Leeds Playhouse has become the latest company to announce a new season of socially distanced shows, with productions due to run from 5 November 2020 through to 9 January 2021.

It had already been confirmed that the venue will host a pair of Alan Bennett’s Talking Heads shows, with Rochenda Sandall also joining the series, performing her take on The Outside Dog monologue.

Zodwa Nyoni will return to the Playhouse with her play Nine Lives, which will also play at The Bridge Theatre. It will play in Leeds on 5 & 6 November.  Opera North are due to present a new double bill of Handel’s Acis and Galatea and Weill’s Seven Deadly Sins from 11-21 November.

Wrongsemble will return to present a new family friendly musical from 18-21 November, entitled The Not So Ugly Sisters. The new two-hander is written and directed by Elvi Pip with an all-female northern cast and an original score by Claire-Marie Seddon & Bay Bryan. Riptide Theatre company will present a two-week long experience with The Red Ladder Theatre Company, debuting Nana-Kofi Kufuor’s first play My Voice Was Heard But It Was Ignored, running from 26-28 November.

For the festive season, the theatre will reinvent its 2018 production of A Christmas Carol, adapted by Deborah McAndrew and directed by Amy Leach. The show will run from 3 December 2020 to 9 January 2021, integrating British Sign Language throughout.

James Brining, Artistic Director of Leeds Playhouse, said: “From standing in solidarity with our colleagues across the arts industry, lighting up our digital screens for our wonderful NHS and key workers, to celebrating with the city as Leeds United were crowned champions – this certainly has been an incredible six months, which despite the ongoing challenges has seen the Leeds City Region holding strong. I want to say a massive thank you to everyone who has supported us throughout this period of uncertainty and who has stepped forward to help us in this time of need.”

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