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Artistic director Natalie Ibu has unveiled her first season at Northern Stage.
Explaining how it feels to be both joining an organisation and debuting a first season during a pandemic, Ibu stated: But – whilst a surprise twist – it s provided a brilliant opportunity to hit the ground running, collaborating with artists, with place, with the personal and the political to meet audiences wherever they are and then lead them back to our building when it s safe to do so.
As part of the season, a special series of micro-stories will be told, titled
Can We Come In?. Available on-demand from 27 January, the programme will commence with
Following the success of last Autumn s Dear Tomorrow, part of The Signal Fires project which celebrated the vibrancy of touring theatre across the UK, Actors Touring Company (ATC) has joined forces with Northern Stage for Dear Tomorrow - Hope From Home.
Running with one letter a day from February 22nd to 27th, the project comprises six letters of hope and optimism in these uncertain times, commissioned from six writers and performed digitally by six actors. The project extends the original concept of Dear Tomorrow, which was inspired by the American writer James Baldwin s powerful and emotive 1963 Letter To My Nephew and comprised three letters from three writers from around the globe sent to participants to perform for their own audiences, either at home or remotely.