Lyric Hammersmith spring season

Published: 22 January 2017
Reporter: Sandra Giorgetti

Roald Dahl’s Fantastic Mr Fox opens the new season at Lyric Hammersmith this week in an adaptation by Sam Holcroft, directed by Maria Aberg. It has music composed by Arthur Darvill with lyrics by Darren Clark, Arthur Darvill, Sam Holcroft and Al Muriel.

This Nuffield and Curve production in association with Lyric Hammersmith is foremost amongst the Roald Dahl 100 events marking the author's centenary. The show opened at Nuffield Southampton Theatres and plays the Lyric Hammersmith prior to a national tour.

The European première of Seventeen opens in March directed by Anne-Louise Sarks. In Matthew Whittet’s funny play about teenagers, the cast is made up of septuagenarians. This production is presented in association with Belvoir, Sydney.

The world première of Paul Auster's City of Glass follows. It will be directed by Leo Warner with a creative team that includes Danish choreographer and movement director Kim Brandstrup and composer Nick Powell.

This hallucinatory thriller, considered a masterpiece of contemporary American fiction has been adapted by Olivier Award-nominated playwright Duncan Macmillan from the first novel of The New York Trilogy by Paul Auster and the graphic novel by Paul Karasik and David Mazzucchelli

This 59 Productions, Lyric Hammersmith and HOME co-production runs after Easter prior to an international tour.

Later events at the Lyric Hammersmith include Frantic Assembly's Things I Know to be True, a new play by leading Australian writer Andrew Bovell, the 20th anniversary production of Mark Ravenhill’s Shopping and Fucking and the Lyric’s traditional panto Aladdin.

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