National Theatre 2019 Season Guide
The National Theatre 2019 season brings exciting adaptations, long-lost masterpieces and sizzling new writing
Small Island, Olivier Theatre
Andrea Levy's acclaimed novel Small Islands is given epic scope, telling the story of the rejection and acceptance faced by Jamaican immigrants bound for Britain in the run up to the arrival of HMS Empire Windrush. It's set to be a timely take on what may become a classic story of our time.
Read more ...The Barber Shop Chronicles, Roundhouse Camden
Masculinity is in the spotlight in this potent play, which transfers to The Roundhouse after impressing at the National Theatre.
Read more ...Rutherford and Son, Lyttelton Theatre
Roger Allam takes up the mantle of a flawed industrialist who tears his family apart in Githa Sowerby's astonishing semi-autobiographical play.
Read more ...War Horse, Troubadour Wembley Park Theatre
The National Theatre's smash hit stage adaptation of War Horse continues to gallop from strength to strength. As the 2007 production tours around the UK it will return to London to christen a new state-of-the-art performance space in Wembley.
Read more ...ANNA, Dorfman Theatre
The new play by the talented Ella Hickson is a chilling study of love and surveillance. Audience members are given headsets to listen in on the life of a young couple in Cold War East Berlin.
Read more ...Peter Gynt, Olivier Theatre
David Hare adapts yet another classic of modern theatre, dragging Ibsen's notorious wanderer Peer Gynt into the modern world. Stay tuned for trolls, troubles and (maybe) Trump.
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