Salisbury Playhouse announce Spring 2015 season.
Salisbury Playhouse have today (3rd November) announced their Spring 2014 season with revivals of 84 Charing Cross Road, Posh and Little Shop of Horrors all gracing its main house stage.
Olivier Award winner, Janie Dee, and Clive Francis lead the cast in 84 Charing Cross Road from February 5 to February 28. It centres on the 20-year friendship struck up when American Helene Hanff started writing to London bookseller Frank Doel. The play premiered at Salisbury Playhouse in 1981 after being adapted for the stage by James Roose-Evans who returns to direct this Salisbury Playhouse production.
As election fever hots up, Salisbury Playhouse and Nottingham Playhouse present a timely production of Laura Wade‘s darkly comical play Posh from March 12 to April 4 directed by Susannah Tresilian. Based on Oxford’s elite Bullingdon Club, which counts David Cameron and Boris Johnson among its former members, Posh features a group of toffish young men with drinking, ambition and revolution on their minds. Posh was adapted as the film Riot Club in September and is its first revival since the Royal Courts production transferred to the West End.
Little Shop of Horrors concludes its in-house season playing from April 23 to May 16 directed by Salisbury Playhouse artistic director Gareth Machin with choreography by Nick Winston. This feel-good show, packed with rock n’ roll and Motown-style songs, is not your garden-variety musical but is full of boy meets girl, plant eats world entertainment.
The Spring/Summer season starts with an ingenious adaptation of Jerome K Jerome’s classic tale of boating misadventure Three Men in a Boat from January 27 to January 31. Packed with musical hall songs, physical comedy and the best of Britishness, Three Men in a Boat comes to Salisbury after two sell-out tours.
Other visiting productions in the Main House include Arthur Miller’s powerful post-war drama All My Sons, Shakespeare at the Tobacco Factory’s production of Romeo and Juliet and George Bernard Shaw’s Mrs Warren’s Profession. After its West End run Jeeves and Wooster In Perfect Nonsense also comes to the Playhouse.
As Salisbury prepares to mark the 800th anniversary of the signing of the Magna Carta, Stage ’65 youth theatre members will be performing at Salisbury Cathedral in June.
Alongside the main house shows there is also a busy programme of innovative new plays, comedy, re-imaginings of classic tales, gripping drama and family shows presented in the Salberg . And the popular celebration of theatre in the region Theatre Fest West returns from March 30 to April 11.
Tickets go on general release on Friday November 7 and more information can be found at www.salisburyplayhouse.com
