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Dateline: 24th March, 2010

Summer in Scarborough

Scarborough's Stephen Joseph Theatre has announced its season from April to October. Seven in-house productions include a new play written and directed by Alan Ayckbourn, Life of Riley and two "Off-Peak" productions, hour long plays at lunchtime or early evening and occasionally as a double bill in the usual evening or matinee slots.

6th May - 30th June
Boston Marriage
By David Mamet
Directed by Chris Monks

4ht June - 31st July
A Midsummer Night's Dream
By William Shakespeare
Directed by Chris Monks

2nd July - 11th September
A Number
By Caryl Churchill
Directed by Adam Sunderland
An "Off-Peak" production

13th July - 11the September
Twenty20
By James Quinn
Directed by Adam Sunderland
An "Off-Peak" production

8th July - 4th September
The Mikado
By W S Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan
Adapted and directed by Chris Monks

5th August - 8th October
Communicating Doors
Written and directed by Alan Ayckbourn

16th September - 16th October
Life of Riley
Qritten and directed by Alan Ayckbourn
With a few months of his life remaining, George Riley's closest friends remember with love, nostalgia or occasional bursts of fury, how deeply he has affected all their past lives. George, though, is plotting one lasr final farewell which threatens to upset all their future lives. What exactly is the eccentric maverick Riley playing at?

Visiitng productions include Hull Truck's production of John Godber's Men of the World (5th - 10th April; 4Play (15th & 16th April) four half-hour plays presented over two lunchtimes; Northern Broadsides' The Canterbury Tales (19th - 24th April); Linda Malowe in The World's Wife (26th April); Graeae's Signs of a Star Shaped Diva (27th & 28th April); John Hegley in The Adventures of Monsieur Robinet (30th April); Louise Roche's Girls Night (19th - 21st May); the Mark Bruce Company in Love and War (25th & 26th May); Prodigal Theatre's Caruso and the Quake and Edinburgh Fringe hit My Grandfather's Great War (6th & 7th July).

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