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Luca Silvestrini’s Protein announce next double bill of streamed performances

Provocative, site responsive and humorous, Ride (2008) and Stairworks (2001), in The Wapping Project Double Bill, featuring Luca Silvestrini himself 

Part of Protein 21 Remix, premiering on 20 Nov at 7pm and then available online until midnight on 29 Nov

#Protein21 #TheWappingProject #WoolwichWorks  

Following a double bill of Silvestrini’s work for HeadSpaceDance streamed at the start of the month, Luca Silvestrini’s Protein continue their Protein 21 Remix digital series with Ride and Stairworks featuring Luca himself. The provocative duet Ride oscillates between aspiration and desire, unbridled passion and respectability, and is accompanied by Stairworks, a piece performed on outdoor staircases by men wearing only white bath towels.  

Presented in partnership with The Wapping Project and Woolwich Works and featuring an introduction from Luca Silvestrini, this social commentary double bill marks 20 years of The Wapping Project, 21 years of Protein, and celebrates Luca Silvestrini’s long term collaboration with the late Jules Wright, founder and director of The Wapping Project. Ride and Stairworks were commissioned by The Wapping Project for its now former building – the Wapping Hydraulic Power Station. 

Ride (2008) was commissioned for Turning the Season, a major exhibition playing with the idea of the Season – the social elite’s summer of balls, races, festivals and regattas – and spanning photography, film, sculpture installation and performance. The third Protein’s commission from The Wapping Project responded to the sports aspect of the Season with a duet between Ascot lady and jockey, performed by Charlotte Broom and Omar Gordon. Jules Wright described Ride as “…extremely provocative and sexually, sensually in your face. (…) A commentary on class and aspiration.”  

Stairworks (2001), Protein’s first piece for The Wapping Project, was commissioned as part of the Jerwood 10 X 8: Stairworks series, and guest-curated by Siobhan Davies. Eight choreographers were invited to make a 10-minute piece intended to be caught out of the corner of the viewer’s eye, and to play with the idea of what a dance performance could be and where it can be performed.  

Protein’s Stairworks mixes news coverage with Vivaldi’s music and images of men wearing only white bath towels. Performed on an outdoor staircase, it could only be viewed through windows and doors from the restaurant inside the building. Following its premiere, the piece became so popular (and re-named Boys in Towels) that its filmed version went on to be shown on screens around The Wapping Project’s building in the following years. 

To hear Luca Silvestrini discuss the making of both Ride and Stairworks tune in to podcast Past – Forward: The Wapping Project at 20, Episode 2: with choreographers Lea Anderson and Luca Silvestrini. 

This programme is part of Protein 21 Remix which broadcasts historical works onto the digital stage. 

Listings Information 

Running time 26 mins 

FREE to view, or a DONATION to Protein and its artists gratefully received 

Links to view: 

https://proteindance.co.uk/participates/wapping/

Exhibitions & News

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Performers:  

Ride Charlotte Broom, Omar Gordon 

Stairworks Ben Abbott, Jean Abreu, Robin Dingemans, Kristoffer Hahn, Ilkka Kokkonen, John Milroy, Eddie Nixon, Luca Silvestrini, Johan Stjernholm, Daniel Watson

Luca Silvestrini’s Protein 

This year, Protein is celebrating 21 years of connecting people and everyday life through dance. Currently one of the most distinctive voices in British dance theatre, Luca Silvestrini’s Protein uses a blend of original choreography, humour and music to entertain and provoke audiences. The company’s idiosyncratic dance theatre is provoked by the everyday and its repertoire includes B for Body, a Place Prize Finalist in 2006, the award-winning LOL (lots of love), May Contain Food and Border Tales which have toured nationally and internationally since their debut, winning acclaim from critics and audiences alike. Its celebrated outdoor show (In)visible Dancing was seen in 2018 as part of Stockton International Riverside Festival, and more recently in July and August 2019 in the Royal Borough of Greenwich.  

Protein was awarded the Critic’s Circle National Dance Award for Best Independent Dance Company 2011, and was nominated again in 2016. Protein is Associate Company with People Dancing. Partner with Greenwich Dance, Yorkshire Dance and ARC Stockton. Luca Silvestrini is a Work Place Artist at The Place, London. 

The Wapping Project 

The Wapping Project is a platform for the continuous development of ideas, thoughts and people. It is their investment in, and enthusiasm for, the artists they commission that forms the backbone of the artistic programme. The Wapping Project questions and aims to redefine accepted boundaries through commissioning, nurturing and championing artistic talent. The Wapping Project exists to enable artists to work with unrestrained ambition. 

The Wapping Project is the creation of the Women’s Playhouse Trust (WPT). Over the years, WPT supported careers of many writers, poets, choreographers, composers, visual artists, filmmakers and photographers.  

www.thewappingproject.org 

Woolwich Works 

Woolwich Works is a landmark, multi-million-pound restoration project by Royal Borough of Greenwich to transform the historic site of Royal Arsenal into a new 15,000sqm creative district for London.  

A multi-disciplinary arts hub, the site will include theatres, concert venues, dance studios, a recording studio, offices and places to entertain. The flexible spaces provide opportunities for public interaction, training and education, as well as being available to hire for weddings, parties, conferences, community meetings and events. The district will support the local community, enabling people to realise their creative potential, providing a platform for emerging talent, creating and delivering work-based learning, and supporting cultural and community organisations and initiatives. 

www.woolwich.works
Facebook, Instagram & LinkedIn: @woolwichworks 

Twitter: @woolwich_works 

ROSE BRUFORD COLLEGE – LONDON’S INTERNATIONAL DRAMA SCHOOL

PRACTICE BASED POSTGRADUATE PROGRAMMES

INNOVATIVE, CONTEMPORARY, AND INTERNATIONAL IN FOCUS

• LAUNCH OF NEW POSTGRADUATE TEACHING CENTRE IN SOUTH EAST LONDON – PART OF NEW PARTNERSHIP WITH LEWISHAM COLLEGE
• LAUNCH OF NEW MFA CONTEMPORARY DIRECTING PROGRAMME
• TOPHER CAMPBELL JOINS AS NEW PROGRAMME DIRECTOR OF MA/MFA IN COLLABORATIVE THEATRE MAKING

Rose Bruford College, one of the UK’s premiere drama schools, will start a new year of Postgraduate teaching on 11 January 2021, after students’ arrivals were staggered to enable the 2019 intake to complete their final productions live for industry, which had been delayed due to the coronavirus pandemic.

