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NEVER SO GOOD
by Howard Brenton | Genre | Drama | | Previews from | 17 Mar 08 | | Opens | 26 Mar 08 | | Booking to | 14 Aug 08 | | Closes | 14 Aug 08 | | Time | Click on Performance Schedule Link (near bottom of page)
| | Tickets | Lashmars Theatre Tickets | | Performers | Jeremy Irons (Macmillan), Anna Carteret, Bertie Carvel, Anna Chancellor, Ian McNeice, Peter Forbes, Clive Francis, Tim Francis, Robert Glenister, Terrence Hardman, Sarah Head, Sioned Jones, Anne Kavanagh, Nicholas Lumley, Charlotte Melia, Janet Spencer-Turner, Terence Turner, Claire Winsper | | Director | Howard Davies | | Design | Vicki Mortimer | | Lighting | Mark Henderson | | Choreography | Lynne Page | | Costume | | | Sound | Paul Arditti | | Producer | National Theatre | | Synopsis | About Harold Macmillan (Conservative politician and Prime Minister 1957-1963) : Set against a back-drop of fading Empire, war, the Suez crisis, vintage champagne, adultery and vicious Tory politics at the Ritz, Howard Brenton's Never So Good paints the portrait of a brilliant, witty but complex man, at times comically and, in the end, tragically out of kilter with his times. | | B/O Price | £ | | Length | 2hrs 40mins | | Review | Review | | Other Info | | | Performance Schedule |
YEAR OF MAGICAL THINKING, THE
by Joan Didion based on her memoir | Genre | Drama | | Previews from | 25 Apr 08 | | Opens | 30 Apr 08 | | Booking to | 27 Aug 08 | | Closes | | | Time | Click on Performance Schedule Link (near bottom of page)
| | Tickets | Lashmars Theatre Tickets | | Performers | Vanessa Redgrave | | Director | David Hare | | Design | Bob Crowley | | Lighting | Jean Kalman | | Choreography | | | Costume | | | Sound | Paul Arditti | | Producer | National Theatre | | Synopsis | 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. 'Grief turns out to be a place none of us know until we reach it. We know that someone close to us could die. We might expect to feel shock. We do not expect this shock to be obliterative, dislocating to both body and mind. We might expect to be prostrate, inconsolable, crazy with loss. We do not expect to be literally crazy - cool customers who believe that their husband is about to return and need his shoes.' | | B/O Price | £ | | Length | 1hr 35min (No Interval) | | Review | Review | | Other Info | | | Performance Schedule |
AFTERLIFE
by Michael Frayn | Genre | Drama | | Previews from | 3 Jun 08 | | Opens | 10 Jun 08 | | Booking to | 30 Aug 08 | | Closes | 30 Aug 08 | | Time | Click on Performance Schedule Link (near bottom of page)
| | Tickets | Lashmars Theatre Tickets | | Performers | Roger Allam ( Max Reinhardt), David Burke, Abigail Cruttenden, Peter Forbes, Glyn Grain, Selina Griffiths, David Schofield. | | Director | Michael Blakemore | | Design | Peter Wilkinson | | Lighting | Neil Austin | | Choreography | | | Costume | Sue Willmington | | Sound | Paul Charlier | | Producer | National Theatre | | Synopsis | Exploring the life of the Austrian impresario and founder of the Salzburg Festival, Max Reinhardt | | B/O Price | £ | | Length | 2hrs 30mins | | Review | Review | | Other Info | | | Performance Schedule |
SLIGHT ACHE, A
by Harold Pinter | Genre | Drama | | Previews from | 21 Jul 08 | | Opens | 21 Jul 08 | | Booking to | 13 Aug 08 | | Closes | 13 Aug 08 | | Time | 21, 25, 28, 29 July; 7, 8, 11, 12, 13 Aug at 6pm | | Tickets | | | Performers | Simon Russell Beale, Clare Higgins | | Director | Iqbal Khan | | Design | | | Lighting | | | Choreography | | | Costume | | | Sound | | | Producer | National Theatre | | Synopsis | 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. | | B/O Price | £10 | | Length | 50mins | | Review | | | Other Info | | | Performance Schedule |
