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IMPERIUM<br />

The Royal Shakespeare Company presents<br />

Mike Poulton’s stage adaption of Robert Harris's<br />

Cicero trilogy. Performed in two parts - Part<br />

One: Conspirator and Part Two: Dictator.<br />

GIELGUD THEATRE<br />

Shaftesbury Avenue, W1 (0844 482 5130)<br />

FAULTY TOWERS DINING EXPERIENCE<br />

Inspired by one of Britain's greatest ever<br />

comedy series, this 2 hour interactive<br />

production is set in a restaurant where you the<br />

audience are the diners.<br />

RADISSON BLU EDWARDIAN<br />

Bloomsbury Street, (020 7764 0523)<br />

Neve McIntosh (Sharlan Smith), Sophie Cookson<br />

(Dottie Smith) in Killer Joe at Trafalgar Studios.<br />

Photo: Marc Brenner.<br />

PLAYS<br />

MY NAME IS LUCY BARTON<br />

Three-time Academy Award nominee Laura<br />

Linney makes her London debut in an<br />

adaptation of Pulitzer Prize winner Elizabeth<br />

Strout’s best-selling novel.<br />

BRIDGE THEATRE<br />

One Tower Bridge, SE1 (0843 208 1846)<br />

THE COMEDY ABOUT A <strong>BANK</strong> ROBBERY<br />

One enormous diamond, eight incompetent<br />

crooks and a snoozing security guard. What<br />

could possibly go right?<br />

CRITERION THEATRE<br />

Piccadilly Circus, (020 7492 0810)<br />

THE PLAY THAT GOES WRONG<br />

A Polytechnic amateur drama group are<br />

putting on a 1920s murder mystery and<br />

everything that can go wrong... does!<br />

DUCHESS THEATRE<br />

Catherine Street, WC2 (0330 333 4810)<br />

THE MODERATE SOPRANO<br />

John Christie's admiration for the works of<br />

Wagner leads him to embark on the<br />

construction of an opera house on his estate<br />

at Glyndebourne.<br />

DUKE OF YORK’S THEATRE<br />

St Martin’s Lane, WC2 (020 7492 1552)<br />

THE WOMAN IN BLACK<br />

An innocent outsider, a suspicious rural<br />

community, a gothic house and a misty marsh<br />

are the ingredients of this Victorian ghost story.<br />

FORTUNE THEATRE<br />

Russell Street, WC2 (0844 871 7626)<br />

CONSENT<br />

Nina Raine's powerful, painful and funny play<br />

sifts the evidence from every side and puts<br />

justice in the dock.<br />

HAROLD PINTER THEATRE<br />

Panton Street, SW1 (0844 871 7627)<br />

Royal National Theatre Plays in repertory<br />

OLIVIER THEATRE<br />

MACBETH<br />

Shakespeare’s most intense and terrifying<br />

tragedy is directed by Rufus Norris. Rory<br />

Kinnear and Anne-Marie Duff play Macbeth<br />

and Lady Macbeth.<br />

TRANSLATIONS<br />

Brian Friel’s modern classic is a powerful<br />

account of nationhood, which sees the<br />

turbulent relationship between England and<br />

Ireland play out in one quiet community.<br />

LYTTELTON THEATRE<br />

ABSOLUTE HELL<br />

Rodney Ackland’s provocative play was<br />

condemned as ‘a libel on the British people’<br />

when first performed in 1952. Now it emerges<br />

as an intoxicating plunge into post-war Soho.<br />

JULIE<br />

Fuelled by social division, Strindberg’s<br />

masterpiece remains shocking and fiercely<br />

relevant in this new version by Polly Stenham<br />

(That Face, Neon Demon)..<br />

DORFMAN THEATRE<br />

AN OCTOROON<br />

Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’ extraordinary play<br />

comes to the National Theatre after a sold-out<br />

run at the Orange Tree Theatre.<br />

NATIONAL THEATRE<br />

South Bank, SE1 (020 7452 3000)<br />

QUIZ<br />

A fictional imagination based on real events<br />

which took place in 2001 following an<br />

episode of Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?<br />

NOEL COWARD THEATRE<br />

St. Martin’s Lane, WC2 (0844 482 5140)<br />

HARRY POTTER AND THE CURSED<br />

CHILD PARTS I & II<br />

Stage play based on the Harry Potter franchise<br />

written by Jack Thorne, based on an original<br />

story by J.K Rowling.<br />

PALACE THEATRE<br />

Shaftesbury Avenue, W1 (0330 333 4813)<br />

PETER PAN<br />

Imagination takes flight in this darkly comic<br />

tale, yet in an ever changing world, without a<br />

mother's love, what place is there for a boy who<br />

wouldn't grow up?<br />

REGENT’S PARK OPEN AIR THEATRE<br />

Inner Circle, NW1 (0844 826 4242)<br />

THE MOUSETRAP<br />

Agatha Christie’s whodunnit is the longest<br />

running play of its kind in the history of<br />

British theatre.<br />

ST MARTIN’S THEATRE<br />

West Street, WC2 (0844 499 1515)<br />

TARTUFFE<br />

Christopher Hampton's modern updated, and<br />

dual-language, production of Moliere's<br />

comedy.<br />

THEATRE ROYAL HAYMARKET<br />

Haymarket SW1 (020 7930 8800)<br />

AN IDEAL HUSBAND<br />

A major revival of Oscar Wilde's classic<br />

starring Edward Fox, Freddie Fox and Frances<br />

Barber. A stylish critique of politicians and<br />

social morality.<br />

VAUDEVILLE THEATRE<br />

Strand, WC2 (020 7400 1257)<br />

RED<br />

John Logan's play is a moving account of Mark<br />

Rothko, one of the greatest artists of the 20th<br />

century whose struggle to accept his growing<br />

riches and praise became his undoing.<br />

WYNDHAM’S THEATRE<br />

Charing Cross Road, WC2 (0844 482 5120)<br />

Martin Kemp will star as Billy Flynn in CHICAGO<br />

at the Phoenix Theatre from Monday 2 July.<br />

t h i s i s l o n d o n m a g a z i n e • t h i s i s l o n d o n o n l i n e

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