Hampstead Theatre's third new writing festival, Daring Pairings 3,
will be the climax of its 50th Anniversary celebrations, announced today
(Tuesday 30th June.)
17 September - 17 October
A Hampstead Theatre and Curve Theatre, Leicester production in association
with The Fish Partnership
The Fastest Clock in the Universe
By Philip Ridley
First performed at Hampstead in 1992, featuring a young Jude Law,
Ridley's malevolent comedy won him the Meyer Whitworth Prize, The
Critic's Circle Theatre Award for Most Promising New Playwright and
the Time Out Award. Ridley has been commissioned and produced at Hampstead
more than any other playwright and this, his second play, was one
of Hampstead's biggest hits in the 1990s.
23 October - 7 November
A Hampstead Theatre production
What Fatima Did …
By Atiha Sen Gupta
The debut play from Atiha Sen Gupta, a long-term member of Hampstead
Theatre's young company, Heat & Light. The story is set in and
around a secondary school after the summer holidays and explores the
consequences of one girl's decision to wear the Hijab.
She joined Heat & Light in 2003, at the age of 13, and her burgeoning
reputation as a writer has earned her a place on the writing team
for Channel 4's hugely successful series, Skins.
26 October - 7 November
Daring Pairings 3
Alongside Atiha Sen Gupta's new comedy, Hampstead Theatre presents
Daring Pairings 3: its third festival of new writing. Five unexpected
collaborations have been assembled and invited to experiment with
different ways to create a piece of new writing: Hampstead's five
writers on attachment (Satinder Kaur Chohan, Samantha Ellis, Juliet
Gilkes Romero, Joel Horwood and Kieran Lynn) will work on a play together
for the main stage; heat&light team up with an established writer
to produce a play of their own; Central School of Speech and Drama
collaborate with Hampstead Theatre to showcase a new piece of music
theatre, Noctropia, by Judy Upton with music by Oliver Searle,
commissioned in 2003; The Factory will apply their creative process
to new play writing and Nabokov theatre will broker some cross art
form collaborations. Performances will take place in the Michael Frayn
Space, the main auditorium, and various mystery locations around the
building. Anything could happen…
10 November - 28 November
Sweet Spot Productions present
I Found My Horn
Adapted for the stage by Jonathan Guy Lewis and Jasper Rees
A one-man-show, adapted and performed by Jonathan Guy Lewis and directed
by Harry Burton, enjoyed critical success on its short tour in 2008
and returns to London for a longer run. At forty, a man wakes up to
a broken marriage, a beckoning bedsit and the realisation that his
life does not add up to much. Clambering into the attic he finds the
French horn he never mastered in his youth and sets himself an impossible
task - to play a Mozart horn concerto in front of a paying audience.
3 December - 16 January
A Hampstead Theatre production
Darker Shores
By Michael Punter
Punter's classic ghost story is the seasonal family show, featuring
Julian Rhind-Tutt (Green Wing) and Mark Gatiss (The League
of Gentlemen). Anthony Clark directs.
10 December - 2 January
Watershed Productions presents the BBC Worldwide and Polka Theatre
production of
Charlie and Lola's Best Bestest Play
Based on the characters by Lauren Child
The stars of the hit BBC TV series and books by Lauren Child are brought
to life by a mix of puppets and music, aimed at children aged from
3 up.
