Multi-award-winning Finborough Theatre's new writing festival takes place in November.
Vibrant 2014 – A Festival of Finborough Playwrights will feature fifteen staged readings of new works by UK and international playwrights and more female playwrights than ever before.
Works include new plays from the venue's Channel 4 Playwright-in-Residence and all three of their Playwrights-on-Attachment.
These form part of a season that includes 20 premières running through to February.
Opening the programme is winner of the Papatango New Writing Prize, Fiona Doyle’s Coolatully, set in modern rural Ireland followed by two premières of political drama: Cold War–set Silent Planet by first-time playwright Eve Leigh and Obama-ology by African-American playwright Aurin Squire.
January sees the European première of Jerry Herman's Broadway musical The Grand Tour.
Produced by Danielle Tarento and directed by Thom Southerland, the team behind award-winning Titanic and Mack & Mabel. The show has a book by Michael Stewart and Mark Bramble.
Running alongside The Grand Tour is the European première of controversial new play Pig Girl by former Canadian Playwright-in-Residence at the Finborough Theatre Colleen Murphy.
And finally, following the sell-out Finborough rediscovery Emlyn Williams's Accolade, the play transfers to the St James Theatre, London, for a month-long run starting 12 November.
The Finborough Theatre's programme includes:
- Coolatully by Fiona Doyle
- Obama-ology by Aurin Squire
- The Grand Tour music and lyrics by Jerry Herman, book by Michael Stewart and Mark Bramble. Based on the play Jacobowsky and the Colonel by Franz Werfel as adapted by S N Behrman
- Pig Girl by Colleen Murphy
Vibrant 2014 – A Festival of Finborough Playwrights
- The House Of My Father by British-Lebanese writer Carmen Nasr
- A Film About Someone You Love by Playwright-in-Residence Chris Thompson
- All for One by playwright and film–maker Henry Darke
- Shangri-La by Australian–born Amy Ng
- Apophis by Playwright on Attachment Steven Hevey
- The Komagata Maru Incident by multi-award-winning Canadian dramatist Sharon Pollock
- Childhood Memories – Monologues Of Local Residents’ Memories Of Growing Up During The Second World War by the Earl's Court Local Community with Jane Wainwright, based on interviews conducted by Caroline Tod and Pavel Rjabtsenkov
- Chicken Dust by Curve Theatre Playwright-in-Residence Ben Weatherill
- The Sweethearts by Sarah Page runner up in the Curve Theatre Leicester Playwriting Competition and short–listed for the BBC's Scriptroom 4 prize
- Gunplay by Dream Of Perfect Sleep writer Kevin Kautzman
- Fifty Pairs Of Unworn Shoes by Playwright-on-Attachment Louise Monaghan
- Come Home Badger Gash by Fringe First winner Paul Roberts
- Picture Ourselves In Latvia by Lancashire–born Ross Howard
- This Heaven by Gamillario and Torres Strait Islander Nakkiah Lui
- 1984 By OffWestEnd Adopt A Playwright Award winner Satinder Chohan
Vibrant 2014 – A Festival Of Finborough Playwrights runs from 2 November to 20 November.