New Adventures are delighted to announce the tour dates for the much-anticipated return of Matthew Bourne’s “CINDERELLA”. The tour opens on Saturday 9 December 2017 at Sadler’s Wells where it plays a seven-week season until Saturday 27 January 2018. Press performances are Sunday 17 December at 2.00pm and 7.00pm. Full tour schedule below. www.new-adventures.net. Full casting to be announced shortly.
One of New Adventures’ most loved productions Matthew Bourne’s “CINDERELLA”is a thrilling and evocative love story, set in London during the Second World War.
Matthew Bourne’s interpretation of the classic fairy tale has, at its heart, a true war-time romance. A chance meeting results in a magical night for Cinderella and her dashing young RAF pilot, together just long enough to fall in love before being parted by the horrors of the Blitz.
With Lez Brotherston’s sumptuous costumes and sets, which won an Olivier Award for his original designs, and lighting by Olivier Award-winning Neil Austin, “CINDERELLA”will be performed in Surround Sound, designed by Paul Groothuis and featuring a specially commissioned recording played by a 60-piece orchestra. Matthew Bourne’s vivid story telling has never been more heart-stopping and touching, and will take the audience into the heart of Prokofiev’s magnificent score, and the sights and sounds of war-torn London.
2017 marks 20 years since “CINDERELLA” first premiered in the West End and New Adventures’ 16th consecutive Christmas season at Sadler’s Wells. “CINDERELLA” concludes a year-long celebration of work to commemorate the 30th Anniversary of New Adventures.
New Adventures & Re:Bourne is a national portfolio organisation supported using public funds by Arts Council England.
FULL CAST ANNOUNCED FOR TAKE THAT MUSICAL, THE BAND
The Band, a new musical featuring the music of Take That, and due to run at Leeds Grand Theatre from Tuesday 20th March to Saturday 31 March 2018, announces full cast line-up.
Joining previously announced AJ Bentley, Nick Carsberg, Curtis T Johns (Leeds-born), Yazdan Qafouri and Sario Solomon, collectively known as 5 to 5, winners of BBC’s Let it Shine, who will play The Band, will be a host of leading actors from TV and the West End, including Katy Clayton who appeared in Casualty,Shameless and Waterloo Road and played series regular Samantha Booth in Where the Heart Is, and Alison Fitzjohn who has just finished as Assistant Director and performer in David Walliams’s tour of Gangsta Granny.
Written by Olivier Award winner, Tim Firth, and produced by David Pugh, Dafydd Rogers and Take That’s Gary Barlow, who recently collaborated on the hit musical The Girls, The Band is a new musical about what it’s like to grow up with a boy band. For five 16-year-old friends in 1992, ‘The Band’ is everything. 25 years on, the now 40-something women, are reunited as they try once more to fulfil their dream of meeting their heroes. Fellow Take That members Howard Donald, Mark Owen and ex-member Robbie Williams will also produce.
The Band is at Leeds Grand Theatre from Tuesday 20th March to Saturday 31 March 2018
Tickets are priced from £19.50 (RV) to £49.50
(prices include a £3 booking fee. Postage charge £1 where applicable)
Book online at leedsgrandtheatre.com or call Box Office on 0844 848 2700
Our medium for the evening is Ellis Fagan a traditionally trained and fledged medium from the Elite Spiritualist Christian Church in Middlesbrough. With experience of physical mediumship, rostrum work and open circles he has never failed to pass the loving messages that are waiting for his participants.
Disney Pub Quiz (Fundraiser For Wheelchair Access)
at The Majestic Darlington
Friday 23 June
How much do you really know about your favourite Disney movies? We are raising money for our access fund via lots of events so please come along and support us in your mission to make the arts accessible for all!
The fabulous sister duo Meg & Gillian Campbell will be hosting the quiz and keeping the whole evening running smoothly… like a magic carpet ride 😉
Get your team booked in now as this is a strictly registration only event!
