NOW PLAYING - SUMMER 2012 SEASON
Our Summer Season features all aspects of our work – rediscoveries from two of the UK's greatest dramatists, a classic British musical, and new writing from two of Canada's greatest living playwrights, as well as the debut of a brand new US playwright.
The season opens with the European premiere of Daniel MacIvor’s His Greatness playing 24 April–19 May 2012, and directed by Ché Walker who returns to the Finborough Theatre following his sell-out show Fog in January. On Sundays and Mondays 29, 30 April and 6, 7, 13 and 14 May, we present the first UK production in nearly 40 years of Trevor Griffiths' All Good Men.
Commemorating the tenth anniversary of the death of playwright John McGrath, and unseen in a professional production in London since 1966, John McGrath’s Events While Guarding The Bofors Gun plays 22 May–16 June 2012, directed by Robert Hastie. On Sundays, Mondays and Tuesdays, 27, 28, 29 May, 3, 4, 5, 10, 11 and 12 June 2012, we celebrate both the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee and the 150th anniversary of the birth of composer Sir Edward German with the first professional London production for 52 years of his spectacular Elizabethan operetta, Merrie England.
The season culminates with the London premiere of the multi-award-winning international hit play, The Drawer Boy by Michael Healey, one of Canada's pre-eminent dramatists, playing 19 June–14 July 2012. On Sundays and Mondays 24, 25 June, 1, 2, 8 and 9 July 2012, we introduce the UK to the work of acclaimed emerging American playwright Joshua Conkel with the world premiere of The Sluts of Sutton Drive.
We are also happy to announce the return of the Papatango New Writing Competition after their huge success with the world premiere of Dawn King's Foxfinder in 2011. The closing date for competition entries is 1 May.
Do remember that the Finborough Theatre is now fully air-conditioned, and also now offers STAGETEXT captioned performances for each main run.
