Royal Court Theatre Announces Autumn Season

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ROYAL COURT THEATRE ANNOUNCES AUTUMN SEASON

• Alexi Kaye Campbell’s third play THE FAITH MACHINE, with Hayley Atwell, Ian McDiarmid and Kyle Soller, is directed by Jamie Lloyd.
• Tamsin Greig stars in April de Angelis’ new play JUMPY directed by Nina Raine.
• Joe Penhall’s HAUNTED CHILD is directed by Jeremy Herrin.
• Dominic Cooke directs David Eldridge’s Royal Court commission IN BASILDON
• Stella Feehily’s BANG BANG BANG, directed by Max Stafford-Clark in a co-production.
• debbie tucker green writes and directs her new play TRUTH AND RECONCILIATION
• Rachel De-lahay’s debut play THE WESTBRIDGE directed by Clint Dyer
• Theatre Local season is set to continue in new London location

Dominic Cooke, Artistic Director of the Royal Court said:
“I’m delighted to announce a busy season of seven ambitious new plays exploring notions of inheritance, intergenerational conflict and the relationship between public and private worlds.

“We welcome back several accomplished Royal Court writers including Joe Penhall, David Eldridge and debbie tucker green. We’re thrilled to introduce the latest graduate of the Royal Court writing programmes, Rachel De-lahay

“The work that goes on behind the scenes at the Royal Court is its lifeblood, a unique breeding ground for emerging writers, giving them the time, space and support to develop their work and take risks. This season delivers the eclectic range of ground-breaking plays and new writers that has become the Royal Court’s trademark.”

“After the buzz of Theatre Local at Elephant and Castle last year, we are currently developing new plans to continue the project, staging two plays from our season – debbie tucker green’s ambitious and formally exciting truth and reconciliation and Rachel De-lahay’s complex The Westbridge.”

In the Jerwood Theatre Downstairs, Alexi Kaye Campbell’s epic third play The Faith Machine stages the battle between faith and capitalism. April de Angelis’ frank and funny drama Jumpy looks at the generation gap. It asks what happened to that band of radicals who marched on Greenham common when they became parents, especially when the ideals for which they fought have lost their potency. Joe Penhall’s mysterious and unsettling play Haunted Child looks at what we choose to believe in and the effects of this on our children. In 2012 David Eldridge returns to the Royal Court with his family drama In Basildon exploring inheritance and the myth of place.

In the Jerwood Theatre Upstairs, debbie tucker green will direct her new play truth and reconciliation which spans the countries Rwanda, Northern Ireland, Zimbabwe, Bosnia, and South Africa. Former Artistic Director of the Royal Court Max Stafford-Clark returns with his company Out of Joint to direct Stella Feehily’s play Bang Bang Bang about the public and private lives of humanitarian workers in the Democratic Republic of Congo and Rachel De-lahay’s debut play The Westbridge, set in South London, premieres. Exploring the complexities of life, relationships and friendships across a minefield of racial and cultural differences and expectations, the play co-won the Alfred Fagon award last year while still unpublished.

The autumn season will be the first the Royal Court has announced with the support of Coutts & Co as Principal Sponsor, which begins in June.

Theatre Local, sponsored by Bloomberg, is to be resurrected this season in a new London location still to be announced. debbie tucker green’s truth and reconciliation and Rachel De-lahay’s The Westbridge will be staged there as part of their run at the Royal Court.

This year the Royal Court has furthered its reach with successful transfers of its shows, producing Bruce Norris’ Clybourne Park in the West End and Jez Butterworth’s Jerusalem, currently running on Broadway. Clybourne Park, which won an Evening Standard, Critics’ Circle and Olivier Award for Best New Play as well as a Pulitzer Prize for Drama was the first time the Royal Court had been lead producer on a commercial transfer in the West End.

On Broadway, Jerusalem has been nominated for six Tony Awards and received the New York Drama Critics’ Circle Award for Best Foreign Play, with Mark Rylance winning a further three awards for his performance.

