'Few leading fringe theatres have walked off with so many awards or promoted such a rich variety of writers as the Finborough' - Jeremy Malies, Plays International
Music
'The Finborough Theatre has developed a reputation out of all proportion to its tiny size. It has played its part in the careers of many remarkable playwrights, directors, and actors' - Alastair Macaulay, Financial Times
Movies
'The Finborough is cementing a long tradition of top-flight work with its programme of modern classics alongside some bold new writing' - Ian Herbert, The Stage
Television
'Earl’s Court rather than the South Bank seems the place to find the internationally-minded repertory due from a national theatre company.' - Timothy Ramsden, Reviewsgate.com
Books
'Institutions, big and small, were run by people with flair; not just Nicholas Hytner and Michael Boyd at the flagships (the National and the RSC), but Sam West in Sheffield, Jonathan Church at Chichester, Neil McPherson at the Finborough, Sam Walters at the Orange Tree.' -
Michael Billington, The Guardian - Review of the Year 2006
Heroes
“Neil McPherson is one to watch. Since he took over the running of the Finborough Theatre in 1999, the young Scotsman has transformed this small room above an Earls Court pub into a blazing beacon of intelligent endeavour, nurturing new writers while finding and reviving neglected curiosities from home and abroad.” - Dominic Cavendish, The Telegraph
Founded in 1980, the multi-award-winning Finborough Theatre - led by Artistic Director Neil McPherson - presents new British writing, UK premieres of overseas drama, particularly from the United States, Ireland, Canada and Australia, music theatre and an idiosyncratic selection of unjustly neglected work from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
The Finborough Theatre also runs a vibrant Literary Department, a Resident Assistant Director Programme and the acclaimed Celebrating British Musical Theatre series.
“A disproportionately valuable component of the London theatre ecology. Its programme combines new writing and revivals, in selections intelligent and audacious." Ian Shuttleworth, Financial Times
“One of the most stimulating venues in London, fielding a programme that is a bold mix of trenchant, politically thought-provoking new drama and shrewdly chosen revivals of neglected works from the past.” Paul Taylor, The Independent
Music on this profile is Rodgers and Hammerstein's STATE FAIR which recieves its professional European Premiere at the Finborough Theatre in August 2009.
Just dropping by to say Hi and see what you’re up to and how you are doing.
As always, wishing you well. Stay positive, productive & purpose driven.
Peace
Michael
Le Cirque Presents the Social Surrealist farce Los Bancos – The Immoral Haze Part 1 to be Broadcast on Resonance 104.4 FM resonancefm.com Thursday, March 26th @ 8 pm and Part 2 on Friday 27th @ 8pm (See Le Cirque Blog for Blurb)
