The Southwark Playhouse has announced its tenth anniversary season,
which opened last week on 3rd September:
Topdogs
By Urs Widmer, translated by Patrick Driver and Patricia Beneker
3rd to 20th September
The Double Bass
by Patrick Suskind
Translated by Michael Hofmann
Directed and designed by Andy Serkis
Performed by Bev Willis
29th September - 11th October
New writing at Southwark Playhouse
Burn
by Simon Bennett
Tuesday 23rd September
Set over one night Burn follows the story of Fen and Teale, who
have been ordered to take revenge for a local gangster and kill
their friend Staide. Fen also has to deal with losing Sissy, his
long term girlfriend, who he believes is having an affair with Teale.
Fuelled by crack pipe paranoia, all four characters career head
first towards the morning.
Some Kind of Bliss
by Samuel Adamson
Directed by Thea Sharrock
23rd & 27th September
Some Kind of Bliss starts at Selfridges, and finishes in
Kylie Minogue's Greenwich living room. At Selfridges, Rachel has
no idea how dead inside she is. By Greenwich (with bruises on her
face, sex on her fingers and a hijacked vehicle on her police record)
everything's changed. Rachel is about to see a new kind of bliss.
Both readings are free and begin at 4.00pm
Treatment Theatre Company presents
Hello & Goodbye
by Athol Fugard
14th October - 1st November
A Doll's House
by Henrik Ibsen
A new version by Samuel Adamson
Directed by Thea Sharrock
Designed by Rachel Blues
4th - 29th November
Aspecially commissioned version to celebrate the theatre's 10th anniversary
