Coming of age at Hampstead
INTERVIEW - TONY CLARK: ARTISTIC DIRECTOR OF HAMPSTEAD
TONY Clark believes the Swiss Cottage venue has finally come of age.
He now predicts the autumn-winter season, which starts this week, will be the best he has worked on at the theatre.
He said: “It is no secret we were in financial difficulty when the theatre first opened.
“But over the past two years audiences have increased and we are working with other theatres to co-produce plays as showcases for the West End. Our last play, Alan Plater’s Blonde Bombshells was a new adaptation originally from Bolton.”
He added: “The theatre is a resource for the community. It is important to gear plays towards the people who live here.”
The season starts with an adaptation of the novelist Jonathan Saffron Foer’s Everything is Illuminated by Simon Block. It is followed by an adaptation of Christopher Marlowe’s Faustus and a new piece of writing called The Glass Room directed by Tony Clark himself.
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