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HAMPSTEAD THEATRE
Eton Avenue
Swiss Cottage
website: www.hampsteadtheatre.com
THE BUSH THEATRE
Shepherds Bush Green
London W12
www.bushtheatre.co.uk (no booking fee)
The
Bush Theatre is above the O'Neill's pub on the corner of Shepherds Bush Green
and Goldhawk Road W12
LYRIC
HAMMERSMITH
King Street
Hammersmith
BOX
OFFICE: 0871 22 117 22
Lyric Hammersmith announces
Autumn Winter Season 2010/2011
After a year of critically acclaimed, box office breaking and
award-winning shows, including a
West End transfer Artistic Director Sean Holmes announces the
2010/2011 Autumn Winter
season for the Lyric Hammersmith. In a season which will see
the start of work on a major
capital project to expand the theatre’s facilities for
young people, the Lyric presents exciting
young talent and work from some of the greatest playwrights
of modern times in Hammersmith,
around the UK and in New York.
See further details on everything that is happening at the
Lyric at our new website:
www.lyric.co.uk
‘Blasted, Panto’s second coming, a first-time
playwright, a dark take on Dahl, and Richard
Bean’s latest play make for a thrilling forthcoming
season.’ Sean Holmes Artistic Director
• Following a sell-out run
at the Lyric last autumn, Simon Stephens’ award-winning play
PUNK ROCK returns for
two weeks only prior to a large scale national tour.
• In collaboration with Out
of Joint the Lyric present the London premiere of Richard
Bean’s new play THE
BIG FELLAH, directed by Max
Stafford-Clark.
• Sean Holmes stages the
first London revival in almost 10 years of Sarah Kane’s
seminal play BLASTED.
• The streets of Hammersmith
will be paved with gold this Christmas as traditional
pantomime returns with DICK
WHITTINGTON.
• ROALD DAHL’S TWISTED
TALES based on Dahl’s dark
short stories for adults,
adapted for the stage for the first time by Ghost Stories writer
Jeremy Dyson and
director Polly Findlay, winner of the JMK Trust’s young
theatre director award.
• Winner of the George
Devine Award 2010 and Bruntwood Playwriting Competition first
time playwright Vivienne Franzman presents her play MOGADISHU.
• The hugely successful
Lyric production of METAMORPHOSIS makes its New York
premiere at Brooklyn Academy of Music as part of the 2010 New
Wave Festival.
• Following its phenomenal
success at the Lyric the West End transfer of Jeremy Dyson
and Andy Nyman’s GHOST
STORIES is now booking until
November 2010.
• Our regular SUNDAY COMEDY NIGHTS are
back with a side-splitting mix of famous
headliners and rising stars, all handpicked by Richard
Herring.
• LYRIC LOUNGE returns to the Lyric studio, showcasing the latest young
artistic talent.
PUNK ROCK
06 – 18 September 2010
Press Night: Wednesday 08 September, 7pm
On tour: 21 Sep – 20 Nov 2010
By Simon Stephens
Directed by Sarah Frankcom
Designed by Paul Wills
Lighting by Philip Gladwell
Sound by Pete Rice
A LYRIC HAMMERSMITH AND ROYAL EXCHANGE THEATRE, MANCHESTER
PRODUCTION
Following sell-out shows and rave reviews last year Punk Rock returns to
open the autumn
season for a limited two-week run prior to embarking on a
nine-week large scale national tour.
Written by Lyric Artistic Associate, Simon Stephens,
and directed by Royal Exchange Theatre,
Manchester co-Artistic Director, Sarah Frankcom;
Punk Rock was
applauded in 2009 for
showcasing rising young acting talent in the UK. This
production sees a young cast take
Stephens’ powerful play exposing the violence simmering
beneath the surface of success within
an English Grammar School on tour across the UK.
Winner of four Manchester Evening News Theatre Awards
including Best New Play and Best
Production. Nominated for two Evening Standard Theatre Awards
and two Whatsonstage
Awards.
