Royal Court Theatre new season announcement features Jack Thorne, Stephen Rea and controversial Pah-La

The Royal Court Theatre’s new season has been announced, including a new play from the team behind Harry Potter and the Cursed Child.

Playwright Jack Thorne and director John Tiffany’s The End of History… is one of three shows at the Jerwood Theatre Downstairs and will eschew all talk of magic in favour of a story of socialism and family legacy.

Stephen Rea will reprise his starring role as Eric Miller in the return of David Ireland’s satire Cyprus Avenue. Royal Court head Vicky Featherstone directs the timely piece about a Northern Irish man living in the past.

White Pearl, a comedy from 24 year old Thai Australian writer Anchuli Felicia King about institutional racism, completes the Downstairs theatre bill.

Passages: A Windrush Celebration comes to the Jerwood Theatre Downstairs with a series of monologue films written to mark the 70th anniversary and in response to the Windrush scandal. Winsome Pinnock, Kwame Kwei-Armah, Natasha Gordon, Jamael Westman, Rikki Beadle-Blair, Roy William and Lynette Linton feature.

The five-show Upstairs season includes Pah-La, a play about an exiled Tibetan nun with plans to self-immolate. This staging follows a controversy in which playwright Abhishek Majumdar accused the Royal Court of shelving it out of fear of offending the Chinese.

Superhoe, Nicôle Lecky’s story about a young Instagram obsessed girl, will be directed by Jade Lewis, while Jasmine Jones’s comedy Seven Methods of Killing Kylie Jenner about a teenage girl who hatches plans to deal with the star’s level of influence is directed by Milli Bhatia.

Clean Break, a theatre company who work with female prisoners, return with Inside Bitch, an autobiographical show created and performed by four former inmates, and Selina Thompson retraces her ancestry through the transatlantic slave routes in Salt.

The season also includes the Brexit Big Band & Leavers’ Assembly, marking the weekend the UK is due to leave the EU with a concert and contributions by artists from across the UK and Europe.

For the full season rundown, head to royalcourttheatre.com