An internationally renowned series of practice-based courses are available to postgraduate students of all ages and stages of life from the UK and abroad, including MA and MFA courses (over one or two years respectively). October 2021 sees the launch of a unique new MFA Directing programme for both Stage and Screen which will be offered alongside existing disciplines:

• Actor / Performer Training
• Actor Musicianship
• Collaborative Theatre Making
• Devised Theatre and Performance (MA) / Advanced Devising Practice (MFA)
• International Theatre Practice and Performance
• Theatre For Young Audiences

In a new development for 2021, all Postgraduate teaching will now take place in a new and dedicated Postgraduate Centre, part of the Lewisham College campus in South East London, with multiple studio spaces and a 90 seat black box theatre as part of the resources available to a year group of approximately 50 postgraduate students. This is part of the recently announced partnership between Rose Bruford and Lewisham College, with a new creative and performing arts provision including a range of courses for 16-19s, which are designed to nurture young creatives and performers to develop skills in performance, production, art and design.

Students on previous courses had been taught at the Rose Burford Lamorbey Park campus near Sidcup, and across the world in collaboration with a global network of institutions, theatre companies and practitioners, including London International School of Performing Arts (arthaus.berlin/Lispa) in Berlin, The Moscow Art Theatre School in Russia and the National Theater Institute in Connecticut, USA.

Topher Campbell has also been announced as the new Programme Director of the Collaborative Theatre Making MA / MFA. Campbell has over 20 years of outputs spanning broadcasting, theatre, performance, writing, experimental film and site-specific work. His focus has been on sexuality, masculinity, race, human rights, memoir and climate change. This course encourages students to think critically about the world they live in and asked to explore themes and ideas that question and provoke as much as they enlighten and entertain, and as such will develop theatre practitioners who are embarked on making new and challenging work through performance, directing and dramaturgical training in the collaborative theatre making process.

Topher Campbell said, “I am very excited to be joining the team at Rose Bruford College. Being able to contribute to the evolution of education towards a more equitable environment that truly welcomes all is important to me.  I am very much looking forward to working with the college, and also with their highly motivated next generation of Theatremakers.”

Niamh Dowling, Head of the School of Performance, joined Rose Bruford College, in 2015 with a remit to develop a strong international programme of practice-based courses. With an MA from Goldsmiths College, Niamh trained as a teacher of The Alexander Technique and with Monika Pagneux in Paris, Nancy Topf and Eva Karczag in New York. She collaborated closely with Teatr Piesn Kozla in Poland for fifteen years and more recently she has been training in systemic approaches to leadership. Her specialism is in movement for actors and she has developed a unique approach to teaching movement to a range of performers including actors, dancers, singers and musicians. International work as a Movement Director has included leading workshops in the UK, Europe, USA, Asia, South and Central America and Russia working on projects and productions in New York, Hong Kong, Zambia, Tanzania, Kenya, Uzbekistan, Ukraine and Singapore.

Niamh Dowling said, “You cannot do a postgraduate MA or MFA Programme without your life changing for ever! Programmes at Rose Bruford College are taught by working professionals in the industry and will give students intensive teaching, skills, practices and the opportunity to train and perform. Above all these programmes will inform, challenge and nourish them both personally and creatively within an open and talented community. Based now in London, with its combination of theatrical history and challenging, our courses enable the creation of contemporary creative work in theatre making, music, writing, directing, acting and art and design. Students will meet other peers and professionals who came to London to find an alive and vibrant place to be freed of constraints, to find their voice to represent themselves and others, to meet new collaborators and to come to understand their true identity as an artist. It is this opportunity we offer the new postgraduate students that will join us from October 2021, and in the years to come.”

Tea Break Theatre’s Sleeping Beauty?
Streaming 17th December – 30th December 2020

Turning a much-loved story on its head with an intriguing modern twist, Tea Break Theatre will present their new re-working of Sleeping Beauty?. This live and interactive epic Zoom adventure will feature puppetry, original music and comedy.

Everyone knows the story: in a faraway time and a faraway place, a beautiful Princess is asleep in a castle. But this time, it’s 2020, and that faraway tale is happening here and now. Prince wants to save the Princess, so sets off on an adventure with his faithful dog, Puff. Can he save the Princess and defeat the evil villain, Dreaver, who is determined to turn your own dreams against you, all in time for Christmas?

Written and directed by Katharine Armitage (Big Finish’s Doctor Who Audio Adventures; Funny Women Writing Award finalist, 2020), Sleeping Beauty? is a fairy-tale for the 21st century. Families will be transported into a magical fairy-tale world, while exploring the feelings of loneliness, community, and isolation that have been heightened during the Covid-19 lockdowns.

This uplifting and enlightening tale will explore how being honest about our emotions and identity can help our mental wellbeing. Sleeping Beauty? hopes to help adults and children alike feel grounded and empowered, in what for many has felt like a chaotic and uncontrollable year.

Performers Felicity Sparks (Golem, BBC Four; A Christmas Carol, Pitlochry Festival Theatre), Alicia McKenzie (Blond Bombshells of 1943, Pitlochry Festival Theatre; The Wind in the Willows, New Vic Theatre), Chris Dobson (In The Night Garden Live, UK Tour; Bobbin, Little Angel Theatre) and Molly Small (A Wake In Progress, The Bunker, Pleasance and Underbelly; Beauty and the Beast, Sutton House) will engage with families directly in this live spectacle, while audiences remain on mute to enjoy this home adventure in their own individual way.

Katharine Armitage, writer and director of Sleeping Beauty?, comments, The power of theatre is that it is always there for us, whatever is happening, whatever the challenges, theatre finds a way to tell stories which both distract us and allow us to process the world we find ourselves in. By taking theatre online, but keeping it live and interactive, I hope to create something new and exciting: a form of theatre that actually would never have existed without the pandemic! I want to tell a story which will transport you and your kids to an epic adventure with all the magic, hope and joy we need right now.

Ensuring theatre is accessible for all families this Christmas, Tea Break Theatre will be using a ‘pay what you can’ ticketing system, where low cost and free tickets are available for those who need them most

House of Blakewell and Hannah Elsy Productions present

Everything Is Absolutely Fine

A Musical

Live streaming from the North Wall, Oxford in a virtual U.K. tour on Friday 22nd January 2020

Written by Alice Keedwell | Music and Lyrics by Harry Blake

Directed by Valentina Ceshi

A brand-new comedy musical about anxiety disorders, caring, and trying to keep going. Everything is Absolutely Fine is a hilarious and heartwarming new musical about what it’s like to be human and to struggle.

