Northampton’s Royal and Derngate is offering in-house productions and a host of visiting West End hits in its new season which stretches through the summer into the autumn.
The Made In Northampton 2014 season continues with the world première of Every Last Trick, a new adaptation by Tamsin Oglesby of the Feydeau farce.
Directed by Paul Hunter, this look at infidelity and marriage unites the comic talents of members of theatre companies Spymonkey and Told By An Idiot. It takes to the Royal stage from Friday 18 April until Saturday 10 May.
This will be followed by Patrick Marber’s award-winning play Dealer’s Choice, a story of male camaraderie and obsession set in the gritty world of amateur poker. It will be directed by Michael Longhurst who directed Nick Payne’s Constellations at the Royal Court and in the West End at the end of 2012.
Dealer’s Choice takes to the Royal stage from Friday 23 May until Saturday 14 June.
Visiting drama includes the Olivier Award-nominated West End comedy, Mischief Theatre Company’s The Play That Goes Wrong, which is at the Royal from 12 until 17 May; the National Theatre’s comedy One Man, Two Guvnors starring Shaun Williamson (22 until 27 September); and the return of the spine-chilling The Woman in Black (10 until 15 November).
The popular musicals Fiddler On The Roof (22 to 26 April) and Let It Be (26 to 31 May) take to the Derngate stage along with the return of New Jersey Nights (10 to 15 June).
Marking the publication of the third volume of his diaries, Monty Python’s Michael Palin visits Northampton in October with his new show, Travelling to Work which looks back at 25 years of exploring the world and nearly 50 years in radio, television, books and film.
In the autumn Richard Alston Dance Company returns to Royal and Derngate with a programme featuring its latest work Rejoice In The Lamb, danced to Benjamin Britten’s setting of Christopher Smart’s poetry, a piece of music first written for Northampton’s Church of St Matthew (30 September and 1 October).