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. A Midsummer Night’s Dream - William Shakespeare
2. A Vampire Story - Moira Buffini
3. Alice in Wonderland and Alice Through the Looking Glass - Lewis Carroll - dramatised by Adrian Mitchell
4. The Odd Couple (female version) - Neil Simon
5. The Beauty Queen of Leenane - Martin McDonagh
6. Antony and Cleopatra - William Shakespeare
7. Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead - Tom Stoppard
8. Gaslight - Patrick Hamilton
9. Cymbeline - William Shakespeare
10. Iron - Rona Munro
11. Confusions - Alan Ayckbourn
12. Much Ado About Nothing - William Shakespeare
13. I Hate Shakespeare - Steph DeFerie
14. Moonlight and Magnolias - Ron Hutchinson
15. Macbeth - William Shakespeare
16. Whipping It Up - Steve Thompson
17. Harvey - Mary Chase
18. Happy Days - Samuel Beckett
19. Days of Wine and Roses - Owen McCafferty
20. Henry V - William Shakespeare
21. Arabian Nights - adapted by Dominic Cooke
22. Vincent in Brixton - Nicholas Wright
23. The Real Thing - Tom Stoppard
24. Titus Andronicus - William Shakespeare
25. An Inspector Calls - J. B. Priestley

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