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Image: Waves / Photographer: Stephen Cummiskey

Image: Photographer: Stephen Cummiskey

NATIONAL THEATRE

Drama, Theatre, New writing

SIZE OF COMPANY
Varies

SCALE OF VENUE
Middle- and large-scale

PERMANENT STAFF
Director
Nicholas Hytner

Executive Director
Nick Starr

Associate Producer
Pádraig Cusack

Associate Directors
Howard Davies
Marianne Elliott
Tom Morris

ARTISTIC POLICY
The National Theatre is central to the creative life of the country. In its three theatres on the South Bank in London, it presents an eclectic mix of new plays and classics, with seven or eight productions in repertory at any one time. It aims constantly to re-energise the great traditions of the British stage and to expand the horizons of audiences and artists alike. It aspires to reflect in its repertoire the diversity of UK culture. And through touring, the National shares its work with audiences in the UK and internationally.

REVIEW EXTRACTS
The Guardian ()

The Daily Telegraph

The Times ()

CURRENT PRODUCTIONS
A work devised by Katie Mitchell and the company from the text of Virginia Woolf's novel, The Waves. A fragmented and dreamlike tale of friendship, loss, identity and love in a multi-media production based on Virginia Woolf's ground-breaking experiment in literary form.

Joan Didion's award-winning autobiographical examination of grief with Vanessa Redgrave portraying the writer in Didion's stage adaptation of her exhilarating memoir, directed by playwright David Hare. Redgrave re-lives the unimaginable night when, as Didion's only child lay in a coma, her husband of 40 years, writer John Gregory Dunne, died of a massive coronary as they sat down to dinner in their New York apartment.

By Samuel Beckett. A new production directed by Deborah Warner. Blazing light, scorched grass. Buried to above her waist and woken by a piercing bell, Winnie (Fiona Shaw) chatters away as she rummages in a bag, brushes her teeth, pulls out and kisses a revolver. Her husband, Willie, responds now and then, reads from an old paper, and studies a pornographic postcard. A second bell signals the end of another happy day.

By Sophocles in a new version by Douglas Dunn. Leading theatre director Jonathan Kent directs a new version of the Greek classic, with award-winning actor Ralph Fiennes in the title role.

p by Mark Ravenhill & by Enda Walsh. Two short, sharp and provocative plays where the drama of young people’s lives takes centre stage. – a bittersweet comedy about growing up, following a boy’s frank and messy search to discover his sexual identity. – in cyberspace six 15-year-olds type and chat. A chilling and powerful tale of manipulation and the ultimate act of teenage rebellion.

WRAP-AROUND
The National Theatre provides talks on its international tours.

RECENT INTERNATIONAL WORK
2007 France, Greece (), Ireland (), Spain, USA ()
2006 Australia, Hong Kong, New Zealand, USA ()
2005 Ireland (), South Africa, USA ()

TOURING AVAILABILITY
and from spring 2008
from summer 2008
from late summer/autumn 2008
and from autumn 2008

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