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Dateline: 27th October, 2004
Spring/Summer 2005 at the Royal Exchange Manchester's Royal Exchange's spring / summer 2005 season opens in February with a play that director Braham Murray says he has wanted to direct for many years but has been waiting to find the right actors for the title roles. He now believes he has found them, and has already begun work on Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra with Tom Mannion and Josette Bushell-Mingo. Following this, Sarah Frankcom will direct a new play by a local playwright who has recently received plenty of national attention. Simon Stephens's On The Shore of the Wide World is a co-production with the National Theatre, where it will appear at the Cottesloe in May, and is set in Stephens's home town of Stockport. Jacob Murray follows this with the first UK production for a number of years of Neil Simon's early comedy Come Blow Your Horn. The season will close in the main house with the musical Sex, Chips & Rock 'n' Roll, adapted by Debbie Horsfield from her TV musical set in the sixties and directed by Jonathan Moore. This show was originally programmed at the Exchange two years ago but was cancelled as it was not ready, but the script has now been completed and has a new score by Hereward Kaye. The season in the Studio opens in March with Sophocles's Electra, adapted and directed by Jo Combes, followed by an adaptation by Lavinia Murray of The Baby and Fly Pie by controversial children's author Melvin Burgess, directed by Iqbal Khan. There will also be three readings and one full production of new plays commissioned from the winners of last year's Bruntwood / Royal Exchange Playwriting competition entitled Re: Write and another summer showcase of local talent over three nights in Augus, called Blue 3. Please note that all three Archive indices are very long and will therefore take some time to download.
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