Works by Athol Fugard, Mike Leigh, Shelagh Stephenson, et al Set for Hampstead Theatre’s 2010-2011 Season

London’s Hampstead Theatre has announced its 2010-2011 season, according to a report on Whatsonstage.com. It is the first year of programming selected by the company’s new artistic director Edward Hall, who will direct Shelagh Stephenson’s Enlightenment (October 6-30), a look at two parents waiting for word about their son who has mysteriously disappeared.

The theater’s second offering will be Athol Fugard’s The Train Driver (November 4 – December 4). Fugard will direct this play about a man visiting the grave of a woman he unintentionally killed. For the holiday season, Hampstead Theatre will produce the fairy-tale inspired Beasts and Beauties (December 10-31), adapted by Carol Ann Duffy, dramatized by Melly Still and Tim Supple, and directed by Still.

Also on the theater’s schedule are Nina Raine’s drama set in a hospital, Tiger Country (January 13 – February 5); Penelope (February 10 – March 5), a new play loosely inspired by Homer’s The Odyssey, by Enda Walsh, presented by Ireland’s Druid company; and a revival of Mike Leigh’s Ecstasy March 10 – April 9), a comedy set in a dreary apartment off the Kilburn High Road.

For further information, visit: www.whatsonstage.com.