Drayton Arms Theatre 13 June – 8 July. Reviewed by Claire Roderick
Exchange Theatre’s production of Molière’s The Misanthrope swaps the salons of 17th century France for a modern-day TV newsroom. Presenter Alceste (director David Furlong), sick of the hypocrisy he sees around him, vows to tell the brutal truth to those around him, much to the horror of his colleague Philinte (Simeon Oakes). This leads to a quarrel with the egotistical and untalented poet Oronte (Palmyre Ligué) which ends up in court. Meanwhile his lover and star presenter Celimene (Anoushka Ravanshad) is enjoying her youth, and toys with most of the men around her.
Setting the play in the world of media, with characters sharing gossip on social media and clips of Trump, Le Pen and Farage spouting soundbites onscreen, works well, with radio panel shows and late-night chat shows replacing the gossipy salons of the original and showing that society hasn’t really moved on. There is no attempt to modernise the courtly language, making the characters feel deeply rooted in the past, however modern their surroundings and media savviness. The game cast do well with the sometimes-clunky dialogue, and give committed and energetic performances. The production starts promisingly, with some fun audience interaction, but it soon becomes clear that the rhythmic delivery of lines in the initial argument isn’t a one-off for comic effect, but continues throughout the play. The stressing of EVERY rhyming word wears thin very quickly, and in some scenes the dumpty dumpty dumpty DUM, dumpty, dumpty, dumpty DUM is almost soporific. The play runs alternately in French and English, so perhaps in French this rhythm might work?
There are a lot of sequences that could be cut to shorten the running time – an interminably long scene where the newsroom staff move around to 9 to 5 being a prime option. Making the sycophantic courtiers coke snorting reporters works well until they begin inexplicably bellowing at each other in a particularly ill-judged scene. Oronte as a media whore wannabe rapper is a fine idea, with some great comedy coming from Ligué’s over the top armography, but this doesn’t carry through to the second act, with each character’s reaction to revelations of Celimene’s feelings muted and token. Unfortunately, the play runs out of steam completely in the second act, saved only by the final musical number, which makes more emotional impact than the previous 40 minutes.
A brave but flawed attempt at modern Molière, which somehow feels more traditional than period productions.
MISS SAIGON tells the story of the last days of the Vietnam War, 17 year-old Kim is forced to work in a Saigon bar run by a notorious character known as the Engineer. There she meets and falls in love with an American GI named Chris but they are torn apart by the fall of Saigon. For 3 years Kim goes on an epic journey of survival to find her way back to Chris, who has no idea he’s fathered a son.
Wet Bread Kings Head Theatre, 115 Upper Street, London N1 1QN Monday 10th, Tuesday 11th and Thursday 13th July 2017
Inspired by the aftermath of the 2015 General Election, Wet Bread comes to Festival 47 at Kings Head Theatre following a highly successful run at the Brighton Fringe. Written by BBC Trans Comedy Award winner Tom Glover, Wet Bread is a one-woman satire about left-wing activism in a right-wing world.
Adele can’t work out how the Tories are in power – everyone she knows voted Labour. The shocking aftermath of the election inspires her next mission: to change the world for the better in a year.
She’ll end fracking, help the homeless, save whole families from a life on welfare, teach her niece about charity, learn to do Twitter, keep Britain in Europe and dedicate her life to putting things right (not Right). Unfortunately, her mum’s cancer is getting worse, her best friend has all the wrong opinions and the love of her life won’t convert to veganism. It would all be so much better if everyone just agreed with her. But change doesn’t happen just because you want it to – can Adele learn to listen as well as shout?
Glover comments, It’s fantastic to have the opportunity to bring Wet Bread to London, especially in the turbulent political times we find ourselves in. What’s great about doing a political show is that the show is nuanced by current affairs and the ever-changing nature of politics at the moment, means the show resonates differently over time. It was great that it received such a positive response at Brighton, as it was a piece questioning and satirising the ‘typical’ left-wing Brighton resident. I look forward to seeing how the show plays in this post-election world.
From the producers of Valhalla (Theatre503 Playwriting Award Winner) and Dirty Promises (Off West End Award nominated, Best Director).
