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West End Drama playing now or in the near future

.SOME TRACE OF HER
Cottesloe, National Theatre
inspired by The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoevsky and adapted by Katie Mitchell and the company
A woman lies dead on a bed in her wedding dress, a silver knife through her heart. The two men who loved her lie beside her.
(from 23 July 08 to 14 Aug 08)
AFTERLIFE
Lyttelton, National Theatre
by Michael Frayn
Exploring the life of the Austrian impresario and founder of the Salzburg Festival, Max Reinhardt
(from 3 Jun 08 to 16 Aug 08)
BE NEAR ME
Donmar Warehouse
By Andrew O'Hagan, adapted for the stage by Ian McDiarmid
David Anderton, an Oxford-educated Catholic priest is assigned to a parish in a dispirited Scottish town on the Ayrshire coast. Lonely and adrift he befriends two unstable teenagers from the local school and is drawn into their exotic world.
(from 22 Jan 09 to 14 Mar 09)
BRIEF ENCOUNTER
Cinema Haymarket
by Noel Coward, adapted by Emma Rice
Stage adaptation
(from 2 Feb 08 to 21 Sep 08)
CHALK GARDEN, THE
Donmar Warehouse
By Enid Bagnold
16 year-old Laurel runs wild. As her eccentric grandmother tends to the garden, Laurel's need for love forces her into a world of fantasy.
(from 5 Jun 08 to 2 Aug 08)
CITY, THE
Royal Court Theatre Downstairs
by Martin Crimp
Clair wants to be kissed - but not now. Chris wants to celebrate his new job by driving into the oncoming traffic. Jenny arrives to complain about the screaming children.
(from 24 Apr 08 to 7 Jun 08)
CONTRACTIONS
Royal Court Theatre Backstage
By Mike Bartlett
Emma's been seeing Darren. She thinks she's in love. Her boss thinks she's in breach of contract. The situation needs to be resolved.
(from 29 May 08 to 14 Jun 08)
CREDITORS
Donmar Warehouse
by Strindberg, in a new version by David Greig
Anxiously awaiting the return of his new wife, Adolf finds solace in the words of a stranger. But comfort soon turns to destruction as old wounds are opened, insecurities are laid bare and former debts are settled.
(from 25 Sep 08 to 15 Nov 08)
DEEP BLUE SEA, THE
Vaudeville Theatre
by Terrance Rattigan
Hester Collyer, the daughter of a clergyman and wife of a judge is foundering in the closing stages of a hopeless affair. Freddie Page, her lover, a handsome but shallow ex-Battle of Britain pilot, is out of his depth in their relationship, overwhelmed by the strength of an emotion he is incapable of reciprocating.
(from 29 Apr 08 to 19 Jul 08)
EVERY GOOD BOY DESERVES FAVOUR
Olivier, National Theatre
by Tom Stoppard and Andre Previn
(from Sep 08? to )
FAMILY REUNION, THE
Donmar Warehouse
by T.S. Eliot
After eight years absence, Harry returns to the ancestral home to celebrate his mother's birthday. Tormented by a dark secret, he confides in Aunt Agatha only to discover that the family too have their own hidden demons.
(from 20 Nov 08 to 10 Jan 09)
FRAM
Olivier, National Theatre
by Tony Harrison
About the Norwegian explorer Fridtjof Nansen
(from 10 April 08 to 22 May 08)
FREE OUTGOING
Royal Court Theatre Downstairs
by Anupama Chandrasekhar
When a well-behaved Indian girl is filmed having sex in her classroom, the video clip spreads like a virus.
(from 2 Jul 08 to 19 Jul 08)
FRONT LINE, THE
Shakespeare's Globe Theatre
by Che Walker
Set on a Saturday night outside Camden tube and presents a modern, vigorous tale of London life on the edge.
(from 6 Jul 08 to 17 Aug 08)
GONE TOO FAR!
Royal Court Theatre Downstairs
by Bola Agbaje
When two brothers from different continents go down the street to buy a pint of milk, they lift the lid on a disunited nation where everyone wants to be an individual but no one wants to stand out from the crowd.
(from 23 Jul 08 to 9 Aug 08)
GOOD SOUL OF SZECHUAN, THE
Young Vic Theatre (Main House)
by Bertolt Brecht, translation by David Harrower
Three gods visit earth to find out if humans are living up to their high moral standards.
(from 7 May 08 to 28 Jun 08)
HAMLET
Wyndham's Theatre
By William Shakespeare
(from 29 May 09 to 22 Aug 09)
HARPER REGAN
Cottesloe, National Theatre
by Simon Stephens
On a startlingly bright Autumn night in 2006 Harper Regan walked away from her home and her husband and her daughter and she kept walking. She told nobody that she was going. ..
