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Headlong, The Rose Theatre Kingston and Sheffield Theatres have announced the 2015 UK tour of David Hare’s The Absence Of War.
It’s now or never for George Jones. The heavy-smoking, Shakespeare-loving Labour leader needs to get out of opposition and into Number Ten. Plagued by a hostile media, beset by divisions in his party and haunted by his own demons, George has three weeks to convince the Great British Public that he’s their man. But how much compromise is he prepared to make? How can you truly appeal to the man in the street from the Palace of Westminster? And which tie should he wear for Prime Minister’s Questions?
Reece Dinsdale will be joined by Theo Cowan, Ameira Darwish, Don Gallagher, James Harkness, Charlotte Lucas, Barry McCarthy, Maggie McCarthy, Cyril Nri, Ekow Quartey, Helen Ryan and Gyuri Sarossy in David Hare’s searing election play The Absence of War; a prophetic and incisive study of an epic personal struggle set against the high-pressured hysteria of the 1992 General Election.
Directed by Headlong’s Artistic Director Jeremy Herrin, this vigorous new staging of Hare’s funny, stinging political drama embarks on a timely national tour in the build up to the 2015 Election
David Hare is one of England’s foremost playwrights and screenwriters. His plays include Plenty, Skylight, The Permanent Way and Stuff Happens. He has received two Academy Award nominations for The Hours and The Reader. The Absence of War is part of Hare’s acclaimed trilogy which includes Racing Demon and Murmuring Judges.
THE ABSENCE OF WAR – 2015 UK TOUR
24 February to 28 February 2015
Norwich Theatre Royal
Tickets: 01603 63 00 00
www.theatreroyalnorwich.co.uk
3 March to 7 March 2015
Watford Palace Theatre
Tickets: 01923 225671
www.watfordpalacetheatre.co.uk
10 March to 14 March 2015
Bristol Old Vic
Tickets: 0117 987 7877
www.bristololdvic.org.uk
17 March to 21 March 2015
Cheltenham Everyman
Tickets: 01242 572573
www.everymantheatre.org.uk
24 March to 28 March 2015
Liverpool Playhouse
0151 709 4776
www.everymanplayhouse.com
31 March to 4 April 2015
Glasgow Citizens
Tickets: 0141 429 0022
www.citz.co.uk
8 April to 11 April 2015
Oxford Playhouse
Tickets: 0186 530 5305
www.oxfordplayhouse.com
14 April to 25 April 2015
Rose Theatre Kingston
Tickets: 020 8174 0090
www.rosetheatrekingston.org
28 April to 2 May 2015
Cambridge Arts Theatre
Tickets: 01223 503 333
www.cambridgeartstheatre.com
5 May to 8 May 2015
Bath, Theatre Royal
Tickets: 01225 448 844
www.theatreroyal.org.uk/