Tickets for the new season are on sale on from today (Friday 10 June) at 9am to Friends and Supporters and on general sale from Friday 17 June at 9am. Tickets available online at www.royalcourttheatre.com or from the Box Office on 020 7565 5000.
Jerwood Theatre Downstairs

The Faith Machine
By Alexi Kaye Campbell
Directed by Jamie Lloyd
25 August – 1 October 2011
Jerwood Theatre Downstairs
Press Night, Wednesday 31 August 2011, 7pm

Jumpy
By April de Angelis
Directed by Nina Raine
13 October – 19 November 2011
Jerwood Theatre Downstairs
Press Night, Wednesday 19 October 2011, 7pm

Haunted Child
By Joe Penhall
Directed by Jeremy Herrin
2 December – 14 January 2012
Jerwood Theatre Downstairs
Press Night, Thursday 8 December 2011, 7pm

In Basildon (TO GO ON SALE IN AUTUMN 2011)
By David Eldridge
Directed by Dominic Cooke
Thursday 16 February – 24 March 2012
Jerwood Theatre Downstairs
Press Night, Wednesday 22 February 2011, 7pm

Jerwood Theatre Upstairs

truth and reconciliation
Written and directed by debbie tucker green
Thursday 1 September – Saturday 24 September
Jerwood Theatre Upstairs
Press Night, Monday 5 September 7pm

Bang Bang Bang
By Stella Feehily
Directed by Max Stafford-Clark
11 October – 5 November 2011
Jerwood Theatre Upstairs
Press Night, Friday 14 October 2011, 7pm

The Westbridge
by Rachel De-lahay
directed by Clint Dyer
Friday 25 November – Friday 23 December
Jerwood Theatre Upstairs
Press Night: To be confirmed

The Faith Machine
By Alexi Kaye Campbell
25 August – 1 October 2011
Jerwood Theatre Downstairs
Press Night, Wednesday 31 August 2011, 7pm

“Trouble is we don’t believe in the same God anymore”

On a beautiful September morning in New York Sophie forces Tom into a decision. The choice he makes, and the events of that day, will change their lives forever.

Travelling from America to Britain to a remote Greek island this epic new play explores the relationship between faith and capitalism and asks fundamental questions about the true meaning of love.

The cast includes Jude Akuwudike, Hayley Atwell, Bronagh Gallagher, Ian McDiarmid, Kyle Soller and Alan Westaway.

Hayley Atwell plays Sophie. Her stage credits include A View from the Bridge for which she was nominated for an Olivier Award for Best Supporting Actress, Major Barbara and Man of Mode at the National Theatre and Women Beware Women at the RSC. On television she played Freya in the Channel 4 adaptation of Any Human Heart, and on film, she appeared in The Duchess, Brideshead Revisited, Cassandra’s Dream and is shortly to appear in the feature film Captain America: The First Avenger.

Ian McDiarmid plays her father Edward, a bishop with liberal views. His theatre credits include The Prince of Homburg at the Donmar Warehouse, Be Near Me at the National Theatre of Scotland and the Donmar Warehouse, which he also adapted for the stage and Six Characters in Search of An Author for Headlong at Chichester and in the West End. He was joint Artistic Director of the Almeida Theatre from 1990-2002 with Jonathan Kent.

Kyle Soller plays Tom. His theatre credits include The Government Inspector and The Glass Menagerie at the Young Vic and The Talented Mr Ripley at Northampton Theatre Royal.

Alexi Kaye Campbell’s debut play The Pride, produced in 2008 in the Jerwood Theatre Upstairs at the Royal Court, won an Olivier Award for Outstanding Achievement in an Affiliate Theatre, the John Whiting Award for Best Play and a Critics’ Circle Award for Most Promising Playwright. His second play Apologia opened at the Bush Theatre in 2009 and was nominated for Best Theatre Play at the Writers Guild Awards 2009 and short-listed for the John Whiting Award. When The Pride was restaged at MCC Theatre in New York in January 2010, it was nominated for an Outer Critics’ Circle award for Outstanding New Off-Broadway Play.

