURREY QUAYS ROAD
SE16 7AR
020 7525 2931
Festival of the Spoken Nerd: You Can’t Polish a Nerd Warm Up
13 September to 15 September
The Nerds are back with a brand new tour this Autumn – You Can’t Polish A Nerd.
Since their last tour, experiments guy Steve Mould, geek songstress Helen Arney and stand-up mathematician Matt Parker have featured on BBC2’s QI, created a genuinely ‘experimental’ comedy show for BBC Radio 4 and played the Hammersmith Apollo with Professor Brian Cox.
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SHAKESPEARE’S GLOBE
56 PARK STREET
SE1 9AR
020 7261 9565
King Lear
To 14 October
By William Shakespeare
King Lear has three daughters, but no sons. Boldly he makes a decision to divide his kingdom among his children, but fails to anticipate the consequences of his actions. As he comes to realize the false values by which he has lived, he finally encounters his own humanity. Kevin McNally stars as Lear.
Boudica comes to The Globe
Boudica
8 September to 1 October
by Tristan Bernays
The King of the Iceni has died and his widow Boudica has tried to claim her rightful throne. For her insolence in defying Rome, the queen has been flogged, her daughters have been raped, and they have been banished from their homeland. But now, Queen Boudica has returned. And this time she has an army.
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THE OLD VIC
103 THE CUT
SE1 8NB
020 7928 2651
Girl From The North Country
To 7 October
Written and Directed by Conor McPherson
Music and lyrics by Bob Dylan
Duluth, Minnesota. 1934. A community living on a knife-edge huddle together in the local guesthouse. The owner, Nick, owes more money than he can ever repay, his wife Elizabeth is losing her mind and their daughter Marianne is carrying a child no-one will account for. And, when a preacher selling bibles and a boxer looking for a comeback show up in the middle of the night, things start to spiral beyond the point of no return…
Dr. Seuss’s THE LORAX
15 October to 5 November
Adapted by David Greig
This dazzlingly funny, moving and inspiring show sees the go-getting Once-ler come face to face with the magical Lorax in a battle over the beloved truffula trees and the whole of Paradise Valley. Dr. Seuss’s The Lorax is a brilliant riot of eye-popping colour, gorgeous puppetry and infectious music to enchant adults and children alike.
A Christmas Carol
18 November to 20 January 2018
By Jack Thorne
Matthew Warchus directs Charles Dickens’ timeless classic A Christmas Carol in a joyous new adaptation. On a bitter Christmas Eve night a cold-hearted miser is visited by four ghosts. Transported to worlds past, present and future, Ebenezer Scrooge witnesses what a lifetime of fear and selfishness has led to and sees with fresh eyes the lonely life he has built for himself.
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THE YOUNG VIC
66 THE CUT
SE1 8LZ
020 7922 2922
Cat On A Hot Tin Roof
To 7 October
by Tennessee Williams
On a steamy night in Mississippi, a Southern family gather at their cotton plantation to celebrate Big Daddy’s birthday. The scorching heat is almost as oppressive as the lies they tell. Brick and Maggie dance round the secrets and sexual tensions that threaten to destroy their marriage.
Wings
14 September to 4 November
By Arthur Kopit
Emily, a fiercely independent aviator and wing walker, suffers a stroke that destroys her sense of reality. Fragments of her life come together as she struggles to find her voice and her self. Arthur Kopit’s tremendously powerful Broadway hit hasn’t been seen in London for 30 years.
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MENIER CHOCOLATE FACTORY
53 SOUTHWARK STREET
SE1 1RU
020 7378 1713
The Lie
14 September to 18 November
By Florian Zeller
The production sees the return of Zeller, Hampton and director Lindsay Posner to the Menier following the huge success of The Truth in 2016, which later transferred to the West End and was nominated for an Olivier Award for Best Comedy. Featuring Samantha Bond.
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