Trafalgar Studio 2 - New Year Schedule
Preview by Lizzie Guilfoyle
THE 100-seat Trafalgar Studio 2 has announced its new year schedule which kicks off in January with a double bill of plays written and directed by Ben Woolf.
Angry Young Man/The Explorer – January 8 to February 2, 2008.
Angry Young Man, which was first seen at the 2005 Edinburgh Fringe, is about Yuri, a brilliant Eastern European surgeon who arrives in London in search of work and a new life. While the world premiere production of The Explorer follows the travels of a Victorian gentleman with a very dark secret.
NB: Due to cast illness, this double bill has postponed its opening by four days – until January 14, 2008.
The second production – Sweet William – runs from February 4 to February 16, 2008.
Sweet William is devised and performed by Michael Pennington whose credits include numerous seasons at the RSC. He has also performed leading Shakespearean roles worldwide with the English Shakespeare Company, which he co-founded with director Michael Bogdanov in 1986.
Sweet William, a one-man show, is Pennington’s own interpretation of Shakespeare’s life and work.
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It’s followed – from February 20 to March 8, 2008 – by World’s End, a new play by Paul Sellar.
Kat is moving out of the London flat she shares with ex-boyfriend, Ben. Helping her are best friend, Thea, and the new man in her life, Josh. Ben (who’s not even meant to be there) is hurt and angry, and he’s still in love with Kat. But is it too late to tell her…?
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World’s End is followed by Snowbound, a new play about love by Ciaran McConville – from March 12 to April 19, 2008.
The Connor brothers have always had to look after themselves. Tom is the charming business man, while for Alex small things can be overwhelming. But when Tom’s wife dies, it’s only Alex who can make Tom’s world work again.
And finally – from April 22 to May 17, 2008 – comes Athol Fugard’s autobiographical work Hello and Goodbye.
Hello and Goodbye, directed by Paul Robinson, is set in Port Elizabeth, South Africa where Johnny is alone at the family home, surrounded by squalor, when a near stranger arrives. In one tense and desperate night a sibling reunion evokes powerful childhood memories as buried secrets are unearthed.