Running Time: 55 mins (no interval) | Suitable for ages 12+

Virtual tour venues include

The Lowry, Salford
Cast, Doncaster
Theatr Clwyd, North Wales
EM Forster Theatre, Tonbridge
King’s Head Theatre, London
Solihull Core
Trinity Arts Centre, Gainsborough

Social media

#EverythingIsAbsolutelyFine

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tw: @hannah_elsy | ig: hannah_elsy | hannahelsy.com

Alice is making a fresh start. She has moved out of the big city to a small town with a job she loves as an Occupational Therapist. She is going to be a new woman: cool, calm, and free. But her old friend Anxiety has other ideas… How do you make friends when even choosing what to have for dinner fills you with dread and self-doubt? What do you do when it all gets too much?

Creator Alice said, “We want to explore everyday human struggles and how anxiety can affect every little thing in life. Also, the impact that trying to hide how you feel can have. We want to create a show that brings people together to share in our vulnerabilities, to continue talking openly about mental health issues and to remember the importance of small acts of kindness and how important they can be to someone.”

Harry Blake and Alice Keedwell are House of Blakewell. House of Blakewell made their debut at Soho Theatre in May 2012 and took home the Craig Barbour Award for Songwriting. In 2014, their hit House Party began life with a sold-out run at VAULT Festival, before touring to RichMix, Brighton Fringe, Latitude, and Bestival. They have also
delighted audiences at Leicester Square Theatre, Edinburgh Underbelly, the King’s Head, Theatre503, The Yard Theatre, and the Musical Comedy Awards with their unique blend of topical, eighty-three-percent-original show tunes, arias, power ballads, and more. Their unique personal juxtaposition of sparky optimism and Eeyorish nihilism has become a cornerstone of previous shows such as Thor and Loki, We Can Make You Happy, and Book of Blakewell. House of Blakewell are excited to be pushing the boundaries of new British musical theatre once more. Everything Is Absolutely Fine is a new musical written by Alice Keedwell, with music and lyrics by Harry Blake, exploring Alice’s experiences with anxiety

This production is presented in partnership with The Cameron Grant Memorial Trust. Cameron Grant took his own life in 2014 aged just 21. He suffered from depression but managed to hide it from everyone who knew him. The Cameron Grant Memorial Trust was founded for the preservation and protection of good mental health, with a focus on young people. They raise awareness of young suicide and urge all who are suffering in silence to speak up. They support those who are fighting to overcome poor mental health and provide education to help increase awareness.

This virtual U.K. tour has been rescheduled from April 2020, when the planned live tour was cancelled due to Covid-19. The production is now being live streamed to your computer via some of our original tour venues, and some new additions to the schedule. A Vimeo link to the live stream will be shared via the venue the audience member books with. Producer Hannah Elsy says ‘I am delighted that we are able to share Everything Is Absolutely Fine with audiences, despite Covid-19. I feel extremely positive about using live streaming to distribute the show via our virtual tour venues, and to continue to bring new musical theatre into the world’.

Nominations open for Hearts For The Arts 2021: awards to celebrate creativity during the pandemic 

Nominations are now open for the 2021 Hearts for the Arts Awards, celebrating local authority and cultural trust arts champions and creative community projects.

The awards are an annual initiative from the National Campaign for the Arts, which advocates greater public investment in the arts to improve the lives of people across the UK. 

In a year where creativity and the arts have been vital for us all, the Hearts for the ArtsBest Arts Project will recognise the projects or creative services that were delivered against-all-odds and created connection at a time when we have all been forced to be disconnected. 

From creative activity that has brought communities together, to digital innovation, to civic uses of local cultural buildings and arts organisations, nominations are encouraged from a wide range of projects and from across the UK that have taken place between 10^th October 2019 and 20^th November 2020. 

The awards are delivered in partnership with Culture Counts, the Local Government Association, Thrive, UK Theatre, Voluntary Arts Wales, and Wales Council for Voluntary Action. And the winners are chosen by a judging panel of leading arts figures (this year’s judges to be announced).

From 20^th November until voting closes on December 6^th, members of the public, arts professionals, local authorities and cultural trusts can visit the Hearts for the Arts Awards webpage to put nominations forward in three categories:

• Best Arts Champion – Councillor
• Best Arts Champion – Local Authority or Cultural Trust Worker
• Best Arts project

The awards are also open to cultural trusts working on behalf of local authorities. The National Campaign for the Arts is keen to recognise those who have used trust status to enhance arts provision and benefit local people. Therefore, the Best Arts Champion categories allow nominations for any local authority or cultural trust worker.

The winners will be announced in time for Valentine’s Day 2021 and the awards will be presented in collaboration with the Local Government Association’s Culture, Tourism and Sport conference which will be taking place digitally at the beginning of March 2021. In addition, Samuel West, actor and Chair of the National Campaign for the Arts, has offered to speak at a council meeting of each award-winner. 

Samuel West said:

‘It’s not news that this year has presented unprecedented challenges and a national grief has taken its grip. At times such as these the room for creativity is harder to come by, and yet the arts have continually been turned to for solace as we face hardships.

Hearts for the Arts has always been about awarding the unsung heroes of Local Authorities and Cultural Trusts who work against the financial odds, and heavily reduced funding, to promote and deliver arts projects and services to local communities. These arts heroes are aware of just how necessary creativity is to the physical and mental health of the nation.  And we know that there are many people and projects out there who have been continuing to work against all odds in a year when we have needed it most. This year’s awards are all about them.’

The 2020 Hearts for the Arts Award Winners were: Plymouth City Council’s Plymouth Music Zone; Hackney Council’s Windrush Generations Festival; Outside Edge – a collaboration between Hammersmith & Fulham, Westminster, and Kensington & Chelsea; Fife Cultural Trust’s Pauline Smeaton and Manchester City Councillor Luthfur Rahman. 

For more information, or to make a Hearts for the Arts Awards nomination, visit:

https://forthearts.org.uk/campaigns/hearts-for-the-arts/

Hearts for the Arts is a campaign delivered by:

CHEEK BY JOWL ANNOUNCES SECOND SERIES OF PODCAST ‘NOT TRUE, BUT USEFUL…’

Artistic Directors of Cheek by Jowl, Declan Donnellan and Nick Ormerod today announce the second series of their podcast, Not True, But Useful… hosted by Lucie Dawkins. New episodes of the podcast will be released every Friday from 20 November.

