Chiwetel Ejiofor in Everyman, Premiere of Damon Albarn's wonder.land & More Set for New National Theatre Season

The U.K.'s National Theatre has announced its 2015 season—the first for newly appointed Artistic Director Rufus Norris. The season will include a reimagined take of Everyman starring Oscar nominee and Olivier winner Chiwetel Ejiofor, a new musical titled wonder.land with music by Blur frontman and Gorillaz mastermind Damon Albarn and a book and lyrics by Dying for It playwright Moira Buffini, along with the U.K. premiere of Stephen Adly Guirgis’ The Motherf**ker with the Hat.

The season kicks off on April 22 at the Olivier Theatre with the new adaptation of the 15th-century Everyman by Carol Ann Duffy. Norris directs a cast that includes Ejiofor (12 Years a Slave) in the title role. Opening night is set for April 29.

Norris will also direct wonder.land, the new musical inspired by Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland that brings the familiar story into the World Wide Web. Performances will begin at the Manchester International Festival beginning June 29, and then play the Olivier Theatre beginning in November. An engagement is also scheduled for Paris’ Théâtre du Châtelet in 2016.

The Motherf**ker with the Hat will begin performances at the Lyttelton Theatre on June 10 with opening night set for June 17. The production, directed by Indhu Rubasingham, marks the U.K. premiere of the show, which premiered on Broadway in 2011.

The spring season will also include Caryl Churchill’s Light Shining in Buckinghamshire beginning April 15, The Beaux’ Strategem by George Farquhar beginning May 19, the premiere of Patrick Marber’s The Red Lion on June 3, Beyond Caring by Alexander Zeldin beginning April 28, We Want You To Watch—a new play by RashDash and Alice Birch—beginning June 11, a 10th anniversary revival of Tim Crouch’s An Oak Tree on June 23 and Brainstorm, by Ned Glasier, Emily Lim and Islington Community Theatre company, beginning July 21.

Future productions beginning this summer include Three Days in the Country (adapted from Turgenev’s A Month in the Country,) Our Country’s Good by Timberlake Wertenbaker, People, Places and Things by Duncan Macmillan, the Old Vic staging of Jane Eyre, D.H. Lawrence’s Husbands and Sons, Shakespeare’s As You Like It, Harley Granville Barker’s Waste, Evening at the Talk House by Wallace Shawn, Churchill’s here We Go and a new production of August Wilson’s Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom.