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December theatre shows to see

By Lucy Brooks on 25/11/2019

There's more to December theatre than pantos and cheese: seven plays to make time for this month.

Inua Ellams' Three Sisters at the National Theatre

Three Sisters, National Theatre

After impressing with sell-out Barber Shop Chronicles, Inua Ellams retruns to the National Theatre with a new take on Chekhov's Three Sisters, shifting the classic story from 1900 Russia to 1967 Nigeria.

WHEN

02 Dec 2019 – 19 Feb 2020, 7:30 PM – 10:00 PM

WHERE

National Theatre
South Bank, London, SE1 9PX

A Taste of Honey, Trafalgar Studios

Bijan Sheibani's production of 50s play A Taste of Honey comes to the West End after impressing on a National Tour. Jodie Prenger plays Helen, a mother who runs off with a car salesman.

WHEN

05 Dec 2019 – 29 Feb 2020, 7:30 PM – 9:55 PM

WHERE

Trafalgar Studios
14 Whitehall, London, SW1A 2DY

The Duchess of Malfi, Almeida Theatre

The story is time-old, but its themes are timeless: love, marriage and children don’t always mean a happy ending. The Duchess of Malfi comes to the Almeida stage. The Jacobean revenge tragedy is reimagined by director Rebecca Frecknall (Summer and Smoke).

WHEN

02 Dec 2019 – 18 Jan 2020, 7:30 PM – 9:30 PM

WHERE

Almeida Theatre
Almeida Street, Islington, London, N1 1TA

Daniel Monks in the Donmar Warehouse's production of Teenage Dick

Teenage Dick, Donmar Warehouse

Shakespeare's villainous king Richard III is reimagined in an all-American high-school setting in provocatively named new play Teenage Dick, which makes the Plantagenet king Richard III into the underdog at an American high school.

WHEN

06 Dec 2019 – 01 Feb 2020, 7:30 PM – 9:30 PM

WHERE

Donmar Warehouse
41 Earlham Street, Seven Dials, WC2H 9LX

Swive [Elizabeth], Sam Wanamaker Playhouse

In Swive, playwright Ella Hickson explores the relationship between sex and power in Elizabeth I's reign. Taking its title from an archaic word with a dual meaning (to copulate with a woman or to cut a crop), the play explores examines the monarch's 45 year reign.

WHEN

06 Dec 2019 – 15 Feb 2020, 7:30 PM – 9:30 PM

WHERE

The Globe
21 New Globe Walk, Bankside, London, SE1 9DT

Girl from the North Country - Bob Dylan songs feature in new Conor McPherson play at Old Vic.

Girl From the North Country, Gielgud Theatre

After dazzling in London and New York, Conor McPherson’s poignant ‘play with music’ returns to the West End. It's a five-star delight that weaves Bob Dylan's music into a Depression-era drama.

WHEN

10 Dec 2019 – 01 Feb 2020, 7:30 PM – 10:00 PM

WHERE

Gielgud Theatre
35 Shaftesbury Avenue, London, W1D 6AR

The Ocean at the End of the Lane, National Theatre

Enter a magical world plagued by dark forces in a new show at the National Theatre. Neil Gaiman, the ever imaginative writer behind Good Omens, American Gods, Coraline and Stardust turns his talents to the stage in new adaptation of 2013 novel The Ocean at the End of the Lane.

WHEN

03 Dec 2019 – 25 Jan 2020, 7:30 PM – 10:00 PM

WHERE

National Theatre
South Bank, London, SE1 9PX