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Dateline: 4th November, 2009
New Season at Salisbury Salisbury Playhouse's Artistic Director Philip Wilson this week announced the theatre’s Spring/Summer 2010 Season which includes Noël Coward’s Private Lives, a new translation of Dario Fo’s farce Low Pay? Don’t Pay!, a "thrillingly sexy" production of Christopher Hampton’s Les Liaisons Dangereuses and the stage premiere of a Michael Morpurgo children’s story .
“And these,” he pointed out, “will all be made here in Wiltshire!”
The new season will also include visits from several leading theatre companies, among them Shared Experience, Kneehigh Theatre and Out of Joint.
The season will open opens with Noël Coward’s hilarious, witty Private Lives (21 January – 20 February) directed by Philip Wilson. Tickets for this passionate love story, glittering with razor-sharp dialogue, are already on sale .
Following this, Kneehigh Theatre return to the Playhouse, leading Salisbury audiences through the deepest part of the forest with their unique take on the children’s tale Hansel and Gretel (23 – 27 February). This tender and tasty re-telling of the classic story is told through lively music, poetry, gadgets and gizmos…and with the help of some rather unlucky rabbits! is at the Playhouse for just one week. A treat for older children and brave adults.
The Playhouse then collaborates with renowned Shared Experience for a new production of Tennessee Williams’ autobiographical play The Glass Menagerie (4 – 20 March). This compelling story of a family struggling to grasp reality, each with their own dreams and desperate desire to escape, is directed by Shared Experience’s joint Artistic Director Polly Teale, and opens in Salisbury prior to a national tour.
Following their popular visit in 2009 with The Convict’s Opera, Out of Joint return with a new play by Sebastian Barry, Andersen’s English (23 – 27 March). This tells the story of the celebrated and eccentric children’s writer Hans Christian Andersen’s visit to Gad’s Hill Place in Kent – home to Charles Dickens and his large, charismatic family. Max Stafford-Clark directs this haunting new play from the Booker Prize-winning novelist.
Dario Fo’s frenetic farce Low Pay? Don’t Pay! (6 – 24 April) has an all too familiar ring to it. Antonia and Margherita, fed up with high prices in the supermarket, take matters into their own hands in Fo’s legendary comedy, uproariously updated from the original Can’t Pay? Won’t Pay!
Les Liaisons Dangereuses (29 April – 22 May) premiered at the RSC in 1985, transferred to the West End and Broadway, and won several best Play awards. Christopher Hampton’s searing story of sexual deceit and betrayal is set in the glittering world of Parisian aristocracy where former lovers, the Marquise de Merteuil and the Vicomte de Valmont lay a bet, to see who can pull off the greater act of seduction.
In late May and early June the Playhouse once again welcomes Salisbury International Arts Festival (21 May – 5 June), before the Playhouse’s Youth Theatre, Stage ’65, presents J M Barrie’s classic story of the boy who refused to grow up, Peter Pan (14 – 19 June) in a spectacular Main Stage production for all the family.
In the Salberg Studio Philip Wilson directs the stage premiere of Michael Morpurgo’s children’s story, Toro! Toro! (19 April – 8 May). This evocative story, from the author of War Horse and Private Peaceful, centres on a young boy and his bull calf at the start of the Spanish Civil War, and will appeal to children and adults alike. The production will include live flamenco guitar and trumpet.
The Salberg Studio also welcome a rich mix of visiting companies, including Hampshire-based Forest Forge Theatre Company with their comedy about living in rural Britain, Free Folk, The River People with the macabre puppet show Lilly Through the Dark and Dialogue Productions with a triple bill of short plays by award-winning playwright Neil LaBute called The Furies, Helter Skelter and Land of the Dead.
The studio continues to offer a mix of theatre for young children and their families, including Goldilocks & How many Bears?, The Princess and the Pea, How Cold My Toes, Bob, Man on the Moon, The Big Enormous Present and This is a That. Half Moon Theatre also present Begin/End, a multimedia performance featuring VJ-ing which is specifically aimed at those aged 14+.
Full details of the Spring/Summer 2010 Season can be found in the new brochure, available now, or online at www.salisburyplayhouse.com Kevin Catchpole
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