The REP have put tickets on sale for the second half of the year. What’s more, they’ve written an eminently copy/paste-able  round-up in a blog post about it. That’s always good to see.

Highlights include:

• A new production of the sci-fi spoof Little Shop Of Horrors
• Sir Tom Stoppard’s adaptation of The Cherry Orchard starring Josie Lawrence
• The premiere of an imaginative and high tech drama First Person Shooter
• Direct from the West End and Broadway, Lucy Prebble’s award-winning ENRON
• The National Theatre production of Alan Bennett’s The Habit Of Art
• Simon Stephens returns to The REP with the outstanding Punk Rock
• A witty story about friendship and betrayal amongst IRA sympathisers The Big Fellah
• Our lavish Christmas production The Secret Garden

Tickets for all productions are onsale now – see the full programme of events.

I feel a bit daft for not mentioning this earlier because it finishes tomorrow (Sunday 15 June).

Behind Closed Doors were given an area of rough ground just behind the Custard Factory and on it they’ve installed a couple of shipping containers and (in my prosaic language) done something arty.  In their (more betterer) words The Secret Garden is:

Reflecting on the regeneration of the surrounding industrial landscape, the familiar and iconic image of the shipping container has been transformed into an art object as a strategy for an encounter exploring function, transformation and fictional narrative.

Behind Closed Doors have been documenting the whole thing on their website, which features a few time-lapse videos and some of Pete Ashton’s photos.

They’re wrapping things up with a closing BBQ at 4pm and promise sun, sounds and sausages.  If you go down you’re encouraged to take a bottle.