THE ROUNDABOUT SEASON to Play Shoreditch Town Hall This Autumn

Sheffield Theatres and Paines Plough transfer the trio of plays about love, life and the world to Shoreditch Town Hall for a London run ahead of a national tour. The Roundabout Season will run from Wednesday 19 September to Saturday 27 October and features One Day When We Were Young by Nick Payne, Lungs by Duncan MacMillan and The Sound of Heavy Rain by Penelope Skinner.

Set in a specially built 138-seat portable in-the-round auditorium, which allows the productions to tour easily to different venues, the plays will be performed by an ensemble of four actors.

This announcement marks the second London transfer for Sheffield Theatres in a month, hot on the heels of Michael Frayn’s Olivier Award-winning play Democracy, which takes to the stage at The Old Vic Theatre in London in June.

Daniel Evans, Artistic Director of Sheffield Theatres said, ‘I'm delighted that the fruits of our collaboration with Paines Plough last autumn will find a second home in Shoreditch Town Hall later this year. It was an ambitious aim to produce three new plays performed by one ensemble of actors in a specially-created environment, but the results were hugely pleasurable. At Sheffield Theatres, we're proud of the work we produce for our city and our region, but it's also gratifying when we're able to take our work to a wider audience. I'm thrilled that audiences in the capital will now not only get to experience these terrific plays by Nick Payne, Duncan Macmillan and Penelope Skinner, but also our production of Michael Frayn's Democracy soon to open at The Old Vic.’

Nick Giles, Director of Shoreditch Town Hall said, ‘I am absolutely thrilled to be able to include such an exciting and innovative project as The Roundabout in our first pilot season at Shoreditch Town Hall. Under George Perrin and James Grieve Paines Plough has become one of the most exciting theatre companies in the UK today and I'm a huge fan of their work. In looking for the right kind of projects for this important year, talking to some of the companies I've worked with over the years about how they might come and work at the Town Hall, I have tried to look for pieces that could showcase or make the most of, in different ways, the range and character of our spaces. The Roundabout was a gift in this sense - offering something really special for audiences - artistically and physically. Our beautiful Assembly Hall will never have hosted anything quite like it before!’