English Touring Theatre Announces Dates for FRENCH WITHOUT TEARS and LADY CHATTERLEY'S LOVER
By: Marianka Swain Jun. 08, 2016
With its production of Brideshead Revisited currently on a national tour, English Touring Theatre Director, Rachel Tackley, today announces full details for the tour and casting of Terence Rattigan's FRENCH WITHOUT TEARS and a new adaptation of D.H. Lawrence's LADY CHATTERLEY'S LOVER.
Following an acclaimed run in 2015 (pictured above left), Terence Rattigan's French Without Tears returns to the Orange Tree on 30 June-30 July, ahead of a tour from September. Paul Miller directs Ziggy Heath as Alan, Alistair Toovey as Kenneth (Babe), Alex Large as Brian, Beatriz Romilly as Jacqueline, Tim Delap as Commander Rogers, Joe Eyre as Kit, David Whitworth as Monsier Maingot, Ariana Gray as Marianna, Florence Roberts as Diana.
This tour launches the Regional Touring Network, an Arts Council England Strategic Touring consortium of nine regional venues with whom ETT produce and tour high quality drama to venues looking to develop their drama audience. The Regional Touring Network includes venues in Exeter, Harrogate, Barnstaple, Cheltenham, Doncaster, Poole, Warwick, Oldham, and Huddersfield.
English Touring Theatre and Sheffield Theatres come together again to co-produce Lady Chatterley's Lover, following critically acclaimed and award-winning previous co-productions, Twelfth Night and Translations. Adapted and directed by Phillip Breen, Lady Chatterley's Lover tours to Oxford, York, Malvern, Salisbury, Brighton and Cambridge, following a run at Sheffield (22 September-15 October) as part of Artistic Director Daniel Evans' final season for the company. Evans takes up the post of Artistic Director at Chichester this autumn where he will be joined by English Touring Theatre's Director, Rachel Tackley as Executive Director.
Rachel Tackley said today: "It is great to be able to announce the final two shows before I leave ETT. Although I am secretly planning a few more so that I don't leave the cupboard bare for my successor, these are the last ones I am actually going to see into production. It seems fitting that we are remounting French Without Tears with Paul Miller, who originally directed it for ETT not long after I joined the company, and apposite too that Lady Chatterley is a co-production with Sheffield - Daniel and I are both huge fans of Philip Breen so how could we resist squeezing in one last co-production before we leave?"
SEASON AT A GLANCE
Brideshead Revisited
Malvern Theatres
31 May - 4 June
Box Office: 01684 892277
Theatre Royal Brighton
7 June - 11 June
Box Office: 0844 871 7650
www.atgtickets.com/venues/theatre-royal-brighton/
Oxford Playhouse
14 - 18 June
Box Office: 0844 871 3020
York Theatre Royal
21 - 25 June
Box Office: 01904 623568
Richmond Theatre
29 June - 2 July
Box Office: 0844 871 7651
www.atgtickets.com/venues/richmond-theatre/
French Without Tears
Exeter Northcott
16 - 24 September
Box Office: 01392 726363
27 September - 1 October
Box Office: 01423 50116
The Queen's Theatre, Barnstaple
4 - 6 October
Box Office: 01271 324242
Cheltenham Everyman
11 - 15 October
Box Office: 01242 572573
Cast, Doncaster
18 - 22 October
Box Office: 01302 340422
Oldham Coliseum Theatre
25 - 29 October
Box Office: 0161 624 2829
Warwick Arts Centre
1 - 5 November
Box Office: 024 7652 4524
Lighthouse Poole
8 - 12 November
Box Office: 0844 406 8666
Lawrence Batley Theatre Huddersfield
16 - 19 November
Box Office: 01484430528
Lady Chatterley's Lover
Oxford Playhouse
18 - 22 October
Box Office: 0844 871 3020
York Theatre Royal
25 - 29 October
Box Office: 01904 623568
Malvern Theatres
1 - 5 November
Box Office: 01684 892277
8 - 12 November
Box Office: 01722 320 333
Theatre Royal Brighton
15 - 19 November
Box Office: 0844 871 7650
www.atgtickets.com/venues/theatre-royal-brighton/
Cambridge Arts Theatre
22 - 26 November
Box Office: 0844 412 4652
Picture credit: Richard Davenport
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