Incorporating dance, text, documentary, film and animated projections, dance theatre piece To Be Straight With You explores tolerance, intolerance, religion and sexuality.

Lloyd Newson’s DV8 Physical Theatre, which performs To Be Straight With You at the National’s Lyttelton theatre, was founded in 1986. Since then it has produced and toured 15 pieces including Just For Show and The Cost Of Living. Over the last three years it has won 16 awards for its stage and film works including a Prix Italia and the Rose D’Or.

DV8 creates its work by taking aesthetic and physical risks to break down the barriers between dance, theatre and personal politics with the aim of communicating ideas and feelings in as clear a way as possible.

Prior to the staging of To Be Straight With You, the company previously visited the National Theatre in 2005, during its tour of Just For Show.

To Be Straight With You is suitable for theatregoers aged 16 and older.

For more information about the production, read our First Night Feature.