The Finborough Theatre Announces its New Season - SQUARE ROUNDS, Vibrant Festival, and More!

The 150th birthday year of the Finborough Theatre building continues with its September-November season, which again brings together the two strands of its multi-award-winning artistic policy. Alongside unique rediscoveries from a forgotten Victorian dramatist and two works inspired by the First World War, the Finborough presents eight new plays and one new musical from England, Wales, the United States and New Zealand.

The season opens with the first UK production for 30 years of Tony Harrison's Square Rounds, his epic exploration of the devastating effects of technology in the build up to the Great War, playing 4-29 September. It runs concurrently with a celebration of the theatre's 150th birthday - the first London productions for more than 150 years of three comediettas - A Winning Hazard, Allow Me To Apologise and Orange Blossoms - by Victorian playwright J. P. Wooler (who died in 1868), on Sunday and Monday evenings and Tuesday matinees between 9-25 September.

The season continues with the return of American playwright Halley Feiffer (who had a huge hit here last year with I'm Gonna Pray For You So Hard) with the European premiere of the New York Times Critics' Pick A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Gynecologic Oncology Unit at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center of New York City, playing 2-27 October. It plays alongside the tenth consecutive year of the theatre's annual celebration of new writing, Vibrant 2018 - A Festival of Finborough Playwrights, playing on Sunday and Monday evenings and Thursday matinees between 7-25 October. This year's Vibrant includes the winner of this year's RADIUS Playwriting Competition, an award winning new play from New Zealand, and a unique opportunity to watch the birth of a new British musical.

The season culminates with the last production in the Finborough Theatre's acclaimed THEGREATWAR100 series, with the first professional UK production for 80 years of Irwin Shaw's 1936 expressionist anti-war masterpiece, Bury The Dead, playing 30 October - 24 November. Bury the Dead is accompanied by the world premiere of Exodus by Rachael Boulton from new Welsh theatre company Motherlode in their London debut, on Sunday and Monday evenings and Tuesday matinees between 4-20 November.

Finborough Theatre Artistic Director Neil McPherson says: "Despite a climate that has made the continued survival of venues such as ours even more challenging than ever before, we are proud to celebrate the birthday year of our 150 year old building with another season of unique rediscoveries and new works for the stage from the last 150 years and from all over the English speaking world."

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

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