THE MALTINGS THEATRE ST ALBANS: 2021 autumn programme

September 7^th – November 27^th

  

The Maltings Theatre, which this year celebrates its 10^th anniversary under the Artistic Directorship of Adam Nichols and his company OVO, opens its 2021 autumn season on September 7^th with a rousing programme of drama, comedy, opera, live music and song. 

Strong female leads power OVO’s own productions:  Vinegar Tom, Les Liaisons Dangereuses, and Hedda Gabler while Dyad Productions opens the autumn season on September 7^th with the one-woman show, A ROOM OF ONE’S OWN, based on Virginia Woolf’s classic 1928 and performed by the actor, writer, producer Rebecca Vaughan.

 

September 21^st-24^th sees Charles Court Opera present Gilbert & Sullivan’s evergreen comic opera THE MIKADO. 

September 30^th-October 2^nd journalist turned writer/performer Osman Baig (photo left: Tristram Kenton) stages his dazzling, critically acclaimed, one-man show, FAKE NEWS. 

October 12^th-23^rd OVO presents a re-mixed, musical version of Christopher Hampton’s classic social drama LES LIAISONS DANGEREUSES and from October 28^th to November 6^th award-winning director Matthew Parker presents OVO’s production of Caryl Churchill’s searing drama, VINEGAR TOM. 

 

Closing the autumn season is OVO’s new production of Henrik Ibsen’s classic drama HEDDA GABLER which runs from November 16^th-27^th, directed by OVO’s Associate Director Janet Podd.

 

Adam Nichols, OVO Artistic Director says: “We’re so excited about this autumn’s programme with its wide variety of productions and emphasis on strong female protaganists.  I’m extremely proud to be presenting Osman Baig’s outstanding one-man show, Fake News, hot on the heels of its run at the Bridge Theatre in London and A Room of One’s Own whose run we had to cancel last year due to the pandemic. 

 

“I’ll be directing Les Liaisons Dangereuses and I’m delighted Charles Court Opera continue their association with us by bringing their very funny production of The Mikado to The Maltings stage.  Matthew Parker will bring Caryl Churchill’s blistering Vinegar Tom to life and I can’t wait to see what Janet Podd does with Hedda Gabler, one of my favourite dramas.

 

“We recently completed seven weeks of drama, music, opera, and comedy at The Roman Theatre Open Air Festival where we more than doubled our audience from last year.  We then took our Roman Theatre production of The Winter’s Tale to the fabulous Minack Theatre in Cornwall for ten days in July.

 

“We continued to manage rules and regulations during the first part of this year with the presentation of theatrical treasures in Hertfordshire, Cornwall and online.  And now we’re looking forward to welcoming capacity audiences to the Maltings Theatre from September 7^th onwards for our exciting autumn season.”