LANDSCAPE / SLIGHT ACHE, A (Double Bill)
by Harold Pinter | Genre | Drama | | Previews from | 13 Sep 08 | | Opens | 13 Sep 08 | | Booking to | 1 Oct 08 | | Closes | 1 Oct 08 | | Time | 13, 15, 24, 29, 30 Sep, 1 Oct at 8pm; and 13, 24 Sep at 3pm (There will be an interval between the two plays) | | Tickets | | | Performers | Simon Russell Beale, Clare Higgins | | Director | Iqbal Khan | | Design | | | Lighting | | | Choreography | | | Costume | | | Sound | | | Producer | National Theatre | | Synopsis | A SLIGHT ACHE: 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. LANDSCAPE: A middle-aged couple describe the vital scenery of their lives in a series of monologues. | | B/O Price | £10 & £20 | | Length | 40mins / 50 mins | | Review | | | Other Info | | | Performance Schedule |
IN-I
by Juliette Binoche and Akram Khan with visual design by Anish Kapoor | Genre | Dance | | Previews from | 6 Sep 08 | | Opens | 18 Sep 08 | | Booking to | 6 Oct 08 | | Closes | | | Time | Click on Performance Schedule Link (near bottom of page)
| | Tickets | Lashmars Theatre Tickets | | Performers | Akram Khan and Juliette Binoche | | Director | Juliette Binoche and Akram Khan | | Design | Anish Kapoor | | Lighting | Michael Hulls | | Choreography | | | Costume | | | Sound | | | Producer | A National Theatre Co-Production | | Synopsis | Dance theatre | | B/O Price | £ | | Length | | | Review | | | Other Info | | | Performance Schedule |
TO BE STRAIGHT WITH YOU
by DV8 Physical Theatre, conceived by Lloyd Newson | Genre | Drama | | Previews from | 29 Oct 08 | | Opens | 29 Oct 08 | | Booking to | 15 Nov 08 | | Closes | 15 Nov 08 | | Time | Click on Performance Schedule Link (near bottom of page)
| | Tickets | Lashmars Theatre Tickets | | Performers | Ankur Bahl, Dan Canham, Seke Chimutengwende, Ermira Goro, Hannes Langolf, Coral Messam, Paradigmz, Rafael Pardillo, Ira Mandela Siobhan | | Director | Lloyd Newson | | Design | Uri Omi | | Lighting | Beky Stoddart | | Choreography | | | Costume | | | Sound | | | Producer | Co-produced by spielzeit'europa Berliner Festspiele, National Theatre, London, Maison des Arts de Creteil and Festival d'Automne, Paris. An Artsadmin associated project. | | Synopsis | 'A poetic but unflinching exploration of tolerance, intolerance, religion and sexuality. It incorporates dance, text, documentary, film and animated projections to create a unique piece of theatre.' | | B/O Price | £ | | Length | 1hr 20min | | Review | | | Other Info | Video Artists: Kit Monkman and Tom Wexler (KMA) | | Performance Schedule |
PITMEN PAINTERS, THE
by Lee Hall, inspired by a book by William Feaver | Genre | Drama | | Previews from | 27 Jan 09 | | Opens | 27 Jan 09 | | Booking to | 17 Feb 09 | | Closes | | | Time | Click on Performance Schedule Link (near bottom of page)
| | Tickets | Lashmars Theatre Tickets | | Performers | Christopher Connel, Michael Hodgson, Ian Kelly, Brian Lonsdale, Lisa McGrillis, Deka Walmsley, David Whitaker, Phillippa Wilson. | | Director | Max Roberts | | Design | Gary McCann | | Lighting | Douglas Kuhrt | | Choreography | | | Costume | | | Sound | | | Producer | A co-production between Live Theatre, Newcastle and the National Theatre | | Synopsis | 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. Within a few years the most avant-garde artists became their friends and their work was acquired by prestigious collections; but every day they worked, as before, down the mine. | | B/O Price | £ | | Length | 2hrs 40mins | | Review | | | Other Info | | | Performance Schedule |
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