The Rose Theatre is pleased to present in high definition season three of extraordinary plays from the National Theatre of London.

National Theatre of London 2010/2011 Schedule of Plays

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One Man, Two Guvnors
by Richard Bean based on The Servant of Two Masters by Carlo Goldoni with songs by Grant Olding
Directed by Nicholas Hytner
October 1, 4, 11 - 12:00
Estimated running time: 3 hours

In 1746, Carlo Goldoni wrote a classic comedy normally translated as The Servant of Two Masters. Richard Bean has used it for a riotous farce combining the original's structure with a particularly Anglo-Saxon and physical humor. The result, a kind of "Carry On Carlo," is one of the funniest productions in the National's history.

The plot almost defies description. But Bean has set the action in 1963 in Brighton, and the key point is that Francis Henshall, a failed skiffle player, finds himself working for two guvnors. One, Rachel Crabbe, is disguised as her dead gangland twin, and, in her brutal mop-like wig, bears an uncanny resemblance to Ringo Starr.

Francis's other employer is a snooty toff, Stanley Stubbers, who not onlyl killed Rachel's brother but is also her secret lover. Neither boss is aware the other is in Brighton, as Francis bounces between them like a shuttlecock and, in the play's most famous scene, serves them dinner simultaneously.

"The feelgood hit of the summer. An evening of riotous delight...I found myself physically incapable with laughter." -Daily Telegraph

The Kitchen
Directed by Bijan Sheibani
November 6 - noon (purchase tickets)
November 12 - noon (purchase tickets)
November 13 - noon (purchase tickets)
November 20 - noon (purchase tickets)
Estimated running time: 3 hours

1950s London. In the kitchen of an enormous West End restaurant, the orders are piling up: a post-war feast of soup, fish, cutlets, omelettes and fruit flans.

Thrown together by their work, chefs, waitresses, and porters from across Europe - English, Irish, German, Jewish - argue and flirt as they race to keep up. Peter, a high-spirited young cook, seems to thrive on the pressure. In between preparing dishes, he manages to strike up an affair with married waitress Monique, the whole time dreaming of a better life. But in the all-consuming clamour of the kitchen, nothing is far from the brink of collapse.

Arnold Wesker's extraordinary play premiered at the Royal Court in 1959 and has since been performed in over 30 countries. The Kitchen puts the workplace centre stage in a blackly funny and furious examination of life lived at breakneck speed, when work threatens to define who we are.

Collaborators
December 17- noon (purchase tickets)
December 18- noon (purchase tickets)
January 7- noon (purchase tickets)
January 8 - noon (purchase tickets)
Estimated running time: 3 hours

Moscow, 1938. A dangerous place to have a sense of humor, even more so a sense of freedom. Mikhair Bulgakov, living amont dissidents, stalked by secret police, has both. And then he's offered a poisoned chalice: a commission to write a play about Stalin to celebrate his sixtieth birthday. Inspired by historical fact, Collaborators embarks on a surreal journey into the fevered imagination of the writer as he loses himself in a macabre and disturbingly funny relationship with the omnipotent subject of his drama.

John Hodge's blistering new play depicts a lethal game of cat and mouse through which the appalling compromises and humbiliations inflicted on any artist by those with power are held up to scrutiny. Alex Jennings plays Bulgakov and Simon Russell Beale, Stalin.

Travelling Light
February 26 - noon (purchase tickets)
February 28 - noon (purchase tickets)
March 3 - noon
March 4 - noon
Estimated running time: 3 hours

How had a twenty-two-year-old layabout made a discovery that would elude everyother cinematic pioneer for years to come?

In a remote village in Eastern Europe, around 1900, the young Motl Mendl is entranced by the flickering silent images on his father's cinematograph. Bankrolled by Jacob, the ebullient local timber merechant, and inpsired by Anna, the girl sent to help him make moving pictures of their village, he stumbles on a revolutionary way of story-telling. Forty years on, Motl -- now a famed American film director -- looks back on his early life and confronts the cost of fulfilling his dreams.

Following Vincent in Brixton and The Reporter, Nicholas Wright's new play is a funny and fascinating tribute to the Eastern European immigrants who became major players in Hollywood's golden age. The award-winning Antony Sher -- whose previous work with the National Theatre includes Primo and Stanley -- returns to play Jacob.

The Comedy of Errors
By William Shakespeare
March 17- noon (purchase tickets)
March 18 - noon (purchase tickets)
March 24 - noon (purchase tickets)
March 25 - noon (purchase tickets)
Estimated running time: 3 hours

I in earth, in heaven, or in hell?
Sleeping or waking? mad or well?
Known unto these, and to myself disguised!

Two sets of twins separated at birth collide in the same city without meeting for one crazy day, as multiple identities lead to confusion on a grand scale. And for no more so than Antipholus of Syracuse and his servant Dromio who, in search of their brothers, arrive in a land entirely foreign to their distant home. A buzzing metropolis, to the outsiders it appears a place of wonderment and terror, where baffling and unexplained hostilities abound.

Do you know me, sir? Am I Dromio? Am I your man? Am I myself?

Consistently recognised by strangers, the visitors question their very selves as the turmoil escalates. Meanwhile, Aegeon, father to the Antipholus twins, has been captured searching for his sons and, as an illegal immigrant, is sentenced to death at sunset. Shakespeare's furiously paced comedy will be staged in a contemporary world into which walk three prohibited foreigners who see everything for the first time. Lenny Henry plays Antipholus of Syracuse.

She Stoops to Conquer
April 15 - noon (purchase tickets)
April 21 - noon (purchase tickets)
April 22 - noon (purchase tickets)
April 24 - noon (purchase tickets)
Estimated running time: 3 hours

To come to my house, to call for what he likes, to turn me out of my own chair, to insult the family, to order his servants to get drunk, and then to tell me, "This house is mine, sir." By all that's impudent it makes me laugh.

Hardcastle, a man of substance, looks forward to acquainting his daughter with his old pal's son with a view to marriage. But thanks to playboy Lumpkin, he's mistaken by his prospective son-in-law Marlow for an innkeeper, his daughter for the local barmaid. The good news is, while Marlow can barely speak to a woman of quality he's a charmer with those of a different stamp. And so, Hardcastle's indignation intensifies and Miss Hardcastle's appreciation for her misguided suitor soars. Misdemeanors multiply, love blossoms, mayhem ensues.

One of the great, generous-hearted and ingenious comedies of the English language, Oliver Goldsmith's She Stoops to Conquer offers a celebration of chaos, courtship and the dysfunctional family.