Not True, But Useful… focuses on what the great playwrights can teach us about love, life, and hope in this strange time. Released weekly, each episode in this series will be based around one production in the Cheek by Jowl repertoire, including The Winter’s Tale, Ubu Roi, and As You Like It, taking you behind-the-scenes of staging the productions and deep-diving into the company’s ‘not true, but useful’ ideas about directing, designing and acting.

Cheek by Jowl will soon be celebrating its 40^th anniversary, and throughout its lifetime has staged work from classic playwrights in Russian, English, French, and Italian in over 400 cities across 50 countries.

Created in the midst of the coronavirus lockdown, the first series of Not True, But Useful… explored the themes that run through Cheek by Jowl’s creative and rehearsal process – with subjects including space, threshold, language, encounter, and creative partnership. The entire first series is available at www.cheekbyjowl.com/podcast.

Declan Donnellan and Nick Ormerod today said, “Like many others, we are going crazy unable to be with other people. This is particularly tough on people who make theatre, as the central part of theatre is being in a space with other living people. And theatre celebrates that need to connect with others in immediate presence. So we can’t do that. But while waiting, to cheer ourselves up, we thought we would record some of our conversations with Lucie. We hope you enjoy them!”

For upcoming episodes, subscribe to Not True, But Useful… on iTunes, Spotify, Google Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts. 

The 8 episodes in series 2 will cover the following plays from the company’s repertoire:

The Winter’s Tale, Ubu Roi, ‘Tis Pity She’s A Whore, As You Like It, The Tempest, The Changeling, Boris Godunov, and Cymbeline.

Not True But Useful… is produced, hosted and edited by Lucie Dawkins for Cheek by Jowl. Series 1 Theme Music by Pavel Akimkin. Series 2 Theme Music by Paddy Cunneen.

WEST END ACOUSTIC AND AGATHA CHRISTIE STAGED READINGS ANNOUNCED AS PART OF RIVERSIDE STUDIOS CHRISTMAS SEASON

FEATURING SAM TUTTY, SAMANTHA BOND, SIMON CALLOW, ANGELA GRIFFIN,

JESSICA HYNES, NINA SOSANYA AND SIR DEREK JACOBI

Riverside Studios today announces further programming for its inaugural Christmas season in association with New Frame Productions, including an evening of unplugged performance with West End Acoustic featuring SIX’s Maiya Quansah-Breed andRenée Lamb, Wicked’s Nicholas McLean, Jesus Christ Superstar’s Tyrone Huntley and Dear Evan Hansen’s Oliver Award-winning Sam Tutty.

Additionally, New Frame Productions presents live staged readings of Agatha Christie’s crime plays Spider’s Web and The Hollowwith cast including Sir Derek Jacobi, Jessica Hynes, Simon Callow,  Kathryn Drysdale, Tom Hughes, Nina Sosanya, James Dreyfus, Laura Haddock, Valentine Olukoga, Samantha Bond, Angela Griffin and Matthew Kelly. All profits from the staged readings will be donated to the Theatre Support Fund+ and Acting For Others who offer financial and emotional support to theatre workers in times of need.

Interim Creative Director, Rachel Tackley today said “The last few months have highlighted to us how vital live performance is and at Riverside we really want to be able to share that experience with audiences just as soon as we are able. And what could be more thrilling than to be in the company of so many extraordinary artists. I can’t wait!”

Producers of New Frame Productions, James Quaife and Robin Rayner added “We are thrilled to be able to have the opportunity to continue to present live shows to live audiences working in collaboration with Riverside Studios. It’s both a privilege and an honour to work with so many talented people across all our shows this Christmas.”

New Frame Productions present

WEST END ACOUSTIC

Musical direction by Chris Poon

On Tuesday 8 December, 8pm

For one night only stars of the West End, Maiya Quansah-Breed, Renée Lamb, Nicholas McLean, Tyrone Huntley and Sam Tutty are brought together for an unplugged celebration of all the most popular musicals, with musical direction by Chris Poon.

Maiya Quansah-Breed’s credits include SIX: The Musical (Arts Theatre/UK tour – Olivier Award Nomination for Best Supporting Actress) and Rent (Hope Mill Theatre/Online).

Renée Lamb’s credits include SIX: The Musical (Arts Theatre), Be More Chill (The Other Palace), Little Shop of Horrors (Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre), Malory Towers (Bristol Passenger Shed/UK tour/Wise Children) and Ain’t Misbehavin’ (Southwark Playhouse).

Nicholas McLean’s credits include Wicked (Apollo Victoria Theatre – Black British Theatre Award for Best Supporting Male Actor in a Musical), The Book of Mormon (Palace Theatre), Avenue Q (UK tour) and Sister Act (Gordon Craig Theatre).

Tyrone Huntley’scredits include Jesus Chris Superstar (Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre – Evening Standard Award for Emerging Talent), A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Watermill Theatre), The View Upstairs (Soho Theatre), Dreamgirls (Savoy Theatre), Memphis (Shaftesbury Avenue Theatre), Homos, or Everyone in America (The Finborough Theatre) and Angry (Southwark Playhouse).

Sam Tutty’s credits include Dear Evan Hansen (Noël Coward Theatre – Olivier Award for Best Actor in a Musical) and Once on this Island (Southwark Playhouse).

Chris Poon’s theatre credits include Rent, The Astonishing Times of Timothy Cratchit (Hope Mill Theatre), Legend Trippers (The Other Palace), In the Heights (Bridewell Theatre), Timpson: The Musical (King’s Head Theatre) and Nice Work If You Can Get It (Upstairs at the Gatehouse).

AGATHA CHRISTIE AT RIVERSIDE

A one night only, star-studded staged reading of Agatha Christie’s greatest thrillers to support the Theatre Support Fund+ and Acting for Others.

New Frame Productions present

SPIDER’S WEB

By Agatha Christie

Directed by Kirsty Patrick Ward

On Wednesday 9 December

Clarissa, wife of a diplomat, is adept at spinning tales of adventure but when a murder takes place in her own drawing room she finds live drama much harder to cope with. 

Desperate to dispose of the body before her husband arrives with an important politician, she enlists the help of her guests. Hilarity ensues when they are interrupted by the arrival of wry detective, Inspector Lord. 

