“Most ambitious” season at Leicester’s Curve

Published: 25 March 2017
Reporter: Steve Orme

“Vibrant”: Leicester’s Curve

Leicester’s Curve theatre is mounting the “most ambitious” season in its eight-year history, with more home-grown productions than it has ever staged.

Made at Curve productions include Roald Dahl’s George’s Marvellous Medicine which will be presented for Christmas 2017. It will run in Curve’s 300-seat Studio from 9 December until 14 January 2018 while on the main stage Leslie Bricusse’s family musical Scrooge runs from 18 November until 7 January 2018.

Curve and De Montfort University will be co-producing Anthony Burgess’s A Clockwork Orange from 18 until 20 May.

As previously announced, Catherine McCormack will play Mrs Robinson and Jack Monaghan will be Benjamin in The Graduate which runs from 30 May until 10 June.

A “vibrant” new production of Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream with pop songs and dance will take to the Curve stage from 10 until 20 August.

Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Sunset Boulevard, directed by Curve artistic director Nikolai Foster and featuring Ria Jones as Norma Desmond, opens at Curve from 16 until 26 September to begin a UK tour.

The world première of Pink Sari Revolution, a true story based on the book by journalist Amana Fontanella-Khan, is at Curve from 27 September until 7 October.

Foster and Curve chief executive Chris Stafford said in a joint statement, “we’re delighted with our produced programme of work, alongside a vibrant season of visiting work. We’re truly thrilled to be bringing such a diverse, talented and world-class group of artists and production teams to Leicester to inspire, challenge and entertain our audiences.”

Highlights of the summer 2017 season at Curve include Gary Clarke Company’s COAL on Saturday 15 April, the National Theatre’s post-Brexit play My Country; A Work in Progress from 25 until 29 April, In Your Face Theatre’s Trainspotting from 20 until 24 June and Cameron Mackintosh’s blockbuster musical Miss Saigon from 1 until 22 July.

From 23 until 28 October, Curve will welcome the National Theatre’s tour of Henrik Ibsen’s Hedda Gabler, revised by Patrick Marber and directed by Ivo van Hove.

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