Sheffield Theatres
Coordinates: 53°22′52″N 1°28′01″W / 53.381°N 1.467°W
Sheffield Theatres is a theatre complex in Sheffield, South Yorkshire comprising three theatres: the Crucible, the Lyceum and the Crucible Studio. These theatres make up the largest regional theatre complex outside of the London region and show a variety of in-house and touring productions.
Artistic Directors
- 1981-1992 - Clare Venables
- 2000-2005 - Michael Grandage
- 2005-2007 - Samuel West
- 2009 Onwards - Daniel Evans
Pinter: A Celebration
On 18 August 2006, Sheffield Theatres announced Pinter: A Celebration, to take place for a month from 11 October through 11 November 2006. The program features selected productions of Harold Pinter's plays (in order of presentation): The Caretaker, No Man's Land, Family Voices, Tea Party, The Room, One for the Road and The Dumb Waiter; films (most his screenplays; some in which Pinter appears as an actor): The Go-Between, Accident, The Birthday Party, The French Lieutenant's Woman, Reunion, Mojo, The Servant, The Pumpkin Eater; and other related program events: "Pause for Thought" (Penelope Wilton and Douglas Hodge in conversation with Michael Billington), "Ashes to Ashes –– A Cricketing Celebration", a "Pinter Quiz Night", "The New World Order", the BBC2 documentary film Arena: Harold Pinter (introd. Anthony Wall, producer of Arena), and "The New World Order –– A Pause for Peace" (a consideration of "Pinter's pacifist writing" [both poems and prose] supported by the Sheffield Quakers), and a screening of "Pinter's passionate and antagonistic 45-minute Nobel Prize Lecture."[1]
References
- ↑ See "Latest News: August 2006: Sheffield Theatres Presents Pinter: A Celebration", sheffieldtheatres.co.uk 18 August 2006, accessed 28 September 2006.