Nikolai to direct twice in first Leicester season

Published: 11 October 2014
Reporter: Steve Orme

Nikolai Foster

Incoming artistic director Nikolai Foster will direct two productions in his first season at Leicester’s Curve.

Foster, who will take over in January 2015 after Paul Kerryson steps down, is directing the current tour of Calamity Jane, featuring Jodie Prenger and Tom Lister, which stops off at Curve from 30 June until 4 July.

In the Studio, Foster’s anniversary production of Jonathan Harvey’s Beautiful Thing will run from 25 until 30 May in a co-production with Nottingham Playhouse and Tom O’Connell for QNQ.

Another highlight of next season will be Curve’s previously announced world première of Sue Townsend’s The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole Aged 13¾ which runs from 7 March until 4 April.

Joan Littlewood’s musical Oh! What a Lovely War has been revived by Theatre Royal Stratford East to commemorate the 100th anniversary of World War I and runs at Curve from 13 until 18 April.

The National Theatre’s award-winning The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time visits Leicester from 8 until 13 June and will be followed by Matthew Bourne’s dance thriller The Car Man from 16 until 20 June.

English National Ballet will make their first visit to Curve and will present My First Ballet: Swan Lake, created to make classical ballet accessible and enjoyable for children aged three and above, on 22 and 23 May.

Northern Ballet takes its first full-length production to Curve with a double bill of Madame Butterfly and Perpetuum Mobile on 5 and 6 June.

English Touring Opera returns with two new productions, Puccini’s La Bohème and Donizetti’s The Wild Man of the West Indies (Il furioso all'isola di San Domingo) on 20 and 21 April.

Full details are available at the Curve web site.

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