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Blaze
Musical
Show opens 11 March 2010
Show closes 28 March 2010
Brand new street dance sensation Blaze makes its world premiere at the Peacock Theatre before commencing an international tour.
Mixing nightclub vibes with West End production values, combined with the raw impact of a music gig, Blaze is a high-energy theatrical show of non-stop dance from some of the world's hottest DJs, B-Boys and street dancers.
Directed by top West End director and choreographer Anthony Van Laast (Mamma Mia!, Sister Act), Blaze features 14 of the best street dancers and breakers in the world and choreography from some of the brightest and hottest names in popular dance, plus stunning set designs by Es Devlin (set designer for Kanye West, Mika, Take That, Pet Shop Boys and the upcoming Lady Gaga tour).
Peacock Theatre
Portugal Street, Off Kingsway, London, WC2A 2HT
The White Guard
Plays
Show opens 15 March 2010
Show closes 12 April 2010
The National stages Andrew Upton's vigorous new version of Mikhail Bulgakov's rarely performed masterpiece, unrivalled in its depiction of the near-farcical mayhem of civil war across a vast and vivid canvas.
In Kiev during the Russian Civil War, the Turbin household is sanctuary to a ragtag, close-knit crowd presided over by the beautiful Lena. As her brothers prepare to fight for the White Guard, friends charge in from the riotous streets amidst an atmosphere of heady chaos, quaffing vodka, keeling over, declaiming, taking baths, playing guitar, falling in love. But the new regime is poised and in its brutal triumph lies destruction for the Turbins and their world. And those are the real enemies we face, deep in the shadows.
This modern man with no name, no past, no love. This desperate hate-filled man born of loneliness and frustration. This man with nothing to be proud of, nothing he is part of...
National Theatre Lyttelton
South Bank, London, SE1 9PX
Spring Storm
Plays
Show opens 07 April 2010
Show closes 12 June 2010
Spring Storm is a gripping early play by Tennessee Williams, which received its European premiere in this production.
Heavenly has almost everything a young woman could desire, but when she is forced to decide between respectable suitor Arthur and handsome, wild lover Dick, her actions cause a chain of consequences that tear their lives apart.
Spring Storm is a transfer from the Royal & Derngate Northampton, where it was previously seen in October 2009 as part of the Young America Season.
Laurie Sansom, Artistic Director of the Royal & Derngate, directs Spring Storm. His previous credits include Follies, Twelfth Night, Frankenstein, The Prime Of Miss Jean Brodie and The Wizard Of Oz.
Cottesloe Theatre
South Bank, London, SE1 9PX
The Real Thing
Comedy
Show opens 10 April 2010
Show closes 05 June 2010
Toby Stephens is to star in a new production of Tom Stoppard's 1982 play The Real Thing
Stoppard's comedy examines the complex nature of love, art and reality through the story of Henry, a successful and talented playwright who is married to Charlotte, an actress playing the lead in his current play about adultery. Her co-star and friend Max is married to Annie, also an actor. Henry and Annie have fallen in love but is it any more real than the subjects in Henry's play? As the story unravels, Henry discovers that love - 'the real thing' - can be unpredictable and painful.
The Old Vic Theatre
The Cut, London, SE1 8NB
Hair
Musical
Show opens 14 April 2010
Show closes 08 January 2011
The year is 1967, and the Vietnam War is at its height. In New York City, a tribe of hippies rails against the establishment, protesting intolerance, brutality, and the dehumanization of society. When Claude, one of their own, gets drafted, he must make a decision about what values are worth fighting for. Songs include ‘Aquarius’, ‘Good Morning Starshine’, ‘Let the Sunshine In’
Gielgud Theatre
Shaftesbury Avenue, London, W1D 6AR
Women Beware Women
Plays
Show opens 27 April 2010
Show closes 08 June 2010
Corruption will not go unpunished in Thomas Middleton’s blackly funny, fast and ferocious tragedy Women Beware Women.
