{"title": "An evening with the Royal Court Theatre", "start": "2026-11-10T19:15:00Z", "end": "2026-11-10T20:15:00Z", "place": "Bookbar", "address": "Blackstock Road 166, London", "price": "£10.00 + £0.25 ticket service fee", "price_from": "10.00", "price_to": "10.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["stage/theatre"], "description": "An evening of conversation celebrating the Royal Court Theatre's 70th anniversary. Resident Director Aneesha Srinivasan joins the hosts at BookBar Chelsea to explore the theatre's history, its anniversary season and its future. 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Director Caroline Steinbeis and translator Rory Mullarkey, who together made the 2025 production of Three Sisters, reunite for this timeless story of ambition and desire, inspired by Shakespeare's Hamlet. On a rural estate, the lives of four people intersect: the middlebrow writer Boris Trigorin, the ingenue Nina, the washed-up actress Irina Arkadina, and her son Konstantin Treplev, a brooding experimental playwright. 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Ben Stower's Natural Affairs, directed by Livia Sardão, follows the guests, staff and resident ghosts of a rundown English B&B as secrets become scandals and beliefs are tested. 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Expect insight into Jacobi's six-decade career, from Shakespeare roles such as 'Hamlet' and 'Othello' to screen favourites including 'I, Claudius', 'Gladiator' and 'The King's Speech'. Clifford, whose own credits range from Kenneth Branagh films to 'The Crown' and directing at Washington's Folger Shakespeare Theatre, is also Jacobi's partner. 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Directed by Dominic Cooke (Mrs Warren's Profession), the production stars Rebecca Humphries, Eloka Ivo, Tom Mothersdale, Charlotte Ritchie, Ellen Robertson, Stuart Thompson and Sam Troughton.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/cloud-9-63403/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/c6dcce23bdcf26e492627db07d180ed32f24d8c1a1fab3c62ba7bc2aa3e67b4d-600.webp"}, {"title": "Blood of my Blood", "start": "2026-10-02T19:45:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-07T18:45:00Z", "place": "Royal Court Theatre", "address": "Sloane Square, SW1W 8AS London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "theatre", "tags": ["stage/theatre/drama", "history"], "description": "Blood of My Blood is a play spanning two time frames that explores the legacy of slavery, asking what we inherit, how we challenge injustice and what we need to belong. It was written by Joy Nesbitt and directed by Tatenda Shamiso. 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As secrets, grudges and forgotten dreams surface and the bar is drunk dry, there is more to lose than just a pub. The sharply funny and melancholy play is by Anna Jordan, the award-winning writer behind TV's Succession, Killing Eve and One Day, and was previously a 2024 hit for the club. 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Directed by Ian Rickson, the new adaptation is by Conor McPherson and produced by Sonia Friedman Productions. As old loyalties falter and new ambitions rise, a world of privilege begins to crumble in this deeply moving portrait of love, loss and letting go.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/the-cherry-orchid-69944/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/eb721f0654cf636be6e1f18910773e1337885610af9b3f39b33b050687f3021d-1200.webp"}, {"title": "The Standard Of Living", "start": "2026-09-21T00:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-12-12T00:00:00Z", "place": "Theatre Royal Haymarket", "address": "Suffolk Street, SW1Y 4HT London", "price": "GBP 126", "price_from": "31.00", "price_to": "220.00", "tickets_url": "https://www.londonboxoffice.co.uk/search/form-for-venue/the-standard-of-living-tickets/2026/10/28/2", "category": "theatre", "tags": ["stage/theatre/drama", "history/20th-century"], "description": "The Standard Of Living is a world-premiere play telling the story of John Maynard Keynes, the rebellious economist and Bloomsbury Group member whose ideas helped shape the modern world. 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