Soho Theatre has just announced their new season for 2012, which includes new work by playwright Ella Hickson and a collaboration with Newcastle’s Live Theatre.

The season begins in March with another opportunity to see A Walk On Part, the acclaimed production based on the political diaries of former MP Chris Mullin. This is followed in April with Swamp Juice, by Montreal’s Bunk Puppets and Scamp Theatre, a gloriously inventive exercise in shadow puppetry from the people behind Sticks, Stones, Broken Bones which was one of the most endearing and entertaining show of the 2011 Edinburgh Festival Fringe.

Hickson’s new play, Boys, opens at Soho Theatre in May following its premiere at the High Tide Festival. Hickson’s previous work includes Eight and Precious Little Talent and her new play is about male friendship and the transition from boyhood to manhood. This will be followed by the Live Theatre co-production of Utopia, a series of visions of the future directed and commissioned by Artistic Directors Steve Marmion and Max Roberts.

Meanwhile in the Upstairs Theatre, there will be an opportunity to see Third Angel’s What I Heard About the World, new work by Cartoon de Salvo and another 2011 Edinburgh hit, The Girl with the Iron Claws, which merges Nordic myth and giant puppet trolls. In the Downstairs Theatre there will be an opportunity to see Bryony Kimmings experiment with alcohol in Seven Day Drunk (for more on this show read Honour Bayes’ interview with Kimmings here).  The theatre will also be playing host to Adam Riches’ award-winning comedy show. 

The venue is currently presenting Blind Summit’s puppetry triptych The Table as part of the London International Mime Festival and Hideki Noda’s The Bee opens at the theatre next week. (Read the Exeunt interview with Hunter here).

For further information and to book tickets, visit the Soho Theatre website.