This Autumn and Winter the Royal Exchange Theatre shares a programme of work fuelled by love.
Great Expectstions,Romeo and Juliet,Brief Encounter and Shed Exploding View all appear at the venue
The season embraces the electrifying, heart-breaking, suffocating power of love in all its forms, from familial bonds to unlikely friendships, from intoxicating first love to love that is messy, overwhelming and impossible. Filled, in equal measure, with hope and sorrow. Yet, despite everything it is something we all do. It is this huge, complex emotion that drives the incredible plays in the Exchange’s new season for 2023/24.
Epic classics and exceptional contemporary playwriting sit side by side this Autumn/Winter. Classic tales of love are subverted and retold with fresh perspectives by some of the UK’s most exceptional playwrights and theatre makers, revealing just how much these stories remain relevant today.
Award-winning, established and new-generation theatre artists build four extraordinary productions in the Royal Exchange’s unique space. In September the formidable team of Tamasha’s Pooja Ghai and award-winning writer Tanika Gupta present a Dicken’s classic reworked for Manchester audiences. Nicholai La Barrie makes his Exchange debut with the greatest love story of all time and Sarah Frankcom returns at Christmas with a heart-wrenching tale of forbidden love. The season ends with the World Premiere of Phoebe Eclair-Powell’s stunning new play and Bruntwood winner directed by Atri Banerjee.
GREAT EXPECTATIONS – Listings Information
A Royal Exchange and Tamasha co-production
GREAT EXPECTATIONS
By Charles Dickens, adapted by Tanika Gupta,
Directed by Pooja Ghai
A co-production with Tamasha
8 September – 7 October 2023
Box Office: 0161 833 9833
Online: royalexchange.co.uk
ROMEO & JULIET – Listings Information
A Royal Exchange Theatre production
ROMEO & JULIET
By William Shakespeare
Directed by Nicholai La Barrie
20 October – 18 November 2023
Box Office: 0161 833 9833
Online: royalexchange.co.uk
BRIEF ENCOUNTER – Listings Information
A Royal Exchange Theatre production
BRIEF ENCOUNTER
By Noël Coward, adapted for the stage by Emma Rice
Directed by Sarah Frankcom
2 December 2023 – 13 January 2024
Box Office: 0161 833 9833
Online: royalexchange.co.uk
SHED: EXPLODED VIEW – Listings Information
A Royal Exchange Theatre production
SHED: EXPLODED VIEW
By Phoebe Eclair-Powell
Directed by Atri Banerjee
9 February – 2 March 2024
Box Office: 0161 833 9833
Online: royalexchange.co.uk
Priority booking from 11am on Thursday 8 June
Tickets are on public sale from 11am on Tuesday 13 June
