New Director Announces Entire Year of Theatre
Made At The Mercury
New Artistic Director Daniel Buckroyd has announced his inaugural year at the Mercury Theatre with an exciting new Season Ticket. The Made In Colchester 2013 Season promises audiences can enjoy A Year of Theatre from Only £12 A Show with a Gold Season Ticket, saving up to £145.50, more than 50% off regular ticket prices, when booking all 11 shows at once.
“If you’ve been coming to the Mercury for years you will already know the exceptional quality of the theatre’s ‘home-grown’ work, and in announcing my first season as Artistic Director, I wanted to take this opportunity to celebrate the talented team of theatre-makers we’ve got working behind the scenes here in Colchester, marking the Mercury out as one of the leading producing theatres in the country. And what a season we’ve got for you!”
The season starts in the Main House with Intimate Exchanges, Alan Ayckbourn’s uproariously funny sequence of comedies, in which just two actors play eight characters across four separate but linked plays that’ll be popping up throughout Spring and Summer.
Musicals will return to the Mercury, with full-scale productions of both Melvyn Bragg & Howard Goodall’s achingly beautiful The Hired Man and the hilarious, new, 1960s-set musical comedy The Opinion Makers; as well as a Mercury Young Company production of The Who’s Quadrophenia and a Studio production of the laugh-out-loud Garage Band featuring live Punk!
There’s a great mix of drama with Alan Bennett’s multi award-winning The History Boys; a new adaptation of the incredibly moving The Butterfly Lion by War Horse author Michael Morpurgo; and a compelling and highly-topical pairing of The Good Person Of Sichuan by Bertolt Brecht in the Main House and Man To Man by Manfred Karge in the Studio.
And then it’s Pantomime time again, with Sleeping Beauty promising adventure, romance and LOTS of laughs.
Plus, alongside our Made In Colchester season, we’ll still be playing host to a wide range of visiting drama, music, comedy and more, and continuing to welcome many community groups into our theatre, so watch out for our twice-yearly What’s On Guide, packed with information about the full range of things you can see and do at the theatre.
Gold and Silver Season Tickets are on sale from Thursday 22 November to Mercury Supporters - Priority Plus, Friends, Champions, Patrons and Corporates. To find out more about joining (from as little as £26 per year / 50p per week) please call 01206 573948 or visit www.mercurytheatre.co.uk
Gold and Silver Season Tickets are on general sale from 10am on Monday 3 December from the Box Office on 01206 573948 and online at www.mercurytheatre.co.uk - just in time to make a year of theatre the perfect Christmas present for your loved ones!
Individual tickets for the Made In Colchester 2013 Season along with the visiting programme of drama, music, comedy and more are on sale from 10am Thursday 3 January.
