Cloud 9

Cloud 9 returns to the National Theatre in a new Lyttelton Theatre production directed by Dominic Cooke. Caryl Churchill’s landmark comedy begins in Victorian Africa, where a colonial administrator’s family struggles to perform the roles expected of them, before jumping forward to 1970s London as the same characters search for freedom. Bold casting and sharp satire connect questions of gender, sexuality and family with the continuing legacy of empire, giving Churchill’s influential two-act play fresh contemporary urgency.