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Dateline: 31st May, 2009
Library Theatre New Season Manchester's Library Theatre has announced its autumn 2009 season, which has a German twist with Brecht and the Brothers Grimm, plus there are touring productions from Live Theatre of Newcastle, Border Crossings and Out of Joint. Local comedy duo Lip Service opens the season in September with its new show Desperate to be Doris, starring Darren Southworth as a ladies' nightwear buyer by day and Doris Day singing act by night, along with a locally-recruited community choir. Newcastle's Live Theatre, which recently co-produced Alan Plater's Looking For Buddy with The Octagon in Bolton, returns to Greater Manchester with Motherland, based on the real stories of four women whose lives have been affected by the conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan. Cameron Stewart's one-man show My Grandfather's Great War, is based on the diary of his grandfather, who was a captain the British army at the Battle of the Somme in World War I. Following the Shakespeare Schools Festival, Max Stafford-Clark's theatre company Out of Joint returns to The Library with Dreams of Violence by Stella Feehily about a political activist trying to bring down world capitalism while juggling a chaotic home life. It stars Paula Wilcox of 70s TV sitcom Man About The House and Thusitha Jayasundera, DS De Costa in ITV's The Bill. Chris Honer will return to Brecht with the regional premiere of David Harrower's adaptation of The Good Soul of Szechuan, and then Rachel O'Riordan returns to The Library to direct the Christmas show, which this year is Grimm Tales, a selection of the traditional folk tales collected by the Brothers Grimm adapted by new Poet Laureate Carol Ann Duffy with former Young Vic artistic director Tim Supple. The Re:Play Festival will return to The Library for the third year in January 2010, featuring some of the best new theatre to have been produced in non-theatre venues over the previous year. International touring theatre company Border Crossings will present its Orientations Trilogy in February, consisting of Orientations, Dis-Orientations and the world premiere of Re-Orientations. Tickets are now on sale at the box office or online.
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