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Theatre Listings for Winter 2018

BRIDGE THEATRE
SOUTHBANK
SE1 9PX
020 7452 3000

Jim Broadbent and Phil Daniels in A Very Very Very Dark Matter (Photo by Manuel Harlan)


A Very Very Very Dark Matter

To 6 January 2019
by Martin McDonagh
In a townhouse in Copenhagen works Hans Christian Andersen, a teller of exquisite and fantastic children’s tales beloved by millions. But the true source of his stories dwells in his attic upstairs, her existence a dark secret kept from the outside world.

My Name is Lucy Barton
23 January to 16 February 2019
by Elizabeth Strout, adapted by Rona Munro
Unsteady after an operation, Lucy Barton wakes to find her mother sitting at the foot of her bed. She hasn’t seen her in years, and her visit brings back to Lucy her desperate rural childhood, and her escape to New York. Lucy Barton will be played by three-time Academy Award and four-time Tony nominee Laura Linney.
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NATIONAL THEATRE
SOUTHBANK
SE1 9PX
020 7452 3000

Ralph Fiennes in Antony & Cleopatra (Photo by Johan Persson)

Antony & Cleopatra
To 19 January
by William Shakespeare
Ralph Fiennes and Sophie Okonedo play the famous fated couple. Caesar and his assassins are dead. General Mark Antony now rules alongside his fellow defenders of Rome. But at the fringes of a war-torn empire the Egyptian Queen Cleopatra and Mark Antony have fallen fiercely in love.

Sian Brooke in I’m Not Running (Photo by Mark Douet)

I’m Not Running
To 31 January
by David Hare
Pauline Gibson is a junior doctor, who becomes the face of a campaign to save her local hospital. She’s thrust from angel of the NHS, to becoming an independent MP. As media and public pressure mounts on Pauline to run for leadership of the Labour party, she faces an agonising decision.The Tell-Tale Heart
5 December to 9 January
by Anthony Neilson based on the short story by Edgar Allan Poe
A young playwright rents an attic flat in Brighton, hoping it will break the writer’s block that’s preventing her from following up on her wildly successful debut. Whilst there, she forms a relationship with her landlady, a lonely young woman with a life-altering condition.

Follies
From 12 February 2019
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.

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SHAKESPEARE’S GLOBE
56 PARK STREET
SE1 9AR
020 7261 9565

Macbeth
To 2 February 2019
by William Shakespeare
Returning as heroes from the battlefield, Macbeth and Banquo encounter three witches who prophesy that Macbeth will become King of Scotland. When Lady Macbeth learns of this, she compels her husband to murder King Duncan, unleashing a brutal cycle of bloodshed, paranoia and guilt.

Doctor Faustus
To 2 February 2019
by Christopher Marlowe
Doctor Faustus sits in his Wittenberg study, restless for knowledge and frustrated with the limitations of conventional scholarship. Coveting fame and power, he conjures the menacing demon, Mephistopheles, who offers Faustus a deal.

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THE OLD VIC
103 THE CUT
SE1 8NB
020 7928 2651

A Christmas Carol
27 November to 19 January
by Charles Dickens and adapted by Jack Thorne
Matthew Warchus’ big-hearted, smash hit production of Charles Dickens’ immortal classic A Christmas Carol returns to The Old Vic, joyously adapted for the stage by Jack Thorne.

The American Clock
4 February to 30 March 2019
by Arthur Miller
The American Clock turns, fortunes are made and lives are broken. In New York City in 1929, the stock market crashed and everything changed. In an American society governed by race and class, we meet the Baum family as they navigate the aftermath of an unprecedented financial crisis.

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THE YOUNG VIC
66 THE CUT
SE1 8LZ
020 7922 2922

The Convert
7 December to 26 January 2019
by Danai Gurira
It’s 1896 in what is modern day Zimbabwe and Jekesai, a young woman fleeing forced marriage finds herself working for devout Catholic priest, Chilford. He relishes the opportunity to mould his new convert but Jekesai’s salvation has a price.

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ABOVE THE STAG
72 ALBERT EMBANKMENT
SE1 7TP
020 3488 2815

The Musical of Musicals (The Musical!)
To 22 December
by Joanne Bogart and Eric Rockwell
In The Musical of Musicals (The Musical) the story of a young ingenue and her evil landlord gets played out as a rock opera, a dream ballet set in Kansas in August and a sexy satire in a Chicago speakeasy.

Mother Goose Cracks One Out
To 12 January 2019
by Jon Bradfield & Martin Hooper
Kind-hearted Mother Goose and her gay son Tommy live in poverty in the northern mill town of Rugburn. One day they find a magic goose who lays golden eggs, but little do they know that a wicked witch and a good fairy have made a bet.

Grindr: The Opera
17 January to 16 February 2019
by Erik Ransom
Grindr: The Opera! puts the most notorious gay hook-up app into the exaggerated world of opera. With musical styles ranging from baroque to contemporary pop, Grindr: The Opera! is a daring, humorous look at the changing landscape of gay relationships.

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SOUTHWARK PLAYHOUSE
77-85 NEWINGTON CAUSEWAY
SE1 6BD
020 7407 0234

The Night Before Christmas
To 29 December
by Anthony Neilson
Gary’s life is not good. It’s Christmas eve, he’s broke, he’s promised his son some top of the range Power Ranger figures but he hasn’t delivered them, and now his ex wife is out to find him baying for blood. A mixture of South Park and Miracle on 34th Street by way of Scrooged, Anthony Neilson’s hilarious and cutting comedy about finding the true spirit of Christmas comes to Southwark for the first time.

Seussical
To 29 December
by Eric Idle, based on the works of Dr. Seuss
The fantastical world of Dr. Seuss bursts onto the stage in this larger-than-life musical extravaganza brimming with fun and excitement for “thinkers” of all ages. After all, a person’s a person no matter how small!

 


	
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