Based on Margaret Atwood’s seminal novel, Poul Ruders’s The Handmaid’s Tale plunges us into the Republic of Gilead, where women have been entirely stripped of their rights and freedoms.
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Mike Bartlett’s latest play, The 47th, will receive its world premiere at the Old Vic this spring. Set in 2024, The 47th will explore who should take the White House at a time of challenging political democracy. Bertie Carvel will play Donald Trump in The 47th, joined by Tamara Tunie as Kamala Harris, and Lydia Wilson as Ivanka Trump.
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Emlyn Williams’ The Corn is Green will be revived at the Lyttleton in April 2022, starring Nicola Walker as Miss Moffat and Iwan Davies as Morgan Evans. Dominic Cooke directs, with further casting to be announced.
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In a refugee camp, a fight breaks out over lost land. To seek resolution, a singer tells the fable of ‘The Chalk Circle’: in the midst of a bloody revolution, a servant girl risks all to raise the abandoned child of the Governor and his wife. Years later, when the Governor’s wife returns seeking her son, a rogue judge turns justice on its head.
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“Your hobbies are limited to Arab Idol and cooking lentils and having sex in fields late at night.”
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Blanche McIntyre (The Writer) directs the world premiere of Beth Steel’s (Wonderland) revelatory new play which spans five decades of the lives, and deaths, of the Webster family, starring Anne-Marie Duff.
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Indhu Rubasingham directs Anupama Chandrasekhar’s new play for the Olivier theatre, which tells the story of Nathuram Godse and his journey from being a devout follower of Gandhi to becoming his eventual assassin in 1948.
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Six time Academy Award-nominated actress Amy Adams makes her West End debut in a new production of Tennessee Williams's celebrated memory play
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The Song Project returns in 2022 with nine performances in the Jerwood Theatre Downstairs at the Royal Court, followed by performances at Internationaal Theater Amsterdam (ITA) later in the year.
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Children of the Windrush generation, sisters Dawn and Marcia Adams grew up in 1980s London and were activists on the front line against the multiple injustices of that time. Decades on, they find they have little in common beyond family... Dawn struggles to care for their dying mother, whilst her one surviving son is drifting away from her.
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Raffish, urbane and frequently drunk, David Highland has kept a grip on his remote coastal parish through a combination of disordered charm and high-handed determination.
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Based on Britain’s best-loved picture book by Judith Kerr, the Olivier Award nominated smash hit show The Tiger Who Came to Tea returns to the West End.