A Taste Of Honey opens in the Lyttelton Theatre on the 18th of this month where it will play in repertoire until May.
Written by Shelagh Delaney, the play is directed by Bijan Sheibani with a cast comprising Eric Kofi Abrefa, Kate Adler, Greg Baxter, Harry Hepple, Dean Lennox Kelly, Miles Mitchell, Kate O’Flynn, Mark Rose, Lesley Sharp and Sarah Thom.
Two new productions also open in April at the National.
Alan Ayckbourn’s A Small Family Business is to be directed by Adam Penford with Nigel Lindsay in the principal role of Jack McCracken; he has recently been seen in the West End in Shrek The Musical and The Same Deep Water As Me and in Richard II for the RSC .
A Small Family Business plays the Olivier and will also be broadcast to cinemas.
Later the same month, Howard Davies is to direct The Silver Tassie by Sean O’Casey, a play set in Ireland during the World War One. Ronan Raftery leads the cast as Harry Heegan, the football hero who returns from the trenches a cripple.
Another Irish work, James Joyce's Finnegans Wake, has been adapted by Olwen Fouéré as a stage performance titled riverrun. Fouéré gives thirteen performances in March in The Shed, which the same month also hosts one-woman play Chewing Gum Dreams written and performed by Michaela Coel.
Coel also performs in Home, created and directed by Nadia Fall, which returns to The Shed after a run there last summer.
The National's programme includes ongoing productions that have already opened, Platform events and exhibitions. For further information and booking, visit the National's web site.
Public booking for A Small Family Business and The Silver Tassie does not open until 14 February.