Royal & Derngate Presents Made In Northampton 2010 Season

Following the hugely successful and critically acclaimed Young America Season, comes a new Made in Northampton season to launch the new decade. Addicted to You is a season of three contemporary plays that explore the various forms of addiction that define today's world. Drugs, alcohol, love, even idealism - this powerful and destructive force affects everyone from the rich and famous to the man on the street. Addicted To You runs from 5 February to 13 March 2010.

End of the Rainbow, by Peter Quilter, is a savagely funny musical drama, documenting Judy Garland's 1968 comeback tour. Garland battles with a tornado of drugs and alcohol as she undertakes an exhausting series of concerts in a bid to reclaim her crown as the greatest talent of her generation. Brilliantly weaving the humour and heartbreak of the final months of Garland's life with her most memorable songs, including Get Happy, Come Rain or Come Shine and Somewhere Over the Rainbow, the production stars Olivier award winner Tracie Bennett (La Cage aux Folles and Hairspray) and Hilton McRae (Caroline, or Change) and is directed by Terry Johnson (Rise and Fall of Little Voice, Rain Man, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest).

In My Zinc Bed by David Hare, a love triangle is bonded and warped by alcohol and obsessive desire. Over one long summer, Paul a recovering alcoholic and young poet, is drawn into the orbit of billionaire internet businessman, Victor and his beautiful wife, Elsa. An intimate portrait of three people addicted to alcohol, their work and each other, it examines the meaning of friendship, faith and obsession. First performed at the Royal Court in 2000, this is the stage premiere of a new version created by David Hare especially for the Royal & Derngate. It will be directed by the theatre's artistic director Laurie Sansom, who directed Spring Storm and Beyond the Horizon for the Young America Season.

Honest by Northampton's own DC Moore, is a play about an unusual addiction. Come and meet a man whose addiction to truth telling leads to a night that spirals out of control. Taking you on a journey across London, this one-man play explores the lies we tell each other, and the fall-out when the truth is revealed. Performed in Royal & Derngate's neighbouring pub The Mailcoach, this darkly comic story puts you up close with a young man eager to share his story over a pint. DC Moore's Alaska earned him the inaugural Tom Erhardt Award for promising new playwrights in 2007 and his new play Empire, premieres at the Royal Court in March. Honest is directed by Mike Bartlett, one of the country's most exciting and provocative writers, whose play c*ckstarring Ben Whishaw, is nearing the end of a sell out run at the Royal Court.

ROYAL & DERNGATE - WHAT THE PRESS SAY
"Most exciting regional theatre of the decade"
Michael Billington, Guardian 9 December 2009

"one of the most thrilling regional offerings of the decade"
Dominic Cavendish, Daily Telegraph 2 November 2009, about Young America