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The Pitchfork Disney
Opens: 25/01/2012 Closes: 17/03/2012
Arcola Theatre, London
Cosmo Disney's abrupt arrival in the lives of 28 year-old twins Presley and Hayley rocks their childish existence, one based on sleeping pills and chocolate. Creating a surreality concerned with fear, sexuality and violence, Ridley's revolutionary 1991 theatrical debut ushered in an era of ‘anything goes' theatre.
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She Stoops to Conquer
Opens: 24/01/2012 Closes: 28/03/2012
The National Theatre, London
The depths to which a woman must go to snag her man is the theme of Oliver Goldsmith’s ever-popular 18th-century comedy. In a reversal of the Cinderella role, toff Kate masquerades as a barmaid. Corrie actress Katherine Kelly in the lead swaps The Rovers Return for an olde English alehouse. |
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The Sea Plays
Opens: 23/01/2012 Closes: 18/02/2012
The Old Vic Tunnels, London
Unable to wait for the upcoming Long Day's Journey into Night, the Old Vic tunnels present celebrated early works by the troubled 20th-century playwright, Eugene O'Neil. Powerful one-act plays set aboard ship combine the romance of life at sea with the poignant notion of home.
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The Taming of the Shrew
Opens: 19/01/2012 Closes: 31/03/2012
UK tour
Having wowed audiences worldwide with her macabre production of Shakespeare's Julius Caesar, one of our most prominent directors, Lucy Bailey swaps the blood-soaked battlefields of Rome with a more elevated Verona. This Elizabethan rom-com resonates still, with love triumphing over financial security.
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The House of Bernarda Alba
Opens: 19/01/2012 Closes: 10/03/2012
Almeida Theatre, London.
The classic play about repressed passion by Federico Garcia Lorca takes a new form in the hands of director Emily Mann. Changing the setting from Spain to Iran, Mann casts a superb Shohreh Aghdashloo as the domineering matriarch Bernarda Alba, who isolates her five daughters following the death of her husband.
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Lovesong
Opens: 11/01/2012 Closes: 04/02/2012
Lyric Hammersmith, London
Writer Abi Morgan is currently just about everywhere, and in all media, with her major screenplays for The Iron Lady and Shame (co-written with director Steve McQueen), and TV's The Hour. This stage piece about lifelong love between one couple takes up a residency in London after an acclaimed tour.
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Travelling Light
Opens: 11/01/2012 Closes: 06/03/2012
Lyttelton Theatre, London.
In a prolific year for explorations of early cinema – think the Artist or Hugo – Nicholas Wright’s new play offers an engaging, stage-bound reflection on the role of Eastern European immigrants during Hollywood’s Golden Age. Successful director, Motl Mendl, looks back at his career. Features award-winning actor, Anthony Sher.
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Huis Clos
Opens: 05/01/2012 Closes: 28/01/2012
Trafalgar Studios, London
Joseph, Inès and Estelle are trapped in a room with no windows, no mirrors and no exit. Jean-Paul Sartre's 1944 play shows us exactly how ‘hell is other people', as his three sinners are left to spend their eternal afterlife needling each other about their misdeeds and major character flaws.
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Coram Boy
Opens: 22/12/2011 Closes: 30/12/2011
Colston Hall, Bristol
Bristol Old Vic re-stage the celebrated 2006 adaptation of the beloved children’s book, with the award-winning original director Melly Still on board. It’s partly a grand slice of social history – a winding tale about an 18th-century musician who leaves his buttoned-up family home behind in search of fame.
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Murmurs
Opens: 20/12/2011 Closes: 02/01/2012
Southbank Centre, London
Charlie Chaplin’s granddaughter and great-granddaughter bring us their second collaboration, as enchanting as their first. Aurelia plays a character whose life has been organised into shabby cardboard boxes. Her daydreams lead her through an inventively staged dystopia formed from everyday objects. Look out for an inspired use of bubble wrap.
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