In the Republic of Happiness by Martin Crimp runs at the Royal Court Theatre from 6 December to 19 January 2013. Tickets from £10.
http://royalcourttheatre.com/whats-on/in-the-republic-of-happiness
A family Christmas is interrupted by the unexpected arrival of Uncle Bob.
Who is he? Why has he come? Why does his wife stay out in the car? And what is the meaning of his long and outrageous message?
All we can be sure of is that the world will never be the same again.
A violent satire, In the Republic of Happiness is a provocative roll-call of contemporary obsessions.
Martin Crimp's last play at the Royal Court was The City, directed by Katie Mitchell. His previous Royal Court credits include Attempts On Her Life, The Country, Face to the Wall, Fewer Emergencies, Advice to Iraqi Women, The Treatment, No One Sees the Video and a translation of The Chairs (with Complicité). Martin Crimp also created the new translation of Rhinoceros for the Royal Court. His credits elsewhere include Play House/Definitely the Bahamas, Cruel and Tender (Young Vic). His recent translations of plays have included Big and Small, starring Cate Blanchett (Sydney Theatre Company /Barbican as part of London 2012 Festival, Théâtre de la Ville, Paris, Vienna Festival and Ruhrfestspiele Recklinghausen), The Misanthrope (Young Vic) and Pains of Youth (National Theatre).
Artistic Director of the Royal Court Dominic Cooke directs. His recent credits at the Court include In Basildon, Chicken Soup with Barley, for which he was nominated for an Evening Standard Award, and the multi award-winning production of Clybourne Park for which he was nominated for an Olivier Award. Clybourne Park, which won writer Bruce Norris a Pulitzer Prize, opened at the Royal Court in September 2010 to critical acclaim before transferring to the West End. Credits elsewhere include The Comedy of Errors at the National Theatre, as well as adapting and directing Arabian Nights and Noughts and Crosses at the RSC. He will also be directing Choir Boy by Tarell Alvin McCraney this season in the Jerwood Theatre Upstairs.
Age Guidance 16+
Approx. running time: 2 hours no interval
NSFW, a new play by Lucy Kirkwood runs at the Royal Court Theatre from 25 Oct to 24 Nov. Tickets from £10
http://www.royalcourttheatre.com/whats-on/NSFW
Money, sex and photo-shop.
Lucy Kirkwood's sharp new comedy looks at power games and privacy in the media and beyond.
[NSFW: Not Safe For Work -- online material which the viewer may not want to be seen accessing in a public or formal setting such as at work].
NSFW is Lucy Kirkwood's Royal Court debut. Credits include Beauty and the Beast co-devised with Katie Mitchell (National Theatre), and Small Hours, co-written with Ed Hime (Hampstead Theatre Downstairs), Tinderbox (Bush Theatre), Hedda (Gate Theatre). Psychogeography (Bush Theatre) and it felt empty when the heart went at first but it is alright now, produced by Clean Break at the Arcola Theatre, which was nominated for an Evening Standard Award Best Newcomer award, the Susan Smith Blackburn award, and made Lucy joint winner of the John Whiting Award 2010. Lucy has written for Skins (Company Pictures) and is developing a screenplay for Film4 / Ruby Films.
Simon Godwin will direct. Associate Director at the Royal Court, his credits include The Witness by Vivienne Franzmann, Luke Norris' Goodbye to All That, Anya Reiss' The Acid Test, and Nick Payne's Wanderlust. His other credits include A Kind of Alaska and Krapp's Last Tape, Faith Healer and Far Away at Bristol Old Vic, The Winter's Tale for Headlong and the Nuffield Theatre Southampton, Mister Heracles at the West Yorkshire Playhouse. As Associate Director of the Royal and Derngate Theatres in Northampton under Artistic Director Rupert Goold, Simon directed seven main stage shows.
Suitable for ages 14+ Contains images of nudity.
Constellations by Nick Payne, runs at The Duke of York's Theatre (9 Nov - 5 Jan) Starring Rafe Spall and Sally Hawkins. Directed by Michael Longhurst.
