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T262780163 (OLIVIER11)

World Premiere. Running time: 2hrs 45mins including intervalProducer National Theatre. Director Thea Sharrock. Design Tom Scutt. Lighting Mark Henderson. Sound Ian Dickinson. Music Adrian Johnston. Director Steve Kirkham (movement). Performer Matthew Barker. Performer Nick Blakeley. Performer Katie Brayben. Performer Natasha Broomfield. Performer Kirsty Bushell. Performer Martin Chamberlain. Performer Grace Cooper Milton. Performer Trystan Gravelle. Performer Jadie-Rose Hobson. Performer Adam James. Performer Geraldine James. Performer Sioned Jones. Performer Barbara Kirby. Performer Esther McAuley. Performer Genevieve O'Reilly. Performer Lara Rossi. Performer Helen Ryan. Performer Nick Sidi. Performer Zara Tempest-Walters. Performer Danny Webb. Performer John Webber. Performer Shane Zaza.

18 Oct 11 to 8 Jan 12

Olivier (National Theatre), West End :: V373
listing details L1704320013

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Play :: Morning in London, Autumn 2011. Across the city, people wake up from an identical, terrifying dream. At the same moment, a young man named John returns home after years away to find economic gloom, ineffective protest, and a Prime Minister about to declare war. But John has a vision for the future and his ideas inspire an increasing number of followers. With conflict looming in the Middle East, their protest takes them to the centre of the city, to the heart of government, where coincidences, omens and visions collide with political reality. Set in a dark and magical landscape of singing pensioners, fanatical atheists and imminent apocalypse, Mike Bartlett’s new play depicts a London both familiar and strange, a London staring into the void. In a year which has seen governments fall and hundreds of thousands take to the streets, 13 explores the meaning of personal responsibility, the hold that the past has over the future and the nature of belief itself.

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