Fresh from a successful 2012-13, Sheffield Theatres Artistic Director Daniel Evans has announced a varied programme for Spring 2014.
It includes three classic plays by Brian Friel, the première of a new dance-theatre adaptation of Barry Hines’s A Kestrel for a Knave, and a major revival of Marc Camoletti’s airline farce Boeing Boeing.
The Brian Friel Season will include productions of Afterplay, Translations and Wonderful Tennessee, and involve all three of Sheffield Theatres’ spaces: the Crucible, the Lyceum, and the Studio. They are to be directed by Róisín McBrinn of Sherman Cymru, Paines Plough’s James Grieve and Sheffield Theatres Associate Director Paul Miller.
Kes is to be adapted, directed and choreographed by Jonathan Watkins, involving a combination of professional and young local dancers and puppetry work in a physical and visual interpretation of the classic novel.
The new production of long-running 60s farce Boeing Boeing will be directed for the Crucible stage by Jonathan Humphreys, a former resident trainee director at Sheffield Theatres.
Evans himself will direct a production of The Sheffield Mysteries by Sheffield Theatres Playwright in Residence Chris Bush. The show promises a modern and "distinctly Yorkshire" take on the medieval mystery plays, as well as a large community involvement.
The season kicks off in January with a co-production with local company Third Angel, a brand new show entitled The Lives and Loves of a Nobody.