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West End Drama playing now or in the near future!
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4.48 PSYCHOSIS
by Sarah Kane
at Barbican Theatre
Concerns a woman in the throes of a terrifying mental illness. (Performed in Polish with English surtitles. )
(from 23 Mar 2010 - Closing on 27 Mar 2010)
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AFTER THE DANCE
by Terence Rattigan
at Lyttelton, National Theatre
As the world races towards castastrophe, a crowd of Mayfair socialites party their way to oblivion.
(from 01 Jun 2010 - Booking to 20 Jun 2010)
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ALL MY SONS
by Arthur Miller
at Apollo Theatre
A story of forbidden love, loyalty, guilt and the corrupting power of greed, Joe Keller is alleged to have supplied World War II fighter planes with defective engines, leading to the deaths of innocent pilots - a crime for which his business partner took the fall.
(from 19 May 2010 - Booking to 11 Sep 2010)
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ANNE BOLEYN
by Howard Brenton
at Shakespeare's Globe
Dramatises the life and legacy of Henry VIII's notorious second wife.
(from 24 Jul 10 - Closing on 21 Aug 2010)
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AUSTEN'S WOMEN
by Rebecca Vaughan & Guy Masterson
at Leicester Square Theatre Basement
Some of the moments from the complete works of Jane Austen. Thirteen of Austen's women are assembled in one distillation of 19th century feminism.
(from 20 Apr 2010 - Closing on 09 May 2010)
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BEDLAM
by Nell Leyshon
at Shakespeare's Globe
A fictional portrayal of a London hospital for the insane, based on direct research from Bethlem Royal Hospital.
(from 05 Sep 2010 - Closing on 1 Oct 2010)
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BEYOND THE HORIZON
by Eugene O'Neill
at Cottesloe, National Theatre
Robert is about to start a new life across the ocean, whilst brother Andy is settling on the family farm. But the realisation that they love the same woman results in a dramatic reversal of fate.
(from 29 Mar 2010 - Booking to 19 Jun 2010)
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CARETAKER, THE
by Harold Pinter
at Trafalgar Studios 1 Theatre
Davies is down and out when Aston takes him in for the night. Lost in a shoeless world, chasing papers in Sidcup, Davies soon fancies his chances at something more permanent. Then Aston's fiery brother Mick shows up. As the odd couple becomes an odd number, who will be the odd man out?
(from 12 Jan 2010 - Booking to 17 Apr 2010)
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CAT IN THE HAT, THE
by Dr. Seuss, adapted for the stage by Katie Mitchell
at Young Vic Theatre (Maria Studio)
From the moment his tall, red-and-white-striped hat appears around the door, Sally and her brother know that the cat in the hat is the funniest, most mischievous cat they have ever met.
(from 28 Jan 2010 - Closing on 13 Mar 2010)
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CAT ON A HOT TIN ROOF
by Tennessee Williams
at Novello Theatre
A powerful Southern family gathers at a birthday celebration for patriarch Big Daddy who is unaware he is dying. In a scramble to secure their part of his estate, family members hide the truth about his diagnosis from him and Big Mama. Tensions mount between alcoholic former football hero Brick and his beautiful but sexually frustrated wife Maggie 'the Cat'. As their troubled relationship comes to a stormy and steamy climax, a shockwave of secrets is finally revealed.
(from 21 Nov 2009 - Booking to 10 Apr 2010)
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CRUCIBLE , THE
by Arthur Miller
at Open Air Theatre, Regent's Park
Based on the events that led to the Salem witch trials
(from 24 May 2010 - Closing on 19 Jun 2010)
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DISCONNECT
By Anupama Chandrasekhar
at Royal Court Theatre Upstairs
Your credit card is maxed out, and you hang up the phone on Ross chasing your payments. But Ross is actually Roshan and though the sun is shining for you it's past midnight in his window-less call centre. With a new accent and invented back story, bright young graduates in India are renamed and rebranded as they work to claw back the cash spent by Americans crippled by debt.
