Epic change is at the heart of Manchester Royal Exchange’s 2018 autumn and winter season.
New plays sit alongside translations and reinterpretations of classic texts, whilst an ambitious approach to travelling theatre brings new plays directly into communities that inspired them.
Queen Margaret is a new play that draws on original language from Shakespeare. Dangerous and determined, she was a monarch, politician and mother who resolved to secure the crown for her son. The production runs in the Theatre from September 14 to October 6.
The Mysteries is a contemporary cycle of new plays that explore how the places and landscapes in which we live shape us. Each hour-long play will be created and presented in the place that inspired it (touring from September 10 to October 21) before returning to the Exchange October 25 to November 11.
Following his performance of King Lear, Don Warrington returns to the Exchange to play Willy Loman in Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman, playing in the Theatre from October 11 to November 17.
The Producers, over Christmas, builds upon the Exchange’s reputation for reinventing celebrated musicals in its in-the-round theatre.
And in a Royal Exchange co-production with Headlong, actor Julie Hesmondhalgh returns to the stage in Bertolt Brecht’s Mother Courage And Her Children from February 8 to March 2.