Simon Stephens’ plays
include A Thousand Stars Explode
in the Sky with David Eldridge and
Robert Holman (2010, Lyric Hammersmith); Harper Regan (2008,
National Theatre);
Pornography (2007,
Deutsche Schauspielhaus/2008, Hamburg/2009, Traverse Theatre/2009,
Tricycle Theatre); Motortown
(2006, Royal Court) and the Olivier award-winning
On The Shore
of the Wide World (2005,
Royal Exchange/National Theatre).
Punk Rock will be
touring to Sheffield Lyceum Theatre (21 – 25 Sep), Kings Theatre
Edinburgh
(28 Sep – 02 Oct), Birmingham Repertory Theatre (05 –
09 Oct), Eastbourne Devonshire
Park (12 – 16 Oct), Salisbury Playhouse (19 – 23
Oct), Theatre Royal Plymouth (26 – 30 Oct).
Oxford Playhouse (02 – 06 Nov), Curve Theatre Leicester
(09 – 13 Nov) and Warwick Arts
Centre (16 – 20 Nov).
Ages 14+
THE BIG FELLAH
21 September – 16 October 2010
Press Night: Friday 24 September, 7pm
A new play by Richard Bean
Directed by Max Stafford-Clark
Designed by Tim Shortall
Lighting by Jason Taylor
Sound by Nick Manning
Cast includes Rory Keenan, Youssef Kerkour, Finbar Lynch,
David Ricardo-Pearce,
Claire Rafferty, Fred Ridgeway and Stephanie Street.
AN OUT OF JOINT AND LYRIC HAMMERSMITH PRODUCTION
The Big Fellah,
Richard Bean’s new play about Irish Americans and their influence on the
Troubles in Northern Ireland, will receive its London debut
at the Lyric Hammersmith. Set in
New York 1972, five men come together with a common purpose;
to live the American dream
and to continue an almighty quest for freedom. Richard Bean's
witty and dark play spans three
turbulent decades of the IRA’s brutal fight for
independence.
Richard Bean's plays
include England People Very Nice (National Theatre); Under
The
Whaleback, Harvest (winner of
the Critics' Circle Award for Best Play); Honeymoon
Suite (all
Royal Court) and The
English Game (national tour).
Directed by the legendary Max
Stafford-Clark, founder and artistic
director of Out of Joint for
17 years and former artistic director of the Royal Court,
where his work included the premieres
of Serious Money, Top Girls and Our Country’s Good. His productions for Out of Joint include
Talking to Terrorists,
The Permanent Way, Shopping and F***ing and the world-touring, Africainspired
Macbeth. He directs a cast
including Tony-nominated actor Finbar Lynch.
Ages 14+
BLASTED
22 October – 20 November 2010
Press Night: Thursday 28 October, 7pm
By Sarah Kane
Directed by Sean Holmes
Designed by Paul Wills
Lighting by Paule Constable
Sound by Chris Shutt
A LYRIC HAMMERSMITH PRODUCTION
In 1995 Sarah Kane’s seminal play shocked audiences and critics alike
with its brutal honesty.
Still as powerful as ever, the Lyric’s Artistic
Director Sean Holmes stages its first London
revival in almost 10 years.
In a hotel room in Leeds, middle aged tabloid journalist Ian,
who openly flaunts his racist,
homophobic and misogynistic views, brings a younger woman,
Cate, to spend the night with him.
As we are exposed to their progressively abusive relationship
their world shifts as a brutal civil
war forces its way in.
Labelled in the 90’s as ‘the most notorious
playwright in Britain’ Sarah Kane’s masterpiece
Blasted forces the
audience to confront the horrors of a broken world. Blasted first opened
at
the Royal Court Theatre Upstairs in 1995, directed by James
MacDonald it made front-page
headlines and outraged critics with its depiction of rape,
torture and violence. This play has been
reviled and revered in equal measure, but is undoubtedly an
influential force that has shaped the
landscape of 21st
century drama. Holmes brings Blasted to a new
generation, showcasing one of
the most important writers of modern times.
