Hampstead Theatre new season to January 2013

The Autumn Season at the Hampstead Theatre, in north London has been announced.

The Judas Kiss , by David Hare, from 6 Sep to 13 Oct 2012. Directed by Neil Armfield , designed by Dale Ferguson, lighting by Rick Fisher. Cast includes Rupert Everett, Freddie Fox. Portrait of the fall from grace of Oscar Wilde. Focussing on two critical moments - the eve of his arrest and one night after his release from two years imprisonment.

55 Days , by Howard Brenton , from 18 Oct to 24 Nov 2012. Directed by Howard Davies. The political upheaval of the mid-seventeenth century has no parallel in English history. In these dangerous and dramatic times, in a country exhausted by Civil War, the great men of the day where trying to think the unthinkable - to create a country without a king. Oliver Cromwell struggled to invent a political future for his beloved country as he presided over the death of medieval England and the birth of the modern state.

Old Money , By Sarah Wooley, from 29 Nov to 12 Jan 2013. Directed by Robin Lefevre. Cast includes Maureen Lipman, Tracy Ann Oberman.For 30 years Joyce has done her domestic duty - played the part her husband, mother, father and daughter thought appropriate. Now she is free - and as realisation dawns a chance meeting with a stripper opens her eyes to a whole new world of possibilities.