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Dateline: 1st June, 2008
Stoppard Coup for Library Manchester's Library Theatre has announced its autumn and winter season, the highlight of which is the first UK production outside London of Tom Stoppard's Rock 'n' Roll. The play, which runs at the Library in March 2009, chronicles recent Czech history from the Prague Spring in 1968 to the Velvet Revolution of 1989 and shows the significance of rock 'n' roll music in the resistance to communist rule. The season opens in September 2008 with a short run of Stewart Lee's Elizabeth and Raleigh - Late But Live, fresh from Edinburgh, starring comedians Simon Munnery as Elizabeth I and Miles Jupp as Sir Walter Raleigh. Following this, Roger Haines directs Richard Cameron's The Glee Club about a group of Yorkshire miners whose popular working men's club musical act is under threat from internal tensions and the rise of the swinging sixties. To mark the centenary of the opening of the Gaiety Theatre in Manchester by Annie Horniman, the founder of the British repertory theatre movement, there will be a revival of one of Manchester playwright Stanley Houghton's lesser-known plays Independent Means, telling the story of a young, newly-married woman whose family business interests have run into trouble. To accompany the production, there will be a series of talks and readings based around the 'Manchester School' playwrights and an exhibition, Annie Horniman and the Manchester Theatre, at the Central Library and the Portico Library and Gallery. For Christmas, Roger Haines and Liam Steel will once again team up to direct, in this case for an adaptation of Dickens's Great Expectations by Neil Bartlett. The Re:Play Festival of the best new local theatre work from the previous year, which debuted earlier this year, will be repeated in January 2009. There will also be a visit from Out of Joint with The Convict's Opera by Stephen Jeffreys and one-man shows Sweet William from actor Michael Pennington and From Books to Box from Inspector Morse author Colin Dexter. David Chadderton
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