Ages 16+
DICK WHITTINGTON
27 November 2010 – 08 January 2011
Press Night: Friday 03 December, 7pm
By Joel Horwood and Morgan Lloyd Malcolm
Conceived and Directed by Steve Marmion
Designed by Tom Scutt
Sound by Nick Manning
A LYRIC HAMMERSMITH PRODUCTION
Following the great success of the Lyric’s first
traditional pantomime in almost 30 years,
Steve Marmion (the
recently appointed Artistic Director of the Soho Theatre) returns this
festive season with Dick
Whittington. Join Dick Whittington and
his cat as they journey to
London to find their fortune in a brand new show full of
colourful characters, live music, laughter
and the very evil King Rat. The Lyric’s pantomime is an
entertainment extravaganza, bringing
together the finest creative team, an exceptional cast and
local talent to present a traditional
Panto for the whole family.
Ages 6+
ROALD DAHL’S TWISTED TALES
14 January – 26 February 2011
Press Night: Monday 24 January, 7pm
By Jeremy Dyson
Conceived and Directed by Polly Findlay
A LYRIC HAMMERSMITH AND LIVERPOOL EVERYMAN & PLAYHOUSE
PRODUCTION
Based on Roald Dahl’s dark short stories for adults
these renowned tales are adapted for stage
for the first time by The
League of Gentlemen’s Jeremy
Dyson, writer of the Lyric’s smashhit
Ghost Stories and
director Polly Findlay as the twisted imagination and full malevolence of
Dahl is revealed.
Directed by Polly
Findlay, winner of the JMK
Trust's young theatre director award in 2007 and
recipient of the 2006/7 Bulldog Princeps Bursary at the
National Theatre. Findlay’s credits
include Caryl Churchill’s Light Shining in Buckinghamshire (Arcola); Eigengrau (Bush);
Thyestes (Arcola) and
Romeo and Juliet (Battersea
Arts Centre).
Master of the macabre, Jeremy
Dyson, has won numerous awards as the co-writer of
the
hilariously bleak The
League of Gentlemen; including a Perrier
Award, Bafta Award for Best
Comedy and the Golden Rose of Montreux. The stage show he
co-penned, A Local Show for
Local People, was
nominated for an Olivier Award in 2002. Jeremy Dyson co-wrote and directed
the Lyric’s production of Ghost Stories with
Andy Nyman, following its phenomenal success the
show transferred to the West End and is now booking until
November 2010.
Ages 14+
MOGADISHU
03 March – 02 April 2011
Press Night: Monday 07 March, 7pm
Written by Vivenne Franzmann
Directed by Matthew Dunster
Designed by Tom Scutt
A ROYAL EXCHANGE THEATRE, MANCHESTER PRODUCTION
This hard-hitting play takes place in an inner city London
school, in which a teacher, Amanda, is
accused of racial harassment by one of the pupils. It was one
for the four joint first prize winners
in the most recent Bruntwood Playwriting Competition and was
recently announced as the
winner of the 2010 George Devine Award for Most Promising
Playwright. This is the first play by
Vivienne Franzman who
is herself a Drama teacher in a comprehensive school in London.
Matthew Dunster directs
an exciting young cast many of whom will be making their
professional debuts. Dunster’s credits include Love the Sinner (National
Theatre); 1984 and
Macbeth (Royal
Exchange, Manchester); his own award-winning play You Can See the Hills
(Royal Exchange, Manchester/Young Vic); the
critically-acclaimed productions of The
Frontline
and Troilus and Cressida (Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre) and the Olivier award
nominated
production Love and
Money (Young Vic/Royal Exchange,
Manchester).
Ages 11+
METAMORPHOSIS
Brooklyn Academy of Music, Harvey Theatre, New York
Part of the 2010 Next Wave Festival
30 November – 04 December 2010
Adapted & directed by David Farr and Gísli
Örn Gardarsson
Music by Nick Cave and Warren Ellis
Designed by Börkur Jónsson
Lighting by Björn Helgason
Sound by Nick Manning
A LYRIC HAMMERSMITH AND VESTURPORT THEATRE PRODUCTION
The hugely acclaimed production of Metamorphosis from
the Lyric Hammersmith and the
brilliant Icelandic company Vesturport makes its New York
debut as part of the 2010 Next
Wave festival.
