Trevor Nunn to direct Agnes Colander: An Attempt At Life at Jermyn Street

Trevor Nunn is to direct Harley Granville Barker's play Agnes Colander: An Attempt At Life at the Jermyn Street Theatre in February.

Barker's play, which premiered in the Ustinov Studio at Theatre Royal Bath, is about Agnes Colander, who, three years after she leaves her unfaithful husband, received a letter ordering that she returns home. Instead, she flees to France where a host of new and exciting people enter her life.

Nunn, one of Britain's most celebrated directors and former artistic director at the Royal Shakespeare Company and National Theatre, directed the production in Bath, and said he "hopes everybody who cares about the history of English drama will be as excited as we are".

Speaking of the play, which was written in 1900 but discovered around a century later, Nunn said: "Through revivals of his plays like Waste, The Voysey Inheritance and The Madras House, we have come to recognise Harley Granville-Barker as one of the great dramatists of the previous century.  So when a totally unknown, unpublished, full-length play by Barker was discovered recently, it was a momentous development."

When the play received its London premiere from 12^th February to 16^th March, it will have designs by Robert Jones, lighting by Paul Pyant, sound by Fergus O'Hare, and music by Steve Edis. Casting, which is yet to be announced, will be by Ginny Schiller.

Agnes Colander: An Attempt At Life is at the Jermyn Street Theatre from 12^th February to 16^th March.