Watford Palace Theatre, just 40 minutes (by car) from Leighton, is a great venue for new and emerging plays and writers. It also stages quality rep productions so should be pencilled in the diaries of drama fans everywhere.
Its spring season includes premieres of six new productions made in Watford.
There is a major revival of Ronald Harwood’s Equally Divided, a comic look at lifelong rivalry between sisters reaching a crisis. Equally Divided, to be directed by the theatre’s artistic director Brigid Larmour, stars Beverley Klein as Edith.
A new play by Tom Wells, Jumpers for Goalposts, co-produced by Watford Palace Theatre, Paines Plough and Hull Truck, opens in April (and touring next autumn). It is a hilarious and heart-warming story about football, friendship and finding your way.
A playful new version of William Shakespeare’s The Tempest opens at the Palace in January.
The season’s programme of presented drama includes Alan Ayckbourn’s critically acclaimed Surprises; a new production of Rutherford & Son that sees Northern Broadsides back at the theatre; Headlong Theatre return with a new version of Chekhov’s The Seagull and Northern Stage make their first visit to the Palace with Dennis Potter’s Blue Remembered Hills.
For more information and to book tickets go online to www.watfordpalacetheatre.co.uk or call the box office 01923 225671