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Dateline:
27th April, 2003
Osborne and Marber
at the Donmar
Follwing Caligula, which opened last week, and Pacific
Overtures (20th June to 23rd August), the next two productions at the
Donmar Warehouse will be Osborne's The Hotel in Amsterdam, which
will be directed by Robin Lefevre (11th September to 15th November),
and Patrick Marbner's latest play After Miss Julie, based on
Strindberg's Miss Julie.
Coward in the Underground
The disused Aldwych underground station is to be the venue for a production
of Noël Coward's Still Lives, three plays about love, betrayal
and adultery, one of which went on to become one of the most famous
and best loved romantic dramas ever filmed, Brief Encounter.
It opened last Tuesday and runs until 9th May. Tickets are £10
(£7 concs), and can only be bought - cash or cheque: no cards
- at the door. The play is produced by Angels in the Architecture, a
company which specialises in site-specific theatre.
Hall's Mrs Warren
to Tour
Sir Peter Hall's production of George Bernard Shaw's Mrs Warren's
Profession, which had a successful run at the Strand last year,
is to tour from next month. Leading the cast will be Twiggy Lawson,
fashion model and icon of the sixties, now a successful actress. The
three month tour opens on 5th May at the Oxford Playhouse, then moves
on to Cambridge, Poole, Malvern, Bath, Stoke-on-Trent, Richmond, Newcastle,
Brighton and Milton Keynes, although other dates will be announced later.
Next at Hampstead
The next three productions at the new Hampstead Theatre will be:
- The European premiere of In Arabia, We'd All Be Kings, by
Stephen Adly Guirgis, directed by Robert Delamere (24th April to 17th
May)
- Born Bad by Debbie Tucker Green (world premiere), directed
by Kathy Burke (29th April to 17th May - eary evening performances)
- US and Them by Tamsin Oglesby (world premiere), starring
Hugh Bonneville, Siobhan Redmond and Harriet Walter (28th May to 28
June, previewing from 22nd May)
Alistair Beaton Joins
the Satire Rush
Alistair Beaton, formerly speechwriter for Gordon Brown and now a successful
playwright (Feelgood), is reported to be working on a new satire
which will, he told the Guardian, be the most topical show "the
West End has ever seen", as it will be updated almost every night.
Currenty without a title but known to be about the war in Iraq, it is
produced by Michael Grade and Raymond Gubbay. Open auditions are being
held at the Riveside Studios on 1st May and, according to the Stage,
the producers are looking for a Saddam-lookalike.
Mamma Mia!
to Transfer Next Year
Mamma Mia! is to transfer to the Prince of Wales next spring,
after it has been refurbished. It will continue at the Prince Edward
until 27th March, 2004, when it is expected to be replaced by the Broadway
transfer of The Producers.
Extending and Closing
The Three Sisters (Playhouse), starring Kristin Scott Thomas,
is now booking until 29th June (six weeks)
The Madness of George Dubya (Arts) is now booking until 1th May
(two weeks)
Jerry Springer the Opera (NT), which is still in preview, has
extended until August.
Contact has posted early closing notices for 10th May, three
weeks early.
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