Finborough Theatre announces new season

The Finborough Theatre has announced its latest season, opening with the European premiere of The Busy World is Hushed.

Paul Higgins directs the first piece in the season, which runs from 3 October to 25 November. The play is by American writer Keith Bunin and follows a minister and Bible scholar, who struggles to unite her faith with the fact that her estranged son Thomas is gay.

The season also includes the first London production in nearly 70 years of Jerome K Jerome's The Passing of the Third Floor Back. The Three Men in a Boat writer's play is set in a boarding house over Christmas in 1907. The piece runs between 28 November and 22 December alongside the first London production in 80 years of Israel Zangwill's refugee drama The Melting Pot.

The Finborough playwright festival Vibrant returns between 8 and 26 October and features plays from Carmen Nasr, Iain Finlay Macleod and June Carryl. Elsewhere in the season Roger Gellert's play Quaint Honour is staged to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Sexual Offences Act 1967.

Artistic director of the theatre Neil McPherson said: "In a financial climate that is making our continued work
even harder to achieve, our new season continues to bring together the very best of new playwriting from the English-speaking world. [[We have]] work from the past that has been unfairly neglected in an ambitious and idiosyncratic selection of work that you’ve never seen before and can’t see anywhere else."