Pixie Lott, Streetcar Named Desire and Roald Dahl feature in new Leicester Curve season
Nikolai Foster has announced his inaugural season as artistic director of Curve Leicester, featuring Pixie Lott in Breakfast at Tiffany's, Roald Dahl's The Witches and A Streetcar Named Desire starring Charlie Brooks.
The season will open with a new production of Tennessee Williams's A Streetcar Named Desire directed by Foster, which will run in the Studio from 16 October to 7 November 2015.
It will feature Charlie Brooks (Beautiful Thing, EastEnders) as Blanche DuBois and Stewart Clarke (Assassins, The Return of the Soldier, Ghost the Musical) as Stanley Kowalski.
The Christmas show in the Studio will be David Wood's adaptation of Roald Dahl's The Witches featuring a cast of actor-musicians, running from 9 December to 10 January. Directed by Foster, who describes his vision for the show as "zany and off-the-wall", the production will also tour the UK as well as visiting Hong Kong.
The final play in the season will be Breakfast at Tiffany's, starring Pixie Lott as Holly Golightly. Nikolai Foster's production, described as a 'play with music', will feature an onstage band and have music composed by Grant Olding (One Man, Two Guvnors). Truman Capote's novella is being adapted for the stage by Tony and Olivier Award-winning playwright Richard Greenberg.
It will run at Leicester Curve's main house from 3-12 March 2016 before touring the UK. It will culminate with a 12-week West End run at the Theatre Royal Haymarket, also starring Lott, from 30 June to 17 September 2016.
Speaking to WhatsOnStage, Foster said of his inaugural season: "This new body of work really lays the foundations for the next three to five years of my vision. New musicals are absolutely up there but they will start to feature from Spring 2016. One of the big strands of the vision is drama development and diversifying and solidifying our audience’s appetite for Curve produced drama."
Look out for our changing of the guard interview with Nikolai Foster on the site tomorrow