One relationship. Infinite possibilities.
Quantum multiverse theory, love and honey. An explosive new play about free will and friendship
Theatre Local 2012 ended with sold-out shows and workshops with waiting lists. If you missed it then you missed out on loads of activity in Peckham from plays to panel talks. Our Theatre Local video looks back on all the best bits!
Video Created by Nimer Rashed
Love and Information, a new play by Caryl Churchill runs at Royal Court Theatre (6 Sep - 13 Oct 2012). Tickets from £10 http://www.royalcourttheatre.com/whats-on/love-and-information.
Love and Information is a fast moving kaleidoscope of more than a hundred characters trying to make sense of what they know.
Caryl Churchill is one of the UK's most influential playwrights and her association with the Royal Court dates back to 1972 with her play Owners. Her plays at the Royal Court include Seven Jewish Children, Drunk Enough to Say I Love You, Top Girls, This is a Chair, Far Away, A Number, Cloud Nine and Serious Money.
James Macdonald directs the cast of 16: Nikki Amuka-Bird, Linda Bassett, Scarlett Brookes, Amanda Drew, Laura Elphinstone, Susan Engel, John Heffernan, Joshua James, Paul Jesson, Billy Matthews, Justin Salinger, Amit Shah, Rhashan Stone, Josh Williams, Nell Williams and Sarah Woodward.
MUST END 4 AUGUST. BOOK NOW.
http://www.royalcourttheatre.com/whats-on/posh-west-end
The Royal Court Theatre returns to its previous West End home, the Duke of York's Theatre, with Posh, Jumpy and Constellations -- three of the biggest hits in its history. Ambassador Theatre Group will join forces with Royal Court Theatre Productions to present this 2012 West End season.
In an oak-panelled room in Oxford, ten young bloods with cut-glass vowels and deep pockets are meeting, intent on restoring their right to rule. Members of an elite student dining society, the boys are bunkering down for a wild night of debauchery, decadence and bloody good wine. But this isn't just a jolly: they're planning a revolution.
Welcome to the Riot Club.
POSH by Laura Wade
Until 4 August. Tickets £10 - £52.50.
Duke of York's Theatre, St Martin's Lane, London
http://www.royalcourttheatre.com/whats-on/posh-west-end
Belong by Bola Agbaje
Directed by Indhu Rubasingham
A satirical new play by Bola Agbaje that questions our notion of home. This was part of the Royal Court's Theatre Local project. The play ran from 31 May-23 June 2012.
PLEASE NOTE: THIS VIDEO CONTAINS SOME STRONG LANGUAGE
Drew Cox, video director and my website www.drewcox.co.uk
Birthday by Joe Penhall at the Royal Court Theatre, London, from 22 June - 4 August. Cast includes Louise Brealey, Lisa Dillon, Llewella Gideon and Stephen Mangan. Roger Michell directs. Tickets £28, £20, £12. To Book 020 7565 5000 www.royalcourttheatre.com
Lisa and Ed are having another baby. Determined to do things differently this time, it's proving a bumpy ride. This is a whole new birth plan.
Joe Penhall's latest play Haunted Child will open at the Royal Court in December. Previous plays at the Royal Court include his debut Some Voices, which won him the John Whiting Award and which he later adapted for film, premiering at Cannes in 2000 and Dumb Show in 2004. His other credits include Blue/Orange at the National Theatre, which transferred to the West End and for which he received Olivier, Evening Standard and Critics' Circle Awards and Landscape with Weapon at the National Theatre. For film, he most recently adapted The Road by Cormac McCarthy. He also wrote the screenplay for Enduring Love and wrote the BBC 2 detective series Moses Jones.
