Adelphi Theatre

The Lives of Others

Listening changes everything

  • Mon-Sat: 7.30pm
    Select Mons, Tues, Weds, Thus and Sats: 2.30pm

Tickets from £25

14 October 2026 - 9 January 2027

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Warnings

This production contains themes of an adult nature. For more detail please email customer.relations@lwtickets.co.uk.


Age Recommendation

Suitable for ages 15+


Access Performances

Captioned Performance

  • Sat 7 Nov 2026
  • 2:30 pm
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BSL Interpreted Performance

  • Sat 14 Nov 2026
  • 2:30 pm
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Audio Described Performance

  • Sat 5 Dec 2026
  • 2:30 pm
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Synopsis

1984. East Germany. A writer and an actor are placed under state surveillance. From the attic above their apartment, their Stasi man listens for evidence of subversion. But to observe a life is to risk changing your own.

Starring Academy Award nominee Keira Knightley (Black Doves, Atonement, The Misanthrope), Emmy Award winner Stephen Dillane (Game of Thrones, The Tunnel, Vigil) and Olivier Award nominee Luke Thompson (Bridgerton, Dunkirk, Oresteia), Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck’s The Lives of Others plays at the Adelphi Theatre from 14 October 2026 for a strictly limited run.

Written and directed by Olivier Award-winner Robert Icke (Oedipus, Oresteia, Romeo & Juliet) and based on the Oscar-winning 2007 film, this electrifying adaptation explores artistic censorship, state surveillance and the relationship between art and politics.

Cast

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Keira Knightley

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Stephen Dillane

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Luke Thompson

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Keira Knightley

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Stephen Dillane

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Stephen Dillane recently finished filming on Paul Greengrass’s ‘The Rage’, and ‘Hawksmoor’, the latest ‘Luther’ film for Netflix.  He played leading roles in ‘The Outrun’, ‘Sherwood’ and ‘Kaos’.

Previous film and TV work includes ‘The Tunnel’ (International Emmy Best Actor), ‘The Shooting of Thomas Hurndall’ (BAFTA Best Actor), ‘Welcome to Sarajevo’, and the role of ‘Stannis Baratheon’ in ‘Game of Thrones’, among many others.

On stage he has appeared as Hamlet, Uncle Vanya and in plays by Brian Friel, Martin Crimp, Caryl Churchill at the National Theatre, Royal Court and West End. He won an Evening Standard award and a New York TONY award for Tom Stoppard’s ‘The Real Thing’.

On the radio he won Best Actor for ‘Sea Longing’.

He is now preparing to appear in Venice in Gare St Lazare’s staging of Samuel Beckett’s novel ‘How It Is’. Previous collaborations with artists include films ‘Antigone’ and ‘Event for a Stage’ with Tacita Dean and Robert Walser’s ‘Snow White’ with Stanley Schtinter.

He trained at Bristol Old Vic.
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Luke Thompson

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