English Touring Theatre and Mercury Theatre Colchester Announce Creative Team for THE WEIR
By: BWW News Desk May. 25, 2017
Twenty years after the world première production at the Royal Court which won the Olivier Award for Best New Play, Conor McPherson's chilling, modern classic opens at Mercury Theatre Colchester on 14 September, before touring to Harrogate, Cheltenham, Doncaster, Bristol, Exeter, Oldham, Poole, Huddersfield and Guildford.
In Brendan's remote bar in rural Ireland, the locals nurse their pints while telling tales of local folklore - old and new. The desire to impress a stranger takes these tales of confessions to a new level, but none of them could be prepared for the one they are about to hear.
The production is the second to be toured to the Regional Touring Network an Arts Council England Strategic Touring consortium of 9 regional venues with whom ETT produce and tour high quality drama to venues looking to develop their drama audience. It follows the success of English Touring Theatre and Orange Tree Theatre's production of Terence Rattigan's French Without Tears which toured in autumn 2016.
Adele Thomas directs. Her previous directing credits include Thomas Tallis, The Oresteia and The Knight of the Burning Pestle (Shakespeare's Globe), Unusual Unions (Royal Court), The Bloody Ballad of Mary Maid (Soho Theatre/Theatr lolo/Sherman Cymru/Edinburgh Festival/Brighton Fringe/tour), Apparitions of Spirits - With The Forsyte Sisters (Gagglebabble/Theatr Iolo), Write Here (Traverse Theatre), My People (National Theatre of Wales), The Blue Lenses and Under Milk Wood (Royal & Derngate, Northampton), Cityscape: Deluge/No Vacancies, The Push and the Pull and An Enemy For The People (Sherman Cymru). Her opera work includes Cosi Fan Tutte (Northern Ireland Opera) and Senendd (Welsh National Opera).
TOUR DATES
Mercury Theatre Colchester
8 - 16 September
Box office: 01206 573 948
19 - 23 September
Box Office: 01423 50116
Cheltenham Everyman
26 - 30 September
Box Office: 01242 572573
Cast, Doncaster
3 - 7 October
Box Office: 01302 340422
Bristol Old Vic
10 - 14 October
Box Office: 0117 987 7877
Exeter Northcott Theatre
17 - 21 October
Box Office: 01392 726363
Oldham Coliseum Theatre
24 - 28 October
Box Office: 0161 624 2829
Lighthouse Poole
7 - 11 November
Box Office: 0844 406 8666
Lawrence Batley Theatre, Huddersfield
14 - 18 November
Box office: 01484 430528
www.thelbt.org
Yvonne Arnaud Guildford
21 - 25 November
Box office: 01483 440000
ENGLISH TOURING THEATRE
English Touring Theatre is one of the UK's most successful and influential touring companies, winning the UK Theatre Awards Best Touring Production in 2014, 2015 & 2016. The company works with leading artists to stage an eclectic mix of new and classic work for audiences throughout the UK and overseas; theatre that is thrilling, popular and engaged in the contemporary world. At the heart of everything ETT does is the passionately held belief that everyone, wherever they are in the country, deserves to have access to the very best work. In 2017 ETT will tour to 40 venues throughout the UK. The company's co-production of Othello, with Shakespeare at the Tobacco Factory, is running at Wilton's Music Hall until 3 June, and this September the company will produce new versions of Sam Holcroft's Rules for Living and Conor McPherson's The Weir.
www.ett.org.uk
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MERCURY THEATRE COLCHESTER
The Mercury Theatre Colchester is the most active producing theatre in East Anglia, and is a vital centre of excellence in the East's growing creative economy. The Mercury exists to put theatre at the heart of the community it serves and to make work in Colchester that reaches audiences and generates critical attention regionally and nationally.
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