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Park Theatre announces Spring 2015 season

Jez Bond’s new programme includes world premieres about internet dating, extremism and Margaret Thatcher

The Park Theatre
The Park Theatre
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Artistic director Jez Bond has announced his new season at the Park Theatre, with a new play about British extremism, a new comedy about internet dating and a revival of Bryony Lavery's Frozen all featuring.

The season in the larger Park200 space opens in January with new comedy Contact.com by Michael Kingsbury, which explores internet dating and runs from 13 January to 14 February 2015.

It will be followed by Kill Me Now by Brad Fraser, the first Park200 show to be staged in the round, which runs from 19 February to 29 March. The debut play from broadcaster Jonathan Maitland, Dead Sheep, promises to "shed new light on Geoffrey Howe’s historic speech that brought down Margaret Thatcher", and stars Thatcher's Spitting Image impressionist Steve Nallon. It runs from 1 April to 9 May and is directed by Ian Talbot.

The final shows in Park200 will be double bill Hurling Rubble at the Moon and Hurling Rubble at the Sun by Avaes Mohammad, presented in association with Red Ladder Theatre Company. The two plays look at contemporary British extremism and run from 13 May to 6 June.

In the smaller Park90 space will be Almost, Maine by John Cariani, directed by Simon Evans, which will run from 16 December to 17 January. It will be followed by Out of the Cage, a real life story of the First World War East London munitionettes by Alex McSweeney. Also in Park90 will be a revival of Bryony Lavery's Frozen, as well as Torben Betts' Muswell Hill and the UK premieres of The Glass Protégé and Skin in Flames.