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Dateline:
24th November, 2002
Spring 2003 at the National
- The first three months of 2003 will be the last under Trevor Nunn's
leadership of the theatre. His final productions as Director are a
classic musical and a Shakespeare play - Anything Goes and
Love's Labour's Lost - presented by an ensemble of actors.
- This period also sees the return of Janet McTeer to play the
title role in The Duchess of Malfi, directed by Phyllida Lloyd;
Yukio Ninagawa with his renowned Japanese company presenting Shakespeare's
rarely performed Pericles; and Eileen Atkins and Corin Redgrave
in the UK premiere of Australian playwright Joanna Murray-Smith's
Honour, directed by Roger Michell.
- Continuing in repertoire are Max Stafford-Clark's productions of
She Stoops to Conquer and A Laughing Matter, while Christopher
Hampton's new play The Talking Cure has its final performances.
Meanwhile, NT Education's nationwide touring productions of The
Threepenny Opera and The Tempest visit the Cottesloe for
a limited number of performances.
The Duchess of Malfi
Phyllida Lloyd directs The Duchess of Malfi by John Webster,
opening in the Lyttelton Theatre on Tuesday 28th January with previews
from 18th. It will be designed by Mark Thompson, with lighting by
Mark Henderson, music by Gary Yershon and sound design by Simon Baker
for Autograph. Janet McTeer will play the title role. The cast also
includes Lorcan Cranitch (as Bosola), Eleanor David (Julia), Charles
Edwards (Antonio), James Howard, Will Keen (Ferdinand), Penelope McGhie,
Sally Rogers (Cariola) and Jonathan Slinger (Delio).
Love's Labour's Lost
Trevor Nunn's last production as Director of the National will be
Shakespeare's youthful comedy Love's Labour's Lost, performed
in repertoire with Anything Goes in the Olivier by many of
the same actors. The designer will be John Gunter, with lighting by
David Hersey. The cast includes John Barrowman (Dumaine), Simon Day
(King of Navarre), Anthony Cable, Paul Grunert, Richard Henders, Akiya
Henry, Tam Mutu, Denis Quilley (Boyet) and Robin Soans (Holofernes).
The play is a work of wit, sophistication and romance. This will
the National's first production of this early masterpiece on the South
Bank.
Honour
Honour by Joanna Murray-Smith receives its UK premiere at
the Cottesloe Theatre on 2th February (previews from 21st February),
directed by Roger Michell and designed by William Dudley, with lighting
by Rick Fisher. The cast includes Eileen Atkins and Corin Redgrave.
Joanna Murray-Smith's play anatomises marriage, or rather the failure
of a marriage, with astonishing clarity. By turns funny and desperately
sad, it sheds vivid light upon the battlefield of marital breakdown.
Joanna Murray-Smith is one of Australia's pre-eminent playwrights;
her previous work includes the plays Rapture, Nightfall,
Redemption, Love Child, Atlanta, Flame
and Bombshells, which have been produced throughout Australia
and all over the world. Honour was produced on Broadway in 1998. She
has also written screenplays, an opera (Love in the Age of Therapy
with composer Paul Grabowsky) and two novels (Truce and Judgement
Rock). This is the first time her work has been produced in the
UK.
Pericles
The Ninagawa Company presents Shakespeare's Pericles, translated
by Kazuko Matsuoka, in the Olivier Theatre for ten performances, only
from Friday 28th March to Saturday 5th April. Directed by Yukio Ninagawa,
the cast includes Masaaki Uchino, Yuko Tanaka, Kayoko Shiraishi, Tetsuro
Sagawa and Masachika Ichimura. The designer is Tsukasa Nakagoshi,
with costumes by Lily Komine, lighting by Tamotsu Harada and sound
by Masahiro Inoue. The production is presented by Thelma Holt Ltd
in association with Horipro Inc and Saitama Arts Centre.
Yukio Ninagawa first visited the National with his celebrated productions
of Macbeth and Medea in 1987, returning with Suicide for Love in 1989.
In 2002 Ninagawa was awarded an honorary CBE.
This production is in Japanese.
The Threepenny Opera
This year's mobile production, The Threepenny Opera by Bertolt
Brecht & Kurt Weill, in a translation by Jeremy Sams (lyrics)
& Anthony Meech (book), comes to the Cottesloe from 8th - 15th
February..
The production, which has orchestrations reduced and adapted by Steven
Edis, will be directed by Tim Baker with designs by Mark Bailey. The
cast is Christopher Dickins, James Lailey, Natasha Lewis, Elizabeth
Marsh, Lois Naylor, David Rubin, Michael Shaeffer, Harvey Virdi and
Douglas Whyte.
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