"Set between the wars, the one-woman show concerns Ella Gericke, a German woman who adopts her late husband's identity in order to hold on to his decently-paying job as a crane operator. Tilda Swinton was just 27 when it debuted at Edinburgh's Traverse Theatre in 1987 (it transferred to the Court the following year), and her extraordinary, gender-bending performance cued her up cult big screen career."
"That gets a transfer to the Court (May 8-30 2026), which would be a good get under any circumstance but has a particular resonance at this address - it premiered here in 1958, and was revived there in 2006 as part of the theatre's fiftieth anniversary celebrations, with none other than the great Harold Pinter performing the role of Krapp, an elderly man who listens back to the megalomaniacal rantings of his old self with mounting horror."
The Royal Court Theatre's seventieth season combines new writing with high-profile revivals. Tilda Swinton returns to the British stage to reprise Ella Gericke in Manfred Karge's Man to Man (Sep 5–Oct 24, 2026), a one-woman play set between the wars about a German woman who adopts her late husband's identity to keep his crane-operator job; Stephen Unwin will direct a literal reprisal of the original production. Gary Oldman's production of Beckett's Krapp's Last Tape transfers to the Court (May 8–30, 2026); the play premiered at the Court in 1958 and was revived there in 2006 with Harold Pinter as Krapp. The season emphasizes major revivals alongside the theatre's new writing tradition.
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