Opening: NT Stoops, Midnight Tango, Changeling & Pitchfork
Amongst the major London openings, in the West End and further afield, this week are:
Our Country’s Good
MONDAY 30 JANUARY 2012
Aden Gillett and Phillip Whitchurch star in a new revival of Timberlake Wertenbaker‘s Oliver Award-winning play Our Country’s Good, which runs at the Rose Theatre, Kingston until 4 February ahead of a national tour.
OPENING TUESDAY
She Stoops to Conquer
31 JANUARY 2012
(PREVIEWS FROM 24 JANUARY)
Steve Pemberton, Katherine Kelly and Sophie Thompson star in the National
Theatre’s new revival of Oliver Goldsmith’s classic 18th-century comedy
of manners She Stoops To Conquer in the NT Olivier.
Midnight Tango
31 JANUARY 2012
(PREVIEWS FROM 20 JANUARY)
Midnight Tango – which stars Strictly Come Dancing‘s Vincent Simone and Flavia Cacace and is co-produced by former Strictly judge Arlene Phillips – transfers to the West End’s Aldwych Theatre for a limited run to 31 March.
1 FEBRUARY 2012
(PREVIEWS FROM 25 JANUARY)
The Arcola Theatre revives Philip Ridley’s The Pitchfork Disney to mark the play’s 21st anniversary. Starring Nathan Stewart-Jarrett, Chris New, Mariah Gale and Steve Guadino, it continues until 17 March.
2 FEBRUARY 2012
(PREVIEWS FROM 26 JANUARY)
Middleton and Rowley’s The Changeling is revived at the Young Vic by director Joe Hill-Gibbons, continuing until 18 February in the Maria studio.
(PREVIEWS FROM 30 JANUARY)
The Bush presents a double-bill of short new plays ‘found’ in West London; Repentance by Mediah Ahmed and Behind the Lines by Neil Daley. Both are directed by rising star Blanche McIntyre, and they continue until 11 February.
3 FEBRUARY 2012
(PREVIEWS FROM 31 JANUARY)
Howard Brenton‘s 1984 play centring on the romantic poets Byron and Shelley is revived by Tom Littler at the Jermyn Street Theatre, running until 25 February.
