| Description | Press release with headlines as follows: New plays by Nick Dear, Michael Frayn, David Hare. Kwame Kwei-Armah, Mike Leigh, Owen McCafferty, Martin McDonagh. A new opera: 'Jerry Springer - The Opera'; and a new devised work with Improbable Thetare - 'Theatre of Blood.' The stage premiere for Philip Pullman's 'His Dark Materials'. New productions of plays by: Shakespeare, Chekhov, Stoppard, Hecht & MacArthur (adapted by John Guare_, O'Neill, von Horváth, Rostand, Erdman. An Olivier £10 Season' - a six-month season of four plays for which more than two-thirds of the tickets will be £10 (the rest at £25). Company includes Simon Russell Beale, Penny Downie, Alex Jennings, Adrian Lester, Robert Lindsay, Stephen Rea, Zoë Wanamaker. Directors include John Crowley, Howard Davies, Declan Donnella, Peter Gill, Nicholas Hynter, Angus Jackson, Richard Jones, Stewart Lee, David Leveaux, Katie Mitchell, Lindsay Posner, Jack O'Brien, Max Stafford-Clark. Howard Davies to be Associate Director. New NT Associates: Simon Russell Beale, Alison Chitty, Bob Crowley, Declan Donnellan, Joanathan Dove, Edward Hall, Mark Henderson, Alex Jennings, Adrian Lester, Phylia Lloyd, Patrick Marber, Helen Mirren, Katie Mitchell, Michael Morris, Mark Ravenhill, Zoë Wanamaker. Lists production sponsors, audio-described and sign language interpreted performances as well as the repertoire. |