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Dateline: 19th July, 2009
Autumn at Northern Stage Newcastle's Northern Stage has announced its season from September 2009 to January 2010. The season opens with a production, directed by Richard Beecham, of Githa Sowerby's Rutherford and Son which runs from 18th September to 3rd October. Set on Tyneside in 1912 when John Rutherford's glass-making empire is in trouble. A brutal industrialist who has sacrificed his children for the family firm, he is about to count the true cost of his tyranny. With his son-and-heir set on renouncing the family business and his daughter embroiled in a scandalous love affair, the future looks bleak indeed. On 7th and 8th October, Zendeh in association with Northern Stage presents Kismet. The world is changing, climate has become chaos. Few can breathe the air unmasked. Nature only survives in laboratories. An ecologist, with her pockets full of seeds, is compelled to cross borders to be with her star-gazing sister. Intertwined with their lives are a doctor and an administrator. One man is surrounded by his powders and pills and the other filled with a profound sense of duty. Performed in English, Farsi and Azeri. From 13thto 17th October The Empty Space presents Heartbreak Soup, written and directed by Laura Lindow, one of the hits opf the 2008 Edinburgh Festival (read our review). Cuddy is getting ready to tell his story. Dan is here to help. They tell tales of playground games, fantastic islands, even a secret romance. But the real magic is that all these takes are conjured from the drawers under Cuddy's hospital bed. Cuddy's life is about to change. Right now he's a blueberry blue boy, sick of pills and doctors. But once he's pink, he'll be running and jumping as much as he wants, and not just in his imagination. Suitable for 9+. As already announced, from 21st to 24th October, the RSC brings Roy Williams' Days of Significance to the theatre. From 22nd to 24th October, the Crick Crack Club brings Performance Storytelling to Stage 2: Solomon and Sheba (22nd), Isis and Hecate (23rd) and Tales told in Tents and Frankenstein on 24th. From 29th October to 7th November, the Royal Shakespeare Company presents Ben Power's A Tender Thing, which will receive its premiere in the theatre. Another Romeo and another Juliet in a strikingly different love story. Shakespeare's language resonates through this account of an older couple whose lifetime of love is under threat. On 30th October at 11.00am and 1.30pm Theatre Hullabaloo in partnership with Theatre Direct Canada present Under the Banyan Tree by Emil Sher, aimed at children of 7+. From 2nd to 6th November Théâtre Sans Frontières presents Les Trois Mousquetaires - who are all played by women. The play is performed in French with a soupçon of English and Spanish. On 13th and 14th November Bunce presents Insane in the Brain, a hip hop version of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. As usual there are two Christmas shows this year, one aimed at the under 6 and one for 7+. This year's show for the younger audience is The Prince and the Penguin by Susan Mulholland (20th November to 9th January). Once upon a time there was a young prince and he was very spoilt and very bored. Even the best storybooks bored him because he wanted a story with a penguin, a polar bear and some pirates in it but there's no such story... or is there? As the prince fell asleep that night, he began to realise that making up stories is a very powerful thing... Fot the older children Stephen Sharkey has written a new version of Peter Pan, adapted from the original novel by J .M. Barrie. It runs from 30th November to 9th January.
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