It’s succession season on the UK’s National Theatre with Rufus Norris, the establishment’s Artistic Director, asserting that he’ll step down in 2025 after a decade within the put up.
“It’s good to keep leadership evolving,” Norris famous throughout a press convention on the National’s base on the south facet of the River Thames, within the shadow of Waterloo Bridge.
The National’s board will decide Norris’s successor. They will forged a internet far and vast and there’s an eagerness to finish the white male maintain on the NT’s management.
Meanwhile, Norris has been getting on with the enterprise of working the nation’s flagship theatre firm.
NT Artistic Director Rufus Norris. Photo by Baz Bamigboye/Deadline.
Succession star Harriet Walter returns to the NT to guide a brand new adaptation by Alice Birch of Federico Garcia Lorca’s The House of Bernardo Alba.
It will probably be directed by Rebecca Frecknall, the director lauded for her acclaimed revival of Tennessee Williams’s A Streetcar Named Desire starring Paul Mescal and Patsy Ferran. The Lorca drama will play within the National’s Lyttelton Auditorium from November 16 via January 6.
Norris will direct a brand new play by Tim Price referred to as Nyestaring Michael Sheen (Best Interests, The Queen) as Aneurin ‘Nye’ Bevin, thought to be the ‘father’ of Britain’s National Health Service. It performs within the Olivier from subsequent February.
David Oyelowo (Selma) will play Shakespeare’s tragic warfare hero, Coriolanus, in a manufacturing that Lyndsey Turner will direct on the Olivier stage subsequent yr. Norris took satisfaction in noting that Oyelowo began his thespian profession in a youth group on the NT.
Other star names set to tread the NT’s boards embody Lindsay Duncan (His Dark Materials, Sherwood) main a revival of Dodie Smith’s Dear Octopus, to be directed by Emily Burns within the Lyttelton from subsequent February.
Jo Martin (Doctor Who) and Hayley Squires (I, Daniel Blake) will star in Death of England: Closing Time by Clint Dyer and Roy Williams, the ultimate chapter of the celebrated Death of England collection of performs.
Director Ian Rickson will stage Ben Power’s model of Charles Dickens’ Our Mutual Friend with songs by PJ Harvey and Power. Sex Education’s Bella Maclean will star with Ami Tredrea. Show runs on the Lyttelton from April, 2024.
Bella Maclean on the NT as we speak. Photo by Baz Bamigboye/Deadline
Norris additionally confirmed the Breaking Baz unique that Jack Thorne’s smash hit play The Motive and the Cue, directed by Sam Mendes, will switch to the Noel Coward Theatre from December 9. The play, about when John Gielgud directed Richard Burton in Hamlet on Broadway, continues on the National till July 15.
The authentic forged of Johnny Flynn as Burton, Mark Gatiss as Gielgud, and Tuppence Middleton portraying Elizabeth Taylor, will proceed to stick with the manufacturing when it strikes to the Noel Coward.
Standing on the Sky’s Edge, which gained the Olivier award for greatest new musical, additionally strikes into the West End the place it’s going to play on the Gillian Lynne Theatre from February 8, following profitable runs on the Crucible Theatre in Sheffield and the National.
The NT and Various Productions co-production options songs by Richard Hawley and a e book by Chris Bush. The present’s directed by Robert Hastie, Sheffield Theatres’ creative chief.
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