Reading Rep Theatre announce tenth anniversary season with all tickets under £20
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Reading Rep Theatre have announced details of their tenth anniversary season, Reading Rep: 10, which will feature a mixture of bold new work, reimagined classics and family favourites.
The theatre has also announced a radical pricing overhaul, with all tickets under £20, and £5 tickets for Under 30s.
Beginning in October 2022, Reading Rep: 10 will be a celebration of the voices and talent that have been part of Reading Rep’s decade long tapestry of work. The season, comprising five bold and exciting pieces of programming, will see Reading Rep honour its roots in collaborations with ongoing creative partners, whilst also championing a new frontier of creatives.
Artistic Director of Reading Rep Theatre, Paul Stacey, said: “It has been an extraordinary ten years of making theatre in Reading, and this upcoming season celebrates every artist, audience and team member who got us to this point. Accessibility and connection is at the heart of Reading Rep. We refuse to let the price point of our tickets be a barrier for our audiences, especially when the cost of living across the UK is so excruciatingly high. All tickets for all shows will be under £20. 10% of all our tickets remain free for those underserved in the arts, and there will be 210 £5 tickets per show for Under 30s. This season promises to radically engage with our future, whilst memorialising our decade long past“.
The theatre’s tenth anniversary season will open with the world premiere of Gary McNair’s stage adaptation of Jekyll & Hyde (10–29 October). The captivating and comic adaptation turns Robert Louis Stevenson’s classic story on its head, revealing the depths of one man’s psyche and the lengths people will go to hide their deepest secrets.
Reading Rep will then remount their 2021 sell-out production of A Christmas Carol, written by Beth Flintoff and directed by Paul Stacey, which relocates Charles Dickens’ seminal story to Reading.
The theatre will then co-produce a new queer adaptation of the Ibsen classic Hedda Gabler with Associate Company A Girl Called Stephen. Harriet Madeley’s new adaptation, which runs from 22 February–11 March 2023, is steeped in queerness, repression and suburban monotony and explores how the most famous female character of all time is trapped within a life that’s chosen for her.
Reading Rep will then revive Robin Belfield and Simon Slater’s musical adaptation of J M Barrie’s Peter Pan. The actor-musician production, which will mark the company’s first musical production in their new venue, will run from 6–29 April 2023.
The season will close with the return of locally lauded writer Helen Eastman to bring her heart-warming tale of The Rumble Under the Rug to the theatre. The interactive workshop, written and directed by Helen Eastman, will have a limited run at Reading Rep from 31 May–3 June 2023, as well as a local tour, visiting libraries and schools in the Reading area.
General on-sale begins on 4 May at 12pm here.
