Hampstead Theatre announces three World Premieres For 2022, featuring new plays By Florian Zeller (translated by Christopher Hampton), Alexis Zegerman and Roy Williams.
The Forest by Florian Zeller, translated by Christopher Hampton, with direction by Jonathan Kent, will run from 4 February until 12 March.
The Fever Syndrome by Alexis Zegerman, directed by Hampstead Theatre’s Artistic Director, Roxana Silbert, will run from 18 March until 23 April.
The Fellowship by Roy Williams, directed by Paulette Randall, will run from 17 June until 23 July.
Priority Booking opens today at 10.30am. Public Booking opens on Friday 19 November at 10.30am. Further details are available via hampsteadtheatre.com.
Roxana Silbert, Artistic Director of Hampstead Theatre, said:
“I am delighted to be announcing three world premieres today for 2022. Since its inception, Hampstead Theatre has been a home for dramatists and a centre for presenting new plays in front of audiences for the first time. I’m very excited to be welcoming some incredible artists to our Main Stage. Each has a rich and unique story to share about family, love and relationships. I’m especially delighted to be welcoming Roy and Alexis back to Hampstead, and deeply honoured that Florian has chosen Hampstead for his new play – the first to receive its world premiere outside of France.
It will have been two years since we offered a new play on the Main Stage and it is a profound joy to be able to do so for our amazing audiences who have remained so loyal during difficult times.”
The Forest is an uncompromising and mysterious new play by the multi-award-winning French novelist, playwright, theatre director, screenwriter, and film director, Florian Zeller. It is translated by his long-time collaborator, Christopher Hampton and directed by Jonathan Kent, who re-unites with Zeller after his production of The Height of the Storm, which was critically acclaimed in London (2018) and on Broadway (2019).
The Fever Syndrome, Alexis Zegerman’s vivid, new play directed by the theatre’s Artistic Director, Roxana Silbert, is a thrilling portrait of a brilliantly dysfunctional family.
The world premiere of Roy Williams’ The Fellowship, directed by Paulette Randall, is, by turns, an electrifying, hilarious, gripping tale set in modern Britain.
Hampstead Theatre is currently staging the astonishing Pulitzer Prize-winning play ‘night, Mother by Marsha Norman. Featuring Stockard Channing and Rebecca Night, with direction by the theatre’s Artistic Director, Roxana Silbert, ‘night, Mother is running until 4 December 2021.
The world premiere of little scratch, by Rebecca Watson, in an adaptation by Miriam Battye, directed by Katie Mitchell, is currently running at Hampstead Theatre Downstairs until 11 December. little scratch is a fearless and exhilarating account of a woman’s consciousness over the course of 24 hours, with sound score by Melanie Wilson, featuring Morónkẹ́ Akinọlá, Eleanor Henderson, Eve Ponsonby and Ragevan Vasan.
