Opening: Alchemist, Fringe Hits Pumpgirl & BrandoDate: 11 September 2006
Amongst the major openings in London this week are:
OPENING TUESDAY, 12 September 2006, Ed Curtis directs Les Dennis, Mike McShane and Jeremy Edwards in Guy Jones’ fame game comedy Marlon Brando's Corset, which comes to Greenwich Theatre following its run last month at the Edinburgh Fringe (See News, 22 Aug 2006). Television hospital drama Healing Hands is at the peak of its popularity but keeping the show high in the ratings is taking its toll on all involved. Against a backdrop of lies, love and intrigue something is going to give, it's just a matter of who and when. The Greenwich run continues until 30 September 2006.
OPENING WEDNESDAY, 13 September 2006 (preview 12 September), Pumpgirl, Abbie Spallen’s Edinburgh success, arrives at west London’s Bush Theatre for a limited season to 14 October 2006 (See News, 22 Aug 2006). Set in the Armagh badlands, the darkly comic three-hander follows the story of a girl who works in a garage changing the pumps and thinking she’s one of the lads. Bush artistic director Mike Bradwell directs Irish actors James Doran, Orla Fitzgerald and Maggie Hayes.
OPENING THURSDAY, 14 September 2006 (previews from 5 September), Alex Jennings, Simon Russell Beale, Lesley Manville and Ian Richardson star in The Alchemist, Ben Jonson’s classic farce about con-artists, at the National Theatre (See News, 15 Feb 2006). The production is the final play in the Travelex £10 season in the NT Olivier. It runs in rep until 21 November 2006 and is directed by Nicholas Hytner.
ALSO ON THURSDAY, Chinese opera star Zhang Ruihong opens in the UK premiere of Dis-Orientations at west London’s Riverside Studios, for a run to 7 October 2006. An American ex-pat trawls through the city of Shanghai in search of his missing daughter.
OPENING FRIDAY, 15 September 2006 (previews from 13 September), In Your Hands opens at Hampstead’s New End Theatre. Inspired by the 2002 Moscow theatre siege, Russian-born Natalia Pelevine’s play until 15 October 2006 (See News, 31 Aug 2006).
- by Caroline Ansdell
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