National Theatre announce new Season to Nov 2011

The National Theatre has announced its new Season productions and platforms to Nov 2011.

Public booking opens 21 June 2011.

New shows in The Olivier Theatre...

New shows in The Lyttelton Theatre...

New show in The Cottesloe Theatre...

Productions Extending ....
A Woman killed With Kindness closing 11 Sep 2011.
One Man, Two Guvnors closing 19 Sep 2011.
 

New Platforms ....
Ibsen's Modern Breakthrough
Fri 22 July, 5.30pm, Olivier
Ibsen always considered Emperor and Galilean his most important play. Toril Moi explores why this neglected masterpiece, written at a moment of transition to modernism, mattered so intensely to Ibsen, and why it should matter to us today.

Ian Hislop
Mon 25 July, Lyttelton
The indefatigable Editor of Private Eye celebrates 25 years at the helm of the satirical magazine, with Mark Lawson.

Michael Simkins
Wed 3 Aug, Lyttelton
In Last Flannelled Fool, the actor and author goes on a reflective odyssey to recharge his cricketing batteries, in search of himself and an England past.

In Conversation with... Kenneth Cranham
Thu 4 Aug
3pm (1hr), Cottesloe, £5
Talk about their careers and current role, and answer your questions. Chaired by Al Senter.

Jonathan Lynn Fri 5 Aug, Lyttelton
The creator of Yes Prime Minister shares stories from a life misspent making people laugh in plays, television and film, to coincide with his new book, Comedy Rules.

In Conversation with... Ian McDiarmid
Wed 10 Aug
3pm (1hr), Cottesloe, £5
Talk about their careers and current role, and answer your questions. Chaired by Al Senter.

Creating Double Feature
Thu 11 Aug, 6.30pm, The Paintframe
The directors and writers talk about the double bill of new plays.

Katie Mitchell on A Woman Killed with Kindness
Mon 22 Aug, Lyttelton
Katie Mitchell discusses her new production.

Galton & Simpson: The Fathers of Sitcom
Thu 1 Sept, Lyttelton
Writers Ray Galton and Alan Simpson talk to their biographer Christopher Stevens about creating Hancock's Half Hour and Steptoe and Son, and working with numerous comedy legends.

The John Harvard Lecture with Simon Schama Whatever Happened to Toleration? Thoughts from an Anglo-New Yorker a decade after 9/11.
Mon 5 Sept, 5.45pm (1hr), Lyttelton, £5
With issues of tolerance front and centre in Europe, the US and the Middle East, the historian Simon Schama poses the simple, painful, question: how did this happen? And asks, what are the prospects for that most fragile plant of cultural co-existence, toleration?

Bijan Sheibani on The Kitchen
Fri 9 Sept, Olivier
The director discusses his new production of Arnold Wesker's play.

Di Trevis
Fri 23 Sept, Cottesloe
Being a Director is both a practical guide to directing and a professional autobiography of her National Theatre productions.

David Edgar: Playwrights and Politics
Tue 27 Sept, Cottesloe
Post-war British playwrights have been solicited, and sometimes derided, for their opinions on the issues of the day. Does this reflect the character of British Theatre? Or the place of the "intellectual" in British society? Janelle Reinelt, co-author of The Political Theatre of David Edgar, discusses these questions with the playwright.

Simon Russell Beale
Wed 28 Sept, Olivier
Simon Russell Beale talks about his 20-year creative partnership with the director Sam Mendes, as celebrated in Mark Leipacher's new book, Catching the Light.

Jonathan Miller
Fri 30 Sept, Olivier
With St Matthew Passion and an exhibition at the NT, the distinguished director, author, broadcaster, humorist and sculptor talks about his life and work.

Mrs Oscar Wilde
Mon 3 Oct, Cottesloe
Constance and Oscar Wilde's lifestyle shook the foundations of 19th-century society; drawing on Constance's letters, Franny Moyle's book examines another victim of an infamous betrayal.

Mike Leigh
Tue 4 Oct, Olivier
The award-winning director talks about his new play.

Arnold Wesker
Wed 5 Oct, Olivier
The playwright reads from his one-woman play, Annie Wobbler, in which he discusses, for the only time in his fiction, the process of writing.

Bonnie Greer on Langston Hughes
Tue 11 Oct, Cottesloe
Bonnie Greer's new biography gives an insight into the controversial and contradictory life of the African-American poet, novelist, campaigner and playwright.

Craig Brown and Friends
Fri 14 Oct, Cottesloe
The satirist and guests perform One on One, a daisy chain of 101 meetings, from Bacon heckling Princess Margaret to Edward Heath carol-singing for Sickert.

Black Voices
Mon 17 Oct, Lyttelton
Paterson Joseph is joined by several generations of Black British actors to discuss the identity of the modern black voice in British theatre today.

Conor McPherson on The Veil
Tue 25 Oct, Lyttelton
The playwright and director discusses his new play.

James Corden
Mon 31 Oct, Lyttelton
The multi-talented James Corden talks about his recent memoir.

Melvyn Bragg
Sat 5 Nov, 10.30am, Lyttelton
The broadcaster and author looks at the radical impact of The King James Bible over the last 400 years in The Book of Books.