New National Theatre Season Announced: The Habit Of Art! (and The Cat In The Hat?!)

New National Theatre Season Announced: The Habit Of Art! (and The Cat In The Hat?!) The Habit of Art, Pains of Youth, The Cat In The Hat, John Lithgow: St

Poll: What is your most anticipated play of the coming NT season? (15 member(s) have cast votes)

What is your most anticipated play of the coming NT season?

The Habit Of Art (4 votes [26.67%])
Percentage of vote: 26.67%
Pains of Youth (2 votes [13.33%])
Percentage of vote: 13.33%
The Cat in the Hat (0 votes [0.00%])
Percentage of vote: 0.00%
John Lithgow: Stories By Heart (0 votes [0.00%])
Percentage of vote: 0.00%
Mixed Up North (0 votes [0.00%])
Percentage of vote: 0.00%
Our Class (0 votes [0.00%])
Percentage of vote: 0.00%
Mother Courage and Her Children (1 votes [6.67%])
Percentage of vote: 6.67%
The Power of Yes (4 votes [26.67%])
Percentage of vote: 26.67%
Nation (1 votes [6.67%])
Percentage of vote: 6.67%
Lolita (1 votes [6.67%])
Percentage of vote: 6.67%
None of the above (2 votes [13.33%])
Percentage of vote: 13.33%

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#1 BenMonk

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Posted 19 August 2009 - 02:38 PM

The new season at the National Theatre has been announced!

Booking dates:
Supporting Cast: 20th August
Priority Members: 21st August
Advance Members: 25th August
General Public/Entry Pass: 2nd September

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The Habit Of Art by Alan Bennett at the Lyttleton Theatre
Thursday 5th November - Sunday 24th January
Press Night: Tuesday 17th November

Cast includes:
Frances De la Tour
Michael Gambon
John Heffernan
Alex Jennings
Adrian Scarborough

Director: Nicholas Hytner
Designer: Bob Crowley
Lighting Designer: Mark Henderson
Music: Matthew Scott
Sound Designer: Paul Groothuis

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Pains of Youth by Ferdinand Bruckner in a new version by Martin Crimp at the Cottesloe Theatre
Wednesday 21st October - Thursday 21st January

Cast includes:
Sian Clifford
Laura Elphinstone
Cara Horgan
Jonah Russell
Geoffrey Streatfeild
Lydia Wilson

Director: Katie Mitchell
Set Designer: Vicki Mortimer
Costume Designer: John Bright
Lighting Designer: Jon Clark
Music: Paul Clark
Sound Designer: Gareth Fry

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Dr Seuss's The Cat In The Hat at the Cottesloe Theatre
Friday 11th December - Monday 18th January

Director: Katie Mitchell
Set Designer: Vicki Mortimer
Lighting Designer: Jon Clark
Music: Paul Clark
Sound Designer: Gareth Fry

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John Lithgow: Stories by Heart at the Lyttelton Theatre
Uncle Fred Flits by PG Wodehouse and Haircut by Ring Lardner
Monday 19th October and Monday 26th October only.

Cast: John Lithgow
Director: Jack O'Brian

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Mixed Up North by Robin Soans at Wilton's Music Hall
Tuesday 10th November - Saturday 5th December

Cast includes:
Judith Amsenga
Lorna Stuart
Stephanie Street
Mia Soteriou
Claire Rafferty
Kathryn O'Reilly
Tyrone Lopez
Rose Leslie
Muzz Khan
Kashif Khan
Asif Khan
Lisa Kerr
Celia Imrie
Matthew Wait

Director: Max Stafford-Clark
Designer: Jonathan Fensom
Lighting Designer: Tim Bray
Sound Designer: Andy Smith

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#2 MaxCady

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Posted 19 August 2009 - 04:54 PM

Yawn Yawn Yawn two very exciting(not)plays by Katie Mitchell

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#3 Weez

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Posted 19 August 2009 - 06:13 PM

While I'm slightly concerned by the implication that Katie Mitchell has possibly built a nest in the Cottesloe and is proving ridiculously difficult to remove, I have voted for Pains of Youth because Geoffrey Streatfeild is amazing. If I have to vote for just the plays, then Nation and Mother Courage and her Children. :3

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#4 Theatresquirrel

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Posted 19 August 2009 - 07:59 PM

Excited beyond words about two of my all-time favourite icons - Seuss and Mitchell - meeting up like this.

