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West End Drama playing now or in the near future!
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AFTER MISS JULIE
by Patrick Marber
at Young Vic Theatre (Maria Studio)
England, July 1945. The Labour Party’s landslide election triumph. Over one long midsummer’s night, Miss Julie’s world is turned head over heels.
(from 15 Mar 2012 - Closing on 14 Apr 2012)
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ANTIGONE
by Sophocles, in a version by Don Taylor
at Olivier, National Theatre
Desperate to gain control over a city ravaged by civil war, Creon refuses to bury the body of Antigone’s rebellious brother. Outraged, she defies his edict. Creon condemns the young woman, his niece, to be buried alive.
(from 23 May 2012 - Booking to 20 Jun 2012)
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BEING SHAKESPEARE
by Jonathan Bate
at Trafalgar Studios 1 Theatre
In Being Shakespeare, Simon Caallow brings to life Shakespeare’s unforgettable characters as well as the real man behind the legend.
(from 07 Mar 2012 - Closing on 31 Mar 2012)
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BELONG
By Bola Agbaje
at Royal Court Theatre Upstairs
Supporters keh. Forget this country. How many year have you lived here?… Your English is better than the Queen’s and they still call you…’
(from 26 Apr 2012 - Closing on 26 May 2012)
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BINGO
by Edward Bond
at Young Vic Theatre (Main House)
With the glory years of London behind him, William Shakespeare finds himself in a moral dilemma. Faced with the same situation as his greatest creation King Lear, what should he do with his land and his power?
(from 16 Feb 2012 - Closing on 31 Mar 2012)
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BIRTHDAY
By Joe Penhall
at Royal Court Theatre Downstairs
Lisa and Ed are having another baby. Determined to do things differently this time, it's proving a bumpy ride.
(from 22 Jun 2012 - Closing on 04 Aug 2012)
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BLACK T-SHIRT COLLECTION
by Inua Ellams
at Cottesloe, National Theatre
Tells a new story about two foster brothers building a global t-shirt brand. On their journey from a market in Nigeria to a sweatshop in China, Matthew and Muhammed discover the consequences of success.
(from 12 Apr 2012 - Closing on 24 Apr 2012)
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CAN WE TALK ABOUT THIS?
by Lloyd Newson
at Lyttelton, National Theatre
From the 1989 book burnings of Salman Rusdie’s The Satanic Verses, to the murder of filmmaker Theo Van Gogh and the controversy of the ‘Muhammad cartoons’ in 2005, DV8’s new production examines how these events have reflected and influenced multicultural policies, freedom of speech and censorship.
(from 09 Mar 2012 - Closing on 28 Mar 2012)
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CHANGELING, THE
by Thomas Middleton and William Rowley
at Young Vic Theatre (Maria Studio)
Beautiful Beatrice-Joanna is in love, so she hires the repellent De Flores to kill the man her father wants her to marry.
(from 26 Jan 2012 - Closing on 25 Feb 2012)
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CHILDREN’S CHILDREN
by Matthew Dunster
at Almeida Theatre (Off West End)
Michael and Gordon have been best friends since acting college. Now, 20 years later, Michael is Mr Saturday Night TV but failing actor Gordon is struggling with enormous debts.
(from 17May 2012 - Closing on 30 Jun 2012)
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COLLABORATORS
by John Hodge
at Cottesloe, National Theatre
Moscow, 1938. A dangerous to place to have a sense of humour; even more so a sense of freedom. Mikhail Bulgakov, living among dissidents, stalked by secret police, has both. And then he’s offered a poisoned chalice: a commission to write a play about Stalin to celebrate his sixtieth birthday.
(from 25 Oct 2011 - Closing on 31 Mar 2012)
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COLLABORATORS
by John Hodge
at Olivier, National Theatre
Moscow, 1938. A dangerous to place to have a sense of humour; even more so a sense of freedom. Mikhail Bulgakov, living among dissidents, stalked by secret police, has both. And then he’s offered a poisoned chalice: a commission to write a play about Stalin to celebrate his sixtieth birthday.
(from 30 Apr 2012 - Closing on 23 Jun 2012)
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CONSTELLATIONS
By Nick Payne
at Royal Court Theatre Upstairs
Quantum multiverse theory, love and honey. An explosive new play about free will and friendship.
(from 13 Jan 2012 - Closing on 11 Feb 2012)
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DETROIT
by Lisa D’Amour
at Cottesloe, National Theatre
In a suburb of a mid-sized American city, Ben and Mary welcome their new neighbours, Sharon and Kenny, who have moved in to the long-empty house next door. Fuelled by backyard barbecues and booze, their sudden friendship rapidly veers out of control.
