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www.learnpremium.co.uk Learning resources for English, drama and more EducationGuardian.co.uk/ primaryresources 06.01.04 Planning school trips Now that’s what I call a class trip Ding dong, the panto season is almost dead. Now theatres can get back to the serious business of staging the great works. Lyndsey Turner offers a guide for schools on the dramatic year ahead

Abigail's Party by Mike Leigh , Peacocks Centre, Woking, GU21 6GQ Telephone 01483 545 900 www.theambassadors.com/ newvictoria March 29 to April 3 Tickets from £10 to £24

All My Sons by Oxford Playhouse, Beaumont Street, Oxford OX1 2LW Telephone 01865 305305 www.oxfordplayhouse.com February 4-7 Tickets from £7 to £12

All My Sons by Arthur Miller Library Theatre, Central Library, St Peter's Square, Manchester, M2 5PD Telephone 0161-236 7110 www.librarytheatre.com February 6 to March 13 Tickets from £8 to £17.50

Antigone by Sophocles (adapted by Jonathan Shelley) Everyman Theatre, Regent Street, Cheltenham, GL50 1HQ Telephone 01242 572573 www.everymantheatre.org.uk February 25 to March 6 Tickets from £7.50

Blood Brothers by Willy Russell Phoenix Theatre, Charing Cross Road, , WC2H OJP Telephone 020-7369 1733 www.theambassadors.com/ phoenix Ongoing Tickets from £15 to £40

The Buddha of Suburbia by Hanif Kureishi The Lowry, Pier 8, Salford Quays, The Crucible by Arthur Miller A new adaptation of Ibsen's His Dark Materials by Philip The Importance of Being Earnest by M50 3AZ The Crucible Theatre, Norfolk Street, masterpiece by the award-winning Pullman (adapted by Nicholas Oscar Wilde Telephone: 0870-787 5790 Sheffield, S1 1DA playwright Bryony Lavery is touring Wright) Theatre Royal, Bath, BA1 1ET www.lowry.com Telephone 0114-24960000 throughout February and March with National Theatre, South Bank, London, Telephone 01225 448844 February 18-21 www.sheffieldtheatres.co.uk Tara Fitzgerald in the lead. Catch it also SE1 9PX www.theatreroyal.org.uk Tickets from £14 to £16 February 4-28 at the Theatre Royal in Bath (01225 Telephone 020-7452 3030 February 16-28 Tickets from £1 to £15 448844) and at the Theatre Royal www.nationaltheatre.org.uk Tickets from £11.50 to £26.50 Cat on a Hot Tin Roof by Brighton (01273 328488). To March 20 Death of a Salesman by Arthur Tickets from £10 to £34 ALSO AT: , Yvonne Arnaud Theatre, Millbrook, Miller In Mind by Poetic Justice Marlborough Gate, Milton Keynes, Guildford GU1 3UX Royal Lyceum Theatre, Grindlay Street, The , The The long-awaited National Theatre MK9 3NZ Telephone: 01483 440000 Edinburgh, EH3 9AX Broadway, London, SW19 1QG production of Philip Pullman's feted Telephone 01908 606090 www.yvonne-arnaud.co.uk Telephone 0131-248 4848 Telephone 0870-060 6646 trilogy suffered a rocky start, with www.theambassadors.com/ March 22-27 www.lyceum.org.uk www.theambassadors.com/ technical problems that resulted in the miltonkeynes Tickets from £11 to £23 February 7 to March 6 wimbledonstudio postponement of its theatrical run. March 8-13 Tickets from £2 to £20 February 17 to March 2 Nicholas Hytner's critics have already Tickets from £10 to £24 The Constant Wife by Tickets from £6.50 to £10 declared the books “unstageable", but Somerset Maugham A Doll's House by the audience reaction to the two-part Journey's End by R C Sherriff Theatre Royal, New Road, Brighton, (adapted by Bryony Lavery) Based on Shakespeare's original, this adaptation speaks for itself. This is an Comedy Theatre, Panton Street, BN1 1SD , Leven Street, Edinburgh, production promises a modern take on inspirational theatrical take on the most London, SW1Y 4DN Telephone: 01273 328488 EH3 9LQ Hamlet's madness. The piece revolves original children's books of the past Telephone 020-7369 1731 www.theambassadors.com/ Telephone 0131-529 6000 around a 20th-century protagonist who 50 years and comes highly www.theambassadors.com/ theatreroyal www.eft.co.uk finds his mid-life crisis bound up with recommended for school pupils of all comedy February 23-28 February 17-21 the mental decline of his Renaissance ages (and for A-level Miltonists in January 15 to March 6 Tickets from £13 to £22 Tickets from £9.50 to £18.50 counterpart. particular). Tickets from £10 to £37.50 “Academics in a £3,000 13 department will argue for more money than you — and they’ll get it” Career doctor Back page

