Autumn in Scarborough

Scarborough’s Stephen Joseph Theatre has announced its autumn 2012 season.

Its first in-house production will be Andrew Pollard’s version of Cinderella which runs from 27^th November to 15^th December. Set in Scarborough, Cinders’ life changes when her mother is swept out to sea and her father marries a strange woman from Bridlington and she is forced into a life of drudgery in her stepmother’s hotel… Adam Sunderland directs.

From 18^th December to 5^th January, artistic director Chris Monks directs Oscar Wilde’s The Importance of Being Earnest.

Visiting drama includes Northern Broadsides’s A Government Inspector, adapted by Deborah McAndrew from Gogol’s play (16^th–20^th October), North Country Theatre’s The Lighthouse on Shivering Sands (31^st October), LipService with Inspector Norse (6^th and 7^th November), Haydn Gwynne and William Gaunt in Duet for One (12^th–17^th November), the Original Theatre Company with Three Men in a Boat (19^th–22^nd November) and Brother Wolf presenting Fagin’s Last Hour (15^th December).

Also announced (13^th–23^rd March, 2013) is Amanda Whittington’s new play about Ruth Ellis, produced by the New Vic Theatre, Newcastle-under-Lyme, The Thrill of Love.