Nari Blair-Mangat’s theatre credits include Cyrano De Bergerac (Playhouse Theatre), Colour is too Sweet (King’s Head Theatre), A Cord of Three Strands (RADA Festival), People, Places and Things (National Theatre/Wyndham’s Theatre/Headlong), Macbeth (Manchester International Festival/Park Avenue Armory, NYC), Othello (Leicester Square Theatre), The Duchess of Malfi (The Old Vic) and Piaf (Vaudeville Theatre/Donmar Warehouse). His television credits include Temple; and for film Murder on the Orient Express, Cinderella, Spectre and Terry.

Nick Blakeley’s theatre credits include The Claim (Shoreditch Town Hall/Paines Plough Roundabout), Twelfth Night (Orange Tree Theatre), I Heart Catherine Pistachio (Soho Theatre/Yard Theatre), Brideshead Revisited (York Theatre Royal/UK tour), Hapgood (Hampstead Theatre), Comment Is Free, 24 Hour Plays (The Old Vic), The Last of the De Mullins (Jermyn St Theatre), Hard Feelings (Finborough Theatre), The Sunshine Boys (Savoy Theatre), 13 and A Woman Killed With Kindness (National Theatre).

Brian Bovell’s theatre credits include Kingston 14 (Theatre Royal Stratford East). His television credits include Coronation Street, Jamie Johnson, Unforgotten, as series regular Leo Valentine in Hollyoaks, as series regular DC Rob Thatcher in The Bill, Gimme Gimme Gimme, Maisie Raine and South of the Border; and for film his credits include Love Actually.

Richard Clifford’s theatre credits include The School For Scandal, The Game of Love and Chance, Amadeus (Folger Theatre), Heartbreak House and Playing For Wife (Chichester Festival Theatre). For film credits include Little Dorrit, Henry V, Much Ado About Nothing, Love’s Labour’s Lost, As You Like It, The Fool, A Bunch of Amateurs, My Week With Marilyn and Jail Caesar.

Adam Gillen’s theatre credits include Killer Joe (Trafalgar Studios), Amadeus, The Five Wives of Maurice Pinder (National Theatre), Wendy and Peter (RSC), Lotty’s War (UK tour), Lee Harvey Oswald (Finborough Theatre), The School for Scandal (Barbican), The Door Never Closes (Almeida Theatre), A Taste of Honey (Royal Exchange Theatre), The Good Soul of Szechuan (Young Vic), The Lions Mouth and War and Peace (Royal Court Theatre). His television credits include Fresh Meat, Prisoners’ Wives, This is Jinsy and as series regular Liam in Benidorm; and for film, Vita and Virginia and Funny Cow.

Jessica Hynes’ theatre credits include Far Away (Donmar Warehouse), The Norman Conquests (The Old Vic/Circle in the Square Theatre – Tony Award nomination for Best performance by a Featured Actress in a Play), The Night Heron, The Priory (Royal Court Theatre) and Blithe Spirit (York Theatre Royal). Her credits for television include Years and Years, There She Goes (BAFTA Award for Best Female Comedy Performance), Twenty Twelve, W1A (BAFTA Award for Best Female Comedy Performance), Spaced and as series regular Cheryl Carroll in The Royale Family. For film, her credits include Paddington 2, Bridget Jones’s Baby, Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason and Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix.

Sir Derek Jacobi is a BAFTA award-winning, and Golden Globe-nominated British actor. His theatre credits include Don Carlos (Sheffield Theatres/Gielgud Theatre), King Lear (Donmar Warehouse), Romeo and Juliet (Garrick Theatre), The Tempest (Sheffield Theatres/The Old Vic), Cyrano de Bergerac (Barbican – Olivier Award for Best Actor in a Revival), A Voyage Round My Father (Donmar Warehouse), Twelfth Night (Donmar West EndOliver Award for Best Actor) and Much Ado About Nothing (Gershwin Theatre – Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play). His television credits include Last Tango in Halifax,  I, Claudius, Doctor Who, Inside Number 9 and The Crown and for film credits include Gladiator, Gosford Park, Dead Again and The Tenth Man (Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Miniseries or a Special).

Matthew Kelly’s theatre credits include BIG The Musical (Dominion Theatre), Of Mice and Men (Savoy Theatre – Olivier Award for Best Actor), Ripafratta (Royal Exchange Theatre), Amadeus (Wilton’s Music Hall), Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (Garrick Theatre/Trafalgar Studios), Troilus and Cressida (Shakespeare’s Globe), Lend Me A Tenor (Gielgud Theatre), Comedians (Lyric Hammersmith), The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (Nottingham Playhouse/Lyric Hammersmith) and Waiting For Godot (Theatre Royal Haymarket/Comedy Theatre). His television credits include Game for a Laugh, Stars in Their Eyes, After They Were Famous, Relative Strangers and Bleak House.

Gerard McCarthy’s theatre credits include Tina The Musical (Aldwych Theatre), Stalking The Bogeyman (Southwark Playhouse), Beautiful Thing (UK tour), The Merry Wives of Windsor (Shakespeare’s Globe), Saturday Night Fever (Apollo Theatre), and Mamma Mia! (Prince Edward Theatre). For television his credits include The Fall, Titanic: Blood and Steel and as series regular Kris Fisher in Hollyoaks; and for film his credits include Belfast.

Helen Monks’ theatre credits include as writer include E15 (UK tour). For television her credits as an actor include Raised By Wolves, Upstart Crow, Inside No.9, The Last Kingdom and Genius.

Gloria Onitiri’s theatre credits include Women Beware Women, The Taming of the Shrew (Shakespeare’s Globe), Green Living, A Christmas Carol (The Old Vic), Chiaroscuro (Bush Theatre), Napoli Brooklyn, Jack and the Beanstalk (Park Theatre), Hadestown (National Theatre), Caroline, Or Change (Chichester Festival Theatre), The Grinning Man (Bristol Old Vic), The Stripper (St James Theatre), Clybourne Park (UK tour), The Bodyguard (Adelphi Theatre), The Tempest (Bath Theatre Royal), Takeaway (Theatre Royal Stratford East) and The Lion King (Lyceum Theatre).

Stephanie Siadatan’s theatre credits include The Sound Affect, The Golden Needle and Detroit Become Human (Les Enfants Terribles), A Memory, a Monologue, a Rant and a Prayer (Lyric Hammersmith), Abdul (The Old Vic), Foiled (Edinburgh Festival Fringe), High School Musical (Hammersmith Apollo), Studio 66 (Roundhouse) and Murder in the Cathedral (International tour). Her television credits include Silent Witness, Emmerdale, Casualty and Holby City.

