Finborough Theatre Announces Winter Season 2016-17

The Finborough's Winter Season concentrates on unique rediscoveries with works from the 1930s, 1940s, 1970s and 1980s including the long overdue rediscovery of playwright James Bridie, one of the West End's most popular dramatists of the 1930s and 1940s. New writing is represented by the eighth consecutive year of Vibrant 2016 - A Festival of Finborough Playwrights featuring our usual eclectic selection of staged readings by UK and international playwrights, developed, nurtured or championed by the Finborough Theatre. This year's festival also includes new filmmaking from the Earl's Court Film Festival, and the European premiere of the After Orlando International Theatre Action, a collection of 70 short plays in response to the massacre at Pulse Nightclub in Orlando, Florida, in June 2016.

The season opens with Magnificence, Howard Brenton's seminal 1973 political drama, playing 25 October-19 November 2016. It runs alongside the eighth consecutive year of Vibrant 2016 - A Festival of Finborough Playwrights, on Sunday and Monday evenings and Thursday matinees from 30 October-17 November 2016.

Rodney Ackland's After October receives its first Central London production in 80 years, playing from 22 November-22 December 2016, playing concurrently with the first English production for nearly 70 years of Scottish dramatist James Bridie's Dr Angelus, playing Sunday and Monday evenings and Tuesday matinees from 27 November-20 December 2016.

The season culminates with Tony Harrison's The Trackers of Oxyrhynchus in its first London production for nearly 30 years playing 3-28 January 2017, together with the first UK production in over 25 years of Veterans Day by multi-award-winning American playwright Donald Freed, on Sunday and Monday evenings and Tuesday matinees from 8-24 January 2017. The Finborough Theatre will also be relaunching its Friends Scheme this Winter with a new range of categories and benefits.

Elsewhere, following its critically acclaimed sell-out run at the Finborough Theatre earlier this year where it was nominated for seven OffWestEnd Awards including Best New Play, Best Male Performance, and Best Director, my own new play It Is Easy To Be Dead transfers to the Trafalgar Studios playing 9 November-3 December 2016.

Finborough Theatre Artistic Director Neil McPherson said: "We remain indebted to all those who supported us in our recent battles with developers. Now that the threat of redevelopment has receded, we are at last able to plan for the future, which we are beginning with a relaunch of our Friends Scheme. Our Winter Season brings you more of our artistic policy's twin strands - to present the finest new writing, alongside unique rediscoveries. Our artistic policy has been much imitated in recent years, but we are proud to continue to bring you the original, all presented in London's most intimate theatre space."

Productions this year at the Finborough Theatre have included It Is Easy To Be Dead; the sell out rediscovery of Noël Coward's Home Chat, unseen in the UK for 90 years; the National Youth Theatre's 60th anniversary new writing season including the first stage adaptation of Mohsin Hamid's The Reluctant Fundamentalist; the rediscovery of Margaretta D'Arcy and John Arden's epic The Non Stop Connolly Show to commemorate the centenary of the Easter Rising; new play P'Yongyang by In-Sook Chappell; and the rediscovery of Alan Price and Trevor Peacock's musical Andy Capp. Finborough Theatre productions have also transferred to the Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh (My Eyes Went Dark) and the Crucible Theatre, Sheffield (Operation Crucible).

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

- Neil McPherson, Artistic Director

Winter Season 2016-2017 | Press Nights and Photocalls

Tuesday, 25 October - Saturday, 19 November 2016
The first full professional London production in over 40 years
MAGNIFICENCE
by Howard Brenton. Directed by Josh Roche.
Press Nights: Thursday, 27 October 2016 and Friday, 28 October 2016 at 7.30pm
Photocall: Tuesday, 25 October 2016 at 1.30pm-2.00pm

Sundays, Mondays and Thursdays, 30, 31 October, 3, 6, 7, 10, 13, 14, 17 November 2016
The Eighth Year
VIBRANT 2016 - A FESTIVAL OF FINBOROUGH PLAYWRIGHTS
Curated by Finborough Theatre Artistic Director Neil McPherson.
Please visit www.finboroughtheatre.co.uk for the full festival programme

Tuesday, 22 November - Thursday, 22 December 2016
The first Central London production in 80 years
AFTER OCTOBER
by Rodney Ackland. Directed by Oscar Toeman.
Press Nights: Thursday, 24 November and Friday, 25 November 2016 at 7.30pm
Photocall: Tuesday, 22 November 2016 at 1.30pm-2.00pm

Sundays, Mondays and Tuesdays, 27, 28, 29 November, 4, 5, 6, 11, 12, 13, 18, 19, 20 December 2016
The first English production for nearly 70 years
DR ANGELUS
by James Bridie. Directed by Jenny Ogilvie.
Press Night: Monday, 28 November 2016 at 7.30pm | Photocall: Monday, 28 November 2016 at 5.00pm-5.30pm

Tuesday, 3 January - Saturday, 28 January 2017
The first UK production in nearly 30 years
THE TRACKERS OF OXYRHYNCHUS
by Tony Harrison. Directed by Jimmy Walters.
Press Nights: Thursday, 5 January and Friday, 6 January 2017 at 7.30pm
Photocall: Tuesday, 3 January 2017 at 1.30pm-2.00pm

Sundays, Mondays and Tuesdays, 8, 9, 10, 15, 16, 17, 22, 23, 24 January 2017
The first UK production in over 25 years
VETERANS DAY
by Donald Freed. Directed by Hannah Boland Moore.
Press Night: Monday, 9 January 2017 at 7.30pm | Photocall: Monday, 9 January 2017 at 5.00pm-5.30pm

THE FINBOROUGH THEATRE ELSEWHERE
Wednesday, 9 November - Saturday, 3 December 2016
The world premiere production
IT IS EASY TO BE DEAD
by Neil McPherson. Directed by Max Key.
Studio 2, Trafalgar Studios, 14 Whitehall, London SW1A 2DY
Press Night: Friday, 11 November 2016 at 7.00pm

Finborough Theatre, 118 Finborough Road, London SW10 9ED
Book Online at www.finboroughtheatre.co.uk | Box Office 0844 847 1652 (Calls will cost 7ppm plus your network access charge.)

PERFORMANCE TIMES AND PRICES
For Magnificence, After October and The Trackers of Oxyrhynchus
Tuesday to Saturday evenings at 7.30pm. Sunday matinees at 3.00pm. Saturday matinees at 3.00pm (from the second week of each run).
Prices for Weeks One and Two - Tickets £16, £14 concessions, except Tuesday evenings £14 all seats, and Friday and Saturday evenings £16 all seats. Previews (first two performances) £12 all seats.
£10 tickets for Under 30s for performances from Tuesday to Sunday of the first week when booked online only.
£12 tickets for residents of the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea on the first Saturday evening of each run.
Prices for Weeks Three and Four (and Week Five of After October) - Tickets £18, £16 concessions, except Tuesday evenings £16 all seats, and Friday and Saturday evenings £18 all seats.

For Vibrant 2016 - A Festival of Finborough Playwrights
Sunday and Monday evenings at 7.30pm (except After Orlando on Monday, 31 October from 1.00pm). Thursday matinees at 3.00pm. Tickets £5 all seats. Tickets for each After Orlando International Theatre Action Programme £2.
Tickets for the Earl's Court Film Festival are only available on the Earl's Court Film Festival website at www.filmearlscourt.com or by calling 07789 435448.

For Dr Angelus and Veterans Day
Sunday and Monday evenings at 7.30pm. Tuesday matinees at 2.00pm. Tickets £18, £16 concessions.

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