Derby Theatre has announced the touring shows that will visit during the spring and will run alongside a produced theatre programme to be revealed by its new artistic director.
Sarah Brigham, currently artistic director of The Point, Eastleigh and the Berry Theatre at Hedge End, Hampshire will take up her new post in January.
Opening the presented season will be Agatha Christie’s A Murder is Announced which features Katy Manning, Dean Gaffney and Gemma Bissix. It runs from 29 January until 2 February.
John Godber’s plays have always been well received in Derby and his new comedy which he also directs, Losing the Plot, arrives in the city from 12 until 16 February.
Eclipse Theatre Company stages One Monkey Don’t Stop No Show, described as “The Cosby Show meets restoration comedy”, from 20 until 23 February.
Borderlines, the outreach department at Newcastle-under-Lyme’s New Vic Theatre, will present Susan Moffatt’s All Our Daughters from 28 February until 1 March. The production “aims to raise the issues surrounding forced marriages and so-called ‘honour’ violence”.
“Film projections, lavish settings and bespoke music” will feature in Middle Ground Theatre Company’s adaptation of Ellis Peters’s Brother Cadfael: The Virgin in the Ice which will be in Derby from 8 until 13 April.
Sarah Jayne Dunn, Charlie G Hawkins, Arthur Bostrum and Tim Van Eyken appear in Sebastian Faulk’s story of love, courage and sacrifice Birdsong from 16 until 20 April.
The Live Theatre, Newcastle and National Theatre co-production of Lee Hall’s The Pitmen Painters takes to the Derby stage from 28 May until 1 June before Dennis Potter’s Blue Remembered Hills visits from 25 until 29 June.
Birmingham Stage Company which is staging Charlotte’s Web at Derby Theatre this Christmas returns from 2 until 6 July with Roald Dahl’s James and the Giant Peach.