Pravda

A Fleet Street Comedy

Pravda, a collaboration between two of our greatest contemporary playwrights, premiered in 1985 and became one of the three biggest hits in the history of the National Theatre on the South Bank.

At the centre of the play is the legendary South African outsider Lambert le Roux who rips his way through custom and practice to turn broadsheets tabloid, dumbing down the message and playing free with the truth.

Written at the height of Thatcherism, Pravda put the new world of media arrogance on the stage for the first time. An epic satire of excess, its comic indictment of megalomaniac proprietors, dodgy editors and weak journalists seems only to have gained in relevance with the passage of time.

This is Pravda's first major revival in twenty years.

Howard Brenton's work includes Bloody Poetry at Hampstead Theatre, The Romans in Britain, Weapons of Happiness and Paul for the National Theatre, Thirteenth Night for the RSC, Magnificence and Berlin Bertie for the Royal Court and episodes of BBC1's Spooks.

David Hare's work includes Plenty, The Secret Rapture, the trilogy Racing Demon, Murmuring Judges and The Absence of War, Skylight, Amy's View and Stuff Happens, all for the National Theatre. His screenplays include Plenty, Wetherby and The Hours.

Contains strong language

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