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Dateline:
7th December, 2007
York's Spring Highlights
York Theatre Royal has announced its programme for spring 2008 with,
amid a range of touring productions, four in-house productions:
In the Studio
28 March-19 April at 7.45pm
York Theatre Royal and Lakeside Arts Centre, Nottingham present
Twinkle, Little Star
By Philip Meeks
Directed by Matt Aston and Damian Cruden
Featuring Kenneth Alan Taylor (legendary pantomime dame at Nottingham
Playhouse)
Meet Harold Thropp. He was once the youngest dame in Britain - a
time when he would add lines on his face to create character and chase
Prince Charming up the palace steps in six-inch heels just because
he could. Now he sticks to boots. “I like to be as close to the
ground as possible” he says.
Sitting in his dingy basement dressing room, Harold prepares to become
Window Twankey for the final time. Now the wrong side of sixty he
feels his best years are behind him. As he looks back on a life well
lived Harold realises that sometimes letting go is the hardest thing
to do….and in the glamorous world of theatre it’s easy to
get left behind.
01-17 May at 7.45pm
York Theatre Royal present the World Premiere of
Patient No. 1
By Donald Freed
Patient No.1 is the confidential in-patient, designated in-house
name assigned to the former President of the United States George
W Bush by the psychiatric staff of an elite private clinic. Isolated
from and virtually unknown to the public its clientele has included
some of America and the world’s most Very Important Persons (V.I.Ps).
Donald Freed is Playwright in Residence at York Theatre Royal. His
awards and prizes include the Rockefeller Award, Louis B Mayer Award,
the Unicorn Prize, the Gold Medal Award, Berlin Critics Award and
the 2006 Pen Drama Prize. His films and plays include Secret Honor
(directed by Robert Altman), Circe & Bravo (with Faye Dunaway,
directed by Harold Pinter) and Veterans Day (with Jack Lemmon
and Michael Gambon).
In the Main House
4 -26 April at 7.30pm
York Theatre Royal and Riding Lights Theatre Company present
Three Men in a Boat
By Jerome K Jerome, adapted and directed for the stage by Paul Burbridge
Jerome K Jerome’s classic comedy comes roaring to life in a
delightfully accident-packed evening as three men take a boat trip
up the Thames in 1889. Through a series of hilarious mishaps and ineptitudes,
a healthy rest-cure on the river goes badly adrift.
07-28 June at 7.30pm (Mat 12, 19 & 26 June at 2.00pm & 14,
21 & 28 June at 2.30pm)
York Theatre Royal presents
A Man for All Seasons
By Robert Bolt
Directed by Paul Shelley
“When a man takes an oath, he’s holding his own self in
his hands. Like water. And if he opens his fingers then – he
needn’t hope to find himself again.”
The court of King Henry VIII is a dangerous place to find yourself
at odds with the monarch. So when Sir Thomas More can no longer support
the king’s extraordinary corruption, he quietly steps down.
A Man for All Seasons is a thriller – the true story of
a man striving for honour in a world seething with ambition, intrigue
and violence – and one of the all-time classics of British theatre.
Visiting productions include English Touring Theatre with Uncle
Vanya and Birmingham Royal Ballet with a triple bill of a new dances,
Hull Truck Theatre with John Godber's Our House, Pilot Theatre
with Fungus the Bogeyman and the touring production of John Buchan's
The 39 Steps.
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