The Southbury Child

Since he launched the Bridge Theatre, Nicholas Hytner has mostly stuck to directing the venue's very good immersive Shakespeare productions. But now he's taking on a new play that takes the slightly unlikely subject of a struggling rural priest. 'The Southbury Child' is written by Stephen Beresford, whose play 'The Last of the Haussmans' was a hit under Hytner's regime at the NT. It'll star Alex Jennings as a drunken, raffish man who finds that he's losing the faith of his parishioners.