Finborough Theatre Announces October To December Season

Finborough Theatre's final season of 2017 brings together the two strands of our multi-award-winning artistic policy - vibrant new writing and unique rediscoveries - with three plays unseen in the UK for many years, and twelve new plays from the UK, the US and Canada.

The season opens with the UK debut of acclaimed American playwright Keith Bunin with the European premiere of The Busy World is Hushed, directed by the founder of Theatre503, Paul Higgins, playing an eight week limited season from 3 October-25 November 2017. It is accompanied by our new play celebration, Vibrant 2017 - A Festival of Finborough Playwrights - now in its ninth consecutive year - which plays Sunday and Monday evenings and Thursday matinees between 8-26 October 2017, accompanied by the return of our 'Introduce Yourself' initiative for new playwrights. This year's Vibrant - A Festival of Finborough Playwrights includes new plays from our Channel 4 Playwrights Scheme Playwright in Residence Carmen Nasr, three of our Playwrights on Attachment, Scots Gaelic author Iain Finlay Macleod, and June Carryl's winning play from the ADAA $10,000 Saroyan/Paul 2016 Human Rights Playwriting Competition. And then by a controversial rediscovery, the queer classic Quaint Honour by Roger Gellert, celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Sexual Offences Act 1967, and unseen in the UK for 60 years, playing Sunday and Monday evenings and Tuesday matinees between 29 October-21 November 2017.

We end the year with the first London production in nearly 70 years of The Passing of the Third Floor Back by Jerome K. Jerome, author of Three Men in a Boat, playing from 28 November-22 December 2017, running alongside the first London production in 80 years of Israel Zangwill's classic drama of refugees and immigration, The Melting Pot, on Sunday and Monday evenings and Tuesday matinees between 3-19 December 2017.

Finborough Theatre Artistic Director Neil McPherson said: "In a financial climate that is making our continued work even harder to achieve, our new season continues to bring together the very best of new playwriting from the English-speaking world, with work from the past that has been unfairly neglected in an ambitious and idiosyncratic selection of work that you've never seen before and can't see anywhere else. With the help of funding from our regular patrons, we have also recently completed the first stages of a refurbishment of the Finborough Theatre building. As always, please do consider supporting us by joining our Friends Scheme."

The Finborough Theatre has had a superlative year to date with acclaimed sell-out productions, transfers in London and to New York City, and an Olivier Award nomination. Rediscoveries have included Tony Harrison's The Trackers of Oxyrhynchus, B. S. Johnson's You're Human Like The Rest Of Us, a centenary production of T. W. Robertson's Caste, Arthur Miller's Incident At Vichy and Cicely Hamilton's Just To Get Married. New writing has included the debuts of new playwrights Carmen Nasr (Dubailand which also won her our tenth Channel 4 Playwrights Scheme Playwright in Residence Bursary, supported by the Peggy Ramsay Foundation), Titas Halder (his London debut with Run The Beast Down which has just been nominated for The Stage Debut Award for Best Writer), and Canada's most exciting new playwright Jordan Tannahill (his European debut with Late Company); as well as the English premiere of David Ireland's Everything Between Us. Finborough Theatre productions have also transferred to New York City (My Eyes Went Dark) and elsewhere in London (Incident at Vichy to the King's Head Theatre and Late Company to Trafalgar Studios). Last year's It Is Easy To Be Dead by Neil McPherson was also nominated for an Olivier Award following its transfer from the Finborough Theatre to Trafalgar Studios.

For full information, please visit www.finboroughtheatre.co.uk.

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