Everett, Pennington, Stewart et al. Lead Chichester's 2010 Season

Chichester Festival Theatre has announced its 2010 seaon which will include Bingo: Scenes of Money and Death, Love Story, Yes, Prime Minister, The Critic, The Real Inspector Hound, and more.

The season will begin with Edward Bond's Bingo, starring Patrick Stewart as William Shakespeare. With direction by Angus Jackson, the production will run April 15 - May 22. The premiere of Howard Goodall and Stephen Clark's musical version of Erich Segal's Love Story, directed by Rachel Kavenaugh, will be running May 29 - June 26.

The theater will also present a double bill of Richard Brinsley Sheridan's The Critic and Tom Stoppard's The Real Inspector Hound running July 2- August 28. Howard Brenton's new adaptation of Robert Tressell's The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists will play July 15 - August 26, and a new version of Henrik Ibsen's The Master Builder, starring Michael Pennington, is set for September 9 - October 9.  A revival of George Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion (July 9 - August 27)  starring Rupert Everett will be directed by Philip Prowse.

For a full schedule, visit www.cft.org.uk. 

Chichester Festival Theatre is one of the UK's flagship theatres. The Festival Theatre opened with much anticipation and to great acclaim in 1962. With 1206 seats, it was the first modern theatre in this country to have an open 'thrust' stage with the audience seated around it on three sides, allowing it a close involvement with the actors. With its 283 seats, the smaller and more intimate Minerva Theatre was built in 1989.

Chichester Festival Theatre was founded by Leslie Evershed-Martin CBE, a local ophthalmic optician and councillor who was inspired by Canada's Stratford Ontario Shakespeare Memorial Theatre. Sir Tyrone Guthrie, its founder, encouraged him to proceed with what many people believed was an impossible dream. From that day in 1962 when 'the impossible theatre' opened with Laurence Olivier as its first Director, Chichester Festival Theatre has built an international reputation for theatrical excellence.

 

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