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All My Sons – Opens 19th May
 | Arthur Miller’s ‘All My Sons’ returns to London in 2010 with a star-studded cast, featuring David Suchet and Zoe Wanamaker. The play revolves around Joe Keller (Suchet), an American businessman who sold faulty aircraft parts to the government during the Second World War. Joe’s wife Kate (Wanamaker) is in denial that her eldest son, a pilot, has been killed in action. All My Sons is based around the real life story of a businessman who sold damaged parts to the US Air Force during the conflict. |
La Bête – Opens 26th June
 | La Bête is set in 17th-century France and revolves around the stuffy Elomire, the head of the royal court-sponsored theatre troupe. Elomire is displeased when the troupe’s patron, the Princess, wants to bring onboard the frivolous street entertainer Valere. Elomire protests heavily to appointing Valere, but the company is forced to perform one of Valere's plays, resulting in dramatic changes for the future of Elomire, Valere, and the company itself. Elomire and Valere are left fighting to win over the Princess. Starring Mark Rylance, David Hyde Pierce and Joanna Lumley. |
Enron
 | Enron, Lucy Prebble’s gripping new drama based on the accounting scandal of the American energy giant. Enron is a play that sheds fresh light on the notorious bankruptcy and financial turmoil following the boom years of the 1990s. The show is directed by Rupert Goold and stars Tim Pigott-Smith as disgraced CEO Kenneth Lay. |
Private Lives – Kim Cattrall
 | Kim Cattrall returns to the London stage, starring opposite Matthew Macfadyen in Noel Coward’s ‘Private Lives’ at the Vaudeville Theatre. A divorced husband and wife (Elyot and Amanda) are honeymooning with their new spouses when they find themselves staying at the same hotel. Realising they still love each other they abandon their new partners and elope, but before long the old cracks in their relationship start to reappear. |
Mrs. Warren’s Profession – Felicity Kendal
 | Felicity Kendal stars in George Bernard Shaw’s controversial play ‘Mrs Warren’s Profession’. Shaw’s witty and provocative drama sees a mother-daughter relationship put under pressure in the face of Victorian morality. Mrs Warren’s daughter, the prim, Cambridge-educated Vivie, has ambitions for a career in law. She is shocked to discover that her privileged upbringing has been financed by her mother’s involvement in the world’s ‘oldest profession’. |
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