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| December 2008
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December 12 - Oliver!
Theatre Royal, Drury Lane WC1
0844 412 2955
Cameron Mackintosh revives the celebrated Lionel Bart musical based on Dickens' Oliver Twist with Rowan Atkinson starring as Fagin in Rupert Goold's production based on that of Sam Mendes with design from Anthony Ward. www.Oliverthe musical.com
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| January 2009
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January 6 - Complicit
Old Vic, Waterloo Road, SE1
0870 060 6628
Kevin Spacey directs the world premiere of Joe Sutton's new play. Till February 21. www.oldvictheatre.com.
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January 16 - Every Good Boy Deserves a Favour
NT Olivier, South Bank, SE1 3
020 7452 3000
Tom Stoppard and Andre Previn's work gets its first National Theatre showing in a prodction done by Felix Barrett and Tom Morris and is a co-production with the Southbank Sinfonia, Britain's young professional orchestra, conducted by Simon Over. www.thenationaltheatre.org.uk
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January 27 - Mrs Affleck
NT Cottesloe, South Bank, SE1
020 7452 3000
Samuel Adamson's new play is set in 1950s England but is inspired by Ibsen's Little Eyolf. It is directed by Marianne Elliott with design from Bunny Christie. Claire Skinner has the title-role.
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January 30 - Entertaining Mr Sloane
Trafalgar Studios, Whitehall, SW1
0870 060 6632
Joe Orton's provocative 1964 play is revived by Nick Bagnall and stars Imelda Staunton as Kath with Mathew Horne in the title-role. Previews from January 22. www.theambassadors.com/trafalgarstudios.
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| February 2009
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February 2 - Enjoy
Gielgud, Shaftesbury Avenue W1
0844 4825139
Christopher Luscombe's production of Alan Bennett's 1980 play comes to London from last year's Peter Hall Company summer season at the Bath Theatre Royal and a successful UK tour. It stars Alison Steadman and David Troughton (season runs January 27 - May 2).
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February 11 - England People Very Nice
NT Olivier, South Bank, SE1
020 7452 3000
Richard Bean's new play directed by Nickolas Hytner opens the 7th Travelex £10-a-seat season the Olivier.
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February 15 - The Tempest
Courtyard, Stratford-on-Avon, Warwick
Antony Sher plays Prospero with John Kani as Caliban in Janice Honeymoon's production of Shakespeare's last play done in an RSC co-production with the Baxter Theatre of South Africa where it is opening in January at Cape Town's Baxter Theatre Centre.
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February 26 - Dancing at Lughnasa
Old Vic, Waterloo Road SE1
0870 060 6628
Anna Mackmin revives Brian Friel's modern classic with a cast headed by Andrea Corr, Niahm Cusack, Michelle Fairley and Susan Lynch. Till May 9. www.oldvictheatre.com.
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| March 2009
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March 3 - Burnt by the Sun
NT Lyttelton, South Bank, SE1
020 7452 3000
Peter Flannery's play, directed by Howard Davies, is from a screenplay by Nikita Mikhalkov and Rustam Ibragimekow.
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March 13 - Madame De Sade
Wyndhams, Charing Cross Road, WC1
0844 5120
Yudkio Mishima's work is translated by Donald Keene with Judi Dench starring in Michael Grandage's production. Till May 23.
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March 24 - Dido Queen of Catharge
NT Cottesloe, South Bank, SE1
020 7452 3000
James Macdonald directs this revival of Marlowe's play.
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March 31 - The Winter's Tale
RSC Courtyard Theatre, Stratford-on-Avon, Warwicks
David Farr's production of this late play of Shakespeare's begins the new Stratford season lasting till October 3 and performed by a new ensemble with a 3-year contract. Michael Boyd's production of As You Like It joins the repertoire on April 18. www.;rsc.org.uk
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| April 2009
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April 8 - Death and the King's Horsman
NT Olivier, South Bank, SE1
020 7452 3000
Rufus Norris's production of this Wole Soyinka play set in Nigeria in 1943 is the second in the new Travelex £10-a-seat seat at the NT.
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| May 2009
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May 5 - Time and the Conways
NT Lyttelton, South Bank, SE1
020 7452 3000
This JB Priestley revival is directed by the ubiquitous Rupert Goold.
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May 6 - Waiting for Godot
Theatre Royal Haymarket, SW1
0845 481 1870
Beckett's masterpiece is directed by the new director of the Theatre Royal Haymarket Company, Sian Mathias, and co-stars Ian McKellen and Patrick Stewart with design from Stephen Brimson. It comes to the West End after a pre-London tour taking in Malvern, Leeds, Brighton. www.trh.co.uk
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May 15 - Julius Caesar
ESC Courtyard Theatre, Stratford-on-Avon, Warwicks
Lucy Bailey makes her RSC debut directing this one which will be in the Courtyard repertoire till October 2. It will be joined by two newly commissioned RSC plays, the first from the brothers Durrenkov (Mikhail and Vsyachescav) called Drunks and playing August 21 till October 1 and the second by Ukrainian playwright Natal'ia Vorozhat called The Grain Store and playing September 10 - October 1.www.rsc.org.uk
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May 23 - The Winter's Tale
Old Vic, Waterloo Road, SE1
0870 060 6628
Sam Mendes directs this revival of Shakespeare's late play. Till August 15. www.oldvictheatre.com
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