Roger Michell directs. He most recently directed Nina Raine's Tribes here in 2010. He started his career here in 1978 as Assistant Director to John Osborne and Samuel Beckett. His recent credits include_ Rope_ at the Almeida, Female of the Species in the West End, Betrayal and Old Times at the Donmar Warehouse, Landscape with Weapon, Honour, Blue/Orange, The Homecoming, Under Milk Wood and The Coup at the National Theatre and My Night With Reg at the Royal Court. His television credits include Omnibus, Persuasion, The Buddha of Suburbia, Downtown Lagos and his films include Morning Glory, Venus, Enduring Love, Changing Lanes and Notting Hill.
The Royal Court's Theatre Local aims to take plays to alternative spaces.
Plays by Bola Agbaje and Hayley Squires transfer from the Royal Court to the CLF Arts Café at the Bussey Building in Peckham from 31 May -- 28 July, as part of the third Theatre Local season.
Tickets are £10 in advance and Pay What You Like when purchased at the venue. FREE workshops are also available.
The Bussey Building is a former arms manufacturing works and cricket bat factory, which was saved from demolition by community group Peckham Vision and the CLF Art Café, fronted by Mickey Smith, and is now at the centre of a growing cultural hub in Peckham.
Belong runs from 31 May - 23 June
Vera Vera Vera runs from 4 - 28 July
They'll free workshops led by Royal Court staff and leading playwrights will take place through out.
Plus three panel discussions - Nigerian community in Peckham, Culture in Peckham and Playwrighting.
Finally we are launching a playwrighting initiative called South Side Stories.
All the information is available at http://www.royalcourttheatre.com/local
Look back on the some of the highlights of the 2012 Young Writers Festival. From plays, spoken word, literary balls and dancing to catching up with Rafe Spall and Sally Hawkins - we had it all.
Captioning is a way of converting the spoken word into visible text that provides deaf, deafened and hard of hearing people with access to live performances along with their family and friends.
Our captioned performances are also aimed at people for whom English is not their first language. We aim to have a captioned performance for every Jerwood Theatre Downstairs show. Captioned shows are provided by STAGETEXT.
To join our free mailing list and receive details about our Captioned, BSL Interpreted and Audio Described performances, please contact Ruth Hawkins at ruthhawkins@royalcourttheatre.com, or by telephone on 020 7565 5013.
Our upcoming STAGETEXT captioned performances include:
Jerwood Theatre Downstairs
Love Love Love by Mike Bartlett -- Tue 29 May, 7:30pm
Birthday by Joe Penhall -- Wed 25 July, 7:30pm
Signed and Captioned video: forthcoming captioned performances at the Royal Court Theatre from May - Aug 2012. Plus Royal Court plays in the West End at the Duke of Yorks in July and Oct 2012.
Captioning is a way of converting the spoken word into visible text that provides deaf, deafened and hard of hearing people with access to live performances along with their family and friends.
Our captioned performances are also aimed at people for whom English is not their first language. We aim to have a captioned performance for every Jerwood Theatre Downstairs show. Captioned shows are provided by STAGETEXT.
Our upcoming captioned performances include:
Jerwood Theatre Downstairs, Royal Court Theatre, Sloane Square, London SW1W 8AS
Love Love Love -- Tue 29 May, 7:30pm
Birthday -- Wed 25 July, 7:30pm
Jerwood Theatre Upstairs, Royal Court Theatre, Sloane Square, London SW1W 8AS
Belong -- Thurs 24 May, 7:45pm
The Witness -- Wed 27 June, 7:45pm
Tickets at £12 Access Rate
To Book boxoffice@royalcourttheatre.com 020 7565 5000
Theatre Local, Peckham - Bussey Building 133 Rye Lane SE15
Belong -- Thurs 21 June, 7:45 pm
Vera Vera Vera -- Thurs 26 July, 7:45pm
Tickets pay-what-you-like
To Book boxoffice@royalcourttheatre.com 020 7565 5000
Elsewhere - Duke of York's Theatre, St Martin's Lane, London WC2N 4GB
Posh -- Wed 11 July, 7:30pm
Jumpy -- Tue 16 Oct, 7:30pm
To book for the captioned performances of Posh and Jumpy in the West End please call the Duke of York's Access Booking line on 0844 871 7677 or email: ticketcentreteamleaders@theambassadors.com
Signed and Captioned information about forthcoming plays in the Jerwood Theatre Upstairs from May - June 2012.
