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The Pitmen Painters

Booking from Saturday, 31st January 2009 until Tuesday, 17th February 2009
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'The Pitmen Painters, in Max Roberts' perfectly pitched and acted production, manages to be tragic, funny and illuminating in one fell swoop of energy'
Evening Standard
Following sell-out seasons at The National last year, Lee Hall's new play, a deeply moving and timely look at art, class and politics returns for a further season.
'The Pitmen Painters, in Max Roberts' perfectly pitched and acted production, manages to be tragic, funny and illuminating in one fell swoop of energy'
Evening Standard
'Breathtaking in its scope, Lee Hall's remarkable play provides a fascinating debate about art and socialism'
The Guardian
'Lee Hall's new play and Max Roberts' sublime production are ablaze with intellectual vigour, political passion and incendiary emotional energy. A beautiful work of art that everybody should see'
The Times
In 1934, a group of Ashington miners hired a professor to teach an art appreciation evening class. Rapidly abandoning theory in favour of practice, the pitmen began to paint. Within a few years the most avant-garde artists became their friends and their work was acquired by prestigious collections; but every day they worked, as before, down the mine.
Following sell-out seasons at Live Theatre Newcastle and in the Cottesloe, The Pitmen Painters returns, this time to the Lyttelton. Lee Hall's new play is a humorous, deeply moving and timely look at art, class and politics.

Now showing at Lyttleton Theatre

Lyttelton Theatre
Southbank
London

The Lyttelton Theatre (named after Oliver Lyttelton, the first chairman of the National Theatre Board) is a proscenium arch design theatre, conventional in its basic shape though not in the quality of its sightlines and acoustics.

From all 890 seats you can see and hear almost equally well from each of its . No seat is further away, here, from the actor's point of command than the distance from the front row of the dress circle in many older, larger theatres.
There are no view-restricting pillars, circle rails, or other obstacles.
Unlike most traditional theatres, the Lyttelton has an adjustable proscenium. You can make it into an open-end stage; add a forestage; or create an orchestra pit for up to 20 musicians.

The Lyttleton Theatre is part of the National Theatre Complex on London's South Bank. The National Theatre comprises three separate auditoria:

The Olivier Theatre (named after the theatre's first artistic director, Lord Laurence Olivier)
The Lyttelton Theatre (named after Oliver Lyttelton, the first chairman of the National Theatre Board)
The Cottesloe Theatre (named after Lord Cottesloe, chairman of the South Bank Theatre Board)

Soon showing: August Osage County (Booking from Friday, 28th November 2008 until Tuesday, 20th January 2009)

Travel directions

Take the Northern or Bakerloo line to Waterloo station. The theatre is a 10 minute walk.

Nearest underground station: Waterloo

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