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Cottesloe Theatre
South bank SE1 9PX
Tube: Waterloo
Box Office 020 7452 3000
Fax: 020 7452 3030
What's Playing
WALWORTH FARCE, THE
by Enda Walsh | Genre | Drama | | Previews from | 18 Sep 08 | | Opens | 24 Sep 08 | | Booking to | 29 Nov 08 | | Closes | 29 Nov 08 | | Time | Click on Performance Schedule Link (near bottom of page)
| | Tickets | | | Performers | Denis Conway, Garrett Lombard, Tadhg Murphy, Mercy Ojelade | | Director | Mikel Murfi | | Design | Sabine Dargent | | Lighting | Paul Keogan | | Choreography | | | Costume | | | Sound | | | Producer | Druid production | | Synopsis | It's 11 o'clock in the morning in a council flat on the Walworth Road. In two hours' time, as is normal, three Irish men will have consumed six cans of Harp, 15 crackers with spreadable cheese and one oven-cooked chicken with a strange blue sauce. In two hours' time, as is normal, five people will have been killed. | | B/O Price | £10 - £29 | | Length | 2hrs 15mins | | Review | Review | | Other Info | | | Performance Schedule |
GETHSEMANE
by David Hare | Genre | Drama | | Previews from | 04 Nov 08 | | Opens | 11 Nov 08 | | Booking to | 24 Feb 09 | | Closes | 24 Feb 09 | | Time | Click on Performance Schedule Link (near bottom of page)
| | Tickets | | | Performers | Anthony Calf, Tamsin Greig, Jessica Raine, Stanley Townsend, Nicola Walker | | Director | Howard Davis | | Design | Bob Crowley | | Lighting | Mark Henderson | | Choreography | | | Costume | Fotini Dimou | | Sound | Christopher Shutt | | Producer | National Theatre | | Synopsis | Nothing is more important to a modern political party than fund-raising. But the values of the donors can't always coincide with the professed beliefs of the party. And family scandal within the cabinet has the potential to throw the money-raisers and the money-spenders into chaos. This play about British public life looks at the way business, media and politics are now intertwined tonobody's advantage, as, in an unforgiving world, one character after another passes through Gethsemane | | B/O Price | £10 - £29 | | Length | | | Review | Review | | Other Info | | | Performance Schedule |
MRS AFFLECK
by Samuel Adamson, from Ibsen's Little Eyolf | Genre | Drama | | Previews from | 20 Jan 09 | | Opens | 27 Jan 09 | | Booking to | 29 Apr 09 | | Closes | 29 Apr 09 | | Time | Click on Performance Schedule Link (near bottom of page)
| | Tickets | | | Performers | Claire Skinner, Naomi Frederick, Angus Wright | | Director | Marianne Elliott | | Design | Bunny Christie | | Lighting | Neil Austin | | Choreography | | | Costume | | | Sound | Christopher Shutt | | Producer | National Theatre | | Synopsis | After six lonely weeks with nobody but her crippled little boy for company, Rita Affleck, wealthy, beautiful and consumed by jealous love, welcomes home her husband Alfred. But, far from the passionate reunion she so craves, there is only torment as Alfred's possessive half-sister arrives, and he announces his great revelation. | | B/O Price | £10 - £29 | | Length | | | Review | | | Other Info | | | Performance Schedule |
DIDO, QUEEN OF CARTHAGE
by Christopher Marlowe | Genre | Drama | | Previews from | 17 Mar 09 | | Opens | 24 Mar 09 | | Booking to | 7 May 09 | | Closes | | | Time | Click on Performance Schedule Link (near bottom of page) | | Tickets | | | Performers | | | Director | James Macdonald | | Design | Tobias Hoheisel | | Lighting | Adam Silverman | | Choreography | | | Costume | Moritz Junge | | Sound | Christopher Shutt | | Producer | National Theatre | | Synopsis | Seeking refuge from a violent storm, Aeneas lands on the shores of Carthage where Queen Dido, moved by his retelling of the fall of Troy and betwitched by a malevolent Cupid, soon burns with love. Their ensuing passion, manipulated by the watching, warring gods, can only end in tragedy. | | B/O Price | £10 - £30 | | Length | | | Review | | | Other Info | | | Performance Schedule |
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