Spring Season Announced

05 December 2011 ← return to listing

We're delighted to announce our Spring Season 2012, six jam-packed months featuring the best new drama, writing events and dance.

We also welcome our new Artistic Director, Orla O'Loughlin, to the Traverse in January. One of Orla's first projects at the Traverse will be curating Write Here, a mini-festival of readings, workshops and writing events which will run in April. We'll be announcing details later on in the season, so keep an eye out.

The Manipulate Visual Theatre Festival is back in early February, with some of the most avant-garde physical theatre, puppetry and animation to be seen anywhere in the UK this year. Highlights include work from France, Germany, Austria, England, Czech Republic and Russia.

Other highlights from the season include Grid Iron's Barflies  (pictured), drawn from the stories of Charles Bukowski and set in Edinburgh's Barony Bar, and the return of Catherine Wheel's White, one of the most universally-loved shows at the 2010 Edinburgh Festival Fringe. 

Magnetic North's hugely successful 'sort of' opera, Pass the Spoon,  gets an exclusive run at the Traverse before heading to the Southbank Centre. A spectacular collaboration between visual artist David Shrigley, award-winning composer David Fennessy and acclaimed director Nicholas Bone. Don't miss it.

David Greig will curate a six week season of A Play, A Pie and A Pint, a series on the revolution that changed the world, with plays from Syria, Lebanon, Morocco, Tunisia and Libya.

We're very excited about For Once, Tim Price's debut play directed by Orla O'Loughlin for Pentabus, which has its Scottish premiere at the Traverse. Tim's play Salt, Root and Roe is currently running at the Domnar Trafalgar Season and The Radicalisation of Bradley Manning will be produced by National Theatre Wales in 2012.

There is work exploring multi-cultural Britain today, with Tamasha's production of Snookered by Ishy Din and Ankur's Mwana, by Tawona Sitholé. 

Celebrated Irish companies return to the Traverse this Spring, Gare St Lazare Players perform Samuel Beckett's short story, The End, and Blue Raincoat are back with Ionesco's absurdist masterpiece, The Chairs. 

We're delighted to have some of the UK's most exciting dance companies with us, with work from Errol White Company, iam, Curious Seed's PUSH and Colette Sadler's Stammer Productions, with I Not I.

The Traverse Theatre Company heads out on the road in 2012, with one of our biggest hits of recent years, Midsummer [a play with songs], touring Australia for three months. The show has toured to Canada, Washington, Ireland as well as around the UK, since it was premiered at the Traverse in 2008.

Check out full listings of our Spring Season on the What's On section of the site.

We hope to see you here over the coming months!

Barflies photo by Douglas Jones.