(from 17 Feb 2010 - Closing on 20 Mar 2010)
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EMPIRE, THE
By DC Moore
at Royal Court Theatre Upstairs
Helmand in the height of summer. Gary, a British soldier, and Hafizullah, his Afghan colleague, guard an injured young prisoner, Zia, found in the heat of battle. Gary wants answers, Hafizullah just wants to make it through the day and Zia thinks there has been a big mistake.
(from 31 Mar 2010 - Closing on 01 May 2010)
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ENRON
by Lucy Prebble
at Noel Coward Theatre (formerly Albery)
Based on real life and using music, movement and video, Enron explores one of the most infamous scandals in financial history, reviewing the tumultuous 1990s and casting a new light on the financial turmoil in which the world finds itself in 2009.
(from 16 Jan 2010 - Booking to 08 May 2010)
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EVERY GOOD BOY DESERVES FAVOUR
by Tom Stoppard and Andre Previn
at Olivier, National Theatre
A play for actors and orchestra: A dissident is locked up in an asylum. If he accepts that he was ill, has been treated and is now cured, he will be released. He refuses. Sharing his cell is a real lunatic who believes himself to be surrounded by an orchestra. As the dissident's son begs his father to free himself with a lie, this provocative play asks if denying the truth is a price worth paying for liberty.
(from 09 Jan 2010 - Closing on 17 Feb 2010)
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EXTRAORDINARY CABARET OF DORIAN GRAY, THE
by Oscar Wilde, adapted by Ruby In The Dust
at Leicester Square Theatre Basement
A far cry from the opera houses, the salons and the gentlemen's clubs; this production delves into the darker, murkier underbelly of Victorian London: tawdry theatres, burlesque bars, cabaret clubs and opium dens.
(from 09 Mar 2010 - Closing on 18 Apr 2010)
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FEVER CHART, THE
By Naomi Wallace
at Trafalgar Studios 2 Theatre
Three Visions Of The Middle East.
(from 9 Mar 2010 - Closing on 03 Apr 2010)
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GHOSTS
by Henrik Ibsen, in a new version by Frank Mcguinness
at Duchess Theatre
A story of love, betrayal and hypocrisy gradually unfolds as ghosts from the past come back to haunt the living
(from 11 Feb 2010 - Closing on 15 May 2010)
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HABIT OF ART, THE
by Alan Bennett
at Lyttelton, National Theatre
Benjamin Britten, sailing uncomfortably close to the wind with his new opera, Death in Venice, seeks advice from his former collaborator and friend, W H Auden. During this imagined meeting, their first for twenty-five years, they are observed and interrupted by, amongst others, their future biographer and a young man from the local bus station.
(from 05 Nov 2009 - Booking to 19 May 2010)
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HENRY IV PART 1
by William Shakespeare
at Shakespeare's Globe
Bolingbroke fights to keep his crown and restore order to an England driven by civil rebellion.
(from 6 Jun 10 - Closing on 02 Oct 2010)
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HENRY IV PART 2
by William Shakespeare
at Shakespeare's Globe
The Prince's riotous life is interrupted, as a second insurrection is deftly if ignobly crushed.
(from 3 Jul 10 - Closing on 03 Oct 2010)
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HENRY VIII
by William Shakespeare
at Shakespeare's Globe
Power struggle with Henry VIII, his queen Katherine, his mistress Anne, and the most ruthlessly ambitious Cardinal Wolsey
(from 15 May 2010 - Closing on 21 Aug 2010)
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INSPECTOR CALLS, AN
by J. B. Priestley
at Wyndham's Theatre
The story begins with the mysterious Inspector Goole arriving unexpectedly at the prosperous Birling family home. Their peaceful dinner party is shattered by his investigations into their involvement in the death of a young woman whom each of them in turn has exploited.
(from 03 Dec 2009 - Booking to 13 Mar 2010)
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LOVE THE SINNER
by Drew Pautz
at Cottesloe, National Theatre
An international group of church leaders converge in an African hotel to contend the need for Christian doctrine to change with the times.