Director Jamie Lloyd returns to the Royal Court to reunite with Alexi after directing The Pride. An associate of the Donmar Warehouse, his credits there include The 25th Annual Putnam Spelling Bee, Piaf and Polar Bears. Elsewhere, his credits include Salome for Headlong, Three Days of Rain and The Little Dog Laughed in the West End and The Caretaker at Sheffield Theatres.

Director Jamie Lloyd
Designer Mark Thompson
Lighting Neil Austin
Music and Sound Alex Baranowski

Listings information

The Faith Machine
By Alexi Kaye Campbell
Directed by Jamie Lloyd
Thursday 25 August – Saturday 1 October 2011
Jerwood Theatre Downstairs, Royal Court Theatre, Sloane Square, SW1W 8AS
Monday – Saturday 7.30pm
Thursday matinees 2.30pm (from 15 Sep), Saturday matinees 2.30pm (from 3 Sep)
Press night Wednesday 31 August 7pm
Post-show Talk Tuesday 27 September
Captioned Performance Wednesday 28 September 7.30pm
Audio described performance Saturday 1 October 2.30pm
No performance Monday 29 August
Tickets £28, £20, £12
Mondays all seats £10 (available in advance to Friends and Supporters, and on the day of performance from 9am online, 10am in person)
Concessions £5 off top two prices (available in advance for all performances until 3 September inclusive and all matinees. For all other performances, available on a standby basis on the day) 25s and under £8 (available on £20 and £12 tickets)
School and HE Groups of 8+ 50% off top two prices (available Tuesday-Friday)
Groups of 6+ £5 off top price (available Tuesday-Friday)
Access £12 (plus a companion at the same rate)
*ID required. All discounts are subject to availability.

Jumpy
By April de Angelis
13 October – 19 November 2011
Jerwood Theatre Downstairs
Press Night, Wednesday 19 October 2011, 7pm

“‘You’re having some kind of crisis.”
“It’s called being 50. You must be having it too”

A mother, a wife, and fifty, Hilary once protested at Greenham. Now her protests tend to focus on persuading her teenage daughter to go out fully clothed.

A frank and funny family drama questioning parental anxieties and life after fifty.

Tamsin Greig plays Hilary. Her theatre credits include The Little Dog Laughed in the West End, for which she was nominated for an Olivier Award, Gethsemane at the National Theatre, The God of Carnage in the West End. She played Beatrice in Much Ado About Nothing at the RSC for which she won Olivier and Critics’ Circle Awards. On film, her credits include Tamara Drewe and Cuckoo and on television, she has most recently starred in Episodes and Channel 4’s Friday Night Dinner. Her previous credits include Black Books, Green Wing, Love Soup and the BBC adaptation of Jane Austen’s Emma. On radio, she plays the part of Debbie Aldridge in Radio 4’s The Archers.

April De Angelis’ work at the Royal Court includes Wild East, Catch (a collaboration with four other female playwrights). Her credits elsewhere include Calais for Paines Plough, Country as part of the Terror Season at Southwark Playhouse, Playhouse Creatures and an adaptation of Wuthering Heights.

Nina Raine directs. Both a writer and a director, her last play Tribes at the Royal Court was nominated for an Olivier Award for Best Play. She also directed Alia Bano’s Shades at the Royal Court in 2009, which went on to win Evening Standard and Critics’ Circle awards.

Her other credits include Tiger Country at Hampstead Theatre, which she both wrote and directed. She also directed her debut play Rabbit, which premiered at the Old Red Lion Theatre in 2006 and transferred to the Trafalgar Studios in the West End, winning her the Charles Wintour Evening Standard Award for Most Promising Playwright and the Critics’ Circle Award for Most Promising Playwright. Nina started her career at the Royal Court as a trainee director.

