Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre has announced its 2015 season which will include Peter Pan, The Seagull, Seven Brides For Seven Brothers and The Lord Of The Flies.
The season commences with J. M. Barrie’s original stage play of Peter Pan from 15 May to 14 June. Rediscovering J. M. Barrie’s original play of Peter Pan, Artistic Director Timothy Sheader creates a Never Land where danger stalks dreams and adventure breeds mischief with co-director Liam Steel following their work on Gershwin’s Porgy and Bess.
Chehov’s The Seagull plays from 19 June – 11 July. Directed by Matthew Dunster in a new adaptation by Torben Betts, The Seagull is seen as one of the most important plays of the nineteenth century. As guests assemble at a country house for the staging of an avant-garde open air play, artistic temperaments ignite a more entertaining drama behind the scenes, with romantic jealousies, self-doubt and the ruthless pursuit of happiness confusing lives, loves and literature.
Following the success of The Sound Of Music in 2013, the creative team from that production re-unite to stage another Hollywood classic musical Seven Brides For Seven Brothers. One of the great dance musicals its score includes Bless Your Beautiful Hide, Goin’ Courtin, Wonderful, Wonderful Day and the dance spectacular Barn Dance. Seven Brides For Seven Brothers is directed by Rachel Kavanaugh and choreographed by Alistair David.
For just 14 performances (3-12th September), the Open Air Theatre’s 2011 production of Lord of the Flies, William Golding’s classic story of survival, superstition and immorality, adapted for the stage by Nigel Williams, returns prior to a major UK tour.
Timothy Sheader’s critically acclaimed production of Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird continues to tour the UK, following two hugely successful runs at Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre, and returns to London from 24 June until 25 July 2015 at the Barbican with Tony award-winning American actor Robert Sean Leonard reprising the role of Atticus Finch.