King Lear by William Shakespeare Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens www.theambassadors.com/churchill Playhouse, Greenwich High (adapted by Neil Bartlett) April 6-10 Road, London, SE10 8JA Theatre Royal, Sawclose, Bath, Tickets from £9.50 to £13.50 Telephone 020-8858 9256 BA1 1ET www.galleontheatre.co.uk Telephone 01225 448844 The Trojan Women by Euripides January 20 to February 15 www.theatreroyal.org.uk (adapted by Femi Osofisan) Tickets from £10 April 13-17 Salisbury Playhouse, Malthouse Lane, Tickets from £8 to £19.50 Salisbury, SP2 7RA Les Liaisons Dangereuses by Telephone 01722 320333 Choderlos de Laclos (adapted by Othello by William Shakespeare www.salisburyplayhouse.com Christopher Hampton) Oxford Playhouse, Beaumont Street, February 10-14 , Northumberland Oxford OX1 2LW Tickets from £8.50 Avenue, London, WC2 5DE Telephone 01865 305305 Telephone 020-7369 1785 www.oxfordplayhouse.com Adapted by one of Nigeria's leading www.theambassadors.com/playhouse March 23-27 writers, and staged with a multicultural To March 27 Tickets from £13 to £22 cast, this production deals with the Tickets from £8 to £40 struggles of women in times of war. Typical. You wait years for a quality Macbeth by William Shakespeare production of Othello, then two come by Henry Royal Shakespeare Theatre, Waterside, along at once. Cheek by Jowl is touring James (adapted by Patrick Prior) Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire, its show (with Nonso Anozie in the lead) New Wolsey Theatre, Civic Drive, CV37 6BB around Europe between March and Ipswich, IP1 2AS Telephone 01789 403403 October, playing at five UK venues Telephone 01473 295900 www.rsc.org.uk (www.cheekbyjowl.com). www.wolseytheatre.co.uk March 6 to October 2 January 30 to February 7 Tickets from £5 to £40 Othello by William Shakespeare Tickets from £5.95 to £21.50 Swan Theatre, Waterside, Stratford- Part of the RSC's 2004 Tragedies upon-Avon, Warwickshire, CV37 6BB Twelfth Night by William Season, this is directed by Dominic Telephone 01789 403403 Shakespeare Cooke, whose dark, brooding www.rsc.org.uk Cambridge , St Edward's production of The Malcontent was a hit February 11 to April 3 Passage, Cambridge, CB2 3PJ in Stratford and London last year. Look Tickets from £5 to £40 Telephone 01223 503333 out for the RSC's Hamlet and King Lear, www.cambridgeartstheatre.com which open in early summer. With Antony Sher as Iago and Sello March 2-6 Maake ka Ncube as Othello, the RSC's Tickets from £5 to £15 Mother Courage and Her Children production of Shakespeare's work on by Bertolt Brecht (adapted by revenge and betrayal promises to be Under Milk Wood by Dylan Thomas Oladipo Agboluaje) one of the highlights of the year. If Warwick Arts Centre, University of Nottingham Playhouse, Wellington successful, the play will almost certainly Warwick, Coventry, CV4 7AL Circus, Nottingham, NG1 5AF hit London in 2005. Tickets are selling Telephone 0247 6524524 Telephone 0115-941 9419 out already. www.warwickartscentre.co.uk www.nottinghamplayhouse.co.uk February 24-28 February 6-21 Paradise Lost by John Milton Tickets from £12 to £16.50 Tickets from £5 to £19 (adapted by David Farr) , King Street, Bristol, The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth ALSO AT: Everyman Theatre, Regent BS1 4ED Romeo and Juliet by William The Taming of the Shrew by William Grahame (adapted by Alan Bennett) Street, Cheltenham, GL50 1HQ Telephone 0117 987 7877 Shakespeare Shakespeare West Playhouse, Playhouse Telephone 01242 572573 www.bristol-old-vic.co.uk Royal Shakespeare Theatre, Waterside, Queen's Theatre, Shaftesbury Avenue, Square, Quarry Hill, Leeds LS2 7UP www.everymantheatre.org.uk January 30 to February 21 Stratford-upon-Avon, CV37 6BB London, W1V 8BA Telephone 0113-213 7700 March 9-13 Tickets from £5 to £20 Telephone 01789 403403 Telephone 020-7494 5040 www.wyplayhouse.co.uk Tickets from £6 to £17 www.rsc.org.uk January 14 to March 6 To February 14 An adaptation featuring dance, March 25 to October 1 Tickets from £22.50 to £40 Tickets from £9 to £27 Set in modern day Africa, this version of movement, film and aerial Tickets from £5 to £40 Brecht's