Gate Theatre Announces Too Close to Home Season

Artistic Director of the Gate Christopher Haydon today announces their new season: Too Close to Home. The season opens with Diary of a Madman, a brand new adaptation of Gogol's classic story by Al Smith, reimagined in contemporary Scotland (28-30 July, 5-24 September).

This is followed by Come to Where I'm From: London (29 June), which comes to London for the first time and invites playwrights to write plays about the places that have shaped them. Too Close to Home also includes Workshop Negative by Cont Mhlanga (6 -9 July), an uplifting and comic response to the backlash of Zimbabwean independence; and Meet Your Neighbours (12 August), a community project about the local area.

Completing the season is I Call My Brothers (10 November-3 December), which examines identity in the aftermath of a terror attack and is written by Swedish playwright Jonas Hassen Khemri. Tinuke Craig, Associate Director 2015-2016 at the Gate, returns to direct.

Talking about the Too Close To Home season, Haydon said today: "We often define ourselves in relation to the places in which we live and through the people we are surrounded by. And when a place changes, or a group of people shift, that can be a profoundly traumatic experience. So each of the shows in this season takes a distinctive look at how these processes can deeply affect us at both a personal and political level."

To book tickets, call 020 7229 0706 or visit www.gatetheatre.co.uk

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