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Dateline: 9th January, 2009
Spring at the Library The new season at the Library Theatre in Manchester opens with the Re:Play Festival of the best new plays seen in the region over the last year. Full details of the programme were given in our North West News column of 21 December 2008. Following this, Max Stafford-Clark's renowned new writing company Out of Joint brings John Gay's The Beggar's Opera, adapted by Stephen Jeffreys, to take place on a convict ship bound for Australia in a co-production with the Sydney Theatre Company. The first in-house production is the already-announced regional premiere of Tom Stoppard's Rock 'n' Roll, set during the Prague Spring of 1968 and the Velvet Revolution of 1989 in Czechoslovakia, directed by artistic director Chris Honer and starring Graeme Hawley, recently seen as kidnapper John Stape on ITV's Coronation Street. Accompanying this play is Audience, a short play by writer and former Czech president Václav Havel about an encounter between a long-serving brewmaster and an idealistic young assistant, directed by Christos Chanios who is currently on attachment to the Library as an assistant director. After its success with Someone Who'll Watch Over Me, the Library returns to playwright Frank McGuinness with Gates of Gold, inspired by the relationship between Hilton Edwards and Micheál Mac Liammóir, who co-founded the Dublin's Gate Theatre in 1928, directed by Rachel O'Riordan in her directorial debut at the Library. Caryl Churchill's A Number explores human cloning through a father and his three very different sons and will be directed by Sarah Punshon, another first-time director to the Library. The theatre will once again be a venue for the annual Queer Up North festival with two productions in May: one-woman show My Stories, Your Emails from Ursula Martinez and one-man show The Young Ladies Of... from Taylor Mac. To conclude the season, the Library once again returns to a writer who recently provided them with a successful production, reviving Alan Ayckbourn's popular 1965 play Relatively Speaking. Also, the theatre's education director Liz Postlethwaite willl direct Norfox Young People's Theatre Company in Abi Morgan's play Fugee about a young asylum seeker in April. Tickets for all productions are now on sale at the theatre's box office and on its web site at www.librarytheatre.com/.
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