Welcome to Omnibus Theatre’s 2018 Autumn season,
My hope is that every show in our Spring season has the potential to immerse you, our audience, in stories that resonate, entertain and inspire conversations.
The year opens with Well/Being, a panoramic mini-season exploring mental health unburdened from stigma. Playing On, Body Politic and Sarah Corbett unflinchingly confront lived experiences of mental health through new writing, dance and physical theatre.
Later in January award-winning director Kristine Landon-Smith radically revives Jean Anouilh’s The Orchestra in a classic production, revealing what lies behind a seemingly respectable facade.
96 Festival is back by popular demand in 2019! Six glittering events spanning neo-burlesque and poetry to drag, dance, workshops and voguing come together for one spectacular celebration of queerness and theatre. The festival is poignantly headlined by Sarah Chew’s vital new play Lipstick: A Fairy Tale of Iran, a fearless story of redemption in Tehran, Derry and London.
In April we pull back the curtain on Britain’s most divisive and celebrated socialist Tony Benn, in Andy Barrett’s astute exposé, Tony’s Last Tape, chronicling the ever-changing political landscape of the past 50 years through the lens of the late politician.
Drag performers, fathers and sons, service users, socialists and channel swimmers. I hope the compelling voices you discover in our theatre this Spring inspire you to tell your story too.
Marie McCarthy
Artistic Director
