The National Theatre in London has announced its Summer 2024 season.
Highlights include Carrie Cracknell directing an adaptation of John Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath by Frank Galati, starring Emmy Award-winning Succession star Cherry Jones as Ma Joad, in the National’s Lyttelton theatre (17 July to 14 September 2024).
Also Katori Hall’s Pulitzer Prize-winning comedy The Hot Wing King will make its UK premiere in a new production directed by Roy Alexander Weise in the Dorfman Theatre (11 July to 14 September 2024).
The cast includes Kadiff Kirwan (Slow Horses) as Cordell, with further casting to be announced. Katori Hall and Roy Alexander Weise reunite after their celebrated production of The Mountaintop.
Theatre company Complicité is also back at the National this Summer, reviving their hit production of Mnemonic, conceived by Simon McBurney, in the Olivier Theatre (22 June to 10 August 2024).
The cast will include Richard Katz and Kostas Philippoglou, with further cast to be announced.
Other highlights include a London transfer for James Graham’s (Dear England) new adaptation of Alan Bleasdale’s Boys from the Blackstuff, playing the Olivier theatre directed by Theatr Clwyd’s Kate Wasserberg (22 May to 8 June 2024).
The transfer follows a successful run at Liverpool’s Royal Court for James Graham’s adaptation of Alan Bleasdale’s TV series ,forty years after it became a ground-breaking TV classic.
The cast will include George Caple, Dominic Carter, Helen Carter, Aron Julius, Nathan McMullen, Lauren O’Neil, Barry Sloane and Mark Womack ,with further casting to be announced.
This Summer season will see the National Theatre trial earlier start times, with a select number of evening performances starting at 6.30pm.
Director of the National Theatre, Rufus Norris, said in a statement: “Collaboration is at the heart of our work and this summer our three stages are energised by this as we welcome friends both new and old to the South Bank. I’m thrilled that Katori Hall will make her mainstage debut bringing a taste of Memphis’ culture and cuisine to the stage with the Pulitzer Prize-winning The Hot Wing King, making its UK debut here at the National Theatre. Partnering with Liverpool’s Royal Court we will see Alan Bleasdale’s seminal Boys from the Blackstuff in the Olivier, as well as reuniting with Complicité, who return to the National for the first time since 2016, to delight and inspire new theatre goers with a reworking of their timelessly classic production of Mnemonic. Lastly, we welcome back Carrie Cracknell to the National Theatre, who will direct a new production of The Grapes of Wrath.”
Tickets for these productions go on sale on 8 February 2024.
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