HERE We Go, a new, short play about death by Caryl Churchill, opens in the National’s Lyttelton Theatre on November 27 (previews on November 25 and 26) and continues until December 19, 2015.

A funeral party for a man with an adventurous past and a ginger cat that needs a home. Where is he now? Is his heart lighter than a feather? How did he die? And what happens to his friends?

Caryl Churchill’s seminal plays include Light Shining in Buckinghamshire (recently revived at the National Theatre), Cloud Nine, Top Girls, Serious Money, The Skriker, A Number and Love and Information. Her new version of Strindberg’s A Dream Play was seen at the National in 2005.

Here We Go will be directed by Dominic Cooke, an Associate Director of the National Theatre, where he directed The Comedy of Errors in 2011. His production of Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom will open in the Lyttelton next January.

Cooke was Artistic Director of the Royal Court from 2007 – 2013, where his productions included Caryl Churchill’s Identical Twins, This is a Chair, Seven Jewish Children and Ding Dong the Wicked; plus The Low Road, In the Republic of Happiness, Choir Boy, Chicken Soup with Barley, Clybourne Park, Aunt Dan and Lemon, The Fever, Wig Out!, Now or Later, The Pain and The Itch and Other People.

For the BBC, he directed the forthcoming The Hollow Crown: The Wars of the Roses.

Here We Go will be designed by Vicki Mortimer and have sound by Christopher Shutt.

Also in the Lyttelton: Stephen Adly Guirgis’ The Motherf**ker with the Hat (until August 20); Patrick Marber directing his own new version of Three Days in the Country, after Turgenev (until October 21); and Bristol Old Vic’s highly praised staging of Charlotte Brontë’s masterpiece Jane Eyre (September 8 and to October 25, 2015).

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