Director Nina Raine
Designer Lizzie Clachan
Lighting Designer Peter Mumford
Sound Designer Paul Arditti

Listings information

Jumpy
By April de Angelis
Directed by Nina Raine
Thursday 13 October – Saturday 19 November 2011
Jerwood Theatre Downstairs, Royal Court Theatre, Sloane Square, SW1W 8AS
Monday – Saturday 7.30pm
Saturday matinees 2.30pm (from 22 October)
Thursday matinees 2.30pm (from 27 October)
Press night Wednesday 19 October 7pm
Post-show Talk Tuesday 8 November
Captioned Performance Tuesday 15 November
Audio described performance Sat 19 November 2.30pm
Age Guidance 14+
Tickets £28, £20, £12
Mondays all seats £10 (available in advance to Friends and Supporters, and on the day of performance from 9am online, 10am in person)
Concessions £5 off top two prices* (available in advance for all performances until 22 October inclusive and all matinees. For all other performances, available on a standby basis on the day)
25s and under £8*(available on £20 and £12 tickets)
School and HE Groups of 8+ 50% off top two prices (available Tuesday-Friday)
Groups of 6+ £5 off top price (available Tuesday-Friday)
Access £12 (plus a companion at the same rate)

• ID required. All discounts are subject to availability.

Haunted Child
By Joe Penhall
2 December – 14 January 2011
Jerwood Theatre Downstairs
Press Night, Thursday 8 December 2011, 7pm

‘We thought you were dead. In many ways, this is worse.’

A small boy is driving his mother to distraction – waking at night, hearing phantom noises and fixating on his absent father. When he glimpses a figure prowling the house at night, a shadow is cast which gradually strips away his childhood certainties.

This chilling and unsettling play asks demanding questions about the things we believe and their consequences.

Joe Penhall’s last play at the Royal Court was Dumb Show in 2004. His debut play, Some Voices opened at the Royal Court in 1994 winning him the John Whiting Award. He later adapted it for film, premiering at Cannes in 2000. His other credits include Blue/Orange at the National Theatre, which transferred to the West End and for which he received Olivier, Evening Standard and Critics’ Circle Awards and Landscape with Weapons at the National Theatre. For film, he most recently adapted The Road by Cormac McCarthy. He also wrote the screenplay for Enduring Love and wrote the BBC2 detective series Moses Jones.

Jeremy Herrin is Associate Director of the Royal Court. His previous credits there include The Heretic, Kin, Spur of the Moment, Off the Endz, The Priory, Tusk Tusk, That Face and The Vertical Hour. He was formerly an Associate Director at Live Theatre Newcastle, where he specialised in directing new writing. His other credits include Marble (Abbey, Dublin), The Family Reunion (Donmar), Statement of Regret (NT), and the South African premiere of David Harrower’s Blackbird. He is currently directing Much Ado About Nothing at Shakespeare’s Globe and will direct David Hare’s South Downs at Chichester in September.

Director Jeremy Herrin
Designer Bunny Christie
Lighting Designer Jean Kalman
Sound Designer Ian Dickinson for Autograph

Listings information

Haunted Child
By Joe Penhall
Directed by Jeremy Herrin
Friday 2 December – Saturday 14 January 2012
Jerwood Theatre Downstairs, Royal Court Theatre, Sloane Square, SW1W 8AS

Monday – Saturday 7.30pm
Saturday matinees 2.30pm (from 10 December)
Thursday matinees 2.30pm (from 22 December)
Press night Thursday 8 December 7pm
Post-show Talk Wed 4 January
Captioned Performance Wed 11 January
Audio described performance Sat 14 January 2.30pm
No performances 24 Dec – 3 Jan
Age Guidance 14+
Tickets £28, £20, £12
Mondays all seats £10 (available in advance to Friends and Supporters, and on the day of performance from 9am online, 10am in person)
Concessions £5 off top two prices* (available in advance for all performances until 10 December inclusive and all matinees. For all other performances, available on a standby basis on the day)
25s and under £8* (available on £20 and £12 tickets)
School and HE Groups of 8+ 50% off top two prices (available Tuesday-Friday)
Groups of 6+ £5 off top price (available Tuesday-Friday)
Access £12 (plus a companion at the same rate)
*ID required. All discounts are subject to availability.

In Basildon
By David Eldridge
Directed by Dominic Cooke
Thursday 16 February – Saturday 24 March
Jerwood Theatre Downstairs
Press Night, Wednesday 22 February 2012, 7pm

“‘People always get the wrong idea about Essex don’t they?”

