A new adaptation of Cyrano de Bergerac, Maxine Peake’s first play and the latest comedy-drama from John Godber are among the highlights of the spring 2017 season at the New Vic, Newcastle-under-Lyme.
The theatre will again team up with Northern Broadsides to present Cyrano, Deborah McAndrew’s fresh look at Edmond Rostand’s romantic comedy.
The swashbuckling tale of unrequited love set in the golden age of musketeers features the dashing, daring Cyrano who is afraid to reveal his true feelings for his cousin Roxane because of his enormous nose. The play runs at the New Vic from 3 until 25 February.
Maxine Peake’s “warm and witty celebration of the life of unsung sporting legend Beryl Burton” is told in Beryl. The working-class mum from Leeds cycled her way into the record books and became the greatest woman on two wheels. It rides into the New Vic from 3 until 18 March.
London Classic Theatre will perform Terry Johnson’s farce Hysteria, which “explores the fallout when two of the 20th century’s most brilliant and original minds—Sigmund Freud and Salvador Dali—collide”, from 21 until 25 March.
John Godber returns to the New Vic with his latest work, The Empty Nesters’ Club. It is a tale of “what happens when the kids leave the nest and the feathers start to fly”. The John Godber Company and Theatre Royal Wakefield presentation visits Newcastle-under-Lyme from 28 March until 1 April.