A full programme of plays, from prizewinners to debuts, has been announced for the Royal Exchange Theatre’s Spring'/Summer season for 2023.

Artistic Directors Roy Alexander Weise and Bryony Shanahan each direct two of the four shows scheduled, working in collaboration with some ground-breaking artists and companies.

The season starts with Beginning by David Eldridge, a very good place to start as some theatre-lovers may know. First seen at the National Theatre in 2017, this intimate, beautiful, funny smash-hit play features themes of risking it all and wearing your heart firmly on your sleeve. The production will play from 16 February-11 March.

Next, the Pulitzer Prize winning classic, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. This turbulent and brutal comic drama from legendary playwright Tennessee Williams will take the stage from 24 March-29 April.

Then this season sees the premiere of plays from talented writers Marieke Hardy and Kimber Lee.

Already a massive hit in Sydney, Hardy’s adaptation of NO PAY? NO WAY!, originally by Dario Fo and Franco Rame, comes to the Exchange from 12 May-10 June. Hardy builds on the smash-hit ferocious political comedy and urgent exploration of our global economic reality, to create a new fiercely intelligent version, described as sharply focused and wonderfully, relentlessly, bone-achingly funny.

Lee’s UNTITLED F*CK M*SS S**GON PLAY closely follows, from 24 June-22 July, as the Manchester International Festival honour the production before it transfers to the Young Vic in Autumn. Winner of the inaugural Bruntwood Prize for Playwrighting 2019 International Award, this powerful world premiere of a piece born out of rage, explores ideas of identity, invisibility, misrepresentation and taking control of the narrative with sharp comedy. 

Season tickets are now on sale for members, with a discount available if you book all four shows. Tickets are officially on general sale from 29 November at 11am, that’s one week from today so mark your calendars!

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