Stage adaptation of A Passage To India comes to Park Theatre

A Passage To India at Park Theatre

Award-winning ensemble simple8 have reimagined one of the greatest novels of the twentieth century to bring E M Forster’s A Passage To India to the stage. This co-production with the Royal and Derngate, Northampton will be presented at the Park Theatre from 20 February to 24 March 2018. This question at the heart of A Passage to India challenges us today just as it did a hundred years ago. With their new adaptation of Forster’s masterpiece and a diverse company of fourteen, simple8 finds in the past a mirror for our own divided times, carefully re-imagining this ground-breaking novel for contemporary Britain. simple8 are renown for creating worlds out of nothing, their plays create atmosphere and setting without extravagance, costumes, scenery or props creating dynamic plays that tackle big ideas. This new production will transport their audience to British India, together with its elephants, trains, courthouses and temples. A Passage … Read more

Bake Off’s Mel Giedroyc to star in UK premiere of Luce

Mel Giedroyc stars in Luce at Southwark Playhouse

Actress and comedian Mel Giedroyc, co-presenter of The Great British Bake Off, will star in the UK première of JC Lee’s play Luce at the Southwark Playhouse. Bookings are now open. Luce will be directed by Simon Dormandy, whose recent productions include the world première of his own stage adaptation of The Hudsucker Proxy, and designed by Dick Bird, who won the 2015 UK Theatre Award for best design. Luce, which premièred at Lincoln Center Theater in 2013, marks the arrival in the UK of a startling new voice. JC Lee’s play is about the fear of homegrown terrorism. Set in an ordinary American town, but addressing anxieties that are growing throughout the Western world, it raises troubling questions about parenting, education and racism, such as where do the springs of violence lie? Luce runs at Southwark Playhouse from 9 March to 2 April 2016. Further casting is to be … Read more