(from 16 Apr 08 to 9 Aug 08)
HAUNTED
Arts Theatre
by Jon Claydon & Tim Lawler
Five guests attend a dinner party at a chi-chi loft apartment in Southwark, south London. As the evening progresses, things begin to unravel and a sixth character becomes apparent - the house itself. Is it haunted? And is the lift in the living room a portal to evil spirits?
(from 21 May 08 to 14 Jun 08)
HELLO AND GOODBYE
Trafalgar Studios 2 Theatre(formerly Whitehall Theatre)
by Athol Fugard
In one tense and desperate night a sibling reunion evokes powerful childhood memories as buried secrets are unearthed.
(from 22 Apr 08 to 17 May 08)
HER NAKED SKIN
Olivier, National Theatre
by Rebecca Lenkiewicz
Set against the backdrop of the Suffragette movement
(from 24 Jul 08 to 9 Aug 08)
IN MY NAME
Trafalgar Studios 2 Theatre(formerly Whitehall Theatre)
by Steven Hevey
An insight into the consequences of allowing life to pass you by... because no matter how much you bury your head in the sand, the world has a funny way of forcing itself right through your front door.
(from 1 Jul 08 to 19 Jul 08)
IVANOV
Wyndham's Theatre
by Anton Chekhov, in a new version by Tom Stoppard
Once a man of limitless promise, Ivanov is plunged into debt.
(from 12 Sep 08 to 29 Nov 08)
KING LEAR
Shakespeare's Globe Theatre
by William Shakespeare
(from 23 Apr 08 to 17 Aug 08)
LIBERTY
Shakespeare's Globe Theatre
by Glyn Maxwell, an adaptation of Anatole France's 1912 novel Les Dieux ont Soif.
A Revolutionary magistrate turns from being a radical idealist to a fanatical apologist for state violence
(from 31 Aug 08 to 4 Oct 08)
MADAME DE SADE
Wyndham's Theatre
By Yukio Mishima, translated from the Japanese by Donald Keene
Against her mother's wishes, Renee remains vehemently devoted to her husband, the Marquis de Sade, the notorious aristocrat imprisoned in the Bastille for his lurid escapades and licentious behaviour.
(from 13 Mar 09 to 23 May 09)
MAJOR BARBARA
Olivier, National Theatre
by Bernard Shaw
Major Barbara works tirelessly for the poor at a Salvation Army shelter until a large but morally dubious donation is welcomed from her estranged father.
(from 26 Feb 08 to 3 Jul 08)
MOUSETRAP, THE
St Martin's Theatre
by Agatha Christie
A group of people gathered together in a remote part of the countryside discover there is a murderer in their midst. The question is which one of them is the guilty party.
(from 26 Mar 74 to 1 Nov 08)
MRS AFFLECK
Cottesloe, National Theatre
by Samuel Adamson, from Ibsen's Little Eyolf
(from Nov 08 to )
NEVER SO GOOD
Lyttelton, National Theatre
by Howard Brenton
About Harold Macmillan (Conservative politician and Prime Minister 1957-1963)
(from 17 Mar 08 to 14 Aug 08)
NOCTURNE
Almeida Theatre (Off West End)
by Adam Rapp
(from 16 Jul 08 to 26 Jul 08)
OEDIPUS
Olivier, National Theatre
by Sophocles, in a new version by Frank McGuinness
(from Oct 08 to )
OXFORD STREET
Royal Court Theatre Upstairs
by Levi David Addai
Where the streets are paved with gold, if you just know where to look.
(from 2 May 08 to 31 May 08)
PIAF
Donmar Warehouse
By Pam Gems
Vividly capturing the glamour and squalor, the rise and fall, of this complex, fragile and enigmatic performer.
(from 8 Aug 08 to 20 Sep 08)
PITMEN PAINTERS, THE
Cottesloe, National Theatre
by Lee Hall, inspired by a book by William Feaver
Pitmen learn to become painters.
(from 19 May 08 to 25 Jun 08)
PYGMALION
Old Vic Theatre
by Bernard Shaw
Professor of Phonetics makes a bet with his friend that he can turn Cockney flower girl, Eliza Doolittle into a duchess.
(from 7 May 08 to 2 Aug 08)
QUIZ, THE
Trafalgar Studios 2 Theatre(formerly Whitehall Theatre)
by Richard Crane
If you've been performing 'The Grand Inquisitor' for too many years and it's always been your dream to die on stage like Kean, Irving and Tommy Cooper - is tonight the night to make the ultimate leap?
(from 17 Jun 08 to 28 Jun 08)
RELOCATED
Royal Court Theatre Upstairs
by Anthony Neilson
A sinister mystery
(from 6 Jun 08 to 5 Jul 08)
REVENGER'S TRAGEDY, THE
Olivier, National Theatre
by Thomas Middleton
As he holds the skull of his beloved - who rejected the licentious old Duke's advances and so was poisoned - Vindice plots the Duke's grotesque murder.