Metamorphosis opened
at the Lyric Hammersmith in 2006, it was a critical and box-office hit,
prompting the production’s return to the Lyric in 2008.
The show then embarked on a national
tour and it has since played in Korea, Sydney, Tasmania,
Iceland, Hong Kong, Columbia and
Dublin. This unique retelling of Metamorphosis has
dazzled audiences across the world due to
the dizzying, gravity-defying split level set, aerial
physicality supported by an original score by
world-renowned musician and lyricist Nick Cave and long
time collaborator Warren Ellis.
SUNDAY COMEDY NIGHTS
Hosted by Richard Herring
Sunday 26 September / Sunday 31 October / Sunday 28 November
/
Sunday 30 January / Sunday 27 February / Sunday 27 March
Our Sunday Comedy Night’s return this autumn with a
side-splitting mix of famous headliners
and rising stars, all handpicked by Richard Herring.
Headliners from last season include
Ed Byrne, Al Murray, Stewart Lee, Sarah Milican, Stephen
Merchant and Jason Manford.
Ages 16+
LYRIC LOUNGE
Friday 24 September / Friday 22 October / Friday 19 November
/ Friday 28 January
Lyric Lounge returns this autumn as young artists take over
the Lyric Studio on the last Friday of
every month to programme their own night of soulful
vocalists, up-and-coming bands, poetry,
theatre and dance. This season features some of the UK’s
most exciting young talent including
Doctor Who’s Arthur
Darvill, award-winning playwright
Bola Agbaje with
Lyric Young
Company member Nadine
Gray and Pearson Playwright in residence David Watson.
BOOKING INFORMATION
Tickets 0871 22 117 22* / www.lyric.co.uk
Adults £10 / £15 / £20 / £25
Children (under 16) £10
*Calls cost 10p per minute from BT landlines, other networks
may vary
FREE First Nights (FFN)
If you live or work in Hammersmith and Fulham you won’t
get a better theatre deal. Come to the
Ticket Office at 9.30am, with proof of your home or work
address, on the Saturday before the
FFN – and you can pick up your free tickets.
WORK BEGINS ON CAPITAL EXTENSION AUTUMN 2010
Over the next few years the Lyric will lead an ambitious
capital project which will transform
it into a new kind of cultural and educational building which
marries the Lyric’s reputation as
one of the UK’s most acclaimed producing theatres with
its track record for supporting young
people. The project will enable the Lyric to deliver an
extended programme of participatory
and formal learning activities for young people from West
London. The project is being
developed in collaboration with a range of strategic partners
including the London Borough
of Hammersmith and Fulham, Arts Council England, Department
for Education and the London
Development Agency. Work is due to begin on the Capital
Extension in Autumn 2010 with the
new facilities scheduled
to open in late 2011.
TRICYCLE THEATRE
269
Kilburn High Road
London
NW6
café-BAR
The Tricycle
Café (serving food) is open from 12noon to 8pm Mondays to Fridays and
10am – 8pm on Saturdays. The Tricycle Bar (serving drinks and
snacks) is open from 12noon Mondays to Fridays & from 10.30am Saturdays
& closes at 11pm Mondays to Saturdays. On Sundays the Bar is open 3pm
– 9pm.