Women Beware Women is set in the Italian court, where wealth secures power, power serves lust, and the lascivious Duke can play wherever he chooses. He catches the eye of another’s exquisite bride, Bianca. Can a glance secure her fate or a bribe appease her husband?
Isabella’s father would marry her off to a rich young idiot, while Hippolito has won her trust and desires her truly. But he is her uncle. These are her choices. If twice-widowed Livia conspires against her sex to gain a little clout, she is only fighting to survive.
Women Beware Women is directed by National Theatre Associate Director Marianne Elliott, who has previously directed All’s Well That Ends Well, Harper Regan, Mrs Affleck and the award-winning Saint Joan, Pillars Of The Community and War Horse for the South Bank venue.
The cast of Women Beware Women is led by Harriett Walter, who has previously appeared at the National in Dinner, Life X 3 and Arcadia, and original The History Boys cast member Samuel Barnett.
Women Beware Women plays as part of the Travelex £10 season.
National Theatre Olivier
South Bank, London, SE1 9PX
All The Fun of the Fair
Musical
Show opens 28 April 2010
Show closes 05 September 2010
Inspired by David Essex debut album ‘All The Fun Of The Fair’. Concerns fun fair owner Levi Lee, recently widowed and father of a rebellious teenage son. Danger and mysticism lurk in the future, as predicted by the gypsy fortune teller who is in love with Levi. Dodgems and motorbikes, crafty cons and candy floss, fairground horses and fights, along with romance and rock and roll bring out the carnival atmosphere, but beware… all is not always fun at the fair! Songs include 'Hold Me Close', 'Gonna Make You A Star', 'Silver Dream Machine'.
Garrick Theatre
Charing Cross Road, London, WC2H 0HH
Psy
Plays
Show opens 28 April 2010
Show closes 15 May 2010
Following the phenomenal success of Traces in 2009, The 7 Fingers (Les 7 Doigts de la Main) return to the Peacock Theatre with a brand new circus show inspired by the rich and surreal underworld of the human psyche.
Psy pitches astonishing acrobatics against a landscape of distorted visions, fading dreams and fractured memories. The company of dazzlingly talented performers portray a broad range of characters who conquer their neuroses through the liberating power of circus skills - trapeze, juggling, Chinese poles, German wheels and aerial ropes become metaphors for overcoming psychological restrictions. By juxtaposing darker issues with the invigorating and life-affirming language of circus, Psy celebrates the power of the individual to overcome their ailments.
Peacock Theatre
Portugal Street, Off Kingsway, London, WC2A 2HT
Holding The Man
Comedy
Show opens 04 May 2010
Show closes 03 July 2010
Holding The Man is an achingly funny and heartbreaking true life story about the relationship between Australian writer, actor and activist Timothy Conigrave and John Caleo. This multi-award winning play explores the highs and lows of their remarkable partnership and is a celebration that speaks across generations, sexual preference and culture.
Falling in love with the captain of the football team at an all-male Melbourne High School in the 1970s was never going to be universally popular. But for Tim, being young and gay in Australia was exciting but uncharted territory.
Holding The Man is based on best-selling Conigrave’s memoirs, which were reprinted 13 times around the world and won the United Nations Human Rights Award for Non-Fiction in 1995.
The cast of Holding The Man includes Jane Turner, the Australian actress best known for writing and starring in cult comic hit Kath And Kim.
Trafalgar Studios Theatre
14 Whitehall, London, SW1A 2DY
Merchants Of Bollywood
Musical
Show opens 18 May 2010
Show closes 05 June 2010
The Merchants of Bollywood charts the history of the world's largest and most prolific film industry, and the dynasty of stars that have lit its way over generations.
Featuring a cast of 40 performers, this turbo-charged, joyfully uplifting show is a riot of swirling colours, high-energy music and sensational dance scenes choreographed by one of Bollywood's top young choreographers, Vaibhavi Merchant.
