Scarborough's Stephen Joseph Theatre has announced its summer season
from May to October, 2011.
26th May - 3rd September
Marlene
By Pam Gems
Directed by Chris Monks
17th June - 23rd August
The Yalta Game
By Brian Friel, adapted from Chekhov’s short story, The Lady
with the Lapdog
Directed by Chris Monks
22nd June - 30th August
Elegy For A Lady
By Arthur Miller
Directed by Chris Monks
The Yalta Game and Elegy For A Lady are short plays
lasting up to 40 minutes, showing at lunchtimes, matinees and in the
evening, separately or as a double bill.
7th July - 30th September
Dear Uncle
A new version of Chekhov’s Uncle Vanya, set in the Lake
District in 1935
Adapted and directed by Alan Ayckbourn
28th July - 3rd September
Carmen
By Georges Bizet
Adapted and directed by Chris Monks
In a run-down shopping mall, shop-lifting, fights and checking out
the talent are all ways for the workers to fend off boredom and drop-dead-gorgeous,
feisty Carmen is right in the centre and not afraid to shake things
up.
Drawn to the glamorous football superstar Tony Amor, aka ‘The
Italian Stallion’, but tied to temperamental ex-soldier Johnny,
Carmen finds out what it means to live and love beyond the law.
8th September - 15th October
Neighbourhood Watch
Written and directed by Alan Ayckbourn
Things are not right on The Bluebell Hill Development. Theft, petty
crime, vandalism, all the ills of modern suburban existence are on
the increase.
Newcomers Martin and his sister Hilda are the crime wave’s latest
victims - on the very day of their housewarming party, no less - and
resolve to take action. After all, the law of the land, all that’s
right and proper and even God Himself are surely on their side.
But what starts out as a well intentioned neighbourhood watch scheme
soon develops into something altogether more sinister.
Alan Ayckbourn’s cautionary tale of the dangers of taking the
law into your own hands is his seventy fifth play. It is also the
three hundredth new play to be commissioned by the SJT.
