The newly announced season will run from January to June 2024.
Marylebone Theatre has confirmed its upcoming new season of work drama and dance, which will include a contemporary adaptation of Dostoyevsky’s Dream of a Ridiculous Man by
Laurence Boswell; famed poet Sir Ben Okri presents Revolution Earth; the moving The Most Precious of Goods is translated and directed by Nicholas Kent; while the venue will present its first dance pieces.
Adapted and directed by multiple Olivier Award-winning director and writer Laurence Boswell, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man (21st March – 20th April) is based on the short story by
Dostoyevsky. It follows the story of a depressed man who dreams of an alternative earth, where people live in harmony with nature and each other and explores issues such as climate change and the environment, nationalist politicians and the impact of humans on the world around us.
Nicholas Kent will direct a tender fairytale about humanity under duress. Set against the backdrop of the Holocaust, The Most Precious of Goods (22nd January – 3rd February) is adapted from Jean-Claude Grumberg’s best-selling novella. It is set to star Allan Corduner (The Motive and The Cue, National Theatre; Tár, Focus Features) and cellist Gemma Rosefield.
Meanwhile, writer and performer Mark Farrelly brings his moving story of ground-breaking artist Derek Jarman, Jarman, to Marylebone Theatre for one night only on 19th February, featuring a Q&A session with renowned gay rights activist Peter Tatchell.
Elsewhere on the programme, will be Sir Ben Okri’s return to the theatre with his wife and choreographer Charlotte Jarvis, with their intimate and political multidisciplinary work Revolution Earth, a response in movement to the ecological catastrophe currently facing humanity. Another husband-and-wife poetry team, Alice and Peter Oswald, present Poetry as Speech on 11th February. Peter Oswald, former Playwright in Residence at Shakespeare’s Globe and current Associate Playwright at Marylebone Theatre, collaborates with his wife and Professor of Poetry at the University of Oxford, Alice. The duo have been inspired to take poetry off the page and rediscover the great oral tradition of verse.
Singers Liza Pulman and Joe Stilgoe will host a previously announced special fundraiser, A Couple of Swells, for the theatre on Friday 19th January, with an exciting evening of
guests including Alistair McGowan.
Marylebone Theatre presents its first dance offerings since opening in September 2022. Kevan Allen’s KVN Dance Company brings their magical contemporary reimagining of the beloved classic Coppelia from 24th – 27th April. Featuring classic ballet fused with contemporary dance and hip-hop, Coppelia follows the residents of a village as eccentric toy maker Dr Coppelius creates a life-size clockwork doll. Bringing this Spring 2024 season to a close is new work by Marika Brussel and Aaron Thao, Weft and Warp: an Evening of Contemporary Ballet (22nd – 23rd June). By a Thread reimagines The Odyssey, casting Penelope as a military wife who takes the reins to become a leader. Iago v. Othello examines Shakespeare’s classic drama through the lens of money, prestige and power, a tale of seduction, revenge and the survival of the fittest.
Talking about how far the theatre has come since opening, Artistic Director of Marylebone Theatre Alexander Gifford comments, It is just over a year since we opened the Marylebone Theatre. I am pleased that, in that time, we have attracted tens of thousands of people to the building, garnered awards and five-star reviews, and recently had the quality of our work compared by The Guardian to the National Theatre.”
To book tickets for the new season visit: https://www.marylebonetheatre.com/