Len’s on his death bed and the family gather to say their final farewells. His sisters still aren’t speaking after nearly 20 years, his nephew’s trying for a baby – and a bigger house, while his best mate Ken remembers ‘Bas-vegas’ when it was a village. As the spread is laid out and the ham sandwiches sit next to the wreaths, it’s hard to see who’s hungry and who’s just greedy.

An epic family drama exploring inheritance and the myth of place.

David Eldridge was last at the Royal Court with Under the Blue Sky. His recent credits include Knot of the Heart at the Almeida Theatre, The Stock Da’wa at Hampstead Theatre, The Lady From The Sea for the Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester, A Thousand Stars Explode in the Sky with Robert Holman and Simon Stephens for the Lyric Hammersmith, Market Boy at the National Theatre and Festen at the Almeida and West End.

Artistic Director of the Royal Court Dominic Cooke directs. His recent credits include the recently opened Chicken Soup with Barley and the multi award-winning production of Clybourne Park for which he was nominated for an Olivier Award. Clybourne Park, which won writer Bruce Norris a Pulitzer Prize, opened at the Royal Court in September 2010 to critical acclaim before transferring to the West End.

Other credits at the Royal Court include Aunt Dan and Lemon, The Fever, Seven Jewish Children, Wig Out!, Now or Later, Rhinoceros and two plays in Mark Ravenhill’s Shoot/Get Treasure/Repeat. His credits elsewhere include Arabian Nights and Noughts and Crosses, both for the RSC, as adapter and director. He won the Olivier award for Best Director and Best Revival for The Crucible. He will be making his National Theatre debut later this year, directing The Comedy of Errors.

Director Dominic Cooke
Designer Ian MacNeil

In Basildon will go on sale in Autumn 2011. Join the email list to be kept updated at www.royalcourttheatre.com/inbasildon

truth and reconciliation
Written and directed by debbie tucker green
Thursday 1 September – Saturday 24 September
Jerwood Theatre Upstairs
Press Night, Monday 5 September 7pm

‘I will not stay standing
to have you accuse me.
And I will not sit there
and be accused.’

Rwanda to Northern Ireland, Zimbabwe to Bosnia answers are demanded, reconciliation hard to hear and the truth reluctant to be told.

debbie tucker green’s previous credits include random at the Royal Court, Theatre Local and tour and stoning mary. Her other plays include generations at the Young Vic, trade for the RSC and dirty butterfly at Soho. She won the 2004 Olivier Award for Most Promising Newcomer for born bad at Hampstead Theatre. On film, she wrote and directed the short film, heat and she has written and directed a film of random for Channel 4.

Listings Information

truth and reconciliation
Written and directed by debbie tucker green
Thursday 1 September – Saturday 24 September 2011
Jerwood Theatre Upstairs Royal Court Theatre, Sloane Square, SW1W 8AS
Monday-Saturday 7pm (and 9pm on 6 ,9,10,12,13,16,17,19,20,23 and 24 Sep)
Saturday matinees 4pm (from 10 September)
Thursday matinee 4pm (from 8 September)
Press night Monday 5 September 7pm
Tickets £20 Mondays all seats £10
Concessions £15* (available in advance until 10 September inclusive and all matinees. For all other performances, available on a standby basis on the day)
School and HE Groups of 8+ £10 (avail. Tue-Fri and mats)
Access £12 (plus a companion at the same rate)
ID required. All discounts are subject to availability.

Bang Bang Bang
By Stella Feehily
Directed by Max Stafford-Clark
12 October – 5 November 2011
Jerwood Theatre Upstairs
Press Night, Friday 14 October 2011, 7pm

“You get a cook, a cleaner, a driver and you get paid. I’ll be watching out for you.”

A seasoned humanitarian worker and her idealistic young colleague get ready for a trip to the Democratic Republic of Congo. For Mathilde it’s an induction into a life less ordinary. For Sadhbh it’s back to madness and chaos away from her lover and London – exactly as she likes it.

But while Mathilde lets off steam with a photographer and a spliff, Sadhbh (‘Sive’) has her own encounter: tea with a smart, brutal warlord.

