Torben Betts, Moira Buffini Plays Set for 2019 Brits Off Broadway

59E59 Theaters has announced the lineup of shows for this year's Brits Off Broadway festival, running April 16-June 30.

In Theater A, two plays will make their NYC premieres: Torben Betts's Caroline's Kitchen (April 25-May 25), described as "a glorious send-up of TV chefs and the fickle nature of celebrity"; and Moira Buffini's Olivier Award-winning comedy Handbagged (June 2-30), which, according to a press release, imagines "the prickly relationship between two of the world's most powerful women, Queen Elizabeth and Margaret Thatcher."

Three plays will run at Theater B: Instructions for American Servicemen in Britain (April 16-May 12), by Dan March, Matt Sheahan, James Millard, and John Walton; Tortoise in a Nutshell's multidisciplinary show Feral (May 14-June 9); and Julie Madly Deeply (June 11-29), a tribute to Julie Andrews written by and starring Sarah-Louise Young, with contributions from Russell Lucas (who also directs).

Theater C will house Zoe Mills's Killing Time (April 18-May 12), featuring Mills and her mother Brigit Forsyth; Posting Letters to the Moon (May 14-June 2), an evening of wartime letters shared between actress Celia Johnson and her husband Peter Fleming, compiled by and starring their daughter, Lucy Fleming; and Square Go (June 5-30), featuring music by the Scottish indie band Frightened Rabbit.

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