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Brid Brennan is compelling as the central character in Dixon and Daughters, a play about the consequences of male violence against women now at the Dorfman Theatre
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From the National Theatre to the West End: Lyndsey Turner's production of The Crucible is back on stage with a new cast including Milly Alcock and Brian Gleeson
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Fuelled by TV talent, Josie Rourke’s timely revival of Brian Friel’s Dancing at Lughnasa finds fresh relevance in our post-pandemic landscape
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Playwright James Graham turns his attention to football, exploring the struggles of the England men's team through their manager Gareth Southgate at the National
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Playwright Chris Bush, with former Pulp and The Longpigs band member Richard Hawley, has written a vital musical about Sheffield's giant housing estate, Park Hill
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Writer-director Simon Stone (Yerma), with a top-notch cast led by Janet McTeer, transposes the Greek myth of Phaedra to contemporary Britain
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Fay Ripley from Cold Feet fame adds sparkle to an otherwise ill-thought through class comedy at the National Theatre
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Clint Dyer’s slick production of Othello at the National Theatre starkly illuminates the systemic racism and misogyny in society
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Based on BBC Radio 4’s Book of the Week, this stage adaptation of The Boy with Two Hearts details the heartrending struggle of Afghan refugees
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Samira Wiley (Orange Is the New Black) and Giles Terera (Hamilton) star in Lynette Linton’s mesmeric revival of Blues for an Alabama Sky at the National Theatre
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Director Simon Godwin teams up with designer Anna Fleischle to present a loud and glitzy Much Ado About Nothing, set in an Art Deco beachside hotel
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The Father and the Assassin tells the story of Nathuram Godse, the man who murdered Gandhi, within a compelling historical sweep through the run-up to India’s independence
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In Middle, the second instalment of playwright David Eldridge's trilogy on love and relationships, attempts at relatability become distancing
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A moody, folky take on Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights comes to the National’s Lyttelton Theatre in the hands of Emma Rice’s Wise Children
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Andrea Levy's epic tale of love, hope and sacrifice between Britain and Jamaica in the 40s returns after sold out premiere in 2019
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Trouble in Mind, Alice Childress's cutting satire of racism in 1950s America, proves a play for the here and now in the National Theatre's engaging production
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Playwright Moira Buffini returns to the National Theatre with Manor, a thriller-esque state-of-the-nation drama starring Nancy Carroll and Shaun Evans
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Larry Kramer’s political and largely autobiographical Aids drama The Normal Heart is revived at the National Theatre in a production directed by Dominic Cooke
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East is East, Ayub Khan Din’s culture-clash comedy about a British-Pakistani family, comes to the National Theatre to mark its 25th anniversary
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Award-winning playwright Winsome Pinnock provides poignancy and fury in her epic on slavery, legacy and representation
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Kae Tempest’s Paradise, showing at the National Theatre under the direction of Ian Rickson, lends contemporary relevance to the Greek myth of Philoctetes
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Dylan Thomas’s ‘play for voices’ is reframed and revived in a vibrant medley of poetry and memory with a shining performance from Michael Sheen
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Writer Jack Thorne, director Jeremy Herrin and designer Bunny Christie join forces to bring Hirokazu Kore-eda’s tender movie After Life to the National Theatre’s Dorfman stage
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The National Theatre will reopen in June with Jack Thorne's adaptation of After Life and a Michael Sheen-led production of Under Milk Wood
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Clint Dyer and Roy Williams return to the National Theatre with Death of England: Delroy, an unflinching examination of being a black working-class man in Britain
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For one year only, the National Theatre is staging a panto for Christmas. Dick Whittington is being performed live to a socially distanced audience
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Tony Kushner (Angels in America) updates Friedrich Dürrenmatt’s visionary revenge play, The Visit
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Hotshot American writer Annie Baker returns to the National Theatre with The Antipodes, a new play about stories
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Brian Friel's 'finest and most universal' play gets a major revival at the National Theatre
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Director Roy Alexander Weise revives Athol Fugard's semi-autobiographical masterpiece about apartheid era South Africa with comedy and tragedy in miniature
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Politics and family secrets spark in Hansard, a new play starring two-time Olivier winners Alex Jennings and Lindsay Duncan
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Andrew Bovell's adaptation of The Secret River comes to the National Theatre, telling the story of Australia's early settlers and their clashes with the country's native people