Weekly Previews Published 23 May 2011

23rd to 29th May

what’s new in London this week.

Natasha Tripney

Perhaps the most eagerly anticipated event of the week is the opening of Anya Reiss’s second play, The Acid Test, on Monday at the Royal Court. Her first play Spur of the Moment was staged in the Royal Court last summer and won her the Most Promising Playwright Award at both the Evening Standard and Critics’ Circle awards. Her new play, billed as an ‘unruly comedy’, will be directed by Simon Godwin.

This week also sees Philip Prowse’s production of Pygmalion, which opened at Chichester last year, transfer to the West End with Rupert Everett and Kara Tointon as Henry Higgins and Eliza Doolittle. The Open Air Theatre in Regent’s Park, begins its 2011 season with a version of Lord of The Flies directed by Timothy Sheader while the Globe continues their summer season with a staging of Much Ado About Nothing starring Eve Best as Beatrice. Richard Bean’s new play, One Man, Two Guvnors, based on The Servant of Two Masters by Carlo Goldoni opens at the National Theatre in a production reuniting James Cordon (he was part of the original History Boys cast) with director Nicholas Hytner.

Kathryn Hunter returns to the Young Vic with Kafka’s Monkey, a piece based on Kafka’s A Report to an Academy; Bent Architect bring their The Wonderful World of”¦ to Tooting Market; Lucy Foster and Chloe Déchery’s Epic (an “interrogation of the nature of history” according to our smitten reviewer) is playing Soho Theatre; and Adam Brace and Sebastian Armesto’s production of The Four Stages of Cruelty, based on the engravings by William Hogarth, opens at the Arcola (read more about this production in our interview).

The Rambert Dance Company will be at Sadler’s Wells from Tuesday through to Saturday; Molly Naylor will perform her spoken word show, Whenever I Get Blown Up I Think of You, at BAC and there’s a chance to see Andy Field’s Zilla! (Part 2) at Stoke Newington Airport on the 24th

Outside of London, the Pulse Fringe begins at Ipswich’s New Wolsey on Thursday.

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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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