28 April - 14 June
Funny Girl
Music by Jule Styne; Lyrics by Bob Merrill; Book by Isobel Lennart;
from her original story
Minerva Theatre
Starring Samantha Spiro; directed by Angus Jackson
15 May - 7 June
The Cherry Orchard
By Anton Chekhov in a new version by Mike Poulton
Festival Theatre
Diana Rigg plays Mm. Ranyevskaya ; directed by Philip Franks
23 June - 30 August
The Music Man
Books, Music and Lyrics by Meridith Willson; Story by Meridith Willson
and Franklin Lacey
Festival Theatre
Starring Brian Conley; directed by Rachel Kavanaugh
27 June - 23 August
Six Characters in Search of an Author
By Luigi Pirandello, in a new version by Rupert Goold and Ben Power
Directed by Rupert Goold; a co-production with Headlong Theatre
16 July - 30 August
Collaboration
By Ronald Harwood
Minerva Theatre
Starring Michael Pennington as Richard Strauss; directed by Philip
Franks
21 July - 30 August
Taking Sides
By Ronald Harwood
Minerva Theatre
Starring Michael Pennington as Wilhelm Furtwängler; directed
by Philip Franks
22 July - 29 August
The Circle
By Somerset Maugham
Festival Theatre
Starring Susan Hampshire; directed by Jonathan Church
16 August
Toad of Toad Hall
A play by A A Milne from Kenneth Grahame’s book The Wind in
the Willows
Chichester Festival Youth Theatre
Promenade performance at the Rolls-Royce Motor Cars’ headquarters
near Goodwood
5th - 27th Spetember
The Calendar Girls
Adapted by Tim Firth from the Miramax film
Festival Theatre
11 September - 11 October
Aristo
A new play by Martin Sherman
Minerva Theatre
Robert Lindsay plays Aristotle Onassis; directed by Nancy Meckler
