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Dateline: 5th May, 2004
National Theatre: Summer 2004 The Headlines:
A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, book by Burt Shevelove and Larry Gelbart, music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim, will be the third Olivier production in the Travelex £10 Season, directed by Edward Hall. Desmond Barrit leads the cast as Pseudolus, which also includes Isla Blair, Darren Carnall, Peter Caulfield, Owain Rhys Davies, Simone de la Rue, Jane Fowler, Tiffany Graves, Sam Kelly, Vince Leigh, Alan Leith, David Lucas, Michelle Lukes, Graham MacDuff, Hamish McColl, Hayley Newton, Sarah O'Gleby, Philip Quast (as Miles Gloriosus), Michael Rouse, David Schneider, Caroline Sheen, Spencer Soloman, Lorraine Stewart, Harry Towb and Matthew Wolfenden. The production opens on Friday 9 July, following previews from 28 June.
Stuff Happens A new play by David Hare, Stuff Happens, will be the final production in the Travelex £10 Season, opening on Friday 10 September, directed by Nicholas Hytner. Stuff happens... and it's untidy, and freedom's untidy, and free people are free to make mistakes and commit crimes and do bad things. The American Secretary of Defense, Donald Rumsfeld's famous response to the looting of Baghdad, at a press conference on 11 April 2003, provides the title for a new play, specially written for the Olivier Theatre. Stuff Happens sets out to dramatise the extraordinary process which led up to the formation of a coalition, headed by the US and Great Britain, to invade Iraq. With the support of the NT Studio, the play is being developed throughout the summer, during the months before its opening, and will accommodate events as they occur. Stuff Happens will be designed by Christopher Oram, with lighting by Paul Anderson and sound by Paul Groothuis. The cast is to be announced. The Night Season The Night Season, a new play by Rebecca Lenkiewicz, will be directed by Lucy Bailey, opening in the Cottesloe on Tuesday 3 August (following previews from 23 July). The cast includes Lloyd Hutchinson and Justine Mitchell. When you were born Esther kept bursting into tears saying she was scared she'd have to take you back. The yard was a paradise. Summertime. She'd sing to you. I'd roll her a cigarette and we'd all just lie there on a blanket. And I'd watch the smoke curling up from my hand and I thought fuck this is heaven. Late at night, shoeless, in the rain, an actor playing Yeats in a film shows up at his Sligo digs. Three feisty sisters lie dreaming upstairs, but in the morning, down they come, burning to meet the new lodger. While their father's intent on an early glass of whiskey and a date with the local barmaid, the youngest daughter shows the actor to his bedroom…
A funny, modern, intoxicated tale of love, loss and families. This is Rebecca Lenkiewicz's second play. Her first, Soho - A Tale of Table Dancers, was performed by the RSC Fringe at the Edinburgh Festival 2000, winning a Fringe First; it was later the opening play at the Arcola Theatre. She is writer on attachment at Soho Theatre and has been commissioned to write a play for Radio 4. As an actress, she recently appeared in Mourning Becomes Electra at the National, and has also worked at the RSC, Shakespeare's Globe and Arcola Theatre; TV appearances include Down to Earth and State of Play. The Night Season will be designed by Dick Bird, with lighting by Neil Austin. Please note that all three Archive indices are very long and will therefore take some time to download.
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