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The Suit
Opens: 21/05/2012 Closes: 16/06/2012
Young Vic, London
This woeful tale of a woman forced to romance an empty suit could be funny if it weren't for its context, and Can Themba's Le Costume was banned for years in his native South Africa for its outspoken political bent. In the hands of directorial heavyweights Peter Brook and Marie-Hélène Estienne, this Apartheid-era parable is translated into a musical production.
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Children's Children
Opens: 17/05/2012 Closes: 20/06/2012
Almeida Theatre, London
Associate Director of the Royal Court Theatre, Jeremy Herrin directs Matthew Dunster's new comedy that shows a friendship taking a decidedly sour turn, premiering at the Almeida. When Gordon is forced to ask Michael, his successful best friend of twenty years, for money, the cracks caused by their differing lifestyles become gapingly obvious.
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Betrayal
Opens: 17/05/2012 Closes: 09/06/2012
Crucible, Sheffield Theatres
Following rave reviews of last year's London revival, Nick Bagnall directs John Simm in a love story that inverts the passing of time, tracing the demise of a doomed love triangle to its sordid beginnings. One of Harold Pinter's finest, this is a typically British play based on a typically British betrayal - its author's affair with BBC presenter Joan Bakewell.
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Tender Napalm
Opens: 10/05/2012 Closes: 23/06/2012
UK tour
Playwright Philip Ridley is having an excellent season, as two critically acclaimed productions of his work return to the London stage. With a UK tour that begins just as The Pitchfork Disney closes, this unflinching piece tells another violent, sensual and surreal story. An unnamed couple deal with the ferocity of love, which has shipwrecked them both.
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A Slow Air
Opens: 09/05/2012 Closes: 02/06/2012
The Tricycle, London
David Harrower's fondness for a two-person dynamic, which went down very well in his Olivier Award-winning Blackbird, is reprised in this play, fresh from a US tour. Using dramatic monologue to expose the state of ‘modern Scotland', Harrower examines the bonds of family and community in a drama which unfolds in light of - and in spite of - the 2007 terrorist attacks in Glasgow.
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Babel
Opens: 08/05/2012 Closes: 20/05/2012
Caledonian Park, London
The team behind the marathon three-day performance of The Passion last Easter (later made into a feature length film by Dave McKean) take over London's Caledonian Park with another biblical tale of godly proportions. With the Young Vic, Lyric theatre and Theatre Royal pooling their creative energies, this story of the tower built to reach the heavens – an ever-prescient fable of a united humanity – is likely to be a stunner.
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The Real Thing
Opens: 04/05/2012 Closes: 07/07/2012
UK tour
Tom Stoppard's critically acclaimed drama sees playwright Henry and his actress wife Charlotte inadvertently becoming the central characters in a real life saga. The couple struggle to keep their affair-strewn marriage together, as they and their respective extra-marital lovers all search for something genuine. This revival marks the play's 30-year anniversary.
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Clockwork
Opens: 04/05/2012 Closes: 13/05/2012
HighTide Festival, Halesworth
Fresh off the raft of Bright Young Female playwrights tackling issues for modern twenty-somethings is Laura Poliakoff, daughter of famous playwright and director Stephen. She tries her hand at the family business for Suffolk’s renowned HighTide festival, which made the Arts Council grade last year, by combining poignancy and humour in this 360° view of old age and youthful attitudes.
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The Sunshine Boys
Opens: 27/04/2012 Closes: 28/07/2012
Savoy Theatre, London
It's never too late: Danny DeVito makes his West End debut, playing alongside veteran Richard Griffiths in this revival of the award-winning showbiz comedy by Neil Simon, directed by Thea Sharrock. Two former vaudevillian partners begrudgingly reunite after years of estrangement, and vie for attention on a CBS television special.
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The Enquirer
Opens: 26/04/2012 Closes: 13/05/2012
The Hub at Pacific Quay, Glasgow
The fall-out from the Leveson Enquiry spills on to the stage in this hot-off-the-press investigation of the state of British journalism. The London Review of Books helped produce the site-specific piece, staged in an office, and derived from interviews with newspaper insiders, co-edited by Andrew O'Hagan. Fittingly, lines between fiction and reported truth are blurred.
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