BAFTA winner and
Academy Award® nominee Chiwetel Ejiofor (12
Years a Slave) takes the title role in this dynamic new production of
one of English drama’s oldest plays, directed by the National Theatre’s new
Director Rufus Norris (Broken, London
Road).
Everyman is
successful, popular and riding high when Death comes calling. He is forced to
abandon the life he has built and embark on a last, frantic search to recruit a
friend, anyone, to speak in his defence. But Death is close behind, and time is
running out.
One of the great
primal, spiritual myths, Everyman asks whether it is only in death that we can understand
our lives. A cornerstone of English drama since the 15th century, it now
explodes onto the stage in a startling production with words by Carol Ann
Duffy, Poet Laureate, and movement by Javier De Frutos.