What to see at the National Theatre 2020 season
From Tony Kushner's revenge comedy to Lucy Kirkwood's feminist crime mystery, here's what to book at the National Theatre 2020
The Welkin, Lyttelton Theatre
Playwright Lucy Kirkwood, who dazzled with 2013's Chimerica, takes audiences to 1759, where a young woman is sentenced to hang for murder. When the convict claims she is pregnant, therefore exempt from the death penalty, a jury of 12 women must find out the truth. Maxine Peake stars as the midwife in charge of counselling the woman.
Read more ...The Visit, Olivier Theatre
The world's richest woman returns to her impoverished hometown, offering to pay the locals to kill her ex-lover. Friedrich Dürrenmatt’s 1956 play The Visit is a darkly funny take on the revenge drama tradition. Angels in America playwright Tony Kushner re-works the text, exploring greed and hypocrisy in a thrilling new production.
Read more ...The Seven Streams of the River Ota, Lyttelton Theatre
French-Canadian director Robert Lepage seven-hour, multi-lingual exploration of the Hiroshima bombings returns to the National Theatre after dazzling and shocking in 1996. Brace yourself for an epic, inventive and visually arresting experience.
Read more ...Death of England, National Theatre
Clint Dyer will become the first black British creative to have written, directed and performed at the National Theatre when Death of England opens in the Dorfman Theatre in 2020. Developed in collaboration with writer Roy Williams, it's a powerful monologue as one man takes the mic at his father's funeral to rage about class, race, poverty and football. Rafe Spall stars.
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