Seen by over two million people worldwide, this heart-warming show is both a delightful homage to the world of cinema and a truly extraordinary evening of music and dance.
Peacock Theatre
Portugal Street, Off Kingsway, London, WC2A 2HT
Carmen
Opera
Show opens 21 May 2010
Show closes 23 May 2010
Sung in English, Bizet's unforgettable score contains some of opera's finest arias and best loved music. The rousing Song of the Toreador, the beguiling Seguidilla, the tantalising Habanera and the enchanting Flower Song - sensual music that perfectly captures the very essence of Spain. Accompanied by The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Gareth Hancock, this world class company of singers, musicians and artists will provide an unforgettable production of Bizet's Carmen, staged on an epic scale.
O2 Arena
Peninsula Square, Greenwich, London, SE10 0DX
The Fantasticks
Musical
Show opens 24 May 2010
Show closes 04 September 2010
The Fantasticks tells an allegorical story, loosely based on the play The Romancers (Les Romanesques) by Edmond Rostand, concerning two neighboring fathers who put up a wall between their houses to ensure that their children fall in love, because they know children always do what their parents forbid.
After the children do fall in love, they discover their fathers' plot and each go off and experience the world. Finally they return to each other and the love they had, having learned from the world to recognise their true feelings. Elements of the musical are drawn from the story of Pyramus and Thisbe, its story winding its way through Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet and A Midsummer Night's Dream as well as Donizetti's L'Elisir d'Amore and Rostand's play.
Tom Jones and Harvey Schmidt's classic score features titles including Much More, I Can See It and the instantly familiar Try To Remember.
Duchess Theatre
Catherine Street, London, WC2B 5LA
Henry VIII
Plays
Show opens 24 May 2010
Show closes 21 August 2010
Power struggle with Henry VIII, his queen Katherine, his mistress Anne, and the most ruthlessly ambitious Cardinal Wolsey.
Shakespeare's Globe
New Globe Walk, Bankside, London, SE1 9ED
All My Sons
Plays
Show opens 27 May 2010
Show closes 11 September 2010
A story of forbidden love, loyalty, guilt and the corrupting power of greed, Joe Keller is alleged to have supplied World War II fighter planes with defective engines, leading to the deaths of innocent pilots - a crime for which his business partner took the fall. One of Keller's sons, himself a pilot, is thought to have been killed in action. But his mother can't accept his death and equally can't accept that her dead son's fiancee has transferred her affections to her other son. The confrontations that ensue lead to the uncovering of a world-shaking family secret... With David Suchet and Zoe Wanamaker
Apollo Theatre
31 Shaftesbury Avenue, London, W1V 7DH
Henry IV Part 1
Plays
Show opens 14 July 2010
Show closes 02 October 2010
Bolingbroke fights to keep his crown and restore order to an England driven by civil rebellion.
Shakespeare's Globe
New Globe Walk, Bankside, London, SE1 9ED
Henry IV Part 2
Plays
Show opens 14 July 2010
Show closes 03 October 2010
The Prince's riotous life is interrupted, as a second insurrection is deftly if ignobly crushed.
Shakespeare's Globe
New Globe Walk, Bankside, London, SE1 9ED
Tanguera
Musical
Show opens 03 August 2010
Show closes 22 August 2010
With a cast of over 30 dancers and singers, Tanguera tells a story of unrequited love in early 20th century Buenos Aires.
When Giselle, a young French woman, arrives in Argentina as one of the first waves of European immigrants, she meets Lorenzo, a port worker who falls in love with her at first sight. But as Giselle falls deeper into Buenos Aires' seedy under- world, Lorenzo must fight to win her love.
A huge success in its native Buenos Aires, where it ran for 18 months, this spellbinding new show has dazzled audiences in New York, Paris, Berlin, Madrid and Tokyo. London audiences will be swept up in the drama of the Tanguera as it makes its UK premiere this summer.
Sadler's Wells
Rosebery Avenue, London, EC1R 4TN