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Theatre

The National’s latest attempt to cheer us up: three hours of poverty porn

Plus: something you’d never get at the Royal Court - a funny, candid, dramatic and fresh new musical from the Big House

29 November 2014

9:00 AM

29 November 2014

9:00 AM

Behind the Beautiful Forevers

Olivier, in rep until 13 April

The Realness

Hackney Downs Studios, until 20 December

Bombay is now called Mumbai by everyone bar its residents, whose historic name (from the Portuguese for ‘beautiful cove’) has been discarded for them by their betters. Near the airport a huge advertising board bearing the slogan ‘Beautiful Forever’ overlooks an alp of discarded junk where homeless paupers crouching in tin shacks toil and slave around the clock to earn a meagre bowl of grey, rat-licked gruel.

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