Written by Martin Crimp, Directed by Dominic Cooke
£28, £20, £12. Mondays all tickets £10
Production Company: The Royal Court Theatre Presents
Playwright: By Martin Crimp
Lead Quote: "- What’re you doing here Robert?
,- Well to be frank with you, I’ve really no idea. I thought I would just suddenly appear, so I did. I suddenly appeared."
Ticket Information: Tickets £28, £20, £12
,Mondays all seats £10 (available in advance to Friends and Supporters and on the day of the performance from 9am online)
,Concessions £5 off top two prices* (available in advance for all performances until Saturday 15 December inclusive and all matinees. For all other performances, available on a standby basis on the day)
,25s and under £8* (available on £20 and £12 tickets)
,School and HE Groups of 8+ 50% off top two prices (available Tuesday-Friday)
,Groups of 6+ £5 off top price (available Tuesday-Friday)
,Access £12 (plus a companion at the same rate)
,*ID required. All discounts are subject to availability
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<p>A family Christmas is interrupted by the unexpected arrival of Uncle Bob.</p>
<p>Who is he? Why has he come? Why does his wife stay out in the car? And what is the meaning of his long and outrageous message? <br />
All we can be sure of is that the world will never be the same again.</p>
<p>A violent satire, <em>In the Republic of Happiness</em> is a provocative roll-call of contemporary obsessions.</p>
<p><strong>Martin Crimp’s</strong> last play at the Royal Court was <em>The City</em>, directed by <em>Katie Mitchell</em>. His previous Royal Court credits include <em>Attempts On Her Life, The Country, Face to the Wall, Fewer Emergencies, Advice to Iraqi Women, The Treatment, No One Sees the Video</em> and a translation of <em>The Chairs</em> (with Complicité). Martin Crimp also created the new translation of <em>Rhinoceros</em> for the Royal Court. His credits elsewhere include <em>Play House/Definitely the Bahamas</em>, <em>Cruel and Tender</em> (Young Vic). His recent translations of plays have included <em>Big and Small</em>, starring Cate Blanchett (Sydney Theatre Company /Barbican as part of London 2012 Festival, Théâtre de la Ville, Paris, Vienna Festival and Ruhrfestspiele Recklinghausen), <em>The Misanthrope</em> (Young Vic) and <em>Pains of Youth</em> (National Theatre).</p>
<p>Artistic Director of the Royal Court <strong>Dominic Cooke</strong> directs. His recent credits at the Court include <em>In Basildon, Chicken Soup with Barley</em>, for which he was nominated for an Evening Standard Award, and the multi award-winning production of <em>Clybourne Park</em> for which he was nominated for an Olivier Award. <em>Clybourne Park</em>, which won writer Bruce Norris a Pulitzer Prize, opened at the Royal Court in September 2010 to critical acclaim before transferring to the West End. Credits elsewhere include <em>The Comedy of Errors</em> at the National Theatre, as well as adapting and directing <em>Arabian Nights</em> and <em>Noughts and Crosses</em> at the <span class="caps">RSC</span>. He will also be directing <em>Choir Boy</em> by Tarell Alvin McCraney this season in the Jerwood Theatre Upstairs.</p>