TRANSPORT
Tube:
Kilburn (Jubilee Line)
Bus:
16, 31, 32, 98, 189, 206, 316, 328
Train:
Brondesbury (London overground)
THE
11
Pembridge Road
Notting
Hill, W11
NEW END THEATRE
27 New End
Hampstead
London NW3 1JD
Nearest
Tube: Hampstead (Northern Line - 3 mins. walk) Buses: 46,
210 268
wheelchair
access and adapted toilet facilities available
New
End Theatre is fully air-conditioned - 5 minute walk from Hampstead Tube
Northern Line
KING'S HEAD THEATRE
Islington
Underground
: Angel (Northern Line)
Highbury
and Islington (Victoria Line)
www.kingsheadtheatre.org
Tubes:
Angel, Highbury & Islington Buses: 38, 19, 4, 30, 43
THE FINBOROUGH THEATRE
The Finborough
'Pub'
118
Finborough Road
SW10
(5
minutes from Earl’s Court & West Brompton Stations)
Earl’s Court Tube and West Brompton Tube & National Rail. Buses: 11, 14, 22, 74, 190, 211, 328, C1, C3
More information and book online at www.finboroughtheatre.co.uk
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THE OVAL HOUSE
52-54
Kennington Road
London
SE11
Transport: Oval Tube (one-mins' walk Northern Line) or
Vauxhall (BR & Victoria Line, 15 mins)
Access: Induction Loop, Upstairs Theatre is not wheelchair
accessible
Car park: for disabled visitors, on-street parking nearby
Café: Open theatre nights for wines, beers and meals
Further information: www.ovalhouse.com
ALMEIDA THEATRE
Almeida Street
London N1 1TA
OPENING IN 2010 - WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE'S
M E A S U R E F O R M E A S U R E
DIRECTED BY MICHAEL ATTENBOROUGH
MICHAEL ATTENBOURGH TO DIRECT WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE'S
M E A S U R E F O R M E A S U R E
Michael Attenborough will direct William Shakespeare's Measure for Measure as the first Almeida production to open in 2010. Further details for this production, including casting, will be announced at a later date.
Previously Attenborough has directed Shakespeare's Twelfth Night and The Merchant of Venice as well as Royal Shakespeare Company productions of Romeo and Juliet, Othello, Antony and Cleopatra and Henry IV parts I and II. In Autumn 2007 Attenborough was invited to lead a two week International Shakespeare Workshop in Australia where he worked with a company of multi-national artists. On leaving the RSC, where he was Principal Associate Director, he was invited to become an Honorary Associate Artist.
Under 30s
Theatre-goers under the age of 30 can take advantage of £15 tickets for best available seats for opening performances of Almeida Productions. Tickets are limited and ID will be necessary on collection of tickets.
Islington First
Theatre-goers who live or work in the Islington area (postcodes N1, N5, N6, N7, N19) can take advantage of £20 tickets (regular price £29.50) for opening performances of Almeida productions. Proof of address will be necessary on collection of tickets.
Phone 020 7359 4404 (24 hour)
In person 10.00am - 7.30pm, Monday - Saturday
On line www.almeida.co.uk
Priority Booking for Almeida Circle of Supporters from 22 April 09
Mailing List members 6 May 09
Public Booking from 13 May 09
WEBSITE www.almeida.co.uk
PERFORMANCES SCHEDULE
Regular performances are Monday - Saturday at 7.30pm, Saturday matinees at 3.00pm, Press Nights at 7.00pm.
MENIER CHOCOLATE FACTORY
51-53 Southwark Street
SE1 1 TE
FULL CASTING ANNOUNCED FOR
ANDREW LLOYD WEBBER, DON BLACK AND CHARLES HART’S
A S P E C T S O F L O V E
AT THE MENIER CHOCOLATE FACTORY
Trevor Nunn will direct
the first major London revival of Andrew Lloyd Webber, Don Black and Charles
Hart’s Aspects of Love at the Menier Chocolate Factory,
previewing from 07 July with press night on 15 July and running until 26
September. Designs are by David Farley with choreography by Lynne Page,
lighting by Paul Pyant, musical supervision by Caroline Humphris,
orchestrations by David Cullen and sound by Gareth Owen. Trevor Nunn
previously directed the world premiere of Aspects of Love and returns to
the piece to direct this new intimate version.
Joining Michael Arden
(Alex Dillingham) and Katherine Kingsley (Rose Vibert) are Dave
Willetts as George, Rosalie Craig as Giulietta and Martyn Ellis
as Marcel, and Rebecca Brewer as Jenny, along with Jill Armour,
Louisa Lydell, Ian McLarnon, David Roberts, Savannah Stevenson, Dominic Tighe
and Rebecca Trehearn.
