FOUR world premieres will feature in the 2018 Nuffield Southampton Theatres (NST) season, which launches their new city centre venue NST City and continues at their original home NST Campus.

Howard Brenton’s spitfire tale The Shadow Factory opens NST City in February; while audiences will also be treated to SS Mendi Dancing the Death Drill about the untold World War I tragedy which took place off the coast of Southampton, a new version of Aristophanes’ comedy Women in Power; and a new musical adaptation of David Walliams’ Billionaire Boy.

A bold new revival of Tennessee Williams’ classic A Streetcar Named Desire will be the second production staged in the new venue ahead of a major UK tour.

Tom Burke, who starred as Cormoran Strike in the recent JK Rowling TV adaptation, stars in Friedrich Schiller’s masterpiece Don Carlos.

NST is expanding its programme to introduce music, film, dance and circus,.The opening concert from new pop-up music collective The Space Between will feature internationally renowned Southampton rockers Band of Skulls, a new dance programme sees celebrated Hofesh Shechter Company perform in the city for the first time and NT Live screenings will be introduced. A new studio theatre will feature the best small scale productions including Palymyra, pictured, which was supported through NST’s artist development programme, Laboratory.