Warwick Arts Centre’s spring programme “deepens” its “commitment to supporting and co-producing new work”, according to the Coventry venue.
Matt Burman, head of programme and audiences, says, “I’m very excited by the range and quality of the programme this spring: amazing theatre, stunning dance and brilliant family shows.”
Theatre offerings include a mixture of new works and time-honoured plays.
Alan Ayckbourn will make a personal appearance to accompany a trilogy of his creations, Time of My Life, Arrivals and Departures and a double bill of comedies, Chloe with Love and The Kidderminister Affair, together known as The Farcicals, from 11 until 15 February.
Ayckbourn will be in conversation with his biographer Paul Allen on Tuesday 11 February at 6:15PM.
Sleepwalk Collective returns with a different take on Karaoke, creating a performance about “love and rockets”. It visits the arts centre on 18 and 19 February.
Filter stages a 90-minute “explosive remix” of Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night from 25 February until 1 March.
Daniel Bye presents his “playful and provocative show about protest”, How to Occupy an Oil Rig, on 4 and 5 March.
Frantic Assembly is back at the arts centre with a new play, The Believers by Bryony Lavery, a “thrilling and highly visceral exploration of love and loss”, from 11 until 15 March.
Hofesh Schechter, one of Europe’s most important choreographers, presents his new piece Sun with a company of 14 dancers on 4 and 5 February while contemporary dance company Candoco shifts perceptions and preconceptions about dance in a triple bill of work on 4 and 5 March.
Heading up the programme for families is a presentation by Contender Charlie, China Plate and Warwick Arts Centre, Macbeth: Blood Will Have Blood, Shakespeare reinvented for young audiences, on 8 February.
A fairytale-themed family day will be held on Sunday 23 February which includes Multistory Theatre Company’s Beauty and the Beast and Lyngo Theatre’s Jack and the Beanstalk.
Further information is available at the Warwick Arts Centre web site.