(from 04 May 2010 - Booking to 17 Jun 2010)
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MACBETH
by William Shakespeare
at Open Air Theatre, Regent's Park
Re-imagined for audiences aged 6 and over
(from 03 Jul 2010 - 31 Jul 2010)
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MACBETH
by William Shakespeare
at Shakespeare's Globe
Macbeth, the man who murders king and comrade in his quest for the crown, only to lose it all.
(from 23 Apr 2010 - Closing on 27 Jun 2010)
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MEASURE FOR MEASURE
by William Shakespeare
at Almeida Theatre (Off West End)
Set in a Vienna dominated by the sex trade.
(from 11 Feb 2010 - Closing on 10 Apr 2010)
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MOUSETRAP, THE
by Agatha Christie
at St Martin's Theatre
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 25 Mar 1974 - Booking to 10 Apr 2010)
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MRS WARREN'S PROFESSION
By George Bernard Shaw
at Comedy Theatre
What is Mrs Warren's profession? Her daughter Vivie has never really known much about her mother. Now she has ambitions to go into Law. Is it conceivable that all this privilege and respectability has been financed from the proceeds of the oldest profession?
(from 16 Mar 2010 - Booking to 19 Jun 2010)
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NATION
based on a novel by Terry Pratchett, adapted by Mark Ravenhill
at Olivier, National Theatre
A parallel world, 1860. Two teenagers thrown together by a tsunami that has destroyed Mau's village and left Daphne shipwrecked on his South Pacific island, thousands of miles from home. One wears next to nothing, the other a long white dress; neither speaks the other's language; somehow they must learn to survive.
(from 11 Nov 2009 - Closing on 28 Mar 2010)
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OFF THE ENDZ
By Bola Agbaje
at Royal Court Theatre Downstairs
David, Kojo and Sharon grew up on a London estate. Now in their mid 20s, they're eyeing another kind of life. But how do you choose the right path when temptation lies around every corner? If your emotional or financial debt is sky high, how do you buy your way out?
(from 11 Feb 2010 - Closing on 13 Mar 2010)
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POLAR BEARS
By Mark Haddon
at Donmar Warehouse
One man's struggle to love, support and live with someone suffering from a psychological condition.
(from 01 Apr 2010 - Closing on 22 May 2010)
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POSH
By Laura Wade
at Royal Court Theatre Downstairs
In an oak-panelled room in Oxford, ten young bloods with cut-glass vowels and deep pockets are meeting, intent on restoring their right to rule. Members of an elite student dining society, the boys are bunkering down for a wild night of debauchery, decadence and bloody good wine. But this isn't the last huzzah: they're planning a takeover. Welcome to the Riot Club.
(from 09 Apr 2010 - Closing on 22 May 2010)
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POWER OF YES, THE : A dramatist seeks to understand the financial crisis
by David Hare
at Lyttelton, National Theatre
It is not so much a play as a jaw-dropping account of how, as the banks went bust, capitalism was replaced by a socialism that bailed out the rich alone.
(from 29 Sep 2009 - Closing on 18 Apr 2010)
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REAL THING, THE
By Tom Stoppard
at Old Vic Theatre
...As the story unravels, Henry discovers that love - 'the real thing' - can be unpredictable and painful.
(from 10 Apr 2010 - Closing on 05 Jun 2010)
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RUINED
by Lynn Nottage
at Almeida Theatre (Off West End)
A small mining town deep in the Democratic Republic of Congo. In Mama Nadi's bar her rules apply...
(from 15 Apr 2010 - Closing on 05 Jun 2010)
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SERENADING LOUIE
By Lanford Wilson
at Donmar Warehouse
Friends since college, Carl and Alex are struggling to deal with the harsh realities of adulthood as they enter their thirties. Disillusioned by work and struggling to keep their marriages alive, they're desperately trying to make sense of it all.
(from 11 Feb 2010 - Closing on 27 Mar 2010)
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SIX DEGREES OF SEPARATION
By John Guare
at Old Vic Theatre
Based on the existential theory that everyone in the world is connected to everyone else by a chain of no more than 6 people, this play is a look at fame, celebrity and opportunity. It makes you think - who's conning you?