(from 08 May 2012 - Booking to 15 Jun 2012)
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DUCHESS OF MALFI, THE
by John Webster
at Old Vic Theatre
John Websters Jacobean tragedy
(from 17 Mar 2012 - Closing on 09 Jun 2012)
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FILUMENA
by Eduardo De Filippo, new English version by Tanya Ronder
at Almeida Theatre (Off West End)
In the balmy heat of late ‘40s Naples, Filumena Marturano lies on her deathbed waiting to marry Domenico Soriano, the man who has kept her as his mistress for twenty-five years
(from 15 Mar 2012 - Closing on 12 May 2012)
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GATZ
Created by Elevator Repair Service from the text of F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby
at Noel Coward Theatre
(formerly Albery)
Gatz is not a retelling of the Gatsby story but an enactment of the novel itself. Over the course of a single 8 hour production
(from 08 Jun 2012 - Closing on 15 Jul 2012)
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GOING DARK
by Hattie Naylor in collaboration with Sound&Fury
at Young Vic Theatre (The Clare)
How far can you see? A mile? A hundred miles? Or to the furthest shores of the universe to a far away galaxy?
(from 06 Mar 2012 - Closing on 24 Mar 2012)
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GOODBYE TO ALL THAT
By Luke Norris
at Royal Court Theatre Upstairs
‘I want you to remember something, David: if you remember only one thing I’ve ever told you, remember this every day – morning, noon and night - you do what you want with your life.
(from 23 Feb 2012 - Closing on 17 Mar 2012)
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HENRY V
by William Shakespeare
at Shakespeare's Globe Theatre
Henry V of England is insulted by the King of France. As a result, he leads his army into battle against France.
(from 07 Jun 2012 - Closing on 26 Aug 2012)
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HORRIBLE HISTORIES-BARMY BRITAIN
by Terry Deary, Neal Foster and Ciaran McConville
at Garrick Theatre
British history is full of barmy people who did nasty things to each other.
(from 14 Feb 2012 - Booking to 01 Sep 2012)
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HOUSE OF BERNARDA ALBA
by Federico Garcia Lorca in a new version by Emily Mann
at Almeida Theatre (Off West End)
Following her husband’s funeral in rural Iran, powerful matriarch Bernarda Alba decrees to her five daughters that the household will enter a period of eight years mourning.
(from 19 Jan 2012 - Closing on 10 Mar 2012)
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IN BASILDON
By David Eldridge
at Royal Court Theatre Downstairs
Len’s on his death bed and the family gather to say their final farewells.
(from 16 Feb 2012 - Closing on 24 Mar 2012)
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ISLAND
by Nicky Singer
at Cottesloe, National Theatre
In the middle of the Arctic Ocean lies an island where it is always day.
(from 15 Feb 2012 - Closing on 25 Feb 2012)
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JULIUS CAESAR
by William Shakespeare
at Noel Coward Theatre
(formerly Albery)
The dictator must be assassinated. But who will replace him?
(from ?Aug 2012 - Closing on ? Oct 2012)
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JUNO AND THE PAYCOCK
by Sean O’Casey
at Lyttelton, National Theatre
A devastating portrait of wasted potential in a Dublin torn apart by the chaos of the Irish War of Independence, 1922.
(from 11 Nov 2011 - Closing on 26 Feb 2012)
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KING LEAR
by William Shakespeare
at Almeida Theatre (Off West End)
When Lear asks each of his daughters to profess their love for him, he is flattered by the false hyperbole of Regan and Goneril
(from 31 Aug 2012 - Booking to 03 Nov 2012)
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LONG DAY'S JOURNEY INTO NIGHT
by Eugene O’Neill
at Apollo Theatre
Following the Tyrone family through a mesmerising day and night, as they battle their demons, their pasts, and one another the play depicts the struggle for survival of each family member as they threaten to drift further into oblivion.
(from 02 Apr 2012 - Booking to 18 Aug 2012)
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LOVE LOVE LOVE
By Mike Bartlett
at Royal Court Theatre Downstairs
1967. Kenneth and Sandra meet, and it's a whole new world.
(from 27 Apr 2012 - Closing on 02 Jun 2012)
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MADNESS OF GEORGE III, THE
by Alan Bennett
at Apollo Theatre
George III was the third Hanoverian king of Great Britain. In spite of a catalogue of accomplishments – he is best remembered today for his bouts of unbridled lunacy.
(from 18 Jan 2012 - Booking to 31 Mar 2012)
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MAKING NOISE QUIETLY
by Robert Holman
at Donmar Warehouse
A conscientious objector and a roaming artist find tenderness as the carnage of World War II unfolds across the Channel and doodlebugs explode in the meadow.
(from 19 Apr 2012 - Closing on 26 May 2012)
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MASTER CLASS
by Terrence McNally
at Vaudeville Theatre
Terrence McNally’s play about Maria Callas takes audiences to one of her famous master classes.
(from 21 Jan 2012 - Booking to 28 Apr 2012)
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MINSK, 2011: A REPLY TO KATHY ACKER
by Belarus Free Theatre, adapted by Vladimir Shcherban, original translation Yuri and Natalia Kaliada, English translation Chris Thorpe.
at Young Vic Theatre (The Maria)
(from 12 Jun 2012 - Closing on 23 Jun 2012)
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MISTERMAN
by Enda Walsh
at Lyttelton, National Theatre
Cillian Murphy plays the population of an entire town in a solo performance.
