Finborough Theatre Announces Spring 2010 Season

The multi-award-winning Finborough Theatre continues its 30th anniversary year with our most ambitious season to date - 37 plays in three months, with 35 of them never seen in London before.

The season opens with the London premiere of The Notebook of Trigorin, Tennessee Williams' ‘free adaptation' of Chekhov's The Seagull, from 30 March to 24 April 2010. Celebrating the 150th anniversary of the birth of Anton Chekhov, the production is complemented by Three Seagulls, a series of three staged readings on Saturday afternoons in April, beginning with Thomas Kilroy's version of The Seagull which relocates the drama to nineteenth century Ireland, on 10 April; the European premiere of His Greatness by celebrated Canadian playwright Daniel MacIvor, inspired by the ‘potentially true' story of Tennessee Williams' writing of The Notebook of Trigorin , on 17 April; and a contemporary reimagining of The Seagull, Patrick Marmion's Pieta, on 24 April.

Playing on Sundays and Mondays, 4, 5, 11, 12, 18, 19 April is the London premiere - and only the third production in the UK - of The Northerners by Harold Brighouse, a honest, dark and powerful 1914 drama from the playwright best remembered for his classic comedy, Hobson's Choice.

In May, we present two plays that together show a vision of old and new South Africa. From 27 April to 22 May, we present the European premiere of the acclaimed new South African play - Craig Higginson's Dream of the Dog, starring Janet Suzman, Academy Award®, BAFTA and Golden Globe award nominee, and winner of two Evening Standard Awards for Best Actress. Running concurrently on Sundays and Mondays 2, 3, 9, 10, 16, 17 May, we commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Sharpevillle Massacre and the centenary of the Union of South Africa with the first revival in 25 years of Nagging Doubt, written and performed by Jack Klaff, first seen at the Donmar Warehouse and The Almeida Theatre and filmed for Channel Four and PBS.

Finally, from 26 May to 19 June 2010, the season culminates with a celebration of our 30th anniversary year with Vibrant 2010 - An Anniversary Festival of Finborough Playwrights featuring 30 new plays by 30 UK and international playwrights, discovered, developed or championed by the Finborough Theatre, including world premieres of brand new work from some of the hundreds of playwrights who began their careers with us. The festival centres around the world premiere of The Man by our award-winning Playwright-in-Residence James Graham, a blackly comic and uniquely interactive storytelling event - a different actor, telling a story in a different order, selected at random, every single night.

Elsewhere, S27 by Sarah Grochala which received its world premiere at the Finborough Theatre in 2009, is being produced in Australia at Sydney's prestigious Griffin Theatre in March 2010.
- Neil McPherson, Artistic Director

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