Finborough Theatre announces winter season

The Finborough Theatre has announced its winter season and the return of Vibrant 2016 – A Festival of Finborough Playwrights for the eighth year running.

The programme will kick off with Howard Brenton's political drama Magnificence, directed by Josh Roche from 25 October – 19 November 2016.

This will be followed by After October from 22 November to 22 December. Rodney Ackland‘s homage to theatre receives its first Central London production in 80 years and is directed by Oscar Toeman.

Running at the same time is Scottish dramatist James Bridie‘s psychological thriller, Dr Angelus, from 27 November to 20 December 2016, directed by Jenny Ogilvie.

Tony Harrison‘s The Trackers of Oxyrhynchus directed by Jimmy Walters (3 to 28 January), and Donald Freed's Veterans Day directed by Hannah Boland Moore (8 to 24 January) will complete the season.

Vibrant 2016 – A Festival of Finborough Playwrights returns for an eighth consecutive year. Running on Sunday and Monday evenings and Thursday matinees from 30 October to 17 November 2016, the festival will include a selection of staged readings by UK and international playwrights. It will also feature the European premiere of the After Orlando International Theatre Action, a collection of 70 short plays in response to the massacre at Pulse Nightclub in Orlando, Florida, in June 2016.