Oxford Stage Transfers Two Shows to Whitehall
Date: 24 February 1999
The Oxford Stage Company, now under the direction of Dominic Dromgoole, is making good on its promise to transfer more work to London's West End. The first two productions in its 1999 touring season, which kicked off this month, have already announced plans to transfer to the West End's Whitehall Theatre.
Robert Holman's Making Noise Quietly, directed by Deborah Bruce, will be the first to arrive at the Whitehall, opening 13 April (previews from 10 April) and running for six weeks. It will be immediately followed by Chekhov's Three Sisters for another six week run.
First performed in 1986, Making Noise Quietly is a trilogy of short plays depicting three chance encounters between strangers, each overshadowed by a war. Holman has written a number of plays for the RSC, Royal Court and elsewhere. His latest play, Bad Weather, opened last year at the RSC in Stratford and transfers to the London Barbican this year. Making Noise Quietly stars Eleanor Bron and Peter Hanly. It has already toured to Oxford and Cambridge and will continue to Manchester and Edinburgh before arriving in the West End.
The Oxford Stage Company's production of Three Sisters is a new adaptation by Sam Adamson. Directed by Dominic Dromgoole, the play about the three Russian sisters stuck in a garrison town and dreaming of Moscow stars Kelly Reilly as 'Irina', Claudie Blakeley as 'Masha', Claire Rushbrook as 'Olga' and Indira Varma as local woman 'Natasha'. Three Sisters will tour in April and May to Northampton, Cambridge, Salisbury, Coventry and Oxford before transferring to the Whitehall at the end of May.
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