Wet Bread is a tour-de-farce with heart (Fringe Review)
FURTHER CASTING ANNOUNCED FOR THE WEST END PRODUCTION OF
H A M I L T O N
PERFORMANCES BEGIN 21 NOVEMBER 2017
AT THE VICTORIA PALACE THEATRE FOLLOWING A
MULTI-MILLION POUND REFURBISHMENT
Producers Jeffrey Seller and Cameron Mackintosh are delighted to announce that Jamael Westman (Alexander Hamilton)and Michael Jibson (King George) will join the previously announced West End cast for HAMILTON which will re-open the Victoria Palace Theatre later this year following an extensive multi-million-pound renovation and expansion to the listed building.
Westman and Jibson join the previously announced Christine Allado (Peggy Schuyler/Maria Reynolds), Rachelle Ann Go (Eliza Hamilton), Tarinn Callender (Hercules Mulligan/James Madison), Rachel John (Angelica Schuyler), Jason Pennycooke (Marquis de Lafayette/Thomas Jefferson),Cleve September (John Laurens/Philip Hamilton), Giles Terera (Aaron Burr) and Obioma Ugoala (George Washington). At certain performances, the role of Alexander Hamilton will be played by Ash Hunter.
They are joined by Jade Albertsen, Curtis Angus, Jonathan Bishop, Courtney-Mae Briggs, Jack Butterworth, Jon-Scott Clark, Kelly Downing, Leslie Garcia Bowman, Lia Given, Greg Haney, Leah Hill, Barney Hudson, Waylon Jacobs,Miriam-Teak Lee, Phoebe Liberty, Alexzandra Sarmiento, Marsha Songcome, Christopher Tendai and Lindsey Tierney. Final casting will be announced at a later date.
HAMILTON is the story of America’s Founding Father Alexander Hamilton, an immigrant from the West Indies who became George Washington’s right-hand man during the Revolutionary War and helped shape the very foundations of the America we know today. Thescore blends hip-hop, jazz, blues, rap, R&B and Broadway – the story of America then, as told by America now.
Jamael Westman recently completed a run at Shakespeare’s Globe in The White Devil. Having graduated from RADA in 2016, he appeared in Richard Twyman’s production of Torn at the Royal Court Theatre. Hamilton marks Westman’s West End debut.
Michael Jibson’s previous theatre credits include Roots for the Donmar Warehouse, Road Show and Take Flight for the Menier Chocolate Factory, Puck in AMidsummer Nights’ Dream as well as Timon of Athens for Shakespeare’s Globe, Canterbury Tales for the Royal Shakespeare Company, Brighton Rock for the Almeida Theatre, Our House at the Cambridge Theatre for which he was nominated for an Olivier award and Oliver! at the London Palladium. His television credits include Saints and Strangers, Hatfields & McCoys, DCI BanksBurton and Taylor, Thirteenth Tale, and The Alienist. On film his credits include Hunter Killer, The Bank Job Beauty and the Beast, The Lighthouse,Les Misérables, The Fifth Estate and The Riot Club.
Ash Hunter was recently seen on stage in Light Shining in Buckinghamshire for the National Theatre. His other theatre credits include Pitcairn at Shakespeare’s Globe, Antony & Cleopatra for the Royal Shakespeare Company and A Midsummer’s Night Dream at the Almeida Theatre. His television credits include the BBC’s The Secret Agent and Death in Paradise.
Public booking opened on 30 January 2017 and the initial release tickets for the first booking period from 21 November 2017 through to 30 June 2018 is now sold out. In the autumn nearer the time of completion of the theatre’s refurbishment the producers hope to make further tickets available for booking period one. Further ticket releases will be announced at a later date via official HAMILTON channels. Full ticketing information can be found on the official website at hamiltonthemusical.co.uk and details of how to apply for the daily and weekly lotteries will be announced closer to performances.
