London has a brand new theatre opening in October – and Sir Nicholas Hytner, who is the driving force behind it, has announced what promises to be a stellar line-up for its premiere season.
The former artistic director of the National Theatre, together with Nick Starr, the National’s former executive director, is opening the Bridge Theatre – which, as its name suggests, is right by Tower Bridge, on London’s South Bank.
The entrée to this thespian menu is Young Marx, a brand new play about the founder of the Communist ideology as “a thirty-two-year-old revolutionary” living in Soho. Sir Nicholas will be directing the play – as well as a production of Julius Caesar later in the season, with David Calder as Caesar, Ben Whishaw as Brutus, Michelle Fairley (of Game of Thrones fame) as a female Cassius and David Morrissey as Mark Antony.
Other productions will include Always, by Harriet Lane, Flatpack, a new play by John Hodge, The Black Cloud, a new play by Sam Holcroft, and Carmen Havana, a version of Bizet’s opera.