Stella Feehily brings her trademark wit and emotional insight to this revealing new play that goes behind the public face of charities, journalists and NGOs. In a two week workshop, Feehily, Stafford-Clark and a group of actors interviewed aid workers, doctors, human rights defenders, government advisers, journalists and photographers.

The cast includes Frances Ashman, Babou Ceesay, Julie Dray, Jack Farthing, Paul Hickey, Orla Fitzgerald and Dan Fredenburgh.

Julie Dray plays Mathilde. A French actress, her most recent film role was alongside Juliette Binoche and Mathieu Kassovitz in La Vie d’Un Autre (dir. Sylvie Testud). She has had an extensive career on the French stage and screen. Jack Farthing’s credits include Mary Broome at the Orange Tree, Charley’s Aunt and Comedy of Errors at the Royal Exchange, Manchester and Romeo and Juliet at Shakespeare’s Globe.

Orla Fitzgerald plays Sadhbh. She is best-known for her leading role as Sinead in Ken Loach’s feature film The Wind That Shakes The Barley. Her stage credits include The Comedy of Errors(Royal Exchange) and Pumpgirl (Bush).

Dan Fredenburgh’s stage credits include Duchess of Malfi at Theatre Royal Northampton and Love’s Labours Lost and Portrait of a Lady both with the Peter Hall Company. On television, she is best known for playing John Knightley in the BBC adaptation of Jane Austen’s Emma.

Stella Feehily was last at the Royal Court with Catch, a collaboration with four other female playwrights, O Go My Man and Duck (both Out of Joint and Royal Court co-productions). Her other credits include Dreams of Violence and Game. She was a co-winner of the Susan Smith Blackburn Award in 2006 for O Go My Man.

Max Stafford-Clark is a former artistic director of the Royal Court, where his work included the premieres of Serious Money, Top Girls and Our Country’s Good. His productions for Out of Joint include The Big Fellah, Talking to Terrorists, The Permanent Way, Shopping and F*ing and the world-touring, Africa-inspired Macbeth.

Out of Joint is the new writing, touring theatre company founded and directed by Max Stafford-Clark. It has premiered plays by David Hare, Caryl Churchill, Sebastian Barry, Timberlake Wertenbaker, Sebastian Barry and many more, and launched the careers of talents such as Mark Ravenhill, Stella Feehily and David Watson. The company is about to open Top Girls in a co-production with Chichester Festival Theatre. Its spring show A Dish of Tea with Dr Johnson is to be revived for the Edinburgh Fringe and the West End; it has recently completed a revival of Richard Bean’s 2010 play The Big Fellah; and in November supports How The World Began, directed by the company’s Directing Award winner Des Kennedy at the Arcola Theatre.

Bang Bang Bang is a co-production with the Royal Court, Out of Joint, Curve Theatre, Leicester, The Octagon, Bolton and Salisbury Playhouse.

Director Max Stafford-Clark
Designer Miriam Nabarro
Lighting Designer Johanna Town
Sound Designer Andy Smith

Bang Bang Bang
By Stella Feehily
Directed by Max Stafford-Clark
11 October – 5 November 2011
Jerwood Theatre Upstairs Royal Court Theatre, Sloane Square, SW1W 8AS
Monday-Saturday 7.45pm
Saturday matinees 3pm (from 15 October)
Thursday matinee 3 November 3pm
Press night Friday 14 October 7pm
Post-show Talk Wednesday 2 November
Captioned Performance Tuesday 1 November
Tickets £20 Mondays all seats £10
Concessions £15* (available in advance until 15 October 2011 incl. and all matinees. For all other performances, available on a standby basis on the day)
School and HE Groups of 8+ £10 (avail. Tue-Fri and mats)
Access £12 (plus a companion at the same rate)

• ID required. All discounts are subject to availability.

The Westbridge
by Rachel De-lahay
directed by Clint Dyer
Friday 25 November – Friday 23 December
Jerwood Theatre Upstairs
Press Night, To be Confirmed

“Do you think you’re going to get married in a church or a temple?”
“I think you should get married on an elephant and wear a sari thing like that pussycat doll. Fit!”

