Artistic Director Daniel Evans and Executive Director Kathy Bourne have announced Chichester Festival Theatre's Festival 2020 an exciting season which includes five world premieres, two musicals, and major revivals of great modern dramas.
Ticket prices have been frozen at 2019 levels
across the board, and well once again have 20,000 tickets at £10 in the Festival Theatre and over
10,000 £5 PROLOGUE tickets for 16 25 year olds.
The Minerva
Theatre offers a feast of new and modern drama. The Unfriend is an original new play written by Steven Moffat and
directed by Mark Gatiss, the team behind TVs Sherlock. Suhayla El-Bushra
has adapted Andrea Levys great novel The Long Song; and we have another
new play by US playwright Christopher Shinn, The Narcissist. Two comedies, Penelope Skinners The
Village Bike and Tom Stoppards The Real Thing, complete the
line-up.
In the Festival
Theatre, Brechts powerful The Life of
Galileo is followed by The Prime of
Miss Jean Brodie based on Muriel Sparks much-loved novel. This years
classic summer musical will be Rodgers and Hammersteins beloved South
Pacific never before staged at CFT. Chichesters world-renowned novelist
Kate Mosse has adapted her own book The Taxidermists Daughter, set in and
around historic Chichester; and Stephen Sondheim and John Weidmans darkly
comic musical Assassins marks
the composers 90th year.
The Chichester
Spiegeltent returns this autumn to house Sarah Kanes Crave, before
another season of music, cabaret and family entertainment to be announced later
this year. For Christmas, Chichester Festival Youth Theatre present Anna
Ledwichs brand new adaptation of Pinocchio.
Among the excellent 2020 acting company are Amanda Abbington, Frances Barber, Gina Beck, Richard Coyle, Lisa Dillon, Henry Goodman, Rob Houchen, Julian Ovenden, Reece Shearsmith and Cherrelle Skeete.