September brings a dense wave of new productions across London as subsidised theatres resume full autumn programming. Indhu Rubasingham becomes the National Theatre's seventh artistic director and directs her first programmed show. Nadia Fall begins leadership at the Young Vic. Lynette Linton stages her final Bush production while Rupert Goold starts his concluding season at the Almeida, which opens strongly with a new Alice Birch play. Birch returns after a screen-focused hiatus, and the season features notable celebrity performers such as Ncuti Gatwa, Letitia Wright, Alicia Vikander, Andrew Lincoln and Brendan Gleeson.
September is always a great month for London theatre: after the slowdown of the summer, autumn sees pretty much every subsidised theatre in London stage new productions simultaneously. And this September feels particularly momentous as Indhu Rubasingham takes over as the seventh artistic director of the National Theatre and directs , the first show she's programmed. Over at the Young Vic and Nadia Fall also starts her reign. It's the end of an era at the Bush also, where Lynette Linton directs her last play for the venue - and the Almeida, where Rupert Goold's final season begins. Plus lashings of celebrity fun including Ncuti Gatwa, Letitia Wright, Alicia Vikander, Andrew Lincoln and Brendan Gleeson.
Now this is a way to kick off a final season. Admittedly a very long final season: Rupert Goold's final tranche of programming at the Almeida will last What is it?until the end of next year. But it couldn't get off to a more promising start than a veritable theatre hipster holy grail: a new play from Alice Birch. Her 2017 drama Anatomy of a Suicide is one of the great British works of the last decade.
She's not done a lot of stage stuff since because her screen career went into overdrive, notably with her adaptation of Normal People . Now she's finally back with a new play. To be honest the description seems cool but slightly enigmatic: it's 'a kaleidoscopic account' of how male narratives have shaped the world since the 19th century. It will probably be funny and clever and it definitely stars the great Kyle Soller in his first stage role since his screen breakthrough in .
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