With Into The Woods about to open at Manchester Royal Exchange and Julie Hesmondhalgh in rehearsal for the Pulitzer Prize winning Wit, the venue has also revealed its 2016 spring and summer season.
Marianne Elliott returns with her critically-acclaimed National Theatre co-production of Ben Power’s adaptation of D H Lawrence’s Husbands & Sons which explores the fierce tenderness of a mining community who live in the oppressive shadow of the Brinsley pit. The cast includes Anne-Marie Duff and Joe Armstrong.
Following his arresting performance in All My Sons, Don Warrington returns to perform Shakespeare’s King Lear. A co-production with Talawa Theatre Company, Michael Buffong directs this epic tale of families.
Sarah Frankcom directs the first of five Exchange world premières, a new adaptation of Sarah Waters’s novel The Night Watch. Moving backwards through the devastation of the London Blitz, the threads of five lives are knitted together in an adaptation by Hattie Naylor.
From the ping-pong tables of a Manchester social club to the quiet contemplation of University, Simon Bent’s new adaptation of Howard Jacobson’s The Mighty Walzer premières in June.
Award-winning artist, director and theatre maker Mark Storor has been working in collaboration with communities from across Manchester to develop Little Sister, a piece of work that explores silence and survival.
Winner of a Judges Award in the 2013 Bruntwood Prize for Playwriting, Bird by Katherine Chandler arrives in The Studio following its world première with co-producers Sherman Cymru.
Nothing by Janne Teller was initially banned when first published and has since risen to become an international bestselling novel. Adapted by Amanda Dalton (Exchange Director of Engagement), the Royal Exchange Young Company will create this existential story with director Bryony Shanahan.