Barn Theatre’s 2020 recovery season to include revival of Stephen Sondheim’s Marry Me A Little

The Barn Theatre has announced their full theatre recovery season for 2020, which includes a new revival production of Stephen Sondheim’s Marry Me A Little.

The season will feature shows with smaller cast sizes, along with a reduced capacity in the auditorium. Customers who have tickets for the postponed 2020 Built by Barn season will be contacted by the box office as soon as the rescheduled dates are announced.

Following Private Peaceful, which is currently running at the theatre until 4 October, Stephen Sondheim’s one-act musical revue Marry Me A Little will run from 16 October – 8 November. The new production, produced in association with Anthology Theatre, will see musical staging by Sam Spencer-Lane (The Last Five Years, Aspects of Love), set and costume design by Gregor Donnelly and musical direction by Arlene McNaught (SIX).

To close the live season, the Barn Theatre will host the world debut of Alan Pollock’s new stage adaptation of J.M. Barrie’s Peter Pan, running from 21 November 2020 – 3 January 2021. Composition and musical arrangements have been devised by Nick Barstow (Rags, Just So) with movement direction by Tosh Wanogho-Maud and set and costume design by Gregor Donnelly. Peter Pan is presented by arrangement with Great Ormond Street Hospital Children's Charity and Concord Theatricals Ltd. on behalf of Samuel French Ltd.

Both productions will be directed by Kirk Jameson, who returns to the theatre as Director-in-Residence. His previous directorial work with the Barn Theatre includes The World Goes ‘Round (co-produced by Piers Cottee-Jones) at the theatre’s first outdoor theatre festival BarnFest and the 2018 Built by Barn production of Stiles + Drewe’s Just So.

The venue has also recently announced that they will be co-producing the world debut of Henry Filloux-Bennett’s new digital play adaptation of Jonathon Coe’s What a Carve Up!, with the Lawrence Batley Theatre in Huddersfield and the New Wolsey Theatre in Ipswich. Directed by Tamara Harvey, the digital production will run from 31 October - 29 November 2020.

Artistic Director of the Barn Theatre, Iwan Lewis, said of the new season, “I am absolutely thrilled that we have been able to produce this Theatre Recovery Season for the end of 2020. We have been overwhelmed by the positive response to our new safety procedures since we opened at the end of July for our first outdoor theatre festival, BarnFest, and again when we reopened last week for indoor theatre with Private Peaceful. We have had the seal of approval from Visit England to say that “We’re Good To Go” and we are confident that our audiences will experience the safest and most enjoyable return to live theatre. We are determined to bring back this year’s original programming in 2021 however we hope that our audiences love this new season we have worked hard to put together. Smaller shows are not a compromise on quality and this season will be a testament to that. In the words of Shakespeare, “though she be but little, she is fierce.”

Tickets are now on general sale now for Private Peaceful, Marry Me A Little and What A Carve Up! Priority booking for Peter Pan are on sale for members from today with general sale from 25 September.

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