Weekly Previews Published 7 March 2011

7th to 13th March

what’s new in London this week.

Natasha Tripney

This week sees the opening of Thea Sharrock’s production of Noel Coward’s classic play, Blithe Spirit, with Alison Steadman as Madame Arcati and a cast that also features Ruthie Henshall and Hermione Norris. Tim Firth’s Sign of Times opens at the Duchess and Trevor Nunn’s major revival of Terence Rattigan’s wartime play, Flare Path, starring Siena Miller and Sheridan Smith, is in previews at the Theatre Royal Haymarket.

Away from the West End, Vivenne Franzmann’s Bruntwood Prize-winning play Mogadishu transfers to the Lyric Hammersmith, the Greenwich Playhouse stages an adaptation of The Maias, a novel by Eca de Queiros, and there’s a revival of Sam Shepherd’s Buried Child at Upstairs at the Gatehouse. The Arcola stages Joe Harbot’s The Boy on the Swing in the smaller of its studios and Ali Taylor’s adaption of Robert Westall’s much-loved children’s book, The Machine Gunners, continues its run at the Polka Theatre in Wimbledon and the Write Now 2 Festival continues at the Brockley Jack with Judith Bryan’s Keeping Mum.

Barefaced Theatre’s Mad Women in Attics at the Wimbledon Studio explores female insanity in fiction via the works of Mary Shelley and Charlotte Perkins Gilman, amongst others, while all-male ballet troupe Les Ballets Tockadero de Monte Carlo, better known as The Trocks, are on in the New Wimbledon Theatre’s main space.

Sprint is now well underway at the Camden People’s Theatre and this week’s line-up includes Greg McLaren’s Doris Day Can Fuck Off, Suspended, a new solo show by Natasha Davis and External, a performance piece by GETINTHEBACKOFTHEVAN.

 

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Natasha Tripney

Natasha co-founded Exeunt in 2011 and was editor until 2016. She's now lead critic and reviews editor for The Stage, and has written about theatre and the arts for the Guardian, Time Out, the Independent, Lonely Planet and Tortoise.

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