This year's From Page to Stage season of new musical theatre work features a full-scale production, three fully-staged readings and four showcases.
The work of British writing team Tim Connor (music and lyrics) and Susannah Pearse (book), dark chamber piece The Stationmaster, headlines the programme with a two-week run.
The readings are a new musical by Loserville writing duo Elliot Davies and James Bourne, Out There, Five Children & It by Helen Watts and Eamonn O’Dwyer and a new piece from Tim Sanders and Charles Miller, Princess Phyllida’s Fortnight.
Last year, the From Page to Stage programme including a reading of Sanders and Miller's Return Of The Soldier which went on to have a full production at Jermyn Street Theatre.
The showcase events are comprised of 25-minute excerpts of four new musicals in development.
Opening performance:
- Map Of The Past – 25 October
Full production:
- The Stationmaster – 3 to 15 November
Staged rehearsed readings:
- Out There –27 to 29 October
- Five Children & It –30 and 31 October
- Princess Phyllida’s Fortnight –17 to 19 November
From Page to Stage runs at the Tristan Bates Theatre from 25 October to 21 November.