Spring Summer 2012 - West Yorkshire Playhouse

Photography: Terry Harrison
4 to 26 May
The Real
Thing
Henry is a brilliant and celebrated playwright.
With his wife Charlotte in the starring role,
his new play examines the complexity of love
and infidelity.
Henry’s reality and fiction blur when passions
ignite and his own marriage becomes entwined
with that of Charlotte’s co-star, Max and wife
Annie. As Henry struggles to write a new work,
the players in this game of deceit and lust are
all searching. But can any of them find The
Real Thing?
Sparklingly witty, genuinely moving and thoughtprovoking,
The Real Thing sees Tom Stoppard
at the height of his powers. This play is one of
his most enduring and richly acclaimed works.
The Playhouse joins forces with the celebrated
English Touring Theatre to stage this electrifying
new production of Stoppard’s cunning exposé of
love and betrayal.
‘You have to find a part
of yourself where I'm
not important or you
won’t be worth loving’
West Yorkshire Playhouse
and English Touring
Theatre
By Tom Stoppard
Director Kate Saxon
Designer Simon Higlett
Composer Dominic Haslam
Lighting Designer Paul Pyant
Casting Director Sarah Bird
Quarry Theatre
A £27 B £22 C £17
Discounts £3 off in A & B
Monday to Friday
Previews and Matinees £17
Schools £11
‘A glorious play
Stoppard's wit and
intellectual rigour is
warmed by the glow of
romance’ THE DAILY TELEGrAPH
BOOK ONLINE wyp.org.uk