The City by Martin Crimp at the Royal Court Theatre

JERWOOD THEATRE DOWNSTAIRS

The City by Martin Crimp

24 April – 7June

"And I know what you're thinking: you're thinking it must be pretty easy to kill people who are simply clinging on to life. But the people clinging on to life are the most dangerous people of all."

Clair wants to be kissed - but not now - and certainly not by her husband. Chris wants to celebrate his new job by driving into the oncoming traffic. Jenny arrives to complain about the screaming children - but the garden's empty, and the key to the playroom's disappeared. Just what strange game is being played here?

Three characters fight to make sense of a surreal and collapsing world in this darkly comic mystery.

Martin Crimp's Attempts on her Life premiered at the Royal Court in 1997 and was recently given a new production by Katie Mitchell at the National Theatre. Their previous collaborations include The Country and Face to the Wall at the Royal Court and The Seagull (National). Martin Crimp also created the new translation of Rhinoceros for the Royal Court.

Director Katie Mitchell

Designer Vicki Mortimer

Lighting Paule Constable

Sound Gareth Fry

Sound Associate Sean Ephgrave

 

Cast

Matilda Castrey

Benedict Cumberbatch

Ruby Douglas

Amanda Hale

Hattie Morahan

 

Tickets – £25, £15, £10. Mondays all seats £10

For more information and to book, call 020 7565 5000 or click on the link below.

http://www.royalcourttheatre.com/whatson01.asp?play=504