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Dateline: 8th January, 2010
Final Season at the Library Manchester's Library Theatre Company has announced the final season in the building that has been its home since its inception in 1952, in a former lecture theatre in the basement of Central Library. The season opens with the third Re:Play Festival, reviving productions that premiered at small venues in Manchester and Salford in 2009. Following this, Paul Jepson will direct Neil Simon's comedy I Ought To Be In Pictures about a reconciliation between a film-writer father and his long-lost daughter who wants to be an actress. Regular visitors Out of Joint return to the Library with author Sebastian Barry's recreation of an encounter between Hans Christian Andersen and Charles Dickens featuring Niamh Cusack as Dickens's wife. Library artistic director Chris Honer directs the regional premiere of Glengarry Glen Ross, David Mamet's play about the cut-throat world of the real estate salesman. This will be accompanied for part of its run by another short Mamet play Mr Happiness, directed by assistant director Kate Lewis. Edinburgh Fringe and now London hit Morecambe – The Man What Brought Us Sunshine by Tim Whitnall with Bob Golding as the great double act funny man Eric Morecambe will appear at the Library for just four performances. Local writer Cathy Crabb's Beautiful House, which was picked up for last year's Re:Play after an initial run at Studio Salford, will get a full production by the Library Theatre Company directed by Noreen Kershaw. Another returning production is Lip Service's homage to Doris Day, Desperate To Be Doris, and the popular Manchester comedy duo will also celebrate its twenty-fifth anniversary in a one-off performance Lip Service – Best Bits. The Library will host two productions in the Queer Up North Festival: Road Movie from Starving Artists and MUST – The Inside Story from Peggy Shaw and the Clod Ensemble. The final production at the venue will be the same play that opened it in 1952: Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest, directed on this occasion by Chris Honer. We are also promised a star-studded gala celebration of the history of the company on Sunday 4 July hosted by former associate director Roger Haines the day after the final production closes. After the theatre closes, the company will tour to other venues around the city before its intended opening at the Theatre Royal on Peter Street around the corner in 2014. The first outside production to be announced is next Christmas's A Christmas Carol directed by the same person as this year's Grimm Tales, Rachel O'Riordan. This will take place at The Lowry in Salford in December and January. Tickets for all productions except the Christmas show and the gala night are now available. David Chadderton
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