Lulu

by Frank Wedekind, in a version by Peter Barnes
directed by Barry Evans

Everybody loves Lulu.  So why does she cause such chaos wherever she goes? Ever since Frank Wedekind’s play was banned in the late 1800s, his heroine has fascinated and infuriated audiences.  Lulu was memorably filmed with Louise Brooks in the starring role, turned into a major modern opera by Alban Berg, and has been adapted by several English playwrights.  This witty and sardonic translation by Peter Barnes stays close to Wedekind’s spirit, refreshing Lulu’s power to captivate and shock.

Lulu is about sex. (There! I've said it...) It deals with the power of sexual obsession to inspire and destroy both the one who lusts, and the one who is lusted after.

This play contains adult themes and language and is NOT SUITABLE FOR CHILDREN

Saturday 28th March to Saturday 4th April 2009
Evenings at 7.45pm
Except Sunday 29 March at 4pm
There will be NO Matinee • Wed 1st - No performance

Other past productions

1. Taking Sides - Ronald Harwood
2. Aladdin - John Crocker - Music & Lyrics by Eric Gilder
3. Little Gem - Elaine Murphy
4. Vita & Virginia - Eileen Atkins
   adapted from correspondence between Virginia Woolf and Vita Sackville-West
5. Twelfth Night - William Shakespeare
6. Tom Paine - Paul Foster
7. Youth Theatre Double Bill - Will Averill: Cinderella: Or How Pipsqueak the Mouse Became a Stallion. 'Crinkley Bottom............' was devised in-house
8. Gormenghast - John Constable adapted from the novel by Mervyn Peake
9. This Story of Yours - John Hopkins
10. King John - William Shakespeare
11. Pygmalion - Bernard Shaw
12. Fallen Angels - Noel Coward
13. A Month in the Country - Ivan Turgenev - adapted into English by Emlyn Williams
14. Glengarry Glen Ross - David Mamet
15. A Midsummer Night’s Dream - William Shakespeare
16. A Vampire Story - Moira Buffini
17. Alice in Wonderland and Alice Through the Looking Glass - Lewis Carroll - dramatised by Adrian Mitchell
18. The Odd Couple (female version) - Neil Simon
19. The Beauty Queen of Leenane - Martin McDonagh
20. Antony and Cleopatra - William Shakespeare
21. Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead - Tom Stoppard
22. Gaslight - Patrick Hamilton
23. Cymbeline - William Shakespeare
24. Iron - Rona Munro
25. Confusions - Alan Ayckbourn
26. Much Ado About Nothing - William Shakespeare
27. I Hate Shakespeare - Steph DeFerie
28. Moonlight and Magnolias - Ron Hutchinson
29. Macbeth - William Shakespeare
30. Whipping It Up - Steve Thompson
31. Harvey - Mary Chase
32. Happy Days - Samuel Beckett
33. Days of Wine and Roses - Owen McCafferty
34. Henry V - William Shakespeare
35. Arabian Nights - adapted by Dominic Cooke
36. Vincent in Brixton - Nicholas Wright
37. The Real Thing - Tom Stoppard
38. Titus Andronicus - William Shakespeare
39. An Inspector Calls - J. B. Priestley

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