Bush Theatre Season Includes Work by Golaszewski, Payne, Thorne, et al.

The Bush Theatre‘s newly announced autumn/winter season of new plays kicks off next month with 2nd May 2007 (September 14 – October 10), the latest from Jack Thorne. This new play from the author of When You Cure Me takes place on the night of New Labor’s historic election victory, sweeping the Tories out of government after 18 years in power. This Nabokov co-production, directed by George Perrin, will tour to Watford Palace, Mercury Colchester and Manchester’s Royal Exchange after its run at The Bush.

Artistic director Josie Rourke will direct the Bush season’s next offering, If There Is I Haven’t Found It Yet (October 22 – November 21), by Nick Payne, who won the 2009 George Devine Award for Most Promising Playwright. Payne’s play focuses on fat kid Anna who hits back at bullies and is suspended from school and finds herself stuck at home with her hapless uncle.

Following their debuts at the Edinburgh Fringe, Stefan Golaszewski’s two solo shows, Stefan Golaszewski Speaks About a Girl He Once Loved and Stefan Golaszewski Is a Widower, will both transfer to London for a Christmas season. Presented together for the first time, The Stefan Golaszewski Plays (December 2 – January 9) portray one man’s love at two very different stages of life.

Further ahead will be James Graham’s The Whisky Taster (January 20 – February 20), which centers on two advertising whiz kids who hire a wise old Scottish whiskey taster to help on a new campaign. The company will also produce Penelope Skinner’s black comedy Eigengrau (March 10 – April10 ), which throws together two pairs of London flatmates, directed by Polly Findlay.

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