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National Theatre: Lyttelton

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Here We Are

Here We Are

2 Jun 2025 - 26 Jun 2025

Stephen Sondheim’s ‘cool, and impossibly chic’ (New York Times Critic’s Pick) final work is directed by two-time Tony Award-winner Joe Mantello with book by Tony Award-nominee David Ives.
Inter Alia

Inter Alia

2 Aug 2025 - 10 Sept 2025

A searing new play from the team behind Prima Facie Jessica Parks is smart, compassionate, a true maverick at the top of her career as an eminent London Crown Court Judge. At work she’s changing and challenging the system one case at a time. But behind the robe, Jessica is a karaoke fiend, a loving wife and a supportive parent. While managing the impossible juggling act faced by every working mother, an event threatens to throw her life completely off balance. Can she hold her family upright? _Rosamund Pike_ (Saltburn) makes her National Theatre debut as Jessica. Writer _Suzie Miller_ and director _Justin Martin_ reunite following their global phenomenon Prima Facie with this searing examination of modern masculinity and motherhood. FOR ASSISTED PERFORMANCES, PLEASE BOOK DIRECTLY THROUGH THE NATIONAL THEATRE.
Hamlet

Hamlet

25 Sept 2025 - 22 Nov 2025

‘The play’s the thing’ Something is rotten in the state of Denmark. Are you watching closely? Trapped between duty and doubt, surrounded by power and privilege, young Prince Hamlet dares to ask the ultimate question – you know the one. Olivier Award-winner Hiran Abeysekera (The Father and the Assassin, Life of Pi) is Hamlet in this fearless, contemporary take on Shakespeare’s famous tragedy.National Theatre Deputy Artistic Director, Robert Hastie (Standing at the Sky’s Edge, Operation Mincemeat) directs this sharp, stylish and darkly funny reimagining. FOR ASSISTED PERFORMANCES, PLEASE BOOK DIRECTLY THROUGH THE NATIONAL THEATRE.
The Playboy of the Western World

The Playboy of the Western World

4 Dec 2025 - 28 Feb 2026

At the edge of the earth, you could be anyone. Pegeen Flaherty’s life is turned upside down when, on a normal day, a young man walks into her pub claiming that he’s killed his father. Instead of being shunned, the killer Christy Mahon becomes a local hero. The welcome murderer wins hearts and races as he beds himself into village life. That is until a second man unexpectedly arrives on the scene… Caitríona McLaughlin (Artistic Director of the Abbey Theatre, Dublin) directs Nicola Coughlan (Bridgerton), Éanna Hardwicke (The Sixth Commandment) and Siobhán McSweeney (Derry Girls) in John Millington Synge’s riveting story of youth and self-discovery. FOR ASSISTED PERFORMANCES, PLEASE BOOK DIRECTLY THROUGH THE NATIONAL THEATRE.

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