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Nottingham Playhouse

Address: Wellington Circus
City: Nottingham
Postal code: NG1 5AF
Country: United-Kingdom
Phone: +44 115 947 4361
Fax: +44 115 924 1484
Email: brendaf@nottinghamplayhouse.co.uk
Website: www.nottinghamplayhouse.co.uk
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Nottingham Playhouse

Nottingham Playhouse’s work is bold, thrilling, world-class and made in Nottingham, encompassing timeless classics, enthralling family shows, and exciting new commissions. Visiting dance, comedy and theatre complete the bill and the Playhouse’s listed 1963 building is a drama in itself. Nottingham Playhouse Theatre Company creates thirteen productions per year on all scales.

Currently celebrating its 60th anniversary season, Nottingham Playhouse is one of the United Kingdom’s leading producing theatres. Touring work nationally and internationally, the Playhouse remains firmly rooted in its vibrant home city. Indeed, the Theatrical Management Association last year named Nottingham Playhouse the nation’s Most Welcoming Theatre.

Founded in 1948 in a converted cinema, Nottingham Playhouse Theatre Company moved into its present quarters in 1963: a spacious modernist building which, along with Anish Kapoor's striking Sky Mirror on its forecourt, is one of the region’s most popular landmarks.

The theatre's Artistic Director Giles Croft joined the company in 1999, and Chief Executive Stephanie Sirr in 2001. Under their leadership its productions have enjoyed ever greater prominence in Nottingham and beyond. Several have enjoyed London transfers, including: the world premiere production of Rat Pack Confidential; The Railway Children; Arnold Wesker’s Chicken Soup with Barley; Tennessee Williams’ Summer and Smoke, starring Rosamund Pike; and War and Peace, co-produced with Shared Experience. The Burial at Thebes, Seamus Heaney’s adaptation of Antigone, appeared last summer at Spoleto Festival USA (South Carolina), the International Festival of Arts and Ideas (Connecticut) and the Rose Theatre, Kingston-on-Thames following a sell-out season at the Barbican in 2007. The Whale’s Tooth, created by the Playhouse’s Theatre-In-Education company Roundabout for young people with profound and multiple learning difficulties, transferred this summer to London’s Unicorn Theatre.

Nottingham Playhouse Theatre Company has visited over eighty other British and European cities in recent years, with work including Tracy Beaker Gets Real, Old Big ’Ead in The Spirit of the Man and a new adaptation of Whisky Galore! by Giles Croft. On the Waterfront, co-produced with Steven Berkoff’s East Productions, was one of the hits of the 2008 Edinburgh Fringe, with its cast twice nominated in The Stage Awards. In 2010 it will represent the UK at the Hong Kong International Arts Festival.

Nottingham Playhouse returned to Edinburgh in October 2008 with its tour of All Quiet on the Western Front, the first ever play based on Erich Maria Remarque’s novel.

For more information on Nottingham Playhouse's work please visit www.nottinghamplayhouse.co.uk or telephone +44 115 947 4361