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SAVAGE vengeance, identical twins, pheasant poaching, Afro hairstyles and a very peculiar tramp make up The Octagon's new season for the autumn and winter.
Between September and March the theatre will produce The Merchant of Venice, The Venetian Twins, Danny The Champion of the World, Up Against the Wall and The Caretaker.
The line-up was unveiled on Friday night at the world premiere of Tanika Gupta's play, Meet The Mukherjees, see review on right.
The Merchant Of Venice, which runs from September 18 to October 11, will be produced by the Octagon's artistic director, Mark Babych.
Shakespeare's The Merchant Of Venice, a classic dark comedy of the super-rich at play, the lottery of love and savage bigotry, has been described as "truly a play for today".
The action centres around Antonio, who has borrowed money from the Jewish ursurer Shylock, and, unable to pay it back, finds himself at the mercy of a creditor determined to extract his pound of flesh.
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Remaining with a Venetian theme, from October 23 to November 15 Paul Hunter will direct the anarchic farce The Venetian Twins.
Hunter is known for his use of physical comedy that mixes the Marx Brothers with Fawlty Towers, and has won awards for
persecuted animals and a child who triumphs against the odds.
The autumn and winter season will be rounded off with a new collaboration between the Octagon and Nitro, the black musical theatre company who presented The Wedding Dance last year.
In Up Against The Wall, which runs from January 29 to February 28, two friends with plenty of ambition but very few brains hatch a plan to produce a flashback musical.
The show features classic funk and disco songs including Carwash, Superfly, Respect Yourself, One Nation Under a Groove and I Will Survive.
It was also announced that the first show of the Octagon's spring/summer 2009 season will be Harold Pinter's absurdist comedy, The Caretaker, which will run from March 5 to March 28.
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