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Luther
Play by John Osborne (1961). Directed by Peter Gill. Designed by Alison Chitty.
Lighting Designed by Peter M Mumford.
Music by Terry Davis. Music Director Ian Macpherson. Sound Designed by Paul Groothuis.
Assistant Director Josie Rourke.
Peter Gill directs the first London production of Luther since it was premiered by the Royal Court 30 years ago.
In Luther John Osborne returns to the central concern of all his major works. Like
Look Back in Anger and The Entertainer this playis an intense psychological study of a flawed anti-hero, pitted against his world.
This time, Osborne's central figure is one of history's greatest
religious thinkers and revolutionaries, Martin Luther, whose personal
struggle with God led, inevitably, to a battle with the Church that set in motion the
Protestant Reformation.
This private and public epic unfolds through a series of portraits of
16th-century Europe, showing the Catholic Church in all its wisdom,
corruption and glory failing to embrace one of its most astonishing sons.
Martin Luther is played by Rufus Sewell, who last appeared at the National in Arcadia, 1993
Cast includes Richard Griffiths, Geoffrey Hutchings, Maxine
Peake, Rufus Sewell, Malcolm Sinclair and Timothy West.
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Press Notices:
THE DAILY TELEGRAPH (LONDON)
HEADLINE:
National Theatre shake-up to pull in young peopleBYLINE: By Nigel Reynolds Arts Correspondent
THE National Theatre, concerned that its audience is ageing and middle class, will spend pounds 1.5 million to slice its
Lyttelton auditorium into two smaller theatres staging cutting-edge drama aimed at younger theatregoers.
The National also announced yesterday that Glenn Close, the Hollywood star, Martin Clunes, best known for his part in the
television series Men Behaving Badly, and Rufus Sewell, the young British screen and stage actor, will appear in forthcoming
productions.
It also unveiled plans to stage a new trilogy, set in 19th century Russia, by Sir Tom Stoppard.
He is one of Britain's most popular playwrights, but has not produced a new stage work for nearly five years. The unnamed trilogy,
running at more than seven hours, is expected to be in repertory for several months next year.
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The Times (London)
HEADLINE: National turns to DJs to attract younger audience
BYLINE: Paul McCann and Adam Sherwin
CHEAP beer and cutting-edge disc jockeys will be offered by the National Theatre in an
initiative to attract young people to the
South Bank. An atmosphere more akin to a nightclub will be created to try to attract a
"hip" audience to productions that will
feature well-known comedy stars and film actors.
Trevor Nunn, the NT's artistic director, yesterday announced his new season, which will
feature a new version of South Pacific,
plays starring Martin Clunes and Rufus Sewell and a Pounds 1.5 million
redevelopment of one of its theatres.
Mick Gordon, the Belfast-born director who has been given the task of attracting
theatregoers under the age of 24, said: "I want
people to stay and chill with DJs, late-night unplugged sessions and barbecues overlooking
the Thames. The beer will be cheaper, too."
Clunes, famous from the BBC's Men Behaving Badly sitcom, will make his National debut in
Moliere's classic comedy Tartuffe.
Sewell, a star of the 1998 film Martha, Meet Frank, Daniel and Laurence, and Cold
Comfort Farm, will appear in John
Osborne's Luther.
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The Evening Standard (London)
Martin and Rufus signed up for National;
Nunn unveils his stars and a £1.5m plan for Lyttelton
Luke Leitch
IN AN audacious bid to attract younger audiences the National Theatre today unveiled a
£1.5 million redevelopment of the Lyttelton
Theatre, some star names for the coming season, and new drama which would "surprise
and challenge".
Among the acting heavyweights to appear will be Rufus Sewell, in John
Osborne's Luther; Corin Redgrave and John Wood in No Man's
Land by Harold Pinter; and Martin Clunes, of Men Behaving Badly fame, will make his
National debut in Moliere's classic comedy Tartuffe.
RUFUS SEWELL returns to the stage to play
the religious reformer Martin Luther in John Osborne's play Luther, which
Peter
Gill will put on at the National Theatre in the late autumn. Sewell is wonderfully
beastly in the spoof medieval film A Knight's Tale,
in which he appears opposite Heath Ledger, Mark Addey, James Purefoy and Paul Bettany (who
has just finished working with
Russell Crowe on A Beautiful Mind).
The Daily Mail