Southwark Playhouse Announces New Spring Season

The Sothwark Playhouse recently announced its new spring season line-up which. Its new season will follow the successful fall season which included shows, such as Romeo and Juliet, Unstated, and Moll Flanders.

Theatre company Nabokov will present more instalments of their Present Tense series in February and April, which will unite top talent all fascets of the theatre industry to create a response to a particular topic in current affairs in just seven days.

Other highlights of the season will include Last Dog Theatre’s Love in (3) Parts (12-31 January), a touching look at the emotions and complexities of a love affair, from first date to last love, accompanied with a live soundtrack from James Day. This year’s annual Shakespeare offering will be a ninety minute re-imagining of A Midsummer Night’s Dream (4-28 February) set is Samurai Japan, directed by innovative British Chinese director Jonathan Man, winner of 2008’s Better Bankside Shakespeare Award.

From 5-28 March, Wildbird theatre company will present Chris Lee’s Fall of the Peacock. Fall of the Peacock is the story of the 1953 CIA led coup in Iran which is thought to have strangled fledgling Iranian democracy and been a contributory factor in the so-called war on terror. The season is set to end with with About Tommy (31 March – 25 April) from Brother Tongue theatre company, which tells the story of a young soldier trying to preserve his humanity as he is forced to fight.

The Finborough Theatre has also announced its line-up for the start of 2009. The first full professional UK revival of Captain Oates’ Left Sock (7-31 January) will be the first performance. The schedule continues with new play Untitled (3 February – 14 March) by Lena Farugia which explores the love story of King Edward VIII and Mrs Simpson. The season will also see Oscar and BAFTA nominee Michael Craig return to the London stage in the UK premiere of Trying (17 March – 11 April) by Joanna McClelland Glass.

The Finborough’s Sunday and Monday night productions for the New Year will include Blue Heaven (8,9,15,16,22 and 23 February), a selection of three rarely performed short plays about hope and despair by Tennessee Williams, and Oohrah! (22, 23, 29, 30 March and 5, 6 April), which will mark the London debut of the award-winning new American playwright Bekah Brunstetter.

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