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London Road
London Road is a musical drama that documents the events of 2006, when the quiet rural town of Ipswich was shattered by the discovery of the bodies of five women. The residents of London Road had struggled for years with frequent soliciting and kerb-crawling on their street. When a local resident was charged and then convicted of the murders, the community grappled with what it meant to be at the epicentre of this tragedy.
Rufus Norris
Casts & Crew
Olivia Colman
Clare Burt
Rosalie Craig
Anita Dobson
James Doherty
Kate Fleetwood
Hal Fowler
Linzi Hateley
Paul Hilton
Nick Holder
Claire Moore
Michael Shaeffer
Nicola Sloane
Paul Thornley
Howard Ward
Duncan Wisbey
Tom Hardy
Rosie Hilal
Amy Griffiths
Gillian Bevan
Anna Hale
Eloise Laurence
Meg Hateley Suddaby
Angela Bain
Jenny Galloway
Sean Kingley
Jayne McKenna
Richard Frame
Alecky Blythe
Mark Lockyer
Barry McCarthy
Abigail Rose
Maggie Service
Alexia Khadime
Dean Nolan
Ruby Holder
Calvin Demba
Helena Lymbery
Mark Sheals
Morgan Walters
Janet Henfrey
Johnathan Glew
Jason Barnett
Andrew Frame
Rae Baker
Lee Nicholas Harris
Also Directed by Rufus Norris
The ruined aftermath of a bloody civil war. Ruthlessly fighting to survive, the Macbeths are propelled towards the crown by forces of elemental darkness. Shakespeare’s most intense and terrifying tragedy, directed by Rufus Norris (The Threepenny Opera, London Road), will see Rory Kinnear (Young Marx, Othello) and Anne-Marie Duff (Oil, Suffragette) return to the National Theatre to play Macbeth and Lady Macbeth.
In 2008, as the Large Hadron Collider searches for the Higgs boson, tragedy throws two sisters together. The collision threatens them all with chaos. Olivia Colman and Olivia Williams play the sisters in this drama from writer Lucy Kirkwood.
In 2008, as the Large Hadron Collider searches for the Higgs boson, tragedy throws two sisters together. The collision threatens them all with chaos.
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Embark on a journey from Jamaica to Britain, through the Second World War to 1948 – the year the HMT Empire Windrush docked at Tilbury, England. The play follows three intricately connected stories. Hortense yearns for a new life away from rural Jamaica, Gilbert dreams of becoming a lawyer, and Queenie longs to escape her Lincolnshire roots.