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A Very Expensive Poison

Old Vic Theatre

Wednesday Matinee

Previews from Tuesday, 20 August, 2019, Opens Thursday, 5 September, 2019

A shocking assassination in the heart of London. In a bizarre mix of high-stakes global politics and radioactive villainy, a man pays with his life.

At this time of global crises and a looming new Cold War, A Very Expensive Poison sends us careering through the shadowy world of international espionage from Moscow to Mayfair.

John Crowley (Brooklyn, The Goldfinch) directs Lucy Prebble’s (The Effect, ENRON) reimagining of Luke Harding’s jaw-dropping exposé of the events behind the notorious death of Russian spy Alexander Litvinenko.
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A Doll's House

Lyric Hammersmith Theatre

Wednesday Matinee

Previews from Friday, 6 September, 2019, Opens Wednesday, 11 September, 2019

Calcutta. 1879.

Niru, is a young Bengali woman in a mixed-race marriage with an English colonial bureaucrat – Tom.

Tom loves Niru, exoticising her as a frivolous plaything to be admired and kept. But Niru has a long-kept secret. And just as she thinks she is almost free of it, it threatens to bring her life crashing down around her.

Tanika Gupta reimagines Ibsen’s classic play of gender politics through the lens of British colonialism, offering a bold, female perspective exploring themes of ownership and race.
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A Day in the Death of Joe Egg

Trafalgar Studio One

No Matinee

Previews from Saturday, 21 September, 2019, Opens Wednesday, 2 October, 2019

Toby Stephens (Oslo, Lost in Space) and Claire Skinner (Outnumbered) make their long-awaited returns to the West End stage in Peter Nichols' (Privates on Parade, Passion Play) frank and moving masterpiece A Day in the Death of Joe Egg.
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RSC: As You Like It

Barbican

Thursday Matinee

Previews from Saturday, 26 October, 2019, Opens Tuesday, 29 October, 2019

Rosalind is banished, and with her best friend Celia by her side, she journeys into exile. But not before catching the eye of love-struck Orlando, who is also forced from The Court into the dappled Forest of Arden.
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Acosta Danza - Evolution

Sadler's Wells

Thursday Matinee

Opens Monday, 18 November, 2019

After a critically acclaimed national and international tour, Carlos Acosta’s eclectic Cuban company bring a second programme of ballet and contemporary works to Sadler’s Wells.
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A Christmas Carol

Old Vic Theatre

Wednesday Matinee

Previews from Saturday, 18 November, 2017, Opens Wednesday, 4 December, 2019

Esteemed writer Jack Thorne's joyous, atmospheric adaptation of the timeless Charles Dickens classic returns to The Old Vic folowing a successful run last Christmas.
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Antigone - The Burial at Thebes

Lyric Hammersmith Theatre

No Matinee

Previews from Saturday, 18 April, 2020, Opens Thursday, 23 April, 2020

The war has ended. Antigone, daughter of Oedipus, learns her brothers are dead. Forced onto opposing sides, they have killed each other in battle. When Creon, King of Thebes, grants the honour of a burial to one but not the other, Antigone and her sister must choose where their loyalties lie. This epic tale of humanity versus leadership centres on a young woman with the courage to defend her beliefs – whatever the cost.