The Stage

National Theatre unveils spring programme

Published Thursday 2 November 2006 at 12:50 by Nuala Calvi

Dates and castings have been confirmed for Happy Days, The Man of Mode, The Reporter, Attempts on Her Life, Sizwe Banzi Is Dead and The Caucasian Chalk Circle, as part of the National Theatre’s spring season.

Samuel Beckett’s Happy Days will be directed by Deborah Warner, with Fiona Shaw as Winnie, running in the Lyttelton for 31 performances only from January 18.

Nicholas Hytner will direct George Etherege’s The Man of Mode, opening in the Olivier Theatre on February 6 and starring Amber Agah, Hayley Atwell, Nancy Carroll, Tom Hardy, Shelley King, Rory Kinnear and Amit Shah.

A new play by Nicholas Wright, The Reporter, will be directed by Richard Eyre, opening in the Cottesloe on February 21 and featuring Ben Chaplin, Paul Ritter and Angela Thorne.

Meanwhile Katie Mitchell directs Attempts on Her Life: 17 Scenarios for the Theatre by Martin Crimp, opening in the Lyttelton Theatre on March 14, as part of the Travelex £10 Season, being extended to the Lyttelton for the first time.

Sizwe Banzi Is Dead, by Athol Fugard, John Kani and Winston Ntshona, also visits the Lyttelton from the Baxter Theatre Centre, South Africa from March 21.

Bertolt Brecht’s The Caucasian Chalk Circle, in a new version by Frank McGuinness, directed by Sean Holmes, will be in rep at the Cottesloe from March 8, following a UK tour from January.