24 THE RIVER MAGAZINE | Spring 2017 ENTERTAINMENTS Listings Theatre NATIONAL THEATRE SOUTHBANK SE1 9PX 020 7452 3000 Ugly Lies the Bone 22 February to 6 June By Lindsey Ferrentino After three tours in Afghanistan, Jess finally returns to Florida. In a small town on the Space Coast, as the final shuttle is about to launch, Jess must confront her scars – and a home that may have changed even more than her. Experimenting with a pioneering virtual reality therapy, she builds a breathtaking new world where she can escape her pain. There, she begins to restore her relationships, her life and, slowly, herself. Twelfth Night 15 February to 13 May By William Shakespeare A ship is wrecked on the rocks. Viola is washed ashore but her twin brother Sebastian is lost. Determined to survive on her own, she steps out to explore a new land. So begins a whirlwind of mistaken identity and unrequited love. The nearby households of Olivia and Orsino are overrun with passion. Even Olivia’s upright housekeeper Malvolia is swept up in the madness. Consent 28 March to 17 May By Nina Raine Why is Justice blind? Is she impartial? Or is she blinkered? Friends take opposing briefs in a rape case. The key witness is a woman whose life seems a world away from theirs. At home, their own lives begin to unravel as every version of the truth is challenged. Angels in America Part One: Millennium Approaches & Part Two: Perestroika 11 April to 19 August By Tony Kushner America in the mid-1980s. In the midst of the AIDS crisis and a conservative Reagan administration, New Yorkers grapple with life and death, love and sex, heaven and hell. The cast includes Andrew Garfield playing Prior Walter, Denise Gough playing Harper Pitt, Nathan Lane playing Roy Cohn, James McArdle playing Louis Ironson and Rusell Tovey playing Joe Pitt. Angels in America will also be broadcast to cinemas by NT Live from 20 July. Consent at The National Theatre and also available NT Live Andrew Garfield, Angels in America at the National Theatre | C U L T U R E | | C U L T U R E |