Rock 'n' Roll Tickets

“If I was English I wouldn’t care if Communism in Czechoslovakia reformed itself into a pile of pig shit. To be English would be my luck.”

1968: Russian tanks have rolled into Czechoslovakia, and Syd Barrett has been dumped by Pink Floyd. Jan, a visiting postgrad at Cambridge, breaks with his old professor Max, a Marxist philosopher, and heads home to Prague with his suitcase full of “socially negative music”.

Rock ’n’ Roll covers the ensuing 21 years in the lives of three generations of Max’s family while Jan is caught in the spiral of dissidence in a Communist police state. But it’s a love story too – and then there’s the music…

Who is in the cast of Rock 'n' Roll?

The cast features Nancy Carroll as Eleanor, Jacob Fortune-Lloyd as Jan and Nathaniel Parker as Max. Joining them are Hasan Dixon, Phoebe Horn, Anna Krippa, Georgia Landers, Emily Mytton, Brenock O’Connor and Colin Tierney to complete the company.

Who are the creative team of Rock 'n' Roll?

Written by Tom Stoppard. Directed by Nina Raine.

Tom Stoppard returns to Hampstead after the triumphant revival of Hapgood (2015). Winner of eight Evening Standard, three Olivier and five Tony Awards, Stoppard’s plays include Leopoldstadt; Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead; and Arcadia.

The creative team is: Director Nina Raine; designer Anna Reid; lighting designer, Peter Mumford; sound designer Tingying Dong; Director of Movement, Jane Gibson and Dialect Hazel Holder. Casting is by Amy Ball and Joanna Woznicka is assistant director.