Finborough Theatre - Winter 2015/2016
Season preview
THE Finborough Theatre – under multi-award-winning Artistic Director Neil McPherson – celebrates its 35th year with a Winter Season of even more vibrant new plays and unique rediscoveries.
The season opens with the first London production in over fifty years of Flowering Cherry, the first success of playwright Robert Bolt (A Man for All Seasons, Doctor Zhivago and Lawrence of Arabia) in its first London production since its premiere in 1957 which starred Sir Ralph Richardson. It runs from November 17 to December 20.
It plays alongside the first UK production in 25 years of the award-winning Off-Broadway musical 3 Guys Naked From The Waist Down, a 1980s comedy musical about 1980s musical comics, on Sunday and Monday evenings and Tuesday matinees from November 22 to December 15.
A new play about life in North Korea by award-winning playwright In-Sook Chappell, P’yongyang, receives its world premiere from January 5 to January 30, alongside the return by popular demand of Stony Broke in No Man’s Land, a world premiere written and directed by John Burrows, and performed by two original members of the Number 1 chart-topping group, The Flying Pickets, playing on Sunday and Monday evenings and Tuesday matinees from January 10 to January 26.
The season comes to an end with the world premiere of Weald by award-winning new playwright Daniel Foxsmith. Produced in association with the Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester, it runs from February 2 to February 27. Weald plays alongside the first UK production in more than 30 years of Andy Capp The Musical by Alan Price and Trevor Peacock, playing Sunday and Monday evenings and Tuesday matinees from February 7 to February 23.
Also at the Finborough Theatre: Colin Chambers’ new adaptation of David Pinski’s Treasure (October 20 to November 14) and Vibrant 2015 – A Festival of Finborough Playwrights (October 25 to November 12, 2015).
For more information visit www.finboroughtheatre.co.uk/.