About the Show

Tony Award-winner Patrick Marber directs the UK premiere of this satire about the rise of the new right.

In modern-day Germany, siblings Nicola and Philipp bicker as they clear out their late father’s house. When they find an old painting in the attic, tempers really start to flare.

The painting is of a quaint street in 1920s Vienna, by an artist who abandoned his original vocation for Nazism…
Nicola wants to sell it. Philipp wants to keep it. Philipp’s wife Judith wants to burn it.

'Nachtland' (a made-up German word evoking a place of eternal darkness) is a sharp satire about marriage, legacy, and hidden impulses.

2023 Tony Award-winner Patrick Marber ('Leopoldstadt') directs this production.

Critic Reviews (10)

"this new play about the discovery of a Nazi painting is a stingingly acidic satire"
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"It’s a fiddly play, that frequently threatens you with a good time"
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"Munich-born playwright Marius von Mayenburg’s canny, if not fully achieved dark comedy"
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"Marius von Mayenburg’s play about greed and anti-semitism is unsubtle and unresolved"
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"play that’s hard to classify – but easy to watch, bewildered and enraptured all at once."
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"Elegantly done as it is, Nachtland is too comfy with its contrivances."
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"Something to laugh at and plenty to think about in a tonally inconsistent 90 minutes"
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"Provocative dark comedy about how fascism flourishes, in a vigorous staging"
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