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Dateline:
12th June, 2009
Autumn at WYP
Leeds' West Yorkshire Playhouse has announced its autumnt 2009 season.
In-house productions
11th September - 3rd October
Dial M For Murder
By Frederick Knott
A West Yorkshire Playhouse and Fiery Angel production
Director Lucy Bailey
25th September to 17th October
The Caucasian Chalk Circle
By Bertolt Brecht, in a new translation by Alistair Beaton
A West Yorkshire Playhouse, Shared Experience and Nottingham Playhouse
production
Director Nancy Meckler
A cast of 13 will be joined on stage by a community chorus of 30 whose
folk singing will underscore the production.
28th Novemebr to 23rd January
The Secret Garden
Adapted from the novel by Frances Hodgson Burnett: Book by Garry Lyons
; Lyrics by Garry Lyons and Tim Sutton; Music and Arrangements by
Tim Sutton
A West Yorkshire Playhouse production
Director Ian Brown
11th December to 23rd January
Cinderella
By Mike Kenny
A West Yorkshire Playhouse production
Director Gail McIntyre
Not a pantomime but a musical retelling of the classic tale
Touring production
Sharp Part 1
The Worm Collector
By J.C. Marshal
A West Yorkshire Playhouse Touring Company production
Director Gail McIntyre
This is the first production to form part of the long term project
SHARP, which has been designed to tackle head-on the issue of knife
crime affecting teenagers across the UK today. The Worm Collector
will tour to primary and secondary schools from 6th October 2009 to
12th February 2010.
Visiting productions
10th - 19th September
Dracula
Northern Ballet Theatre
Based on the novel by Bram Stoker
Choreographed and Directed by David Nixon
13th - 17th October
The Fahrenheit Twins
Told by an Idiot co-produced with Drum Theatre, Plymouth
Commissioned by barbicanbite09 and Unity Theatre
Adapted by Told by an Idiot, based on a book by Michel Faber
Director Matthew Dunster
20th - 24th Octiber
The Black Album
The National Theatre and Tara Arts Co-production
Book and adaptation by Hanif Kureishi
Director Jatinder Verma
26th and 27th October
Markus The Sadist - A Rap Opera
Jonzi D Productions
Director Jonzi D
29th - 31st October
Mischief
Theatre-Rites and Arthur Pita
Created by Director Sue Buckmaster, Choreographer Arthur Pita and
Visual Artist Sophia Clist
10th - 21st November
Deep Cut
Sherman Cymru
By Philip Ralph
Director Mick Gordon
3rd - 14th November
The Grapes of Wrath
English Touring Theatre and Chichester Festival Theatre
Based on the novel by John Steinbeck, adapted by Frank Galati
Director Jonathan Church
The cast includes Christopher Timothy, Sorcha Cusack and Oliver Cotton
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