Park Theatre announces five new shows for Summer 2024

The Park Theatre has announced five new shows for their Summer 2024 season.

The additions include two new Make Mine A Double performances exploring themes of identity, desire and lifestyle in small places; a kids comedy show about dreaming for the whole family; a revival of one of August Strindberg’s most famous dramas, Miss Julie; and award-winning comedian Ivo Graham who presents his new theatre show.

The Make Mine a Double programme presents double bills of shows that aim to give theatre makers a lower-cost and lower-risk way of producing new work in the Finsbury Park venue, as well as offering multi-buy tickets to encourage local audiences to see compelling new work.

Following The Light House and Sun Bear in April, two new shows have been added for May: Cold Water (14 May – 1 June, Park90) is a play about wanting things so much you can’t do anything about them. In Sniff (14 – 24 May, Park90) two strangers meet in a pub toilet in a small town that no one cares about, but as the door locks a dark connection begins to unearth itself.

Mr Sleepybum (28 May – 2 June) will play in Park200 and comes direct from a sell-out run at the Edinburgh Fringe 2023. Mr Sleepybum is a high-energy interactive kids show that the whole family will enjoy.

Award winning comedian Ivo Graham presents new theatre show Carousel (4 – 7 June). The show is a searingly direct, exquisitely soundtracked exploration of the places in his life that he aches to revisit again. Inspired by a quote from Mad Men, the show steps away from the frivolity of his stand-up and invites the audience to delve into the story of his life.

Lidless Theatre return to Park90 this Summer with a revival of August Strindberg’s masterpiece Miss Julie (7 June – 6 July). Grippingly funny and beguilingly dangerous, the drama examines sex, power, gender and control in Sweden on Midsummer’s Eve, 1888.

The shows join the two previously announced shows in Park Theatre’s summer season: A Song of Songs in Park200 (9 May – 15 June) and The Marilyn Conspiracy (19 Jun – 27 Jul, Park200).

Park Theatre’s current (previously announced) season includes: Whodunnit [Unrehearsed] where a special celebrity guest plays the Inspector in Jez Bond and Mark Cameron’s murder mystery; a two-part adaptation of The Forsyte Saga; Hide and Seek, a play about bullying, homophobia, and the impact of social media by Tobia Rossi (12 to 30 March).