Cloud 9 tickets

See Caryl Churchill's landmark play Cloud 9, a playful exploration of themes of gender, sexuality, and power at the National Theatre. Book Cloud 9 tickets on London Theatre.

The first half of Cloud 9 in London takes place in Victorian colonial Africa, where administrator Clive presides over his household with an iron fist and a firm understanding that everyone around him must behave themselves.

His wife, Betty, their children, their servant Joshua, and the people orbiting their lives find themselves navigating his strict expectations regarding gender, sexuality, race, marital status, and their loyalty. But beneath the family's orderly exterior, desire and dissatisfaction are already seeping through the cracks.

Then, Churchill sends the characters through time to the next century, in 1970s London. They find that they have only aged 25 years. In a world utterly transformed by rapidly changing attitudes regarding sexuality and personal freedoms, they must decide what parts of their traditional ways of life they're willing to leave behind.

Dominic Cooke directs this exciting new production, with a masterful cast including Rebecca Humphries, Eloka Ivo, Tom Mothersdale, Charlotte Ritchie, Ellen Robertson, Stuart Thompson, and Sam Troughton taking on multiple roles across the play's two eras.

This production boasts a formidable creative team including set design by Miriam Buether, costume design by Samuel Wyer, lighting design by Jessica Hung Han Yun, and sound design by Donato Wharton.

Cloud 9 is a play that was first performed in 1979, using comedy and a split timeline to examine how political structures can infiltrate the most intimate aspects of one's life. Audiences will be transported through time alongside the characters as they experience two very different cultural attitudes toward obstacles that remain timeless.