The autumn season at Hampstead Theatre will feature the premiére of Beth Steel's new thriller, the return of Tony Kushner and Michael Frayn's comedy from an early play by Chekhov.
Beth Steel's Labyrinth, directed by Anna Ledwich, is set in the financial world in New York in 1978 and explores the fallout from the "tequila crisis", which brought Latin America to its knees for decades.
Former RSC artistic director Michael Boyd will direct Tony Kushner's latest play The Intelligent Homosexual’s Guide to Capitalism and Socialism with a Key to the Scriptures. In New York in 2007, a retired longshoreman feels that the world has turned its back on everything he has fought for and summons his children home for the last and most unusual family reunion yet.
Howard Davies will direct Michael Frayn's Wild Honey, based on an untitled early play by Chekhov. Village schoolmaster Mikhail Vasilyevich has it all: wit, intelligence, a comfortable and respectable life and the attentions of four beautiful women including his wife. As summer arrives, the intensifying heat makes everyone giddy with sunlight, vodka—and passion.
Casting for all three productions has yet to be announced.