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Dateline: 6th January, 2011
Spring at Southwark Playhouse Southwark Playhouse’s Spring Season 2011 opens with Belt Up returning to the theatre with The Boy James, a new play woven around the life of Peter Pan author J.M. Barrie. This limited three week run from 11th January to 28th January marks its first London performance. From 2nd February to 12th March 2011, Stephen Sondheim’s popular musical Company will receive its first major London revival in fifteen years in a co-production between Southwark Playhouse and MokitaGrit Productions. Starring Rupert Young and Siobhan McCarthy, Company celebrates the recent 80th anniversary of Sondheim’s birth. From 15th March to 9th April 2011 Robert Thomas’ Eight Women will play in a brand new translation by Donald Sturrock. Part comedy, part murder-mystery, the action centres around eight women of the same family who try to discover who has killed the master of the house. The season culminates with the world premiere of Philip Ridley’s Tender Napalm. A poetic and brutal two-hander that explores the universe of a relationship between a man and a woman, Tender Napalm plays from 19th April to 14th May 2011 and is directed by David Mercatali whose previous directing credits include Ridley’s Moonfleece. The Playhouse is also opening a new performance space, The Vault, which is situated behind the Main House and will serve as a platform for emerging theatre companies to showcase their work. After undergoing extensive refurbishments in October 2010, The Vault is now a fully-equipped performance space with sound-proofing that means performances can run in each space simultaneously. Southwark Playhouse is confident that The Vault will serve as an exciting space for a range of performances, installations and events and are welcoming proposals for cutting-edge work for the first official Vault Season which will commence in March. The year also marks a change in artistic leadership at Southwark Playhouse. Following the end of Ellie Jones’ tenure as Artistic Director and her subsequent departure to pursue freelance work, Chief Executive Chris Smyrnios has programmed the current Spring Season and will be taking an official lead on artistic programming from Autumn 2011.
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