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Dateline: 23rd July, 2004
Hampstead Announces Autumn Programme The Hampstead Theatre has announcd its autumn programme as the financial review, which led to the theatre's going dark over the summer, continues. After the opening of its new £15.7m base in February last year (see Philip Fisher's article), hopes were high but by the end of the year the theatre was facing financial crisis yet again, with an appeal to ACE for an extra £500,000 which resulted in the resignation of its executive director James Williams. "Since the new theatre opened in February 2003," the theatre's chairman Vincent Wang said at the time, "it has become clear that our original plan for the organisation is unsustainable." The theatre went dark in February this year and re-opened in 1st March with a revamped spring season (including the postponement of the world premiere of Drew Pautz's All This Stuff, which was due to appear during the autumn, but no mention of it has yet been made). More recently there have been successful productions (Follow My Leader and Yellowman), but the theatre has been closed since the latter ended on 19th June. It will reopen on 22nd September (previews from 16th) with the London premiere of Crispin Whittell’s Darwin in Malibu, directed by Robert Delamere and starring Oliver Ford Davies, Douglas Henshall and Nigel Planer. It had its London premiere at Birmingham Rep in May 2003. This runs until 16th October, when it will be followed by the world premiere of Love Me Tonight by Nick Stafford, directed by Kathy Burke and starring Linda Bassett (28th October - previews from 21st - to 20th November. Please note that all three Archive indices are very long and will therefore take some time to download.
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