£5 tickets are available for performances between Tuesday 9 -
Friday 12 May. Phone the Box Office on 020 7565 5000 and quote "Angry
Brigade £5 offer" to get your tickets.
Monday 8 May, 6pm
I Have a Go, Lady, I Have a Go
In June 2002, David Hare gave the inaugural John Osborne Memorial
Lecture at Hay-on-Wye. This Lecture quickly became famous, both as
a spirited attack on revisionists who seek to downplay the importance
of Osborne's debut, but also as a moving personal salute from a younger
playwright to a senior generation of groundbreaking British dramatists.
In Osborne's memory, David Hare will once more read his polemical
tribute, this time from the stage where Look Back in Anger
was first performed exactly fifty years ago.
Tuesday 9 May, 5pm
1956 And All What? - A theatre revolution
For some Look Back in Anger was a revolution. For others it
was a reaction against a theatre dominated by gay men and masked even
more important breakthroughs elsewhere. Playwrights David Edgar (Chair),
Christopher Hampton and Dan Rebellato (Author of 1956 and All That)
plus Philip Hedley (former Artistic Director of Theatre Royal Stratford
East) debate the legacy of 8th May 1956.
Wednesday 10 May, 5pm
Shopping And Shopping - 50 years on: Consumerism
We all love shopping and invent more wonderful things to buy every
day, but do we care that we are now defined as consumers over any
other identity? We explore this vital contemporary issue with panellists
including Jackie Ashley (The Guardian), Tom Hodgkinson (founder of
the Idler) Professor Tim Jackson (University of Surrey) and
Clare Pollard (playwright and poet).
Thursday 11 May, 5pm
Hot Air - 50 years on: Climate change
We are living in an extraordinary time. It is now clear that through
the extravagant use of fossil fuels the human race is responsible
for unprecedented changes to the earth system - to Gaia. Changes already
in train will, this century, have profound impacts across the world.
Europe's two leading Climate Change scientists, Chris Rapley CBE,
Head of British Antarctic Survey, and John Schellnhuber, Professor
of Theoretical Physics at Potsdam University, are both gifted and
engaging communicators of this difficult subject. Underlining the
need for cultural engagement with climate change, this unique event
will be introduced by playwright Caryl Churchill and chaired by Associate
Director, Ramin Gray.
Friday 12 May, 5pm
Angry Now - 12 short plays from hot new writers
The Royal Court takes the temperature of the nation by asking emerging
playwrights from all over the UK to tell us what makes them angry
in the form of new short plays presented as rehearsed readings. This
presentation is part of The 50, an initiative led by the Royal
Court and the BBC writersroom to find and nurture a new generation
of writers, with the generous support of the Peggy Ramsay Foundation.
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