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Dateline: 29th May, 2005
A New West End Theatre Next month sees the launch of a new West End theatre. In the Leicester Square Swiss centre, Sound, a 200-seater which used to be a nightclub, will begin performances of its first show on 21st June. It's run by KIT Productions, which describes itself as "a new theatre company dedicated to giving the best new talent the voice it deserves and contemporary audiences the theatre they crave - fast, clean, fresh and relevant." The new theatre will present "truly vibrant theatre in an extraordinary space", and it opens with Moises Kaufman’s The Laramie Project (24th June to 28th July, previews from 21st June). Then comes Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune by Terrence McNally from 22nd July (previews from 19th) to 13th August and finally in the first season, a new version of Shelley's Prometheus Unbound which will star David Oyelowo and run from 19th August (previews from 16th) to 13th September. KIT Productions are Holly Kendrick and Chris Perkins, co-founders of the Caird Company (which most recently co-produced The Lemon Princess at the West Yorkshire Playhouse), who will be taking The Arab-Israeli Cookbook to the Tricycle from 6th July to 6th August. "It’s time for a new generation of theatre professionals to reclaim the West-End for a vibrant, young and engaged London audience,” their press release says, and they intend to do that through their own productions and by bringing in fringe and other shows which would normally not get a West End outing. Please note that all three Archive indices are very long and will therefore take some time to download.
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