14 November 2019
Newsdesk
For eight performances only, all of it, a new play by Alistair McDowall, directed by Royal Court Artistic Director Vicky Featherstone and performed by Kate O’Flynn, will run at the Royal Court Theatre Jerwood Theatre Downstairs in February 2020.
all of it will run from Friday 7 February 2020 – Saturday 15 February 2020, excluding Sunday 9 February 2020, on top of the Poet in Da Corner set. All performances will begin at 9.30pm with the exception of Tuesday 11 February 2020, which will be a matinee performance at 3pm. Due to the limited run there won’t be a press night, but press are welcome to request tickets from Monday 10 February 2020, 9.30pm.
“Ta Ta Ta Ta Ta Ta
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Face
Faces
Smile
Smiling
Yes
Yes
Yes Yes Yes
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A short play for one performer about all of it.
Tickets for the all of it are now on sale for supporters and go on sale to Friends on Monday 18 November at 12pm and to the general public on Wednesday 20 November 2019 at 12pm at 020 7565 5000 / www.royalcourttheatre.com/whats-on/
Biographies:
Alistair McDowall (Writer)
For the Royal Court: X, Talk Show (Open Court).
Other theatre includes: Zero for the Young Dudes! (NT Connections); Pomona (Orange Tree/National/ Royal Exchange, Manchester); Brilliant Adventures (Royal Exchange, Manchester/ Live, Newcastle); Captain Amazing (Live, Newcastle/ Edinburgh Festival Fringe/ UK tour).
Vicky Featherstone (Director)
For the Royal Court: On Bear Ridge [co-director] (& National Theatre Wales), The Cane, Gundog, My Mum’s a Twat [co-director], Cyprus Avenue (& Abbey, Dublin/Public, NYC), Bad Roads, Victory Condition, X, How to Hold Your Breath, God Bless the Child, Maidan: Voices from the Uprising, The Mistress Contract, The Ritual Slaughter of Gorge Mastromas; Untitled Matriarch Play, The President Has Come to See You (Open Court Weekly Rep).
Other theatre includes: What if Women Ruled the World? (Manchester International Festival); Our Ladies of Perpetual Succour (& National/West End/International tour), Enquirer [co-director], An Appointment with the Wicker Man, 27, The Wheel, Somersaults, Wall of Death: A Way of Life [co-director], The Miracle Man, Empty, Long Gone Lonesome (National Theatre of Scotland); Cockroach (National Theatre of Scotland/Traverse); 365 (National Theatre of Scotland/Edinburgh International Festival); Mary Stuart (National Theatre of Scotland/Citizens/Royal Lyceum, Edinburgh); The Wolves in the Walls [co-director] (National Theatre of Scotland/Tramway/Lyric, Hammersmith/UK tour/New Victory, NYC); The Small Things, Pyrenees, On Blindness, The Drowned World, Tiny Dynamite, Crazy Gary’s Mobile Disco, Splendour, Riddance, The Cosmonaut’s Last Message to the Woman He Once Loved in the Former Soviet Union, Crave (Paines Plough).
Television Includes: Pritilata (from Snatches: Moments from 100 Years of Women’s Lives), Where the Heart Is, Silent Witness.
Film includes: Climate Change: what do you want me to say? (Royal Court/Financial Times short film), Cyprus Avenue (The Space/BBC capture).
Vicky was Artistic Director of Paines Plough 1997-2005 and the inaugural Artistic Director of the National Theatre of Scotland 2005-2012. She is the Artistic Director of the Royal Court.
Kate O’Flynn (Performer)
For the Royal Court: the end of history…, Anatomy of a Suicide, The Ritual Slaughter of Gorge Mastromas, A Miracle.
Other theatre includes: [BLANK] (Donmar); One for the Road/Mountain Language/Ashes to Ashes (West End); The Glass Menagerie (West End/Edinburgh International Festival); The Trial (Young Vic); A Taste of Honey, Port (National); Lungs, The Sound of Heavy Rain (Paines Plough/Crucible, Sheffield); Marine Parade (ETT); The Whisky Taster (Bush); House of Special Purpose (Chichester Festival); See How They Run, The Children’s Hour (Royal Exchange, Manchester).
Television includes: Brexit, No Offence, Wanderlust, Doctor Thorne, Not You Again, Ordinary Lies, New Tricks, Room at the Top, Playhouse Presents: The Snipist, Above Suspicion, The Syndicate, The Suspicions of Mr Whicher, Kingdom, The Palace, Trial & Retribution.
Film includes: Peterloo, Bridget Jones’ Baby, Mr. Turner, Up There, Happy Go Lucky.
Awards include: Clarence Derwent Award for Best Female in a Supporting Role (The Glass Menagerie); Manchester Evening Standard Award for Best Newcomer, TMA Award for Best Supporting Actress (The Children’s Hour); Critics’ Circle Award for Most Promising Newcomer (Port).
all of it
Written by Alistair McDowall
Directed by Vicky Featherstone
Performed by Kate O’Flynn
Jerwood Theatre Downstairs, Royal Court Theatre, Sloane Square, SW1W 8AS
Friday 7 February 2020 – Saturday 15 February 2020
Friday 7 February – Saturday 15 February 2020 (excluding Sunday 9 February 2020 and Tuesday 11 February 2020) – 9.30pm
Tuesday 11 February 2020 – 3pm
Captioned Performance Wednesday 12 February 2020, 9.30pm
Press Performance Monday 10 February 2020, 9.30pm (press in from)
Standard Tickets £12-£25 (Mondays all seats £12 available from 9am online on the day of performance)
First Look Tickets**
Concessions* £5 off Band B & C seats for previews and matinees
Under 26s***
Access £15 (plus a companion at the same rate)
*ID required. All discounts subject to availability.
