A Minute Too Late will run at the Lyttelton Theatre beginning January 20. First created by Theatre de Complicite 21 years ago, it's a play about death, inspired by funeral parlours, Bow Cemetery and personal experience. Complicite members Josef Houben, Simon McBurney and Marcello Magni will appear.
The National is also presenting a new version of A Dream Play by Caryl Churchill. A Dream Play centers on a dream about a girl from another world who comes to find out why people complain so much. Directed by Katie Mitchell, the cast of the production will include Sean Jackson, Charlotte Roach, Dominic Rowan, Justin Salinger, Susie Trayling and Angus Wright. A Dream Play is scheduled to run at the Cottesloe Theatre from February 4 to March 29.
The National Theatre season also includes Alan Bennett's The History Boys, Nikolai Erdman's The Mandate, Tropicana, Sam Shepard's Buried Child, Rebecca Lenkiewicz' The Night Season, Primo adapted by Antony Sher from Primo Levi's If This Is A Man, His Dark Materials based on novels by Philip Pullman and Kwame Kwei-Armah's Fix Up.