The focus of the exhibition is Van Gogh's correspondence.

Over 35 original letters, rarely exhibited to the public due to their fragility, will be on display, together with around 65 paintings and 30 drawings that express the principal themes to be found within the correspondence.

The exhibition is arranged over five themes with works selected from the last 150 years. The Portrait shows the evolution of self-representation; The Family explores close bonds and relationships through early hand-painted and contemporary portraits; The Body Politic charts political moments, movements and campaigns; The Performance focuses on the golden age of Bollywood, circus performers and artistic practices that engage with masquerade; while The Street looks at the built environment, social documentary and street photography.
 
Over 70 photographers including Pushpamala N., Rashid Rana, Dayanita Singh, Raghubir Singh, Umrao Singh Sher-Gil, Rashid Talukder, Ayesha Vellani and Munem Wasif are presented in the show, with works drawn from important collections of historic photography, including the influential Alkazi Collection, Delhi and the Drik Archive, Dhaka.

Emily Prince's American Servicemen and Women Who Have Died in Iraq and Afghanistan (but not Including the Wounded, nor the Iraqis nor the Afghans) is a tribute to every American soldier killed in Iraq and Afghanistan since 2004. Comprising of 5,158 drawings - one for every fallen soldier to date - this ongoing memorial project brings attention to the human cost of war, turning statistics back into portraits of real lives sacrificed on the field. Rendered in graphite pencil, each portrait appears on small coloured cards which correspond to the skin tone of soldiers, including details about their appearance, posture, and expression, and personal facts such as their name, age, and place of origin. American Servicemen and Women... pays homage to the individuals who have died and operates as a study of racial demographics for soldiers sent to fight.

Previously hung in the shape of the US map, each portrait was pinned on to the soldier's hometown location; as the death toll rose, the installation at the Saatchi Gallery will now instead follow a chronological order, drawing attention to seemingly endless conflict.

Emily Prince is an artist based in San Francisco. She holds a double degree in Fine Art and Psychology from Stanford University and is currently enrolled in the Master of Fine Arts program at the University of California, Berkeley.

Although the Iraq war officially began March 20, 2003, Prince did not conceive of her project until November 3, 2004; one day after President George W. Bush was elected to his second term in office.

Based on real life and using music, movement and video, Enron explores one of the most infamous scandals in financial history, reviewing the tumultuous 1990s and casting a new light on the financial turmoil in which the world finds itself in 2009. Mixing classical tragedy with savage comedy, it follows a group of flawed men and women in a narrative of greed and loss.

Enron playwright Lucy Prebble’s debut play The Sugar Syndrome, for which she won the George Devine Award and the Critics’ Circle Award for Most Promising Playwright, premiered at the Royal Court in 2003. Her screenwriting credits include the hit Billie Piper series Secret Diary Of A Call Girl.

Enron is directed by Headlong Theatre's Artistic Director Rupert Goold in his Royal Court directorial debut. His recent credits include the award-winning Macbeth and Six Characters in Search of an Author and King Lear, No Man's Land and Oliver.

Cast
Peter Caulfield
Amanda Drew
Tom Godwin
Tom Goodman-Hill
Orion Lee
Eleanor Matsuura
Tim Pigott-Smith
Samuel West

Design by Anthony Ward
Lighting Design by Mark Henderson
Sound Design by Music Adam Cork
Video by Jon Driscoll
Movement by Scott Ambler

David Hare:  The Power of Yes: A dramatist seeks to understand the financial crisis

Angus Jackson, director
Design: Bob Crowley

On 15 September 2008, capitalism came to a grinding halt. As sub-prime mortgages and toxic securities continued to dominate the headlines, the National Theatre asked David Hare to write an urgent and immediate work that sought to find out what had happened, and why. It is not so much a play as a jaw-dropping account of how, as the banks went bust, capitalism was replaced by a socialism that bailed out the rich alone.

 
Cast:

Anthony Calf, Julien Ball, Jasper Britton, Richard Cordery, Jonathan Coy, Paul Freeman, Ian Gelder, John Hollingworth, Bruce Myers, Claire Price, Jeff Rawle, Christian Roe, Jemima Rooper, Malcolm Sinclair, Peter Sullivan, Nicolas Tennant , Simon Williams

In Priscilla Queen of the Desert the Musical, Sydney drag queen Mitzi (aka Tick) and her two fish-out-of-water friends, Felicia (Adam) and transsexual Bernardette, are heading west across the desert to Alice Springs in their battered old bus. They are each on their own personal journey of discovery, but together they put on a show unlike anything the locals have ever seen before. Like the film, the musical is fashioned around disco hits including "I Love the Nightlife," "I Will Survive", “Shake Your Groove Thing” and "Finally".

In addition to the principals, Australians Jason Donovan and Tony Sheldon, who reprises his award-winning performance from the original production, and Brits Clive Carter and Oliver Thornton – the cast features Zoe Birkett, Kate Gillespie and Emma Lindars as the three Divas, Wezley Sebastian as Miss Understanding, Amy Field as Marion, Danielle Coombe as Shirley, Tristan Temple as Jimmy, Kanako Nakano as Cynthia, Steven Cleverley as Young Bernadette and John Brannoch as Frank.

The company is completed by Phillip Arran, Matthew Cole, Amy Edwards, Lewis Griffiths, Bob Harms, Mark Inscoe, Hayley Langwith, Zabrina Norry, Will Peaco, John Phoenix, James Rees, Craig Ryder, Jeremy Secomb and Jon Tsouras.