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Chichester Festival Theatre has announced plans for its 50th anniversary season.
The theater will revisit Chekhov’s Uncle Vanya, which was part of its first season in 1962, in a production starring Roger Allam, Dervla Kirwan and Timothy West. Jeremy Herrin will direct the show, March 30-April 28. Penelope Keith will star as Lady Wishfort in William Congreve’s The Way of the World, April 13-May 5. Rachel Kavanaugh will direct.
The world premiere of A Marvellous Year for Plums, by Hugh Whitemore, will run May 11-June 2. Philip Franks will direct. Michael Wynn’s new comedy, Canvas, will be directed by Angus Jackson and run May 18-June 16.
Trevor Nunn will direct a musical revival of Cole Porter’s Kiss Me Kate, June 18-September 1. Stephen Mear will choreograph. Henry Goodman will star in the title role of Bertolt Brecht’s The Resistable Rise of Arturo Ui, in a translation by George Tabori. Jonathan Church will direct the production, which will play June 29-July 28.
Derek Jacobi will headline a production of George Bernard Shaw’s Heartbreak House, July 6- August 25. Richard Clifford will direct. Chichester Festival Youth Theatre will present Noah in a new adaptation by Rachel Barnett, July 27-August 11.
Chichester will present Alan Ayckbourn’s new play Surprises, co-produced with the Stephen Joseph Theatre Scarborough, August 8-September 8. The theater will also stage a revival of Ayckbourn’s Absurd Person Singular, August 10-September 8.
Michael Pennington and Kim Cattrall will play the title roles in Shakespeare’s Antony and Cleopatra, to run September 7-29. Janet Suzman will direct. The season will conclude with Jonathan Kent’s production of Noel Coward’s Private Lives, to run September 21-October 27. Anna Chancellor and Toby Stephens will star.
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