A new community musical and the return of the Garrick Rep Company are among the highlights of the summer and autumn 2017 season at Lichfield Garrick.
The community production will be The Dreaming, Howard Goodall’s musical version of A Midsummer Night’s Dream. The Garrick’s artistic director Tim Ford will direct a cast of 70 from Lichfield and the surrounding districts. It promises to be the biggest in-house production the theatre has produced when it runs from Monday 31 July until Saturday 5 August.
The Garrick Rep Company will stage a new play Letters to Emma, a ghost story written by Carolyn Scott Jeffs which is based on the life of Anna Seward, the 18th century romantic poet. It runs from Tuesday 3 until Saturday 7 October.
The Garrick will welcome back Oddsocks Theatre Company with its mods and rockers version of Romeo and Juliet on Wednesday 17 and Thursday 18 May.
Drama lovers will be able to take a step back in time to 1958 as Jim Wormold enters a dirty world of espionage and double agents in Clive Francis’s adaptation of Graham Greene’s Our Man in Havana from Monday 26 until Wednesday 28 June.
The full programme is available at the Lichfield Garrick web site.