Finborough Theatre announces winter season

The Finborough Theatre have announced their winter season with highlights including a new play from award-winning Korean playwright In-Sook Chappell and a revival of Robert Bolt's Flowering Cherry.

The season opens with the revival of Bolt's play, the first London production of the show in over fifty years. Flowering Cherry was Bolt's first success and he went on to write the screenplays for Doctor Zhivago and Lawrence of Arabia. Directed by Benjamin Whitrow, the show will run from 17 November to 20 December 2015.

Up next will be a new play about life in North Korea by award-winning playwright In-Sook Chappell. P'yongyang receives its world premiere from 5 to 30 January 2016 and will be directed by Chelsea Walker.

The season closes with the world premiere of Weald by award-winning new playwright Daniel Foxsmith, in association with the Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester. Weald is Foxmith's third full length play and is directed by Bryony Shanahan. The show will run from 2 to 27 February 2016.

Other productions in the season include a revival of the award-winning Off-Broadway musical 3 Guys Naked From The Waist Down (22 Nov to 15 Dec), Stony Broke in No Man’s Land, written and directed by John Burrows, and performed by two original members of the a cappella group, The Flying Pickets (10 to 26 Jan 2016) and Andy Capp The Musical (7 to 23 February 2016).

This year the Finborough Theatre, which is run by artistic director Neil McPherson, celebrates its 35th year.