(from 27 May 08 to 7 Aug 08)
ROMEO AND JULIET
Open Air, Regent's Park
by William Shakespeare
(from 2 Jun 08 to 2 Aug 08)
ROSMERSHOLM
Almeida Theatre (Off West End)
by Henrik Ibsen, in a new version by Mike Poulton
Written in 1886 - charts the struggle between freedom and the cruelty of conscience in an age of political division.
(from 15 May 08 to 5 Jul 08)
RUNNING THE SILK ROAD
Barbican Pit
by Paul Sirett, conceived by David Tse Ka-shing
In the year of the Beijing Olympics, a group of friends from London set themselves an epic challenge - to run the ancient Silk Road trading route to China, carrying an 'alternative' Olympic flame. Once on the road, complications and conflicts test friendships and soon threaten their chances of success.
(from 24 Jun 08 to 28 Jun 08)
SHAKESPEARE PARTY
Shakespeare's Globe Theatre
by Footsbarn Theatre
(from 23 May 08 to 25 May 08)
SLIGHT ACHE, A
Lyttelton, National Theatre
by Harold Pinter
Takes an oblique view of a long-married couple, the irascible Edward and his frustrated wife Flora, when the arrival of a statuesque silent stranger splinters their loveless bourgeois marriage.
(from 21 Jul 08 to 13 Aug 08)
SMALL CHANGE
Donmar Warehouse
By Peter Gill
Recalls the friendship between two boys and the relationship with their mothers.
(from 10 Apr 08 to 31 May 08)
TELL ME...LIES
Arts Theatre
by Carole-Anne Le Foll
Combines physical theatre, drama and surrealism. The play introduces us to Abi, a young woman whose mother has just died. Abi is totally our of control., yet despite her increasingly bizarre and antisocial behaviour her sister refuses to let her move out and on - the question is why?
(from 6 May 08 to 17 May 08)
THAT FACE
Duke of York's Theatre
by Polly Stenham
Mia is at boarding school. She has access to drugs. They are Martha's. Henry is preparing for art college. He has access to alcohol. From Martha. Martha controls their lives. Martha is their mother.
(from 1 May 08 to 5 Jul 08)
TIMON OF ATHENS
Shakespeare's Globe Theatre
by William Shakespeare
(from 26 Jul 08 to 3 Oct 08)
TO BE STRAIGHT WITH YOU
Lyttelton, National Theatre
by DV8
(from Oct 08 to )
Title to be confirmed!
Lyttelton, National Theatre
by Akram Khan and Juliette Binoche
(from Sep 08 to )
UGLY ONE, THE
Royal Court Theatre Downstairs
by Marius von Mayenburg, translated by Maja Zade
Lette thought he was normal. When the extent of his ugliness is revealed he turns to a plastic surgeon for help. But after the bandages come off, Lette soon learns that there is such a thing as too beautiful.
(from 10 Jun 08 to 28 Jun 08)
VORTEX, THE
Apollo Theatre
by Noel Coward
Centres on the tempestuous relationship of Florence and her hedonistic son Nicky.
(from 20 Feb 08 to 7 Jun 08)
WAR HORSE
Olivier, National Theatre
based on a novel by Michael Morpurgo, adapted by Nick Stafford
At the outbreak of World War One, Joey, young Albert's beloved horse, is sold to the cavalry and shipped to France. But Albert cannot forget Joey and, still not old enough to enlist, he embarks on a treacherous mission to find him and bring him home.
(from Nov 08 to )
WAVES
Cottesloe, National Theatre
Suggested by Virginia Woolf's novel, The Waves, devised by Katie Mitchell and the Company
A multi-media production. A fragmented and dreamlike tale of friendship, loss, identity and love
(from Sep 08? to )
WOMAN IN BLACK, THE
Fortune Theatre
by Stephen Mallatratt from the novel by Susan Hill
Arthur Kipps , a junior solicitor, is summoned to attend the funeral of Mrs Alice Drablow, the house's sole inhabitant, unaware of the tragic secrets which lie hidden behind the shuttered windows.
(from 7 Jun 89 to 20 Dec 08)
YEAR OF MAGICAL THINKING, THE
Lyttelton, National Theatre
by Joan Didion based on her memoir
Adapted for the stage by Joan Didion from her best-selling memoir of the same name, chronicles the aftermath of her husband's sudden death.
(from 25 Apr 08 to 15 Jul 08)
ZAMEEN
Arts Theatre
by Kali Theatre
Shows the devastating effect of globalization on a Punjabi farmer, his land and family.
(from 7 May 08 to 17 May 08)

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