In order to protect patrons from paying highly inflated prices, the producers of HAMILTON are determined to combat the unauthorised profiteering of third party resellers and ticket touts. Delfont Mackintosh Theatres has pioneered for the West End a paperless ticket system for this production – HAMILTON Paperless Ticketing, powered by Ticketmaster. No physical tickets will be issued in advance. Upon arrival at the theatre on the day of the performance, patrons will be asked to swipe the payment card they used to originally purchase their tickets to gain admission to the theatre. Patrons wishing to pay by cash can only do so once the Box Office at the Victoria Palace Theatre reopens in the autumn. Additional security measures to prevent profiteering of tickets purchased by cash customers will also be in place.
HAMILTON has book, music and lyrics by Lin-Manuel Miranda, is directed by Thomas Kail, with choreography by Andy Blankenbuehler and musical supervision and orchestrations byAlex Lacamoire and is based on Ron Chernow’s biography of Alexander Hamilton.
Winner of 11 Tony Awards including Best Musical, the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for Drama and the 2016 Grammy Award for Best Musical Theater Album, HAMILTON has smashed box office records on Broadway where it continues its run at The Richard Rodgers Theatre with the largest advance ever recorded in theatre history. A second US production is also playing to capacity at the PrivateBank Theatre in Chicago and a third US production opened in March at the Orpheum Theatre in San Francisco.
HAMILTON is produced in London by Jeffrey Seller, Sander Jacobs, Jill Furman, The Public Theater and Cameron Mackintosh.
LISTINGS INFORMATION
Dates Performances begin 21 November 2017 with booking to 30 June 2018
Theatre Victoria Palace Theatre, Victoria Street, London SW1E 5EA
Performances Monday – Saturday at 7.30pm, Thursday and Saturday at 2.30pm
Running time 2 hours and 45 mins including interval
DEBRA STEPHENSON TO JOIN DIANA VICKERS TO STAR IN NEW MUSICAL SON OF A PREACHER MAN
Deborah Stevenson
Son of a Preacher Man today announces that Bad Girls and Coronation Street star Debra Stephenson will create the role of Alison in this heart-warming new musical, joining Diana Vickers in the 2017 tour.
Featuring the soulful music of Dusty Springfield, with a book by Warner Brown and directed and choreographed by Craig Revel Horwood, Son of a Preacher Man embarks on a national tour starting at Bromley’s Churchill Theatre from Monday 4 September 2017.
Three broken hearts, one Soho hang-out, and the only man who could ever help them…
Welcome to the Preacher Man, the swinging 1960s Soho joint where the kids danced the night away to the latest crazes and dared to dream of love, while the legendary owner, The Preacher Man himself, dispensed advice to cure the loneliest of hearts.
Only, that was a long time ago and all that remains are the memories, the stories and the myths. Until now, that is, when three random strangers, generations apart but all in need of help with their hopeless love lives, are inexplicably drawn to the site of the original venue. The Preacher Man is long gone, but his son, with help from the wonderful Cappuccino Sisters, might just find it in himself to channel the spirit of The Preacher Man and once more give these three lovesick strangers the look of love.
Featuring the greatest hits of Dusty Springfield, including “The Look Of Love”, “I Only Want To Be With You”, “Spooky” and of course, the classic “Son Of A Preacher Man”, this sparklingly funny and sweetly touching new musical play by internationally renowned writer Warner Brown will have you laughing, crying and singing your heart out to some of the greatest songs ever written.
Directed and choreographed by Strictly Come Dancing’s Craig Revel Horwood, who returns to Wimbledon with Son of a Preacher Man after last year’s successful Sister Act. You only want to be with us!
Choreographer Craig Revel Horwood said:
‘I am delighted to bring to life for the very first time this wonderful story created by Warner Brown, with soulful songs from the legendary Dusty Springfield’s iconic music catalogue. I hope that audiences in Wimbledon will come to love this warm-hearted and uplifting new musical as much as I do.’
