Following the COVID-19 lockdown until 2 December, Chichester Festival Theatre has had to cancel or postpone some of the shows in the Autumn season.
However, they have confirmed they will be able to stream a number of performances to audiences at home; and after 2 December, their Christmas shows are scheduled to go ahead with some date alterations.
Chichester Festival Theatre are also planning their Spring 2021 season, looking ahead to early 2021, Hugh Dennis and Claire Skinner – who starred in the BBC’s hugely popular Outnumbered – will lead the cast of a new production of Michael Frayn’s multi award-winning classic comedy, Benefactors.
Directed by Charlotte Gwinner in a co-production with Jonathan Church Theatre Productions, and touring to Bath Theatre Royal, Cambridge Arts Theatre, Marlowe Theatre Canterbury, The Lowry Salford and Everyman Theatre Cheltenham after its Chichester run, Benefactors is a funny, gripping and wryly shrewd look at the unforeseen consequences of our best intentions.
The production will run at Chichester from 5 – 27 February, and booking will open in early January.
Streaming to audiences at home this Autumn will be:
Facing The Music: Sheila Hancock in conversation with Edward Seckerson, Wednesday 18 November at 2.30pm
Facing The Music: Michael Ball in conversation with Edward Seckerson, Wednesday 25 November at 2.30pm
Joe Stilgoe – Out of the Shed, Wednesday 25 November at 7.30pm
A new intimate show performed on the Festival Theatre stage – Joe’s own songs, classics from Jimmy Webb to Joni Mitchell to Stevie Wonder to Cole Porter – and the spotlight back on his first love, the piano.
A Merry Little Christmas Celebration, Friday 4 December.
Christmas shows to live, socially distanced audiences at CFT will now run as follows:
A Merry Little Christmas Celebration – New Dates:
Thursday 3 December – Saturday 5 December, Festival Theatre
Friday 4 December, 7.30pm, Live Stream
Dear Santa will play as originally scheduled:
5 – 24 December, Minerva Theatre at Chichester Festival Theatre
Pinocchio – New Dates:
16 December 2020 – 2 January 2021, Festival Theatre
There will be a Polish-translated performance of Pinocchio on 21 December at 7pm and a Relaxed Performance on Sunday 27 December at 2pm.
All remaining shows in the Autumn season have been cancelled. All ticket holders are being contacted with the option of exchanges, credits, refunds or donations.
