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OLIVIER THEATRE:
Major Barbara - by Shaw - 4th March - directed by Nicholas Hytner.
Cast includes Simon Russell Beale, Hayley Atwell, Clare Higgins, Paul Ready.
Fram - by Tony Harrison - 17th April - directed by Tony Harrison and Bob Crowley.
Cast includes Jasper Britton and Sian Thomas. A new play about the Norwegian explorer Fridtjof Nansen.
The Revenger's Tragedy - by Middleton - June - directed by Melly Still.
Cast includes Rory Kinnear (yay!).
Her Naked Skin - by Rebecca Lenkiewicz - July - directed by Howard Davies.
A new play set against the backdrop of the Suffragette movement.
Every Good Boy Deserves Favour - by Tom Stoppard and André Previn - August
A co-production between the National Theatre and Southbank Sinfonia
Oedipus - by Sophocles - October - directed by Jonathan Kent.
With Ralph Fiennes in the title role. A new version by Frank McGuiness.
War Horse - adapted by Nick Staffordf from Michael Morpurgo's novel - November - directed by Marianne Elliot and Tom Morris. The return of 2007's hugely popular seasonal show.
LYTTELTON THEATRE:
The Hour We Knew Nothing of Each Other - by Peter Handke - 13th February - directed by James Macdonald.
Never So Good - by Howard Brenton - 19th March - directed by Howard Davies.
Cast includies Jeremy Irons. A new play about Harold Macmillan, Conservative Prime Minister 1957-1963.
The Year of Magical Thinking - by Joan Didion, based on her memoir - 30th April - directed by David Hare.
Starring Vanessa Redgrave. This production was first seen on Broadway in 2007. Will also tour UK & internationally, including visits to Bath, Cheltenham, the Salzburg and Dublin Festivals, and Delphi.
Afterlife - by Michael Frayn - June - directed by Michael Blakemore.
A new play exploring the life of the founder of the Salzburg Festival, Max Reinhardt.
A Slight Ache - by Harold Pinter - Summer TBC
Cast includes Simon Russell Beale. A run of early evening performances.
As Yet Untitled New Work - co-directed and performed by Akram Khan and Juliette Binoche - September.
To Be Straight With You - directed by Lloyd Newson - October.
A new work from DV8, visiting the Lyttleton after a UK and international tour.
COTTESLOE THEATRE:
Baby Girl/DNA/The Miracle - by Roy Williams/Dennis Kelly/Lin Coghlan - 28th February - directed by Paul Miller.
Another triple bill of new plays for teenagers originally commissioned for the Shell Connections programme, following the success of Burn/Chatroom/Citizenship. (Shouldn't that really be the success of Chatroom/Citizenship?)
Harper Regan - by Simon Stephens - April - directed by Marianne Elliott.
A new play by Simon Stephens with Lesley Sharp playing the title role.
Shoot/Get Treasure/Repeat - by Mark Ravenhill - April.
A collaboration with The Gate Theatre, Out of Join, Paines Plough and the Royal Court to present Ravenhill's cycle of seventeen plays in various venues around London - four will be presented in the Lyttelton and Cottesloe.
The Pitmen Painters - by Lee Hall - May - directed by Max Roberts.
A transfer from Live Theatre, New Castle, where it premiered to critical acclaim in September, with its original cast.
The Idiot - based on Dostoyevsky's novel - July - directed by Katie Mitchell.
Company includes Ben Whishaw. In addition, Mitchell's production of Waves, based on Virginia Woolf's novel, returns to the Cottesloe in August for a limited run prior to a UK and international tour, to Leeds, Salford, Bath, The Hague, Luxembourg, Athens and New York's Duke Theatre.
Mrs Affleck - from Ibsen's Little Eyolf, written by Samuel Adamson - November - directed by Marianne Elliott.
A 1950s Manchester set reimagining of Ibsen's classic.
BEYOND 2008:
Gethsemane - a new play by David Hare - early 2009 - directed by Howard Davies.
Mother Courage and Her Children - by Brecht - 2009 - directed by Deborah Warner, with Fiona Shaw in the title role.
Out of 22 productions, I want to see 18 of them. Not bad
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