Debra Stephenson is known for her long running roles in Coronation Street and Bad Girls, whilst her entertainment credits include The Friday Night Project, 8 Out Of 10 Cats, Strictly Come Dancing Christmas Special, Comic Relief Does Fame Academy and Let’s Dance For Sports Relief. As a comedic impressionist she is best known as star of BBC One’s The Impressions Show, with her other credits including BBC Radio 4’s Dead Ringers as well ITV’s Newzoids.
Diana Vickers first came to public attention as a semi-finalist on the X Factor and has made her professional acting debut in the title role of The Rise and Fall of Little Voice in 2009 (West End, Vaudeville Theatre). Since then her theatre credits have included The Duck House (West End, Vaudeville Theatre), Hatched ‘n’ Dispatched (Park Theatre), The Rocky Horror Show (UK Tour). Her film and television credits include The Perfect Wave, Awaiting, To Dream, Give Out Girls and Top Coppers.
Warner Brown works internationally and is well known for his work in musical theatre and straight plays, encompassing both traditional and avant-garde forms.
He wrote ‘the most popular family show of all time’, the arena production Walking With Dinosaurs, creating an entirely new genre of theatrical presentation and winning many international awards. Currently playing in venues from Madison Square Garden to the Mercedes Benz Arena in Shanghai, an episode of CSI: Las Vegas has been based upon the show and it has even been parodied on The Simpsons.
Warner is currently working on multiple developing projects, including the Broadway musicals The Gold Room and The Thomas Crown Affair, both with composer Michael Feinstein; the opera Empty Spaces, with composer Joshua Schmidt, for Florentine Opera in the USA; the musical A Little Danger, with composer Michael Reed, for the St Petersburg Theatre in Russia; and the screenplay for the movie A Minute To Midnight for Bill Kenwright Films. He is part of the consortium, including choreographer Arlene Phillips and musical director Mike Dixon, for the new internet-based project Reality.
Writing credits include Half A Sixpence (UK Tour), The Biograph Girl (Phoenix Theatre), Cinderella (London Palladium), The Black and White Ball, which opened in London and for which The Cole Porter Trusts granted Warner stage rights to the songs of Cole Porter, Flickers (Broadway’s Circle-In-The Square Theater), The House on the Corner (Edinburgh International Festival) and, in addition, Tallulah For A Day and Sleep With Friends. Plays include Laughing Dove, Wavelength and The Prospero Suite, directed by John Doyle.
Warner has worked extensively in Europe, most recently writing the musical Garbo, with music by ‘Meatloaf’ rock legend Jim Steinman. He also has extensive writing credits for the BBC and was Script Associate of the BBC Classic Musicals Series, for which he adapted fourteen musicals featuring many international stars. Warner was the subject of the BBC Two TV documentary The Making Of A Musical. Warner is co-sponsor of the international music prize The S&S Award, named in honour of his late parents.
Craig Revel Horwood is a well-known face on television in the UK and now internationally for his role as a judge on all fifteen series of BBC One’s Strictly Come Dancing and for directing and appearing as a judge in the Live Tour.
Craig’s recent credits as director and choreographer include the current UK tour of Sister Act, the previous UK tours Brother Love Travelling Salvation Show and Chess; for television, How Do You Solve a Problem Like Maria? and Just the Two of Us; and for film, the feature film Paddington 2. In addition, he recently directed the all-star concert version of Stephen Sondheim’s Follies at the Royal Albert Hall. Other credits as a theatre director and choreographer are: West Side Story (Prince Edward), Miss Saigon (Drury Lane), Hey, Mr Producer! (Lyceum), Spend Spend Spend! (Piccadilly Theatre; Olivier nomination for Best Choreography), Pal Joey (Chichester Festival Theatre), Guys and Dolls (Sheffield Crucible), Paradise Moscow (Opera North), Carmen (Holland Park), My One and Only (Piccadilly Theatre; Olivier nomination for Best Choreography), Beautiful and Damned (Lyric Theatre), Arms and the Cow (Opera North), The Ballet Boyz: Yumbo Vs Nonino (Festival Hall, Sadler’s Wells, Royal Opera House, Covent Garden), The Hot Mikado (Watermill Theatre and UK Tour; Martin Guerre (Watermill Theatre), Sunset Boulevard (Watermill Theatre and Comedy Theatre, West End), Spend Spend Spend! (Watermill Theatre and UK Tour) and Copacabana (Watermill Theatre).