(from 14 Apr 2012 - Closing on 28 May 2012)
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MOON ON A RAINBOW SHAWL
by Errol John
at Cottesloe, National Theatre
For the teeming populace of Old Mack’s cacophonous yard in Port of Spain, Trinidad, it’s a cheek by jowl existence lived out on a sweltering public stage.
(from 07 Mar 2012 - Closing on 09 Jun 2012)
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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 15 Dec 2012)
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PHYSICISTS, THE
by Friedrich Dürrenmatt, in a new version by Jack Thorne
at Donmar Warehouse
AAnother nurse murdered in the world’s most illustrious sanatorium. And who’s to blame this time: Isaac Newton, Albert Einstein or the brilliant Johann Wilhelm Möbius?
(from 31 May 2012 - Closing on 21 Jul 2012)
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PITMEN PAINTERS, THE
by Lee Hall, inspired by a book by William Feaver
at Duchess Theatre
In 1934, a group of Ashington miners hired a professor to teach an art appreciation evening class. Rapidly abandoning theory in favour of practice, the pitmen began to paint.
(from 05 Oct 2011 - Closing on 14 Apr 2012)
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RECRUITING OFFICER, THE
by George Farquhar
at Donmar Warehouse
It’s with the promise of money, glory and adventure that Captain Plume is recruiting the men of Shrewsbury for the King’s army.
(from 09 Feb 2012 - Closing on 14 Apr 2012)
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RICHARD II
by William Shakespeare
at Donmar Warehouse
King Richard banishes his noblemen and seizes their land to fuel his own wars. As anger mounts, a battle for the soul of England begins and one man's divine right to rule is called into question.
(from 01 Dec 2011 - Closing on 04 Feb 2012)
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RICHARD III
by William Shakespeare
at Shakespeare's Globe Theatre
Tragedy depicting the Machiavellian rise to power and subsequent short reign of Richard III of England.
(from 14 Jul 2012 - Closing on 13 Oct 2012)
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SEX WITH A STRANGER
by Stefan Golaszewski
at Trafalgar Studios 2 Theatre
Adam snubs his girlfriend Ruth , and leaves her at home while he goes out for a mate's birthday.
(from 01 Feb 2012 - Closing on 25 Feb 2012)
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SOUTH DOWNS / BROWNING VERSION, THE (Double Bill)
by David Hare / by Terence Rattigan
at Harold Pinter Theatre (formerly The Comedy Theatre)
These plays examine life in boarding public schools. Rattigan's own Harrow School and Hare's own Lancing College provide the backdrop for two stories, one told through the eyes of a master and one told through the eyes of a boy.
(from 19 Apr 2012 - Booking to 21 Jul 2012)
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TEMPEST, THE
by William Shakespeare
at Roundhouse Theatre
Prospero is usurped from his position as Duke of Milan and cast away with his daughter Miranda to a remote island.
(from 09 Jun 2012 - Closing on 05 Jul 2012)
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THREE DAYS IN MAY
by Ben Brown
at Trafalgar Studios 1 Theatre
Takes us behind the doors of Number Ten during three of the most pivotal days in British history when, extraordinarily, giving in to Hitler was considered by some to be a viable option.
(from 31 Oct 2011 - Closing on 03 Mar 2012)
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TIGER WHO CAME TO TEA, THE
Based on the picture book written and illustrated by author Judith Kerr. Adapted for the stage with songs & lyrics by David Wood.
at Lyric Theatre
The Tiger Who Came to Tea is one of the best-selling picture books of all time.
(from 04 Jul 2012 - Booking to 02 Sep 2012)
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TRAVELLING LIGHT
by Nicholas Wright
at Lyttelton, National Theatre
In a remote village in Eastern Europe, around 1900, the young Motl Mendl is entranced by the flickering silent images on his father’s cinematograph.
(from 11 Jan 2012 - Closing on 02 Jun 2012)
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VERA VERA VERA
By Hayley Squires
at Royal Court Theatre Upstairs
‘Bobby’s dead and you’re still breathing. That’s a fucking walking talking tragedy that is.’
(from 22 Mar 2012 - Closing on 14 Apr 2012)
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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 16 Feb 2013)
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WILD SWANS (part of the World Stages London Festival)
by Jung Chang, adapted by Alexandra Wood.
at Young Vic Theatre (Main House)
Through the eyes of one fiercely courageous family, Wild Swans takes us on a journey from the early days of Communist hope and struggle, through the chaos and confusion of Mao’s Cultural Revolution, to the birth of a superpower.
(from 13 Apr 2012 - Closing on 13 May 2012)
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WITNESS, THE
By Vivienne Franzmann
at Royal Court Theatre Upstairs
Captured in an award-winning shot Alex was rescued from Rwanda and adopted by the man behind the lens.
(from 01 Jun 2012 - Closing on 30 Jun 2012)
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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 15 Dec 2012)
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