5th April (preview on 4th) to 5th May
The Elephant Man
By Bernard Pomerance
Abandoned as a child and shunned by society the horribly deformed
John Merrick survives as a freak show attraction until a famous young
doctor rescues him from his life on the streets.
10th May (previews from 8th) to 2nd June
Terre Haute
By Edmund White
Starring Peter Eyre and Arthur Darvill
A famous author comes face-to-face with America's most notorious terrorist.
One has a story to write, the other a story to tell. As the clock
ticks on death row, the bond between the two men grows. A haunting
imagining of Gore Vidal's relationship with Oklahoma bomber Timothy
McVeigh.
7th June (previews from 5th) to 23rd
Two Men Talking
Written and performed by Paul Browde and Murray Nossel.
In 1974, in Johannesburg, a teacher asked two rival schoolboys to
tell one another a story. Three decades later Murray Nossel, an Academy-Award
nominated filmmaker, and Paul Browde, a psychiatrist, meet by chance
in New York and set out to transform the world through storytelling.
"And so Murray and I tell our story together. How I encouraged
him to tell a story at age 12, how I bullied him, and later apologized,
how he encouraged me to tell my own story, and how we go around performing
this friendship to audiences. What is Two Men Talking? It is about
friendship. It is about listening. It is about apology and forgiveness
and hatred and love. It is about fear and death and courage and life."