Belong, 26 April - 26 May. Stagetext Captioned performance on Thurs 24 May, 7:45pm
The Witness, 1 - 30 June. Stagetext Captioned performance on Wed 27 June, 7:45pm
Access rate tickets £12
Box office: boxoffice@royalcourttheatre.com 020 7565 5000
Signed and Captioned Introduction to the Royal Court Theatre, Sloane Square, London SW1W 8AS.
The Royal Court Theatre is fully accessible and offers Stagetext Captioned performances for many of it's plays for deaf and hearing impaired patrons.
For further access information http://www.royalcourttheatre.com/your-visit/access/facilities-for-deaf-and-hearing-impaired-people/
For Stagetext captioned performance dates - http://www.royalcourttheatre.com/your-visit/access/accessible-performance-dates/
After a sold-out run of Vera Vera Vera by Hayley Squires at the Royal Court Theatre it will transfer to Theatre Local Peckham from 4-28 July.
While the cast were rehearsing at the Royal Court Theatre, we gave the Assistant Director and cast a camera and asked them to film some behind the scenes action.
Vera Vera Vera is a blackly comic play about what we are willing to fight for. Hayley Squires is a bracing new voice, clear eyed and loud, looking at violence, neglect and apathy.
The boy who comes back from a war far away in a wooden box is glorified and called a hero. As the funeral plans are made in a small Kent town, his siblings squabble over who he was. Maybe the fanfare isn't needed for this heroic martyr.
Hayley Squires is an actor. This is her first play and her first submission to the Royal Court.
Cast
Danielle Flett
Daniel Kendrick
Tommy McDonnell
Abby Rakic-Platt
Ted Riley
Directed by Joe McInnes
Tickets for Theatre Local can be booked in advance via our website
www.royalcourttheatre.com
Tickets £10 in advance
Pay-what-you-like on the door at Theatre Local.
Theatre Local, The Bussey Building/CLF 133 Rye Lane Peckham, SE15 4ST
Kayode Adetunji MP campaign trailer. Vote Now!
Belong, a new play by Bola Agbaje, runs from 26 April - 26 May at the Royal Court Theatre in Sloane Square, London. It then heads to Peckham as part of the Royal Court's Theatre Local project, which takes plays to alternative spaces and into the heart of a community. It runs in Peckham from 31 May - 23 June.
Belong: Election lost, speeches made and controversy stirred -- Kayode's hiding. He's not even answering the door to the cleaner, and Rita is not going to start getting out the Hoover in her designer heels. Escaping the political heat in London he flees to Nigeria -- a British MP and a self-made man. Once there, he gets caught up in a whole new power game.
Bola Agbaje's satirical new play questions our notion of home.
Bola Agbaje returns to the Royal Court in a new play Belong: a co-production with Tiata Fahodzi and the first play to be produced under the company's new Artistic Director Lucian Msamati.
Indhu Rubasingham directs the 7-strong cast Noma Dumezweni, Jocelyn Jee Esien, Lucian Msamati, Pamela Nomvete, Itoya Osagiede, Richard Pepple and Ashley Zhangazha.
Tickets for Belong at Royal Court Theatre (26 April - 26 May) £20
http://www.royalcourttheatre.com/whats-on/belong | 020 7565 5000
Royal Court Theatre, Sloane Square, London SW1W 8AS
Tickets for Belong at Theatre Local Peckham (31 May - 23 June) £10 in advance (£8 concessions) or Pay-What-You-Like at the Door
http://www.royalcourttheatre.com/whats-on/belong-local | 020 7565 5000
Theatre Local, Bussey Building, 133 Rye Lane, SE14 4ST
Royal Court Theatre and Paines Plough, in association with Drum Theatre Plymouth present Love, Love, Love by Mike Bartlett.
