{"title": "Cloud 9", "start": "2026-11-02T00:00:00Z", "end": "2027-01-13T00:00:00Z", "place": "Lyttelton Theatre", "address": "", "price": "GBP 32", "price_from": "32.00", "price_to": "91.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "theatre", "tags": ["stage/theatre/drama", "history/colonialism", "society/gender"], "description": "Cloud 9 is a landmark play by Caryl Churchill, a playful exploration of themes of gender, sexuality, and power, staged at the Lyttelton Theatre. Directed by Dominic Cooke, it portrays identity through time: the first half is set in Victorian colonial Africa, where administrator Clive rules his household with strict expectations, while desire and dissatisfaction seep beneath the family's orderly exterior. Churchill then sends the characters, aged only 25 years more, into 1970s London, where they must decide what parts of their traditional ways of life to leave behind. 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Emilia Clarke, known for Game of Thrones, makes her National Theatre debut in the leading role, while former National Theatre Director Richard Eyre directs, marking a celebrated reunion between Eyre and Hare. 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It is written by Jocelyn Bioh and directed by Monique Touko, the team behind School Girls; Or, The African Mean Girls Play, and follows the women over one hot summer day as their dreams increasingly pit them against the city they love. 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