Habit Of Art is of course intriguing too, but the campaign starts here for the NT to have a reading at least during its run of the other play they commissioned about Britten and Pears - Paul Godfrey's Once In A While The Odd Thing Happens - a decade ago. Please folks, for context, you have to feature this!

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#5 Lynette

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Posted 19 August 2009 - 08:27 PM

Well, folks, I'm not really excited about any of them.

But am I right in saying that the NT has dispensed with booklets? I haven't received one. Apparently I can start booking tomorrow from 8.30am [ set the alarm..hmmm no] courtesy of the internet and my supporter's badge but I only learnt this from the WOS board and then I looked on the NT site to check. I swear the NT didn't tell me.

I like to pore over the booklet and scribble over the timetable until I have the right combination of dates and then I book them all together usually over the phone. So now I have to perfect my clicking.. ho hum.

'Spose the Alan Bennett will be interesting.

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#6 xXAngelofMusicXx

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Posted 19 August 2009 - 10:09 PM

I voted for Lolita as I adore the novel, although am wary about how it will translate satisfyingly as a monologue. Habit of Art seems intriguing too, but otherwise, it's not an extremely 'wow' looking season for me....

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Posted 19 August 2009 - 10:35 PM

QUOTE(Lynette @ Aug 19 2009, 08:27 PM)

But am I right in saying that the NT has dispensed with booklets? I haven't received one. Apparently I can start booking tomorrow from 8.30am [ set the alarm..hmmm no] courtesy of the internet and my supporter's badge but I only learnt this from the WOS board and then I looked on the NT site to check. I swear the NT didn't tell me.

I like to pore over the booklet and scribble over the timetable until I have the right combination of dates and then I book them all together usually over the phone. So now I have to perfect my clicking.. ho hum.

'Spose the Alan Bennett will be interesting.

No, there will be brochures but mine is not due to arrive until the 25th, the date on which I can book online, though I do get five days to prepare myself given that the schedule is visible online from tomorrow. It sounds as if you didn't get an email you were supposed to receive, Lynette.

I am very much looking forward to The Habit of Art - Bennett and Gambon are an intriguing combination. As the parent of two under-sixes I am attracted by The Cat in the Hat, though I can think of a number of people I'd rather were directing it. Not that I haven't loved some of Mitchell's work, but her recent stuff sounds as though she is imposing stuff on the play rather then letting it speak for itself.

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#8 Lynette

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Posted 19 August 2009 - 11:11 PM

Well I'll book tomorrow - oops today - and leave a few tix for you guest John...

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#9 Lynette

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Posted 20 August 2009 - 09:17 AM

Well, I've just booked for the Bennett play for a Sat in November and there isn't much left in the stalls. Very annoying way they display the dates, unlined up so you can't track all the Saturdays for example. Not good for someone whose eyes are all over the place on a screen like myself. Other sites do it better. Me, ole grumpy again this morning

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Posted 20 August 2009 - 10:10 AM

QUOTE(Lynette @ Aug 19 2009, 09:27 PM)

Well, folks, I'm not really excited about any of them.

I hear you honey!

I’ll go and see the Bennett because I always do but I’ll leave the rest. Will any cheap tickets be left on the 25th? I guess this will run and run aka History Boys

Is KM now trying to scare children off theatre after having successfully achieved it with adults for straight play and opera?!

I note two one person shows in the lyttelton? Has Hynter’s unsellable programming bankrupted the casting department?