WEST End hits and some of the UK’s best touring theatres are among the autumn season highlights at Nuffield Southampton Theatres Campus.

Director Sam Hodges has unveiled the line up as work moves closer to completion on the theat’re’s new city centre venue.

1927’s Golem by Suzanne Andrade, which incorporates handmade animation, claymation and live music, opens on September 12.This is followed by Graeae’s hit punk rock musical, Reasons to be Cheerful, a gritty coming of age tale featuring hits from Ian Dury and the Blockheads.

In October, Bristol Old Vic and Royal & Derngate, Northampton present a new version of Harold Pinter’s classic, The Caretaker, followed by Fuel’s adaptation of the infamous coastal myth, The Hartlepool Monkey,.

Opening at NST on November 7 is Headlong’s critically-acclaimed People, Places and Things. The production premièred in 2015 at the National Theatre ahead of a sell-out West End run.

Frantic Assembly and State Theatre Company South Australia then present Andrew Bovell’s Things I Know To Be True.

Concluding the season is Rose Theatre Kingston’s Olivier Award nominated production of Jacqueline Wilson’s Hetty Feather. This West End hit directed by Sally Cookson opens at NST this December for a seven week Christmas run.

Tickets: 023 8067 1771 or nstheatres.co.uk