Theatre News

Southwold announces the 2013 programme for the Summer Theatre and Aldeburgh’s Jubilee Hall

Amid flurries of snow
and easterly winds, it’s not easy to think of warm Suffolk coastal
towns and entertainment for the evening after a day spent in, on or even just near the sea. But Southwold’s summer theatre, which these days spills
over into Aldeburgh, has announced its 2013 programme which runs from
10 July to 31 August.

The first production is
of JB Priestley‘s An Inspector Calls, the first
professional presentation of this classic since the 1992 National
Theatre production and its ensuing tours. It runs in Southwold from
10 to 20 July and transfers to the Jubilee Hall in Aldeburgh for the
week 25 July to 3 August. It’s followed by a different sort of
thriller – Dead Reckoning by Eric Chappell
between 22 July and 3 August in Southwold and 6 to 10 August in
Aldeburgh.

A change of mood
breezes in with the farce Not Now Darling by Ray
Cooney
and John Chapman. This new production also begins in
Southwold from 5 to 17 August before moving down the coast to
Aldeburgh for the week of 20 to 24 August. The final two productions
of the 2013 season both begin their runs in Aldeburgh before
transferring to Southwold.

The first of these is
Dick Barton: Special Agent. Episode Two: The Secret of the
Pharaoh’s Tomb
.
It’s by Phil Willmott – and may not
quite be what anyone who remembers the 1940s and 50s radio serials is
expecting. 12 to 17 August are the Aldeburgh dates, followed by 19
to 31 August in Southwold. Anthony Shaffer‘s Sleuth
is the suspense-filled concluding production at Aldeburgh between 26
and 31 August and then home to Southwold from 2 to 14 September.