The accusation of a Black teenager sparks disturbance on the South London streets.
While tensions rise, a couple from very different backgrounds navigate the minefield between them and their families.

The Westbridge explores the intricacies of living side by side, and looks at racial and cultural distinctions with humour and bite.

Rachel De-lahay came to the Royal Court through the Unheard Voices Writers Programme, which aims to support and develop writers whose voices are under-represented on British stages. Rachel was part of the group aimed at young Muslim writers. The Westbridge is her first play, which, while still unproduced, was jointly awarded the Alfred Fagon Award with Roy Williams for Sucker Punch.

Clint Dyer directs. As a director, his credits include the hit show The Big Life, which transferred to the West End from the Theatre Royal Stratford East and an award-winning short film Pukka and One of Us?, which premiered at the Edinburgh International Film Festival. He started his directorial career on Theatre Royal Stratford East’s Directors Course. As an actor, he has appeared in films like The Trail, Cherps, Mr Inbetween and Everybody Loves Sunshine and appearing in such TV as Dalziel & Pascoe, Inspector Linley, The Commander, Lock Stock, Thief Takers, Prime Suspect and Eastenders.

The Westbridge is part of the Royal Court’s Jerwood New Playwrights programme, supported by the Jerwood Charitable Foundation.

The Westbridge was developed with the support of the Paul Hamlyn Foundation as part of Unheard Voices: A Paul Hamlyn Foundation Project.

Listings Information

The Westbridge
By Rachel De-lahay
Directed by Clint Dyer
Friday 25 November – Friday 23 December
Jerwood Theatre Upstairs Royal Court Theatre, Sloane Square, SW1W 8AS
Monday-Saturday 7.45pm
Saturday matinees 3.30pm (from 3 December)
Weekday matinees 3.30pm (15, 20 & 22 December)
Tickets £20 Mondays all seats £10
Concessions £15* (available in advance until Saturday 3 December inclusive and all matinees. For all other performances, available on a standby basis on the day)
School and HE Groups of 8+ £10 (avail. Tue-Fri and mats)
Access £12 (plus a companion at the same rate)
ID required. All discounts are subject to availability.

Notes to Editors

Coutts & Co is the Principal Sponsor of the Royal Court Theatre

Coutts & Co is the UK private banking arm of the Royal Bank of Scotland. Coutts has a long history of supporting the arts going back 200 years, having looked after the financial affairs of many famous clients connected with the arts such as Bram Stoker, Charles Dickens and Chopin. In 1816, Thomas Coutts married Harriot Mellon, a popular actress of her day, and together they became partners of a number of London Theatres, including the Drury Lane and the Royal Opera House. Coutts has even featured in a number of artistic works including The Gondoliers by Gilbert and Sullivan, and Robert Louis Stevenson’s classic story Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde. In the new millennium, this tradition has continued not only through managing the finances of many of today’s top writers, actors and musicians, but also through our arts sponsorship programme and we are delighted to support The Royal Court and its diverse range of ground-breaking performances.

The Westbridge is part of the Royal Court’s Jerwood New Playwrights programme, which aims to discover and support the next generation of world class playwrights. Supported by the Jerwood Charitable Foundation.

The Jerwood Charitable Foundation is dedicated to imaginative and responsible revenue funding of the arts, supporting emerging artists to develop and grow at important stages in their careers. The aim of their funding is to allow artists and arts organisations to thrive; to continue to develop their skills, imagination and creativity with integrity. They work with artists across art forms, from dance and theatre to literature, music and the visual arts. For more information visit www.jerwoodcharitablefoundation.org

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Bang Bang Bang is a co-production with Out of Joint; Curve Theatre, Leicester; The Octagon, Bolton; The Royal Court; and Salisbury Playhouse

The UK tour starts on 5 September at Bolton Octagon and then tours to Oxford, Southampton, Leicester, Royal Court in London, Exeter and Salisbury. For press enquires relating to the UK tour, please contact Stephen Pidcock at The Corner Shop
PR Stephen@thecornershoppr.com / 020 7494 3665

For further information please contact Anna Evans in the Royal Court Press Office on
020 7565 5063 or e-mail annaevans@royalcourttheatre.com.