Kirsty Patrick Ward directs. Her theatre credits includes The Sweet Science of Bruising (Wilton’s Music Hall), Groan Ups (Vaudeville Theatre), Exactly Like You (VAULT at Edinburgh Festival Fringe/The Vaults – Festival Spirit Award), Chef (Edinburgh Festival Fringe/Soho Theatre – Scotsman Fringe First Award), I’m Not That Kind of Guy, Mary Louise (The Vaults), Evita (MT4Uth, Belfast), People Like Us (Pleasance Theatre), Snow White (UK tour for The Old Vic), A Writer’s Response to Owen Jones’ “Chavs: The Demonisation of the Working Class” (Lyric Hammersmith), Present Tense (Live Theatre), Brave New Worlds (Soho Theatre), Life Support (York Theatre Royal) and Old Vic New Voices: The 24 Hour Plays (The Old Vic).

New Frame Productions present

THE HOLLOW

By Agatha Christie

Directed by Chelsea Walker

On Thursday 10 December

An unhappy game of romantic follow-the-leader explodes into murder one weekend at The Hollow, home of Sir Henry and Lucy Angkatell. Dr.Cristow, the Harley Street lothario, is at the centre of the trouble when, assembled in one place, we find his dull but devoted wife Gerda, his mistress and prominent sculptor Henrietta, and his former lover and Hollywood film star Veronica. As the list of romanic associations grows so does the list of potential suspects when someone is shot dead. 

Nearly everyone has a motive but only one of them did the deed. 

Samantha Bond’s theatre credits include The Lie (Menier Chocolate Factory), Dirty Rotten Scoundrels (Savoy Theatre), Passion Play, Arcadia (Duke of York’s Theatre), Amy’s View, The Ends of the Earth, The Cid (National Theatre), A Winter’s Tale, As You Like It (RSC), Man of the Moment (Shakespeare’s Globe), Romeo and Juliet (Lyric Hammersmith). Her television credits include Home Fires, Outnumbered, Downton Abbey, New Tricks, The Queen – 1974, Larkrise to Candleford, Emma, Inspector Morse, Rumpole of the Bailey and Mansfield Park. She played Miss Moneypenny in four of the James Bond films (Die Another Day, The World is Not Enough, Tomorrow Never Dies, Golden Eye). Her other film credits include The Last Step, A Winter Prince and Bunch of Amateurs.

Simon Callow’s theatre credits include Juvenalia (Edinburgh Festival Fringe), Waiting For Godot (Theatre Royal Haymarket), Equus (Trafalgar Studios), Amadeus (National Theatre) and Titus Andronicus (Bristol Old Vic). His television work includes Chance in a Million, Death in Paradise, and Angels in America; and for film his credits include Amadeus, Four Weddings and a Funeral, Shakespeare in Love and The Phantom of the Opera.

James Dreyfus’ theatre credits include The Master Builder (The Old Vic), Harvey, Breakfast At Tiffany’s (Haymarket Theatre), Candide, The Common Pursuit (Menier Chocolate Factory), The Vortex (Rose Theatre), Cabaret (Lyric Hammersmith), The Producers (Theatre Royal Drury Lane), Lady In The Dark (National Theatre – Olivier Award for Best performance in a Supporting Role), Elegies for Angels, Punks & Raging Queens (Criterion Theatre) and Eurovision (Vaudeville Theatre). For television, his credits include Absolutely Fabulous, Mount Pleasant, My Hero, Gimme Gimme Gimme and as series regular Constable Kevin Goody in The Thin Blue Line.

Kathryn Drysdale’s theatre credits include Home, I’m Darling (Theatr Clwyd/National Theatre), The Ruling Class (Trafalgar Studios), The Recruiting Officer (Donmar Warehouse), A Sudden Loss of Dignity (Bush Theatre/UK tour), A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Love’s Labour’s Lost (RSC), Catch (Royal Court Theatre), Far Away, Fen, 23:59 (Sheffield Theatres), Eliza’s House (Manchester’s Royal Exchange) and Billy and the Crab Lady (Soho Theatre). Her television her credits include Bridgerton, Plebs, as series regular Louise Brooks in Two Pints of Lager and Packet of Crisps and as series regular Natalie in Benidorm; and for film her credits include St. Trinian’s and Vanity Fair.

Richard Fleeshman’s theatre credits include Company (Gielgud Theatre), Ghost The Musical (Piccadilly Theatre), The Last Ship (UK tour), Legally Blonde the Musical (Savoy Theatre), Guys and Dolls (UK tour), A Damsel In Distress (Chichester Festival Theatre) and UrineTown: The Musical (St James Theatre). His television credits include All The Small Things and as series regular Craig Harris in Coronation Street.

Beth Granville is a writer and performer. Credits include the BBC Radio Wales comedy series Foiled, Age of Outrage, Welcome Strangers, The Leak and The Skewer by Jon Holmes.

Angela Griffin’s theatre credits includeBuilding The Wall (Park Theatre),The Captive Queen (Shakespeare’s Globe), Stepping Out (Theatre Royal Bath), Breeders (St James Theatre) and One Man, Two Gunners (Theatre Royal Haymarket). For television her credits include White Lines, Waterloo Road, as series regular Lizzie Maddox in Lewis, The Dumping Ground, Brief Encounters, Wild Bill, as series regular Fiona Middleton in Coronation Street, Cutting It and Ordinary Lies. 

Laura Haddock’s theatre credits include When We Were Married (Garrick Theatre), Rutherford and Son (Northern Stage) and Famous Last (Orange Tree Theatre). For television her credits include White Lines, The Capture, Honest, Upstairs Downstairs, Da Vinci’s Demons and Luther; and for film her credits include Guardians of the Galaxy I & II, The Inbetweeners Movie, Transformers: The Last Knight and A Wonderful Christmas Time.

Tom Hughes’ theatre credits include Ticking (Trafalgar Studios), Versailles (Donmar Warehouse) and Sweet Nothings (Young Vic). For television, his credits include Victoria, The Game, Agatha Christie’s Marple, Trinity, Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll and Silk; and for film his credits include Cemetery Junction, About Time and Red Joan.

Adam James’ theatre credits include Shipwreck (Almeida Theatre), Girl From The North Country (Noël Coward Theatre), Consent, 13, Blood and Gifts, Gethsemane (National Theatre), Enemy of the People (Chichester Festival Theatre), Bull (Sheffield Theatres/Young Vic), King Charles III (Almeida Theatre/Wyndham’s Theatre), Rapture, Blister, Burn (Hampstead Theatre), French Without Tears (Orange Tree Theatre) and Now or Later (Royal Court Theatre). His television credits include Life, Doctor Foster, Home From Home, I May Destroy You, Band of Brothers and Miranda;andfor film his credits include Johnny English, A Little Chaos and Murder on the Orient Express.

