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Dateline: 5th October, 2005
One of the smallest, yet one of the most successful, theatres in the UK, The Watermill Theatre in Newbury, will see two productions which originated at the theatre open in New York on November 2nd and 3rd. John Doyle’s and Sarah Travis’ production of Sweeney Todd, which played to capacity audiences at the Watermill and in the West End last year, extending its run twice, will open on Broadway at the Eugene O’Neill Theatre on 2nd November. The production, which has been recast features American musical stars Patti LuPone and Michael Cerveris. Edward Hall’s production of The Winter's Tale, which played to packed houses at the Watermill in February, and has been touring the UK since, opens at the Harvey Lichtenstein Theatre in Brooklyn, at the invitation of Brooklyn Academy of Music on 2nd November, where it plays for a week before touring to Berkeley, California and the Kennedy Centre, Washington DC. This is the second time that the company has been invited to perform by BAM. After returning from the States the production continues its world tour visiting the Girona Festival in Spain, Aberystwyth and finishing in China. Edward Hall has been nominated as Best Director in the TMA Awards for this production. The Watermill Board of Directors is currently fund-raising to buy the theatre premises from Jill Fraser, its Artistic Director for the last 24 years, and her husband James Sargant. It is under her guidance that the Watermill has become so successful both in the UK and internationally. The Watermill Theatre Trust needs to have £1.7 million pledged by April 2006 to ensure that it has a future. Please note that all three Archive indices are very long and will therefore take some time to download.
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