Here We Are
NATIONAL THEATRE, LONDON

At his peak as the most innovative musical writer in modern theatre, Stephen Sondheim premiered a new show around every three years between 1957 (West Side Story) and 1994 (Passion). After that, it was 14 years until Road Show; after which, from 2008 until Sondheim’s death, aged 91 in 2021, rumours and The New York Times reports teased a project, with dramatist David Ives, variously titled Square One and Buñuel, the latter alluding to the source in two movies by the Spanish-Mexican surrealist director: The Exterminating Angel (1962) and The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie (1972). Finally called Here We Are, the Sondheim-Ives collaboration was world-premiered in New York in 2023 and now gets a European debut at the National Theatre.

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