Rose Theatre Kingston announces three new productions

With its Spring Season underway, Rose Theatre Kingston has announced three major new productions for 2016. 

In May, Trevor Nunn returns to the Rose, following his recent production of The Wars of the Roses, to open the season with William Shakespeare’s King John marking the Bard’s 400th anniversary. King John opens on 18th May (previews from 13th May) and runs until 5th June 2016 The production marks Shakespeare’s 400th anniversary and will be the penultimate play in Nunn’s undertaking to direct all 37 of Shakespeare’s plays.

September sees award-winning actor and director John Malkovich make his London directorial debut with the UK première of Zach Helm’s Good Canary. Opening on 21st September (previews from 16th September), the play runs until 8th October 2016.

Review: Cats at the London Palladium starring Nicole Scherzinger

Antoine Murray-Straughan as the Rum Tum Tugger

Cats

London Palladium

Reviewed on Friday 12th December 2014

★★★★

The biggest marmite musical of all-time, Cats, has returned to the West End and completely taken over the London Palladium. Based on T.S Eliot’s Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats, Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical is set on a special night of the year when all Jellicle cats meet at the Jellicle Ball.

Review: Fatal Attraction at the Theatre Royal Haymarket

Fatal Attraction

Theatre Royal Haymarket

Reviewed on Wednesday 26th March 2014

Interestingly, as I took my seat at the stunningly beautiful Theatre Royal Haymarket I was probably one of the few audience members who had never seen the 1987 film of Fatal Attraction starring Michael Douglas, Glenn Close and Anne Archer.

Natascha McElhone to star in world stage premiere of Fatal Attraction

It has been announced that Natascha McElhone will play Alex Forrest in the world stage premiere of Fatal Attraction. 

Written by James Dearden and directed by Trevor Nunn, Fatal Attraction will open at the Theatre Royal Haymarket on Tuesday 25th March 2014 (previews from 8th March) and is booking until 21st June 2014. 

This story of obsession and revenge explores how a chance meeting in a bar and a casual encounter quickly becomes a living nightmare for Dan Gallagher, a successful New York lawyer, and his young family. After spending one weekend with the gorgeous Alex Forrest, he assumes he can just walk away, but Alex is a woman who refuses to be ignored. She pursues Dan and his family with terrifying consequences. 

Confirmed: Trevor Nunn to direct world stage premiere of Fatal Attraction at the Theatre Royal Haymarket

Following reports, it has been confirmed that Trevor Nunn will direct the world stage premiere of Fatal Attraction in the West End next year. 

The production will open at the Theatre Royal Haymarket, following the closure of One Man, Two Guvnors, on 25th March 2014 (previews from 8th March) and will enjoy a fifteen week limited run until 21st June 2014.

Trevor Nunn to revive Scenes from a Marriage at the St James Theatre

Trevor Nunn

It has been announced that Trevor Nunn is reviving Ingmar Bergman's Scenes from a Marriage at the St James Theatre later this year. Nunn, who directed Iain Glen and his then-wife Imogen Stubbs in the first production at the Belgrade, Coventry in 2008, is revisiting the play with actress Olivia Willams.

Scenes from a Marriage will open at the St James Theatre on 16th September (previews from 11th September) and run until 9th November 2013 (previews from 11 September) to coincide with the venue's first anniversary.

Scenes from a Marriage is adapted by Joanna Murray-Smith from Ingmar Bergman's 1970s Swedish TV series and follows Johan and Marianne from happily married couple to warring contenders in divorce and beyond.