(from 07 Jan 2010 - Closing on 03 Apr 2010)
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SPRING STORM
by Tennesse Williams
at Cottesloe, National Theatre
Heavenly has almost everything a young woman could desire, but when she's forced to decide between respectable suitor Arthur and handsome, wild lover Dick, her actions cause a chain of consequences that tear their lives apart.
(from 24 Mar 2010 - Booking to 12 Jun 2010)
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SPUR OF THE MOMENT
By Anya Reiss
at Royal Court Theatre Upstairs
Pre-teen Delilah enjoys High School Musical, swim parties and ogling the lodger. Whilst her parents throw verbal grenades at one another, they barely notice their 21 year old tenant starting to notice her.
(from 14 Jul 2010 - Closing on 14 Aug 2010)
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SUCKER PUNCH
By Roy Williams
at Royal Court Theatre Downstairs
Looks back on what it was like to be young and Black in the 80s and asks if the right battles have been fought, let alone won.
(from 11 Jun 2010 - Closing on 24 Jul 2010)
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SWEET NOTHINGS
by Arthur Schnitzler, in a new version by David Harrower
at Young Vic Theatre (Main House)
A young man has an affair with a married woman. He is terrified her husband will challenge him to a duel and kill him. At a party, he flirts with a girl who believes she is truly loved. Life seems full of joy. The doorbell rings. The husband enters the room.
(from 25 Feb 2010 - Closing on 10 Apr 2010)
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TEMPEST, THE (Part of Bridge Project)
By William Shakespeare
at Old Vic Theatre
Part of Bridge Project
(from 18 June 2010 - Closing on 21 Aug 2010)
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THROUGH A GLASS DARKLY
by Ingmar Bergman, adapted by Andrew Upton
at Almeida Theatre (Off West End)
Karin is a young wife, an older sister and an only daughter. Her kaleidoscopic interior world is a constantly changing picture, where the boundaries between the everyday and the holy defy distinction.
(from 10 Jun 2010 - Closing on 31 Jul 2010)
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WAITING FOR GODOT
by Samuel Beckett
at Haymarket, Theatre Royal
Follows two consecutive days in the lives of tramps, Vladimir and Estragon , who divert themselves by clowning around, joking and arguing, while waiting expectantly and unsuccessfully for the mysterious Godot.
(from 21 Jan 2010 - Booking to 03 Apr 2010)
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WAR HORSE
based on a novel by Michael Morpurgo, adapted by Nick Stafford
at New London
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 28 Mar 2009 - Booking to 12 Feb 2011)
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WHEN THE LILAC BLOOMS, MY LOVE
By Jane Huxley
at Leicester Square Theatre
Set in modern-day suburbia. Nicky is a young woman who returns to the family home to break the news to her family that she is pregnant, taking the reluctant father-to-be with her. On meeting the family a web of hidden passions unfolds that challenges the bonds between them.
(from 14 Apr 2010 - Closing on 01 May 2010)
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WHITE GUARD, THE
by Mikhail Bulgakov, in a new version by Andrew Upton
at Lyttelton, National Theatre
In Kiev during the Russian civil war, the Turbin household is sanctuary to a ragtag, close-knit crowd presided over by the beautiful Lena.
(from 15 Mar 2010 - Booking to 15 Jun 2010)
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WOMAN IN BLACK, THE
by Stephen Mallatratt from the novel by Susan Hill
at Fortune Theatre
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 07 Jun 1989 - Booking to 18 Dec 2010)
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WOMEN BEWARE WOMEN
by Thomas Middleton
at Olivier, National Theatre
In the Italian court, where wealth secures power and power serves lust, the lascivious Duke can play wherever he chooses. He catches the eye of another's exquisite bride, Bianca. Can a glance secure her fate, a bribe appease her husband?
(from 20 Apr 2010 - Booking to 08 Jun 2010)
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