Off-West End Announcements – 11 September 2009
Our weekly round-up of Off-West End news returns after an August hiatus. Get up to speed
on future openings, season alerts and last-minute announcements every Friday here
on the Off-West End page.
Gill Back at Riverside for Realist Revival
Peter Gill’s
Oliver-nominated play The York Realist is to get its first UK
revival this month (22 Sep-11 Oct) at Riverside Studios, the Hammersmith arts centre which Gill founded
in 1975. Featuring an experienced London cast, the Good Night Out production will
the first performance of a Gill script at Riverside since 1980 and the
playwright, who turned 70 week, will be making a special appearance in a
post-show talk on 30 September.
Back to
School for Oval House Rats
Kennington’s
Oval House Theatre goes site specific with a dynamic new production of
Peter Turrini’s Shooting Rats in the Octagon Hall of Lambeth’s
old Lillian Baylis School (6-24 Oct). The maverick Australian playwright
specified that anyone wishing to perform his 1967 play must relocate it to
their own place and time. Fanshen have duly worked with actors and young people
from Lambeth to adapt the script, which tells the story about two young people
on the cusp of adulthood.
All Things Sacred at Chelsea
Theatre
Chelsea Theatre has joined forces with Austrian arts venue
Brut to programme its 2009 Sacred season (21 Oct-Nov 22), adding European
flair to a series already known for experimentation. Opera and cabaret take
centre stage this year: highlights include Cezary Tomaszewski’s take on The Merry Widow operetta, featuring real-life Polish cleaning ladies playing all the parts. And don’t miss legendary gay performer David Hoyle reclining on Sigmund
Freud’s original couch – no, really! – in Theatre of Therapy.
