Director of the Nationwide Theatre Rufus Norris has unveiled 12 new productions and has additionally confirmed that he’ll step down after 10 years as director in mid-2025 when his present time period involves an finish.
Underneath Norris’ management the Nationwide Theatre broadened each its program and viewers and expanded its attain far past London. He had a key give attention to widening the illustration of voices and tales informed on the Nationwide Theatre’s levels. Since 2015, the Nationwide Theatre levels have been on common 88% full – regardless of the disruption of COVID-19. Digital innovation underneath his stewardship has seen Nationwide Theater attain new audiences in over 180 international locations, and the Nationwide Theatre at Dwelling platform – born through the pandemic – has ensured that its work is shared with a large viewers. Nationwide Theatre Reside, now in its 14th yr, has reached over 11.8 million folks in cinemas worldwide and damaged the occasion cinema field workplace report for the U.Ok. and Eire twice.
Norris stated: “It has been and stays the best privilege of my profession to guide the Nationwide Theatre. For the previous eight years I’ve had the honour of shaping the programme of extraordinary work that sparks creativeness, brings folks collectively and illustrates the important position theatre can play in all our lives. The every day spotlight has been to work with the peerless theater-makers who work right here, along with the unbelievable vary of freelance artists upon whom the current and the way forward for the artwork type depends. I’m enormously proud to be a part of the varied, thriving, inventive hub the Nationwide Theatre is at present and am absolutely dedicated to steering the course over the subsequent two years.”
On the Nationwide Theatre’s Olivier Theatre from February 2024 is “Nye,” a brand new play by Tim Worth charting the lifetime of Aneurin ‘Nye’ Bevan and his battle to create the NHS, directed by Norris and with Michael Sheen enjoying Bevan. Later within the yr is a brand new manufacturing of William Shakespeare’s Roman tragedy “Coriolanus,” directed by Nationwide Theatre Affiliate Lyndsey Turner and with David Oyelowo within the title position.
On the Nationwide Theatre’s Lyttelton Theatre, Nationwide Theatre Affiliate Alexander Zeldin writes and directs “The Confessions,” which can play from October 2023. A love letter to life and theater, “The Confessions” charts the course of 1 life from beginning to loss of life, with music composed by Yannis Philippakis. Olivier Award-winner Rebecca Frecknall makes her Nationwide Theatre directorial debut with Alice Birch’s adaptation of Federico García Lorca’s masterpiece, “The Home of Bernarda Alba.” Harriet Walter is solid as Bernarda Alba and Isis Hainsworth as Adela on this co-production with Playful Productions, enjoying from November 2023.
“Kin,” from bodily theater firm Gecko and created by Amit Lahav, opens within the Lyttelton theatre in January 2024 following a U.Ok. tour. The story is impressed by the migration tales of Gecko’s worldwide performers. From February 2024, the Lyttleton will see “Pricey Octopus” by Dodie Smith. Directed by Emily Burns in its first revival because the Sixties, this play is a portrayal of a household on the eve of WWII. Lindsay Duncan leads the solid. From April 2024, the venue will see the world premiere of “London Tide,” based mostly on Charles Dickens’ “Our Mutual Good friend,” tailored by Ben Energy with authentic songs by P.J. Harvey and Energy and directed by Ian Rickson. Solid contains Bella Maclean and Ami Tredrea.
In the meantime on the Nationwide Theatre’s Dorfman Theatre, from September 2023, Nationwide Theatre deputy creative director Clint Dyer reunites with Roy Williams for “Loss of life of England: Closing Time.” Exploring household dynamics, race, colonialism and cancel tradition, that is the ultimate, standalone chapter of the “Loss of life of England” sequence. The solid is Jo Martin and Hayley Squires.
Annie Baker returns to the Nationwide Theatre with “Infinite Life,” which has its U.Ok. premiere within the Dorfman from November 2023, following a run at Atlantic Theater Firm in New York. Directed by James Macdonald, this new play is an inquiry into the complexity of struggling, and what it means to need in a physique that’s failing you.
Former Nationwide Theatre author in residence Beth Metal will make her Nationwide Theatre debut with “Until the Stars Come Down, “directed by Bijan Sheibani which can play within the Dorfman from January 2024. Set over the course of a marriage, the play is a portrayal of a larger-than-life household who’re struggling to come back to phrases with a altering world.
“Underdog: The Different Different Brontë” will then play from March 2024, written by Sarah Gordon and directed by Northern Stage creative director Natalie Ibu, who each make their Nationwide Theatre debuts on this co-production with Northern Stage. The play is an irreverent retelling of the lives of the Brontës.
Olivier -winning playwright Katori Corridor makes her Nationwide Theatre debut with “The Scorching Wing King,” a narrative of affection, household and masculinity directed by Roy Alexander Weise. It’ll play from July 2024. The play acquired the 2021 Pulitzer Prize for drama.
In the meantime, over on the West Finish, Jack Thorne’s new play, “The Motive and the Cue,” impressed by the making of Burton and Gielgud’s “Hamlet” and directed by Sam Mendes, will switch into the Noël Coward Theatre from Dec. 9 till March 23, 2024. Co-produced with Neal Road Productions, Johnny Flynn, Mark Gatiss and Tuppence Middleton will return to play the roles of Richard Burton, John Gielgud and Elizabeth Taylor.
Sheffield Theatres’ manufacturing of “Standing on the Sky’s Edge” will play on the Gillian Lynne Theatre from Feb. 8, 2024. Co-produced by the Nationwide Theatre and Numerous Productions, the Olivier-winning British musical is directed by Sheffield Theatres’ creative director, Robert Hastie, that includes songs by Richard Hawley with e-book by Chris Bush.
