Skylight Theatre breaks

Skylight is an award winning play that focusses almost exclusively on the meeting of two former lovers. Set on a cold winter’s evening in London, Kyra Hollis is visited unexpectedly by Tom Sergeant, with whom she once had a passionate affair. With Hollis a schoolteacher and Sergeant a successful, charming and wealthy restaurateur, the two have starkly different lifestyles, and with the years that have passed since their last meeting, it is not immediately apparent whether romance will be rekindled or old resentments reborn.

David Hare’s script was originally brought to the stage in 1995, arriving in the West End in 1996 and winning the Lawrence Olivier award for best play. This revival will combine the riveting script with prodigious acting and directing talent. Stephen Daldry, the award winning film and stage director, most famous for Billy Elliot (both the film and the musical), will conduct the acting veteran Bill Nighy and the rising star Carey Mulligan (both have impressive filmographies), in this captivating production. It is surely one of the hottest tickets of the summer.

With such an array of talent both onstage and behind the scenes, you can expect a performance that is simultaneously staged with polished professionalism and with intriguing informality. As there are so few characters, costumes and locations in the play, the actors must fully engage with the script in order to capture the audience’s imagination and convey the plethora of emotions and sentiments that are apparent in David Hare’s work. The focussed nature of the play will make for an intense but thoroughly rewarding evening.

After the play, you can retire to a central London hotel, chosen by you from a list of carefully vetted properties. All of our hotels offer clean and comfortable accommodation and include a hearty breakfast the next morning. Our selection offers everything from budget accommodation to decadent luxury. Rather than face the London traffic, you can travel to London in ease and comfort with our discounted, flexible rail travel.

5 stars: "Nighy and Mulligan in moving mixture of politics and love" - The Guardian
5 stars: "A knockout production starring Bill Nighy and Carey Mulligan". "There is a bruising emotional truth in the writing, and a zinging, stinging mixture of wit and anger." - The Telegraph
5 stars: "Bill Nighy and Carey Mulligan are superb in this revival of David Hare’s prickly, intelligent mid-Nineties play." The Standard

• Carey Mulligan’s success in film has seen her take on many challenging roles, but this is her debut in the West End.
• Bill Nighy has performed other David Hare scripts in the past, including, Pravda, on stage and Page Eight, on television. However, this will be his first stage performance in over 6 years.
• The Wydham’s Theatre, which will host this play, was also the West End venue for the original production of Skylight.

Monday-Saturday at 7.30pm, Wednesday & Saturday at 2.30pm

Running time - TBC

Booking until - 23/08/2014

A small number of seats in the Bronze category may have a slightly restricted view, please call for further details.

Charing Cross RoadLondon
WC2H 0DA

Nearest tube - Leicester Square

Seating information - The theatre is split into 4 tiers: the Stalls are at the ground level, with the Royal Circle on the 1st floor, the Grand Circle above and the Balcony at the top.

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