National Theatre new season booking guide
From Rory Kinnear's Macbeth to a debut play about West Indian family rituals: here's what to book from the National Theatre new season
John
Cult cool American playwright Annie Baker returns to the Dorfman after 2016's sellout The Flick. New play John is an uncanny exploration of inanimate objects.
Read more ...Macbeth
Superstition, ambition and bloody violence come to the National Theatre as a new season featuring three Shakespeare plays opens with Rufus Norris's new production of Macbeth starring Anne-Marie Duff and Rory Kinnear.
The Winter’s Tale
Shakespeare's late comedy of love, loss and reconciliation is re-imagined for children in a new family-friendly production for February half-term.
Read more ...Absolute Hell
Theatre doesn't get much more scandalous that Rodney Ackland's Absolute Hell. Maverick director Joe Hill-Gibbins revived the play branded 'a libel on the British people' back in 1952.
Read more ...The Great Wave
A new co-production from the National Theatre and Kilburn's Tricycle Theatre transports audiences to Japan and North Korea for a family tragedy with political consequences.
Read more ...Nine Night
Natasha Gordon's debut play explores West Indian family ritual with a nine night wake to celebrate and mourn one woman's death.
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