1967. Kenneth and Sandra meet, and it's a whole new world.
A fiery relationship is sparked in the haze of the 60s, and charred by today's brutal realities.
From passion to paranoia, Love, Love, Love takes on the baby boomer generation as it retires, and finds it full of trouble.
Mike Bartlett's play, which won a UK Theatre Award for Best Play this year opens at the Royal Court in a brand new co-production with Paines Plough
The play was originally produced in October 2010 by Paines Plough in a co-production with the Drum Theatre Plymouth, where it opened, before embarking on a 14 week national tour.
Love, Love, Love has been extended and will now run until Saturday 9 June.
April 27 - June 9
Jerwood Theatre Downstairs
Tickets £28, £20, £12
Monday all tickets £10
Under 26 tickets £8
To Book 020 7565 5000
www.royalcourttheatre.com
Trailer by Mathy and Fran
http://cargocollective.com/mathyandfran
Belong, a new play by Bola Agbaje, runs from 26 April - 26 May at the Royal Court Theatre in Sloane Square, London. It then heads to Peckham as part of the Royal Court's Theatre Local project, which takes plays to alternative spaces and into the heart of a community. It runs in Peckham from 31 May - 23 June.
Belong: Election lost, speeches made and controversy stirred -- Kayode's hiding. He's not even answering the door to the cleaner, and Rita is not going to start getting out the Hoover in her designer heels. Escaping the political heat in London he flees to Nigeria -- a British MP and a self-made man. Once there, he gets caught up in a whole new power game.
Bola Agbaje's satirical new play questions our notion of home.
Bola Agbaje returns to the Royal Court in a new play Belong: a co-production with Tiata Fahodzi and the first play to be produced under the company's new Artistic Director Lucian Msamati.
Indhu Rubasingham directs the 7-strong cast Noma Dumezweni, Jocelyn Jee Esien, Lucian Msamati, Pamela Nomvete, Itoya Osagiede, Richard Pepple and Ashley Zhangazha.
Tickets for Belong at Royal Court Theatre (26 April - 26 May) £20
http://www.royalcourttheatre.com/whats-on/belong | 020 7565 5000
Royal Court Theatre, Sloane Square, London SW1W 8AS
Tickets for Belong at Theatre Local Peckham (31 May - 23 June) £10 in advance (£8 concessions) or Pay-What-You-Like at the Door
http://www.royalcourttheatre.com/whats-on/belong-local | 020 7565 5000
Theatre Local, Bussey Building, 133 Rye Lane, SE14 4ST
The Royal Court Theatre's online toolkit - top plays to read. Suggestions from Royal Court writers, staff and actors including Matt Smith, Rafe Spall and Sally Hawkins.
In the Republic of Happiness by Martin Crimp at Royal Court Theatre - video trailer
NSFW by Lucy Kirkwood at Royal Court Theatre - video trailer
Sally Hawkins and Rafe Spall talk about Constellations by Nick Payne
Theatre Local 2012 - A look back
Love and Information by Caryl Churchill at Royal Court Theatre - video trailer
Posh by Laura Wade at the Duke of York's Theatre
Audience Response to Belong by Bola Agbaje
The Royal Court Theatre Presents: 'Birthday' by Joe Penhall
Theatre Local Peckham, 31 May - 28 July
Young Writers Festival 2012 - The Highlights
Signed and Captioned video: plays in Jerwood Theatre Downstairs until Aug 2012
Signed video: captioned performances May - Aug at Royal Court and in West End
Signed and Captioned video: plays in Jerwood Theatre Upstairs May - June 2012
Signed and Captioned Introduction to the Royal Court Theatre
Vera Vera Vera by Hayley Squires - Cast Video Diary
Love, Love, Love by Mike Bartlett
Trailer for Belong, a new play by Bola Agbaje
What Plays to Read - Royal Court Young Writers' Toolkit Episode 5
Court on Camera - The Royal Court Bookshop
Royal Court Young Writers' Toolkit Episode One -- Top Tips
