In The Vale Of Health rehearsal diary: Week one

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The Stuff of Tragedy: First Week of Rehearsals By Laurence Cook, In The Vale Of Health Associate Director

In The Vale Of Health: Casting announcement

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Four plays based on the same characters, in the same situation but all telling a different story with opposite conclusions…

A Human Being Died That Night returns to Hampstead Downstairs

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Eric Abraham presents a Fugard Theatre production of A HUMAN BEING DIED THAT NIGHT A play by Nicholas Wright Based on the book by Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela

The Mystae: What the audience thinks

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Video: The Mystae Behind the Scenes Trailer

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Director Tim Carroll, Designer Georgia Lowe and cast members Adam Buchanan, Alex Griffin-Griffiths and Beatrice Scirocchi give an exclusive insight into The Mystae’s incredible cave – the most ambitious set Downstairs has ever seen.

Video: A backstage tour of The Mystae with Edward Hall

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Hampstead Theatre’s Artistic Director, Edward Hall, takes a tour of The Mystae cave, meets the cast in their dressing room and even takes a dip in the ‘sea’….

The Mystae: Production photos

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Taken by Robert Day

Building The Mystae: An interview with Designer Georgia Lowe

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Georgia Lowe speaks to Hampstead Theatre’s Online Features Editor, Susie Benson, about designing the most ambitious (and wettest) set Hampstead Downstairs has ever seen

Edward Hall speaks to The Guardian about Simon Gray plays

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Hampstead Theatre to stage Gray’s hit with three unperformed plays exploring different outcomes for Japes characters

4 plays by Simon Gray now on sale - see 3 for £20

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Hampstead Downstairs present

Lyn Gardner: Simon Gray Obituary

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Simon Gray: Playwright, diarist and novelist bridged the gulf between intellectual and popular dramaBy Lyn Gardner Written for The Guardian in 2008

Simon Gray: A career in pictures

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Playwright Simon Gray had many West End hits, including Butley (1971), Otherwise Engaged (1975), Quartermaine’s Terms, (1981), Melon (1987), The Common Pursuit (first produced in 1984 and revived in 1988), Hidden Laughter (1990), The Late Middle Classes (1999), Japes (2000), The Holy Terror (2004) and, on the radio earlier this year, Missing Dates, a sequel to Japes.

The Mystae: In rehearsals

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Full cast anounced for The Mystae

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We are delighted to announce the that the cast of Nick Whitby’s The Mystae will be Adam Buchanan, Alex Griffin-Griffiths and Beatrice Scirocchi.

A Cup of Tea With... The Blackest Black's Charity Wakefield

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Multi-talented stage and screen actress Charity Wakefield’s impressive acting CV includes an appearance at the National Theatre (The Cherry Orchard, 2011) and roles in the BBC’s Sense and Sensibility (2008) and the 2012 re-imagining of The Munsters, Mockingbird Lane.

Video: An interview with The Blackest Black writer Jeremy Brock

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‘In theatre your lines are learnt by the actors and spoken by the actors and, this may sound odd, but in film that’s not always so.

The Blackest Black: Production photos

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Taken by Robert Day

An interview with The Blackest Black writer Jeremy Brock

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Writer Jeremy Brock discusses his new play The Blackest Black, returning to theatre after 20 years and having fish and chips with Judi Dench with Hampstead’s Online Features Editor, Susie Benson.

The Blackest Black: In rehearsals

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The Blackest Black: Full casting announced

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Hampstead Theatre is delighted to announce that the cast for BAFTA winner Jeremy Brock’s new play, The Blackest Black, will be Ian Bonar, John Light and Charity Wakefield.

Fault Lines: Production photos

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Taken by Holly Wren

New Downstairs season now on sale

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HAMPSTEAD THEATRE ANNOUNCES TWO NEW PLAYS FOR THE NEW YEAR AT HAMPSTEAD DOWNSTAIRS

The Guardian: Tracy-Ann Oberman's Dressing Room

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Interview by Matt Trueman in The Guardian.

Fault Lines: In rehearsal

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Behind the scenes photos of the new Downstairs production this Christmas.

A Cup of Tea with... Godchild's Chook Sibtain

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We chat to Chook Sibtain over a cup of tea about embarrassing moments, Michael Attenborough and being a grown up.

Fault Lines: Trailer

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Fault Lines: Full casting announced

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Natalie Dew, Samuel James, Alex Lawther and Nichola McAuliffe play the staff of a small relief charity in Ali Taylor’s sharp new comedy, which gives the expression ‘having a disastrous Christmas’ a whole new meaning.

Fault Lines: A writer's introduction

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We chat to writer Ali Taylor, who makes his Hampstead Theatre debut with Fault Lines, about inspiration, Joe Orton and bad gags.

Godchild: Production photos

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Taken by Manuel Harlan

Ham & High: Michael Attenborough interview

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Ham & High’s Sam Warner interviews Godchild Director Michael Attenborough and Hampstead’s Artistic Director Edward Hall.

Godchild: In rehearsal

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Photos taken by Becky Paris

A Cup of Tea with... Godchild's Tracy-Ann Oberman

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We chat to Tracy-Ann Oberman, who returns to Hampstead after a sell-out run in Old Money on the Main Stage earlier this year, about Hysteria, Mary Beard and being a grown up.

A Cup of Tea with... The Empty Quarter's Gunnar Cauthery

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We chat to Gunnar Cauthery about the intimacy of Hampstead Downstairs, embarrassing on stage moments and Mark Rylance.

Godchild: Full casting announced

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Hampstead Downstairs/The Peter Wolff Trust PresentGODCHILD Writer Deborah Bruce Director Michael Attenborough Designer Francesca Ready Lighting Oliver Fenwick Sound John Leonard 31 October – 30 November 2013