Sarah Kane Season Announced For Sheffield Theatres in 2015!

Artistic Director of Sheffield Theatres Daniel Evans today announces the company's new season for 2015. Continuing the company's tradition for dedicating seasons to playwrights whose work has influenced a generation, this year Sheffield will stage the complete works of the playwright Sarah Kane, with productions of Blasted, directed by Richard Wilson, and Crave and 4.48 Psychosis, directed by Charlotte Gwinner. Alongside this, Evans will direct semi-staged readings of Phaedra's Love and Cleansed; and a screening of her film Skin.

In the run up to 2015's general election, Sheffield Theatres, Headlong and Rose Theatre Kingston will co-produce David Hare's timely play The Absence of War. Reece Dinsdale leads the company as George Jones. The production opens at the Crucible before embarking on a national tour.

To mark the Centenary of Arthur Miller's birth and the 70th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz, Richard Beecham will direct a revival of Miller's Playing for Time - based on the memoir by Fania Fénelon. Tamara Harvey will then direct a stage adaptation ofJane Austen's classic novel Pride and Prejudice, adapted for the stage by Simon Reade.

Since becoming Artistic Director Daniel Evans has sought to bring the best of new writing from the capital to Sheffield in new productions, Evans will direct the latest regional première: Lucy Prebble's award winning play The Effect, first seen at the National in 2012.

Completing the season is Camelot: The Shining City - a unique collaboration between Sheffield People's Theatre and Slung Low, which will see a cast of over 150 take over the Crucible stage and Tudor Square with a reworking of the tale of King Arthur.

Also announced today is that Charlotte Gwinner will join the company as an Associate Director. Gwinner previously directed Benefactors as part of the Michael Frayn season, and will play a pivotal role in the forthcoming Sarah Kane season.

Daniel Evans said today, "Our spring season is one of our most ambitious yet. We're announcing 8 plays across the first half of 2015, and there's so much to celebrate: collaborations with Headlong, Rose Theatre Kingston and Slung Low, a centenary tribute to Arthur Miller and I'm thrilled that the work of female artists will play a prominent role throughout the season. I hope that the opportunity to see Sarah Kane's work alongside an adaptation of Jane Austen's most famous novel and a regional première by Lucy Prebble will offer audiences in our city region and beyond a thrilling range of theatre. Having long admired her work, I am also delighted that Charlotte Gwinner will join the team as an Associate Director."