New Wolsey announces 2025 spring season
The New Wolsey Theatre in Ipswich has unveiled a diverse Spring 2025 programme - on general sale on November 2.
Next year, for the first time, the New Wolsey Theatre is collaborating internationally, with a major new production of Michael Frayn’s legendary comedy Noises Off, co-produced by New Wolsey Theatre, Les Théâtres de la Ville de Luxembourg, and Theatre By The Lake. With a run in Ipswich from May 1 to 24, this wildly hilarious, fast-paced comedy takes you behind the curtain of a chaotic touring theatre company, desperately trying to maintain their composure and regain any shred of credibility. This comedy classic will also play dates in Cumbria and Luxembourg, reinforcing the New Wolsey Theatre’s reputation in the UK and abroad.
Celebrating creativity from closer to home, Feel Me, presented by The Paper Birds and New Wolsey Theatre, returns to Ipswich on January 28 to 29. Previously performed as a work in development, this interactive show made with, and for, young people asks - via audience members’ mobile phones - who and what they care about from the stories unfolding live on stage. The Paper Birds, who are part of the New Wolsey Theatre’s inaugural Associate Artists programme, are an Essex-based devising theatre company, with a social and political agenda.
Other dramatic delights include the classic Pride & Prejudice, presented by Guildford Shakespeare Theatre Company, epic non-verbal show, Last Rites, Alan Ayckbourn’s emotionally charged Just Between Ourselves presented by London Classic Theatre, the return of Boy on the Roof, the inspirational Driftwood, Middle Ground Theatre Company’s Scottish farce Dial M for Mayhem, and the heartwarming Spitfire Girls.
Top musical theatre entertainment follows, with John Barr playing Lionel Bart in It’s A Fine Life, and a chance to catch the new 90s indie musical How Soon is Now? presented by Box of Tricks Theatre Company.
June heralds a string of hit comedies, with the hilarious drama about a family-run Korean store - Kim’s Convenience, the return of New Wolsey Theatre favourites Le Navet Bete and Barbican Theatre presenting Treasure Island, and further laughter from A Shoddy Detective and the Art of Deception from Shoddy Theatre.
A whole host of one-night music, comedy, drama and family shows is, as always, studded throughout the programme.
Note: The season will include Relaxed/Dementia-friendly, Captioned, and BSL interpreted performances, as well as a Touch Tour for Noises Off. The New Wolsey Theatre intends to announce details of additional access services for Noises Off in due course.