Sîan Phillips, Michael Pennington, Oliver Ford Davis & Stephen Boxer lead Jermyn Street Theatre’s Autumn season
Jermyn Street Theatre has today announced its first full season since reopening earlier this year.
The Encounters Season, which runs from mid-September to the end of year, will feature some of the UK’s greatest stage talent.
Alan Ayckbourn’s Relatively Speaking runs from 15 September- 9 October, directed by Robin Herford and starring Christopher Bonwell, Rachel Fielding, Lianne Harvey and Jane Simmons. This will be followed by Ben Brown’s A Splinter of Ice, running from 14-30 October. It will star Oliver Ford Davies as Graham Greene, Stephen Boxer as Kim Philby and Karen Ascoe as Rufa.
Richard Beecham will then direct a double bill of Footfalls & Rockaby, starring Charlotte Emmerson and Dame Siân Phillips, playing from 3-20 November.
Artistic Director Tom Littler’s production of The Tempest, which ran in March 2020 before being closed by the pandemic, will then round off the season, running from 25 November-22 December, starring Michael Pennington as Prospero.
Littler said: “When ‘The Tempest’s Miranda encounters other humans for the first time she cries ‘Oh brave new world, that has such people in it!’. We’ve build the Encounters season around that moment of meeting – contrasting figures in an English garden, in a Moscow flat, in a dark house, on a remote island – coming face to face and trying to understand each other. Programming and producing are more of a challenge than ever, and the lack of insurance leave us vulnerable. But we are very excited to be announcing this season of four brilliant plays featuring some of our finest actors, and I look forward to reuniting with the company of The Tempest to continue our interrupted journey.”
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