play about profit and choreography. The production contains A Taste of Honey by Shelagh The Woman in Black by Susan Hill responsibility has been touring some nudity — as you might expect Shakespeare's R & J (adapted by Delaney The Regent Theatre, Piccadilly, Stoke- throughout 2003. Its setting explores from the prelapsarian Adam and Eve — Joe Calarco) York Theatre Royal, St Leonard's Place, on-Trent ST1 1AP the effects of war and the morality of but is suitable for pupils from 14 West Yorkshire Playhouse, Playhouse York, YO1 7HD Telephone 01782 213800 trade in a modern context. upwards. A gala night is also planned; Square, Quarry Hill, Leeds, LS2 7UP Telephone 01904 623568 www.theambassadors.com/regent Do you have the skills and commitment to lead the Science Learning Centre for the check the website for details. Telephone 0113-213 7700 www.yorktheatreroyal.co.uk March 22-27 East of England? Much Ado About Nothing by William www.wyplayhouse.co.uk March 16 to April 3 Tickets from £7 to £19.50 Shakespeare Private Lives by Noel Coward February 23-28 Tickets from £3.50 to £17 Theatre Royal, Bath, BA1 1ET Derby Playhouse, Eagle Centre, Derby, Tickets from £7.50 to £23 ALSO AT: , Russell Telephone 01225 448844 DE1 2NF Three Sisters by Anton Chekhov Street, London, WC2B 5HH Director www.theatreroyal.org.uk Telephone 01332 363275 ALSO AT: The Hawth, Hawth Avenue, Oxford Playhouse, Beaumont Street, Telephone 020 7369 1737 Salary: £45,454 - £53,376 pa (Ref: W1217XG) March 3-6 www.derbyplayhouse.co.uk Crawley, RH10 6YZ Oxford, OX1 2LW www.womaninblack.com Tickets from £10 to £20 March 6 to April 3 Telephone 01293 553636 Telephone 01865 305305 To August 7 Deputy Director Tickets from £8 to £20 www.hawth.co.uk www.oxfordplayhouse.com Tickets from £12.50 to £32.50 Salary: £32,125 - £46,579 pa (Ref: W1216XG) As part of the Bath Shakespeare March 15-20 March 10-13 Festival, Germany's Bremer The Rivals by Richard Brinsley Tickets from £7 to £17.50 Tickets from £7 to £12 The Wonderful Life and Miserable Shakespeare Company has been Sheridan Death of the Renowned Magician Dr invited to the UK to perform its staging New Wolsey Theatre, Civic Drive, Following its acclaimed run at the Arts Time and the Conways by Faustus by Christopher Marlowe of Much Ado (set in French colonial Ipswich, IP1 2AS Theatre in London (and its sell-out JB Priestley (adapted by Carl Grose) For a pack containing both job descriptions and further details of this prestigious North Africa) in English. Find out more Telephone 01473 295900 residency in New York), Shakespeare's Kings Theatre, Leven Street, Edinburgh National Theatre, South Bank, London, initiative, please telephone the 24-hour recruitment line on (01707) 284802 about the festival at www.bathshake www.wolseytheatre.co.uk R & J begins a national tour. The EH3 9LQ SE1 9PX quoting the relevant job reference. speare.org.uk February 10-14 production focuses on the experiences Telephone 0131-529 6000 Telephone 020-7452 3030 Closing date for applications: 26 January 2004 Tickets from £5.95 to £18.50 of four boys at a repressive boarding www.eft.co.uk www.nationaltheatre.org.uk Much Ado About Nothing by William school who begin to meet in order to February 10-14 February 10-25 Shakespeare ALSO AT: Blackpool Grand Theatre, read from Shakespeare's play. Whilst Tickets from £9.50 to £18.50 Tickets from £4 Byre Theatre, Abbey Street, 33 Church Street, Blackpool, older pupils will leave the theatre feeling St Andrews, KY16 9LA FY1 1HT invigorated by the show's emphasis on Tom's Midnight Garden by Philippa An hour-long show featuring puppets Telephone 01334 475000 Telephone 01253 290 190 young love and intergenerational Pearce (adapted by David Wood) and live music, which updates Faustus www.byretheatre.com www.blackpoolgrand.co.uk conflict, the production may be too , High Street, Bromley, for a young audience. A co-production February 26 to March 13 March 9-13 explicit in its treatment of homosexuality BR1 1HA with the Theatre Royal Plymouth, where Tickets from £7 to £14.50; children £5 Tickets from £13.50 to £15.50 foryounger audiences. Telephone 0870-060 6620 youcan catch it in early February.