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Olivier Theatre
South bank SE1 9PX
Tube: Waterloo
Box Office 020 7452 3000
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What's Playing
WAR HORSE
based on a novel by Michael Morpurgo, adapted by Nick Stafford | Genre | Drama | | Previews from | 10 Sep 08 | | Opens | 17 Sep 08 | | Booking to | 18 Mar 09 | | Closes | 18 Mar 09 | | Time | Click on Performance Schedule Link (near bottom of page)
| | Tickets | Lashmars Theatre Tickets | | Performers | James Barriscale, Finn Caldwell, Paul Chequer, Tim van Eyken, Thomas Goodridge, Stephen Harper, Gareth Kennerley, Craig Leo, Tommy Luther, Mervyn Millar, Emily Mytton, Toby Olie, Howard Ward, Alan Williams Kit Harington (Albert), Bronagh Gallagher, Curtis Flowers, Bryony Hannah. | | Director | Marianne Elliott and Tom Morris | | Design | Rae Smith | | Lighting | Paule Constable | | Choreography | | | Costume | | | Sound | Christopher Shutt | | Producer | National Theatre / Handspring Puppet Company | | Synopsis | At the outbreak of World War One, Joey, young Albert's beloved horse, is sold to the cavalry and shipped to France. He's soon caught up in enemy fire, and fate takes him on an extraordinary odyssey, serving on both sides before finding himself alone in no man's land. But Albert cannot forget Joey and, still not old enough to enlist, he embarks on a treacherous mission to find him and bring him home. | | B/O Price | £10 - £41 | | Length | 2hrs 25mins | | Review | | | Other Info | Puppet designs and fabrication by Adrian Kohler, video design by Leo Warnerand Suitable for age 12 and above | | Performance Schedule |
OEDIPUS
by Sophocles, in a new version by Frank McGuinness | Genre | Drama | | Previews from | 8 Oct 08 | | Opens | 15 Oct 08 | | Booking to | 4 Jan 09 | | Closes | 4 Jan 09 | | Time | Click on Performance Schedule Link (near bottom of page)
| | Tickets | Lashmars Theatre Tickets | | Performers | Ralph Fiennes (Oedipus), Alan Howard (Teiresias), Clare Higgins (Jocasta), Patrick Brennan, Steven Page, Christopher Saul, David Shaw-Parker, Malcolm Storry | | Director | Jonathan Kent | | Design | Paul Brown | | Lighting | Neil Austin | | Choreography | | | Costume | | | Sound | Paul Groothuis | | Producer | National Theatre | | Synopsis | The people of Thebes look to Oedipus to lift a terrible curse from them and their city. He consults the oracle and learns that he must root out the late king's murderer. But his relentless interrogation of one man after another leads inexorably, and in the space of a single day, to his own savage conclusion. | | B/O Price | £10 - £41 | | Length | 1hr 40min | | Review | Review | | Other Info | | | Performance Schedule |
EVERY GOOD BOY DESERVES FAVOUR
by Tom Stoppard and Andre Previn | Genre | Drama | | Previews from | 12 Jan 09 | | Opens | 16 Jan 09 | | Booking to | 25 Feb 09 | | Closes | 25 Feb 09 | | Time | Click on Performance Schedule Link (near bottom of page)
| | Tickets | | | Performers | Bronagh Gallagher (The Teacher), Bryony Hannah (Sacha), Dan Stevens (The Doctor) | | Director | Felix Barrett and Tom Morris | | Design | Bob Crowley | | Lighting | Bruno Poet | | Choreography | Maxine Doyle | | Costume | | | Sound | Christopher Shutt | | Producer | Southbank Sinfonia and the National Theatre | | Synopsis | A play for actors and orchestra: A dissident is locked up in an asylum. If he accepts that he was ill, has been treated and is now cured, he will be released. He refuses. Sharing his cell is a real lunatic who believes himself to be surrounded by an orchestra. As the dissident's son begs his father to free himself with a lie, this provocative play asks if denying the truth is a price worth paying for liberty. | | B/O Price | £10 - £30 | | Length | 1hr 5min | | Review | | | Other Info | | | Performance Schedule |
ENGLAND PEOPLE VERY NICE
by Richard Bean | Genre | Comedy | | Previews from | 4 Feb 09 | | Opens | 11 Feb 09 | | Booking to | 30 Apr 09 | | Closes | | | Time | Click on Performance Schedule Link (near bottom of page) | | Tickets | | | Performers | Jamie Beamish, Paul Chequer, Olivia Colman, Rudi Dharmalingam, Sacha Dhawan, Trevor Laird, Elliot Levey, Aaron Neil, Fred Ridgeway, Sophie Stanton, Howard Ward. | | Director | Nicholas Hytner | | Design | Mark Thompson | | Lighting | Neil Austin | | Choreography | | | Costume | | | Sound | John Leonard | | Producer | National Theatre | | Synopsis | A riotous journey through four waves of immigration from the 17th century to today. As the French Huguenots, the Irish, the Jews and the Bangladeshis in turn enter the chaotic world of Bethnal Green, each new influx provokes a surge of violent protest over housing, jobs, religion and culture. And the emerging pattern shows that white flight and anxiety over integration are anything but new. | | B/O Price | £10 - £30 | | Length | | | Review | | | Other Info | Director of Animation is Pete Bishop.
music by Grant Olding | | Performance Schedule |
DEATH AND THE KING'S HORSEMAN
by Wole Soyinka | Genre | Drama | | Previews from | 1 Apr 09 | | Opens | 8 Apr 09 | | Booking to | 23 Apr 09 | | Closes | | | Time | Click on Performance Schedule Link (near bottom of page) | | Tickets | | | Performers | | | Director | Rufus Norris | | Design | Katrina Lindsay | | Lighting | Paule Constable | | Choreography | | | Costume | | | Sound | Ian Dickinson | | Producer | National Theatre | | Synopsis | Nigeria, 1943. The King is dead, and tonight his Horseman must escort him to the Ancestors. As Elesin Oba dances through the closing marketplace, flirting with the women, pursued by his praise-singer and an entourage of drummers, he promises to honour the ancient Yoruba custom of ritual suicide and so accompany his ruler on the final journey. But a life so rich is hard to leave, and this is a British colony where such customs are not tolerated, no matter how sacred. | | B/O Price | £10 - £30 | | Length | | | Review | | | Other Info | | | Performance Schedule |
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