Following a sold-out run at the National Theatre, the NT and
Neal Street Productions' critically acclaimed The Lehman Trilogy is
now performing in the West End until 31 August.
The story of a family and a company that changed the world,
told in three parts on a single evening.
Sam Mendes directs Simon Russell Beale, Adam
Godley and Ben Miles* who play the Lehman Brothers, their sons
and grandsons.
On a cold September morning in 1844 a young man from Bavaria
stands on a New York dockside. Dreaming of a new life in the new world. He is
joined by his two brothers and an American epic begins.
163 years later, the firm they establish – Lehman Brothers –
spectacularly collapses into bankruptcy, and triggers the largest financial
crisis in history.
Sam Mendes (Skyfall, King Lear) returned to
the National Theatre to direct Ben Power's English version of Stefano
Massini’s vast and poetic play, a hit across Europe.
* performing until 3 August. From 5 August, Dominik
Tiefenthaler will play the role of Emanuel Lehman alongside Simon Russell Beale
and Adam Godley