The British Theatre Guide: News for 28th December, 2005

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Dateline: 28th December, 2005

Three Shell Productions at the National
Three of the productions which were part of the Shell Connections youth theatre celebration earlier this year are to receive fully staged performances by the National Theatre in March.

Burn by Deborah Gearing, Chatroom by Enda Walsh and Citizenship by Mark Ravenhill will open at the Cottesloe on 15th March (previews from 3rd) and will be performed as double bills except on the press night (15th), the evening performance of 25th March and the afternoon show on 8th April, as part of the theatre's regular repertory. The short season ends on 8th April. Tickets for under eighteens will be £10.

They are short (50 minutes), sharp and provocative plays where the drama of teenagers’ lives take centre stage. Direct and honest, they are intensely alive to the possibilities and pressures teenagers face on the verge of adulthood.

They will be directed by Anna Mackmin with designs by Jonathan Fensom.

Mammals to Tour
Amelia Bullmore's Mammals, which premiered at the Bush, is to have a short tour, beginning at the Oxford Playhouse on 24th January (previews from 20th) and going on to Cambridge, Sheffield, Guildford, Richmond, Exeter and Liverpool.

Directed by Anna Mackmin, the cast will include Niamh Cusack (from the original Bush cast), Anna Chancellor, and Mark Bonnar.

Wade at the Soho Again
Laura Wade, who earlier this year had two plays, Breathing Corpses and Colder Than Here, running suimultaneously at the the Royal Court and the Soho Theatre, is to have another production at the Soho, Other Hands, a play about love in a world of technology.

Donovan to Tour in Sondheim
Jason Donovan is to tour in the recast Watermill production of Stephen Sondheim's Sweeney Todd. The original production opened at the Newbury venue in 2004, then did a national tour before transferring to the Trafalgar Studios and then to the New Ambassadors. It has since played on Broadway.

The new tour, directed and designed by John Doyle, will open at the Theatre Royal, Brighton, on 31st January, and will then go on to Milton Keynes, Richmond, Woking, Manchester, Bromley, Stoke-on-Trent, Glasgow, York, Wycombe, Birmingham and Plymouth.

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