With the opening of their acclaimed production of Mel Brooks' The Producers now playing at the West End's Garrick Theatre, we get an insight into what's to come in the new year!
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The Menier Chocolate Factory has revealed its upcoming season for 2025/26.
In November, the first London revival of Fallen Angels in 25 years heads to the theatre. Noël Coward’s outrageous comedy, which remains as one of his funniest creations, follows best friends Jane and Julia. Both now settled in happy marriages, they receive an unexpected visit from a glamorous shared ex-boyfriend, and passions are rekindled with explosive results. Fallen Angels will be directed by Christopher Luscombe, known for his work on Twelfth Night and Love's Labour's Lost, both performed at the Royal Shakespeare Company. It will play from 21 November to 21 February.
2026 will kick off with Ryan Craig's The Holy Rosenbergs. Running from 27 February to 2 May 2026, the play first premiered at the National Theatre in 2011. The Holy Rosenbergs follows a Jewish family who live in Edgware. It examines the impact of an international crisis on a London family and the community in which they live. It's a play which couldn't be more timely and painfully pertinent. It will be directed by Lindsay Posner (The Deep Blue Sea, Theatre Royal Bath/Theatre Royal Haymarket).
Wrapping up the announcement is Peter Shaffer's Equus. Directed by Lindsay Posner and presented in a co-production with Theatre Royal Bath, follows a child psychiatrist who attempts to treat a young man who has a pathological religious fascination with horses. The award-winning play, now considered a modern masterpiece, will play at the Menier Chocolate Factory from 8 May - 27 June, ahead of a run in Bath.
