Plays by Harold Pinter and Willy Russell as well as “top-class” touring productions will be on offer at Derby Theatre in its spring 2017 season.
Derby Theatre and Octagon Theatre Bolton will get together to present Russell’s Educating Rita, directed by Elizabeth Newman, from 17 February until 11 March.
The Derby venue will then produce Pinter’s 1978 play Betrayal, inspired in part by the playwright’s affair with BBC presenter Joan Bakewell. Directed by Lekan Lawal, Betrayal runs from 17 March until 1 April.
Touring productions include The Original Theatre Company’s Invincible, a “riotously funny, recession-biting play” about a couple who downsize from their middle-class London lifestyle to a small town in the north of England. Written by Torben Betts, it visits Derby Theatre from 31 January until 4 February.
Tim Luscombe’s “stylish and fast-moving” adaptation of Jane Austen’s Northanger Abbey, presented by Theatre Royal Bury St Edmunds, tours to Derby from 10 until 12 April.
The full programme is available at the Derby Theatre web site.