Jermyn Street Theatre announces Autumn 2024 season as part of its continuing 50th Anniversary season.
Following a remarkable six months, which has included Roy Williams’s sold-out adaptation of Sam Selvon’s The Lonely Londoners – transferring to Kiln Theatre next January – and the critically acclaimed Laughing Boy by Stephen Unwin (after Justice For Laughing Boy by Sara Ryan), Jermyn Street Theatre’s thirtieth anniversary continues into the Autumn with a season that offers a rich variety of work created in collaboration with a mix of friends, old and new.
Following a remarkable six months, which has included Roy Williams’s sold-out adaptation of Sam Selvon’s The Lonely Londoners – transferring to Kiln Theatre next January – and the critically acclaimed Laughing Boy by Stephen Unwin (after Justice For Laughing Boy by Sara Ryan), Jermyn Street Theatre’s thirtieth anniversary continues into the Autumn with a season that offers a rich variety of work created in collaboration with a mix of friends, old and new.
Kicking it all off, in a happy reunion with Guildford Shakespeare Company, is Abigail Pickard Price’s effervescent adaptation of Pride & Prejudice, which brings some of literature’s most beloved characters to the stage. Then hot on those Regency heels and following her enthusiastically receivedproduction of Orlando in 2022, Stella Powell-Jones is reunited with playwright Sarah Ruhl for Eurydice, a re-conception of an ancient myth drawn from Ruhl’s signature imagination, wit, and longing. Finally, to round of this momentous year, Jermyn Street Theatre once again partners with Charles Court Opera to present Napoleon: Un Petit Pantomime, an anarchic romp that reimagines the life and loves of that small man with big ambitions, l’Empereur immortel Monsieur Napoleon Bonaparte.
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Intermingled with these three productions, is a cornucopia of short runs and single nights. These include Janie Dee’s Beautiful World Cabaret, which marks Janie’s return after her award-nominated performance in Laughing Boy and continuing Jermyn Street Theatre’s association with the work of Samuel Beckett, the premiere of Not Beckett, a year-long rolling international premiere of work by writers commissioned to create new plays in response to the work of the great Irish writer.
Prior to the autumn season, Jermyn Street Theatre presents the previously announced Adrian Lukis in Being Mr Wickham in June followed by a rare revival of John Van Druten’s The Voice of the Turtle in July. These are followed by a programme of Summer Visitors, which includes the King of Cabaret himself, Stefan Bednarczyk.
Speaking about the upcoming season Stella Powell-Jones said: “Thirty years ago, our wonderful Executive Director Penny Horner came down the stairs at 16b Jermyn Street for the first time. Where others saw only the upstairs restaurant’s defunct changing room, Penny could see what could be: a studio theatre right in the heart of the West End. At their core stories of adventure, these shows insist on the power of imagination: a fitting tribute to the journey begun that day in 1994. Sarah Ruhl’s Eurydice even centres on a heroine’s trip down the stairs! The best birthday celebrations introduce old friends and new. And so, this season brings together some of our most beloved stories and distinguished writers and actors with new thrilling voices.”
