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Dateline: 2nd June, 2002 Manchester Achieves 90% Manchester's Royal Exchange has announced average attendances of 90% for its 25th anniversary season to date, with only two months to go. It has now announced details of its winter/spring season, which opens with Othello (Main House: 11th September to 2nd November), closely followed in the Studio by a season of two South African plays running in repertory: The Dead Wait by Paul Herzberg and On My Birthday by Aubrey Sekhabi (2nd to 26th October). These two plays, from Johannisberg's Market Theatre, receive their UK premieres, and then Simon Stephen's Port receives its world premiere in the Main House from 6th to 30th November. Also in November, the Studio sees the UK premiere of Canadian writer Judith Thompson's Habitat, from 12th to 30th. The Christmas show in the Main House will be Amanda Dalton's adaptation of David Almond's children's novel Secret Heart (4th December to 18th January) and it will be followed by a new translation of Lorca's Yerma, translated by Pam Gems (22nd January to 22nd February), whilst from 3th to 22nd February the company will presenr Irish writer Owen McCafferty's Shoot the Crow. The spring season will feature two months of Brad Fraser's Cold Meat Party and Chekhov's The Seasgull in the Main House.
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