Based on David
Garnett’s novel of the same name, Aspects of Love tells the story of
passion, love and loss across three generations of a family and their
companions set against the background of 1940’s France and Italy.
Alex Dillingham, a young student travelling through France, falls in love with
the alluring actress Rose Vibert. As the pair embark on a passionate
affair, the unexpected arrival of Alex’s uncle changes their lives
forever. A love story spanning twenty years binding six people and three
generations as they come to appreciate that love changes everything.
Michael Arden made his Broadway debut
as Tom Sawyer in Big River in 2003 and more recently he was seen in The
Times They Are A-Changing based on the music of Bob Dylan. Off
Broadway his credits include Swimming in the Shallows, Bare, Ace, God
of Vengeance, As You Like It, The Winter’s Tale and The Secret
Garden. His television and film credits include Bones, Numbers and
Grey’s Anatomy as well as Bride Wars and The Good
Shepherd. In 2007 he toured Europe with Barbra Streisand. Aspects
of Love marks his London stage debut.
Katherine Kingsley was most recently in the
UK tour of The 39 Steps. Her other theatre credits include Piaf
for the Donmar Warehouse and the Vaudeville Theatre for which she was nominated
for an Olivier Award, The Truth Will Out for the Old Vic, The Black
and White Ball at the King’s Head Theatre, Hobson’s Choice
for the Chichester Festival Theatre, High Society at the Shaftesbury
Theatre and on UK Tour and The Canterbury Tales for Bristol Old
Vic. Her television credits include The Bill, Hollyoaks and
Casualty. Her film credits include Weekend, Days of the
Siren and 100 Second Marriage.
Dave Willetts was last in the West End
as Max in Sunset Boulevard at the Comedy Theatre. Other West End
credits include Jean Valjean in Les Misérables at the Palace
Theatre, the title role in Phantom of the Opera at Her Majesty’s
Theatre, Ragtime at the Piccadilly Theatre and Seven Brides for Seven
Brothers at Theatre Royal Haymarket.
Rosalie Craig’s stage credits include Anyone
Can Whistle at Jermyn Street Theatre, The Cocktail Party at the
Donmar Warehouse and Hecuba and Alice in Wonderland both for the
Royal Shakespeare Company.
Martyn Ellis’ West End theatre credits
include Nicely Nicely in Guys and Dolls, Les Misérables, The
39 Steps and The Lion King. Other theatre credits include Just
So at the Tricycle Theatre, A Chorus of Disapproval at the
Bristol Old Vic, Alice In Wonderland for the Royal Shakespeare Company, Cafe
D’Amour at the National Theatre and Grand Hotel at the Donmar
Warehouse. His TV credits include The Sarah Jane Adventures
and The Tudors. His film credits include Cody Banks 2 and
the soon to be released Devil’s Bridge.
Rebecca Brewer is making her
professional stage debut in Aspects of Love.
LISTINGS INFORMATION
ASPECTS OF LOVE
Dates
07 July – 26 September 2010, Press Night 15 July at 8pm
Performances
Tuesday – Saturday at 8pm
Saturday and Sunday at 3.30pm
Tickets
Preview performances 07 – 14 July
£29.50 – all seats, £37 – Meal Deals
From 15 July:
£32 – all seats, £27.50 – concessions +
groups (8+)
£39.50 – Meal
Deals
Meal Deals include a theatre ticket and a two-course meal in the
Menier Restaurant prior to the show
Box
Office
0207 907 7060, £2 transaction fee on phone bookings
Restaurant
0207 407 4411
Address
53 Southwark Street, London SE1 1RU
Transport
London Bridge Tube, Borough High Street exit
RV1 and 381 buses
On
street parking after 6.30pm or all day Saturday & Sunday
Website
www.menierchocolatefactory.com
No
booking fee for on-line bookings
For more details or individual advice/help - email: GPowner@aol.com