ROYAL COURT announces new 2014/2015 season

Tim Price, author of Protest Song about the Occupy movement and National Theatre of Wales’ The Radicalisation of Bradley Manning continues his interrogation of contemporary revolutions.

A 16 year old London schoolboy and an 18 year old recluse in Shetland meet online, pick a fight with the FBI and change the world forever. 

Tim Price gets behind the code with the original Anonymous members and creates an anarchic retelling of the birth of hacktivism. 

A fictional account of the true story of Anonymous and LulzSec, the collective swarm who took on the most powerful capitalist forces from their bedrooms.

Teh Internet is Serious Business

by Tim Price 

directed by Hamish Pirie

17 Sep – 25 Oct 2014

Jerwood Theatre Downstairs

Tickets: £32, £22, £16, £12

Monday all seats £10 on the day

Age guidance 14+

 Writer Duncan Macmillan has been talking to one of the world’s most influential Climate Scientists Chris Rapley. Working with internationally renowned director, Katie Mitchell, a new piece of theatre has been created where the science is centre stage. 
Climate change is a matter of importance to everyone, but what to do about it is mired in controversy. What’s needed is a conversation. What do we owe future generations? How can we protect our children and grandchildren? 
After Ten Billion, Katie Mitchell’s collaboration with the scientist Stephen Emmott in 2012, and directing the German-language production of Duncan Macmillan’s Lungs, Katie continues her commitment to exploring the future of life on earth and climate change through theatre.

2071

by Duncan Macmillan and Chris Rapley

directed by Katie Mitchell

in co-operation with the Deutsches Schauspielhaus Hamburg

5 Nov – 15 Nov

Jerwood Theatre Downstairs

Tickets £32, £22, £16, £12

Mondays all seats £10 on the day

Age guidance 14+

How do you save 22 million pounds? Mark and Hilary, the leaders of the Council are about to find out. 
Following the success of Let The Right One In and This is England ’86, Jack Thorne has written an urgent political play, a funny and scathing fable attacking the squeeze on local government.

Hope

by Jack Thorne

directed by John Tiffany

26 Nov 2014 – 10 Jan 2015

Jerwood Theatre Downstairs

Tickets £32, £22, £16, £12

Mondays all seats £10 on the day

Age guidance 14+

Starting with a seemingly innocent one night stand, this darkly witty and magical play from Zinnie Harris dives into our recent European history. 
An epic look at the true cost of principles and how we live now.

How to Hold Your Breath

by Zinnie Harris

directed by Vicky Featherstone

4 Feb 2015 – 21 Mar 2015

Jerwood Theatre Downstairs

Tickets £32, £22, £16, £12

Mondays all seats £10 on the day

Age guidance 14+

Mr and Mrs Twit are not very nice. In fact they're extremely nasty. They're nasty to each other, and they're VILE to everyone else.
They hold a family of monkeys hostage in a cage and force them to stand on their heads. ALL THE TIME. We told you they weren't very nice. Can the monkeys find a way to show those vicious Twits what for? 
Mischievously adapted from one of the world's most loved books, Enda Walsh turns The Twits on its head and brings this revolting revolution to the Royal Court Theatre stage.

Roald Dahl’s The Twits 

mischievously adapted by Enda Walsh

directed by John Tiffany

7 Apr – 31 May

Jerwood Theatre Downstairs

Tickets: £35, £25, £16, £12 (under 16s get 50% off top two ticket prices)

Mondays all seats £10 on the day

Age guidance 7+ 

Rory Mullarkey imagines a wild road trip across Middle England where Lady Catherine and her young protégée Leo, enlist every tearoom, hot yoga class and WI group on a mission to change the country forever. 
This play is the 2014 Pinter Commission, and was the winner of the George Devine Award.

Cast includes Anna Chancellor.

The Wolf From The Door

by Rory Mullarkey 

directed by James Macdonald

10 Sep – 1 Nov 2014

Jerwood Theatre Upstairs

Tickets £20

Mondays all seats £10 on the day

Age guidance 15+

 ‘Badger Do Best’ has landed, bringing with it a new world of rules and regulations. 
But the kids are fighting back. Tired of being guinea pigs in yet another government scheme, can the class of 4N bring down the education regime set to pacify them? 
After years working in the classroom, Molly Davies imagines a mutiny of eight year olds.

God Bless the Child

by Molly Davies

directed by Vicky Featherstone

12 Nov – 20 Dec 2014

Jerwood Theatre Upstairs

Tickets £20

Mondays all seats £10 on the day

Age guidance 14+

Between 1989 and 2003 the Civil War in Liberia saw over 200,000 people killed, a million others displaced into refugee camps, and over 15,000 children recruited into ‘Small Boys Units’.

First-time writer Diana Nneka Atuona's Alfred Fagon award-winning play tells one teenage girl's story of survival.
After its run at the Royal Court Theatre, Liberian Girl will transfer to the CLF Art Café at the Bussey Building in Peckham for one week and the Bernie Grant Arts Centre in Tottenham.

Liberian Girl

by Diana Nneka Atuona 

directed by Matthew Dunster

7 Jan – Sat 31 Jan 2015

Jerwood Theatre Upstairs

Tickets £20

Mondays all seats £10 on the day

Age guidance 15+