Valentine Olukoga’s theatre credits include The Fishermen (Trafalgar Studios), The Suicide (National Theatre), Liberian Girl (Royal Court Theatre), Cape and Burning Bird (Unicorn Theatre); and for television his credits include Unforgotten.

Nina Sosanya’s theatre credits include Frozen (Haymarket Theatre), Platonov, Ivanov (Chichester Festival Theatre/National Theatre), Elegy, The Vote, Privacy, The Vortex (Donmar Warehouse), Where’s My Seat?, Apologia (Bush Theatre), Cat On A Hot Tin Roof (Novello Theatre), Love’s Labour’s Lost, Henry V (RSC), Fix Up, House and Garden, Antony and Cleopatra (National Theatre), Almost Nothing (Royal Court Theatre), The Marriage of Figaro (Royal Exchange Theatre) and Deadmeat (West Yorkshire Playhouse). For television her credits include Brave New World, His Dark Materials, Little Birds, Killing Eve, W1A, Twenty Twelve, Silk and Last Tango In Halifax; and for film credits include Red Joan, David Brent: Life on the Road and Love Actually.

Nia Towle’s theatre credits include There Is A War, Men & Women Talking, Beast, Divided Britain (Southwark Playhouse); her credits for film include Rocketman.

Chelsea Walker directs.Her previous theatre credits include Hedda Gabler (Sherman Theatre), Cougar, Low Level Panic (Orange Tree Theatre), A Streetcar Named Desire (Theatr Clwyd/ Nuffield Southampton Theatres/ UK tour), Shudder (Soho Theatre), Yous Two (Hampstead Theatre), P’Yongyang (Finborough Theatre), Klippies (Southwark Playhouse), Chicken Dust (Finborough Theatre, Curve Leicester) and Lean (Tristan Bates Theatre).

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LISTINGS   

Riverside Studios, 101 Queen Caroline Street, Hammersmith, London W6 9BN

Box Office: 020 8237 1010

https://www.riversidestudios.co.uk/

Building and Box Office are open from Monday – Sunday [NB post 2.12.20]

The Bakery Opening Times: Monday – Saturday 9:00 – 16:00

Box Office Opening Hours: Monday – Sunday 10:00 – 22:00

SEASON AT A GLANCE

Norwell Lapley Productions present

DEAR SANTA LIVE

3 – 24 December 2020

GREAT EXPECTATIONS BY CHARLES DICKENS PERFORMED BY EDDIE IZZARD

21 – 23 December 2020

NEW FRAME PRODUCTIONS PRESENTS: LIVE AT RIVERSIDE

THE CHRISTMAS DRAG ROAST

4 & 5 December 2020

WEST END ACOUSTIC

8 December 2020

AGATHA CHRISTIE: SPIDER’S WEB

9 December 2020

AGATHA CHRISTIE: THE HOLLOW

10 December 2020

STAND UP LIVE!

11 December 2020

FERRIS & MILNES – CHRISTMAS CRACKER

12 & 13 December 2020

CHRISTMAS AT THE MOVIES

16 – 20 December 2020

REVISED PERFORMANCE SCHEDULE ANNOUNCED FOR THEATRE ROYAL BATH’S WELCOME BACK SEASON

Theatre Royal Bath will reopen on 3 December with a revised performance schedule for Oleanna and Copenhagen, the final two plays in the theatre’s Welcome Back Season.

David Mamet’s provocative drama Oleanna, directed by Lucy Bailey will star Rosie Sheehy and Jonathan Slinger, who replaces John Heffernan in the role of John. The play will now run in Theatre Royal Bath’s Ustinov Studio from 3 December to 22 December and again from 4 January to 16 January 2021. Reduced capacity at the Ustinov Studio will allow for an audience of 60 persons per performance.

The November run of Michael Frayn’s multi award-winning Copenhagen has been postponed until the new year when it will play Theatre Royal Bath’s Main House from 20 January to 6 February 2021.  Directed by Polly Findlay it will star Haydn Gwynne, Philip Arditti, and in a change to original billing, Malcom Sinclair.

Ticketholders impacted by the change in schedule will have been contacted by the box office with regard exchange and refunds.

When the theatre re-opens, the health and safety of audiences, cast, crew and staff remain paramount. Covid-secure measures in place remain reduced capacity to allow for socially distanced seating,  mandatory face coverings (unless exempt), hand sanitiser units, thermal temperature checks, dedicated entry points, staggered arrivals and audience flow, fresh air circulation and enhanced cleaning.

Full details and ticket information can be found at www.theatreroyal.org.uk

Howard Panter for Trafalgar Theatre Productions

and Eilene Davidson Productions

proudly present

THE PERFECT TONIC FOR LONDON AUDIENCES IN 2021

The multi-Tony Award winning musical

including for Best Musical Revival & Best Choreography

Starring

Emmy & SAG Award Winner Tony, Olivier & BAFTA Award Winner

MEGAN MULLALLY ROBERT LINDSAY

as Reno Sweeney as Moonface Martin

“Cole Porter songs and tap-dancing sailors? What’s not to love?”

The Hollywood Reporter

Music and Lyrics by COLE PORTER

Original Book by P.G. WODEHOUSE & GUY BOLTON

and HOWARD LINDSAY & RUSSEL CROUSE

New Book by TIMOTHY CROUSE and JOHN WEIDMAN

Directed and Choreographed by

Tony Award Winner KATHLEEN MARSHALL

BARBICAN THEATRE

FROM 8 MAY 2021

FOR A LIMITED ENGAGEMENT UNTIL 22 AUGUST 2021

TICKETS ON SALE FRIDAY 20 NOVEMBER AT 10AM

FROM ANYTHINGGOESMUSICAL.CO.UK

One of the all-time greatest musicals ANYTHING GOES is making a welcome return to the London stage in spring and summer 2021 for a strictly limited 15 week engagement at the Barbican Theatre, starring Emmy & SAG Award Winner Megan Mullally (Will & Grace) who is making her West End musical debut as Reno Sweeney, and Tony, Olivier & BAFTA Award Winner Robert Lindsay as Moonface Martin.

