Birmingham Repertory Theatre Company presents
The Cherry Orchard
Fri 15 Oct 2010 – Sat 6 Nov 2010

A major new production of Chekhov's final play at The REP this Autumn, stars Josie Lawrence as Madame Ranevskaya in Tom Stoppard's brilliant version. A play that provides a glimpse into the slow rolling change that culminated in the Russian revolution of 1917.

Director: Rachel Kavanaugh
Designer: Colin Richmond
Lighting Designer: Tim Mitchell
Composer: Catherine Jayes
Sound Designer: Dan Hoole
Movement Director: Nick Winston

LOSERVILLE to open in the West End in 2011!
Set in an imaginary US town in 1971, LOSERVILLE reminds us just how far we have come! These are the days when STAR TREK dominated the TV screens; space exploration was headline news and computers were in their infancy.

You would never expect that the geeks would have inherited the world. But they did! LOSERVILLE gives us the seventies with a cast of characters that are totally recognisable and a score that's entirely contemporary. Perhaps things haven't changed that much after all.

THE PRODUCTION:
In 2009 James teamed-up with Elliot Davis to write LOSERVILLE. Taking inspiration from the narrative songs on James's Son of Dork album, WELCOME TO LOSERVILLE, they have written seven new songs. These join five hit tracks from the original album to complete the score.

LOSERVILLE has a cast of 24, with an additional 6 onstage musicians. Directed by Steven Dexter with designs by Francis O'Connor and choreography by Nick Winston. It is due to open in London's West End in 2011.

Website: www.loservillemusical.tv/
Facebook: www.facebook.com/loservillemusical

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Prom 19: Sondheim at 80
7:30pm on Saturday 31 July 2010 at the Royal Albert Hall.

This performance will be broadcast live on BBC Radio 3, broadcast on BBC Two at 8.00pm then will be available on demand for 7 days.

Marking the 80th birthday of one of Broadway’s great innovators, this all-Sondheim Prom draws together leading figures of the opera and theatre worlds – plus some further special guests.

Bryn Terfel, a magnetic Sweeney Todd, as he proved at the Royal Festival Hall in 2007 – leads a starry cast, joined by aspiring young performers supported by the BBC Performing Arts Fund, which supports aspiring performers for a programme.

On the bill are excerpts from horror-opera Sweeney Todd, the Ingmar Bergman-inspired A Little Night Music and the fairy-tale compendium of Into the Woods, as well as excerpts from Company, Pacific Overtures and Sunday in the Park with George.

Cast to include
Bass-baritone: Bryn Terfel
Vocalist: Maria Friedman
Vocalist: Simon Russell Beale
with singers from the BBC Performing Arts Fund and the BBC Concert Orchestra

Conductor: David Charles Abell
Director: Martin Duncan
Choreographer: Nick Winston

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DEATH OF A SALESMAN
1 May 2010  to 29 May 2010
QUARRY THEATRE

Arthur Miller’s unflinching examination of the American Dream. 

At sixty-one years old, Willy Loman has been a travelling salesman for thirty-four years. Now, he’s been taken off salary and is forced to confront a future on commission. As memories and dreams of the past, ebb and flow, Willy’s family struggle to engage him in the present.

Death of a Salesman won the Pulitzer Prize in 1945. It is considered to be Miller’s greatest work and one of the most important plays of the 20th century, still startlingly relevant over sixty years after its premiere.

‘Willy Loman never made a lot of money. His name was never in the paper. He’s not the finest character that ever lived. But he’s a human being, and a terrible thing is happening to him. So attention must be paid.’

Director: Sarah Esdaile
Designer: Francis O’Connor
Lighting Designer: Chris Davey
Sound Designer: Mic Pool
Movement: Nick Winston
Composer and Musical Director: Simon Slater
Fight Director: Terry King

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On 8th January, JIHAD: THE MUSICAL opened at the Jerymn Street Theatre, in London. The show, by Zoe Samuel and Benjamin Scheuer is Directed by Gordon Greenberg, choreographed by Nick Winston, designed by Lucy Bradridge with Lighting by Mike Robertson. It ran until 6th February. For more infromation you can visit the website www.jihadthemusical.co.uk

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Nick has been invited back to the Birmingham Rep to choreograph DANCING AT LUGHNASA by Brain Friel. The show is directed by Tamara Harvey, designed by Colin Richmond with Lighting by James Farncombe. Performances begin on February 19th and will run until March 6th. He will also choreograph, CLING TO ME LIKE IVY, by Samantha Ellis, directed by Sarah Esdaile which opens in The Door on 11th February and runs until 27th, when it will tour.

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Nick is reuniting with director Hannah Chissick for the tour of HORMONAL HOUSWIVES, which opens at the Festival Theatre, Edinburgh on the 23rd Feb. The show will star Carol Smillie, Julie Coombe and Shonagh Price.