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Dateline: 8th May, 2009
Royal Exchange New Season Manchester's Royal Exchange Theatre has announced the productions in its autumn and winter season, running from September 2009 to February 2010. The season opens with Molière's seventeenth-century French comedy The Miser directed by Helena Kaut-Howson and starring Derek Griffiths as Harpagon, the miser of the title who wants to marry off his children to unsuitable but rich partners. Following this, the Exchange continues its relationship with writer Simon Stephens, originally from Stockport, in a co-production with Lyric Hammersmith directed by Sarah Frankcom of his new play Punk Rock about a group of "A" level students in a private sixth form college in Stockport, which will come to Manchester after a London run. In November, Greg Hersov will direct John Osborne's portrait of fading song and dance man Archie Rice in a fading post-war England, The Entertainer starring David Schofield. This year's Christmas production will be Noël Coward's ghostly comedy Blithe Spirit – a different production of which is about to open at Oldham Coliseum – directed by Sarah Frankcom. The season ends with a long-overdue return to the great American writer and civil rights activist Lorraine Hansberry – it produced a memorable Les Blancs in 2001 – for her most famous play A Raisin in the Sun, which has become a black American classic, directed by Michael Buffong. David Chadderton
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