This splendid production of Cole Porter & P.G. Wodehouse’s classic musical will be directed and choreographed by three time Tony Award Winner Kathleen Marshall. Marshall’s Broadway production of ANYTHING GOES was a major smash hit and received huge critical acclaim. The revival was nominated for nine Tony Awards and 10 Drama Desk Awards, winning Best Musical Revival and Best Choreography at both ceremonies. Now Marshall, in her West End directing debut, will reinvent this glorious musical for London audiences next year.

With music and lyrics by Cole Porter and the original book by P.G. Wodehouse & Guy Bolton and Howard Lindsay & Russel Crouse, ANYTHING GOES will premiere at the Barbican Theatre on 8 May 2021 until 22 August 2021, featuring a full supporting company including 14 tap dancing sailors! Further casting will be announced soon.

Megan Mullally said: “Anything really does go, is the thing, and I’m excited to be coming to London where Robert Lindsay and I will promptly unleash ourselves upon that wonderful town for 15 weeks of farce and frolic. Under the tutelage of the devilishly clever Kathleen Marshall we shall endeavour to do the memory of Cole Porter proud. Meanwhile, I will endeavour to get my a** to a tap class. A brand new rendering of a great old entertainment is on the horizon…something tells me I’ll get a kick out of spending my summer in London next year! Tally-ho!”

Robert Lindsay said: “I am so looking forward to returning to the stage in the medium I love – musical comedy. And what better than Kathleen Marshall’s revival of Anything Goes at the wonderful Barbican Theatre. The perfect remedy to shake off the blues of 2020.”

Kathleen Marshall said: “I’m so thrilled to have the opportunity to reimagine Anything Goes for the West End. I’m a huge fan of both Megan and Robert and I know we will have a blast working together on this iconic musical comedy. I adore London and can’t wait to bring this joyous show to UK audiences!“

Howard Panter, producer of The King and I at the London Palladium said: “I’m delighted to be working with Kathleen to bring a wonderful new production of this classic, and very funny, golden-age musical to London next summer packed with Cole Porter’s fabulous songs. It’s an enormous pleasure to welcome Megan to London, as she makes her musical debut in the UK and to work once again with Robert. Originally created by the geniuses that were Cole Porter and P.G. Wodehouse, Anything Goes offers pure escapism and enjoyment for all the family and I really hope it will be the perfect tonic for London audiences next year.“

When the S.S. American heads out to sea, etiquette and convention head out the portholes as two unlikely pairs set off on the course to true love… proving that sometimes destiny needs a little help from a crew of singing sailors, a comical disguise and some good old-fashioned blackmail. This hilarious musical romp across the Atlantic featuring a collection of some of theatre’s most memorable songs – including ‘I Get A Kick Out of You’, ‘Anything Goes’, ‘You’re the Top’, ‘Blow, Gabriel, Blow’, ‘It’s De-Lovely’, ‘Friendship’ and ‘Buddie Beware’ – will take you back to the Golden Age of high society on the seas. ANYTHING GOES is set to sail away with audiences all over again.

PRESS QUOTES

“Exudes the effervescence of a freshly poured gin fizz…It’s a knockout!” – The New York Times

“So Delightful, so De-Lovely, it’s The Top!” – Associated Press

“This new ‘Anything Goes’ is a daffy, shipshape romp” – Variety

“Pure Magic” – New York Post

“You’ll get a kick out of ‘Anything Goes'” – USA Today

CINDERELLA PANTOMIME ANNOUNCED AS PART OF SECRET CHRISTMAS AT KIDZANIA LONDON

KidZania London in collaboration with Louis Rayneau today announce Cinderella as part of Secret Christmas at KidZania London – a programme of festive activities for children over Christmas. Cinderella the pantomime was filmed earlier this year at KidZania London, an indoor city run by kids at Westfield Shepherd’s Bush, and it will be screened at the KidZania Theatre, from 5 December 2020 until 3 January 2021.

Lauren Osborn and Louis Rayneau direct Ashleigh Harvey (Wicked Stepmother), Courtney Jackson (Gigi), Jamie Jones (Fifi), Beccy Lane (Cinderella), Amy Matthews (Fairy Godmother), Nicholas McLean (Buttons), and Luke Street (Prince Charming), and Ru Fisher, Hannah Grace Lawson, Rachel Sargent, Josh Harrison Yellop and Ashlee Young completing the ensemble.

Follow this classic rags-to-riches storyline and cheer along Cinderella and her hilarious friend Buttons as they outwit her wicked stepsisters and search for love at Prince Charming’s royal ball – but watch out for that clock turning midnight!

Packed with amazing musical and pop hits, tickets to this great British panto can be purchased at www.kidzania.co.uk as part of KidZania’s Secret Christmas Package

Louis Rayneau today said, “I am very excited and grateful to be bringing pantomime magic to Kidzania London for the first time! Filming this with the most incredible cast and creative team was so wonderful and it really is something magical. A massive thank you to Kidzania, it is really important that we keep supporting the arts so I’m very grateful to them for all the support and allowing us to bring something very special to their city for the whole family to enjoy!”

In a bid to support the arts community whilst many performing arts venues have remained closed throughout 2020, KidZania London is proud to work with an exquisite cast of West End Performers, directors, choreographers and musicians on the creation of this project.

KidZania Christmas Package tickets include 3 hours to explore the KidZania City activities, entrance to the Hidden Christmas area with six additional activities, viewing of the pre-recorded pantomime Cinderella in the KidZania Theatre, and a hot drink and sweet Christmas treat.

Keeping in line with the latest government guidelines, upon reopening KidZania will continue to implement health and safety measures in order to keep the city the most safe, fun and enjoyable place it can be. Social distancing measures will continue to be in place which will mean a smaller and safer capacity for visitors, face masks for everyone will be mandatory (unless exempt for medical reasons) and regular handwashing is encouraged between every activity. KidZania is unable to welcome under 4s at this time. For full details and FAQ’s, please visit https://kidzania.co.uk/contact-us/faqs/christmas-faqs

All necessary precautions were taken throughout the filming and production of Cinderella the Pantomime which took place in November 2020 and was completed in alignment with the government Covid-19 guidelines at the time.

Ed Court is Musical Director, with choreography by Rachel Sargent and Ashlee Young.

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Cinderella  Listings

KidZania London, Westfield London Shopping Centre, Shepherd’s Bush, London W12 7GA

5 December 2020 – 3rd January 2021

The Secret Christmas Package

Early bird tickets (available until 30 November): £36 child, £24.80 adult with the code ‘XMASEARLYBIRD2020’

Standard tickets: £45 child, £31 adult.

www.kidzania.co.uk

Age requirement: 4+