New season kicks off at the People's
New season kicks off at the People's
Family drama kicks off the autumn/winter offer at the popular Newcastle theatre.
The new season at the People’s Theatre begins on Monday (September 9) with Things I Know To Be True by Australian playwright Andrew Bovell.
It was first staged in Adelaide in 2016 and Imogen Stubbs performed in the London premiere later that same year, a co-production by the Australian company and Britain’s Frantic Assembly.
Billed by the Newcastle amateur company as “a beautiful and bold family drama”, it focuses on the Prices – Bob, Fran and their four grown-up children – and their collective tribulations.
Director Sara Jo Harrison says the writing is moving, emotional and honest.
And she promises: “Audiences are in for a night of captivating theatre, being told a story by complex and engaging characters about a family facing a multitude of challenges."
Things I Know To Be True runs in the People’s Studio from Monday, September 9 to Saturday, September 14. Book tickets from the People’s website.
Coming later are Marc Camoletti’s farce Boeing-Boeing (October 1 to 5), a West End fixture in the 1960s; Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (October 22 to 26); Collected Grimm Tales (November 7 to 9); and It’s A Wonderful Life, a play by Mary Elliott Nelson based on the famous film (November 19 to 23).
All this before the panto, Alice In Wonderland (December 7 to 15).