He recently returned to his roots as a performer in musical theatre, starring as Miss Hannigan in the UK national tour of Annie, and in Christmas 2016 as Captain Hook in Peter Pan at the Churchill Theatre, Bromley. Other performing credits include Captain Hook in Peter Pan at the Orchard, Dartford in 2014 and at the Swan, High Wycombe in 2015. Previously, Craig starred as the Wicked Queen in Snow White at Venue Cymru, Llandudno in 2009, The Hawth, Crawley in 2010 and The Orchard, Dartford 2011. He reprised his role at The Swan Theatre, High Wycombe in 2012 and the Cliffs Pavilion, Southend in 2013.
Amongst his numerous TV credits, highlights include winning the BBC Two series Maestro at the Opera, the final of which saw him conduct Act II of La Bohème at the Royal Opera House. He was also a grand finalist on the hit cooking show, Celebrity MasterChef and participated in and won Ready, Steady, Cook.
Book Warner Brown
Director & Choreographer Craig Revel Horwood
Set & Costume Designer Morgan Large
Musical Supervisor & Arrangements Paul Herbert
Lighting Designer Richard G Jones
Sound Designer Richard Brooker
Associate Director & Choreographer David James Hulston
Casting Director Anne Vosser
Son of a Preacher Man is produced by Brian Berg, John Sachs, Andrew Berg & Kimberley Sachs for Eclipse Live, Michael Park for The Infinite Group, Paul Tyrer & Jamie Clark for TBO Productions,
Churchill Theatre Bromley and executive producers Andrew Green and Ben White, all on behalf of Dusty Touring Ltd.
Further casting to be announced.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION PLEASE VISIT: www.sonofapreachermanmusical.com
PERFORMANCE DETAILS
New Wimbledon Theatre
Tue 14 – Sat 18 Nov
Tue – Sat 7.30pm Thu & Sat mat 2.30pm
Ticket from £15
Atgtickets.com/wimbledon
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CJ de Mooi returns to Lazarus Theatre Company for The Taming of the Shrew…
The Taming of the Shrew
William Shakespeare
Lazarus Theatre Company are proud to announce that CJ de Mooi of Eggheads fame returns to the company to play the iconic role of Gremio in our epic new production of Shakespeare’s The Taming of the Shrew.
“I am so thrilled to be returning to Lazarus Theatre but I’ll admit to being rather nervous too. Classical theatre, especially Shakespeare, is such a challenge for any actor and Lazarus is very much the gold standard. Ever since seeing Burton and Taylor in the film adaptation of The Taming of the Shrew, I’ve always wanted to be a part of a production and Gremio is such a fun role to play. I only hope I can do old greybeard justice!” CJ de Mooi on the announcement of his casting.
CJ de Mooi’s previous Lazarus credits include Thersites, Troilus and Cressida and Menenius, Coriolanus, at The Tristan Bates Theatre. Previous credits include Simon, Guilty Pleasures, Stephen Leatherland, National Tour. Ms Axel, Geek!, Jamie Chapman Dixon, Tristan Bates Theatre. Arnold, The International Stud, Dan Phillips, Edinburgh C Venue. The Stranger, The Renata Road, Ed Greenberg, Feature Film.
Best known from the long running BBC show Eggheads, CJ is an actor with many stage and screen credits to his name.
Making their Lazarus Debut, Charlotte Dowding (Francine, Clybourne Park, Max Key, The Karamel Club. Landlady, The Good Person of Szechwan, Katie Henry, Bridewell Theatre.) takes the role of Katherina.
Samuel Lane (Bottom, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Haf Gardner, Young Shakespeare Company. Will Bennett/Dr Maudsley, Blue Stockings, Sarah Hayhurst, The Cockpit Theatre.) plays the role of Lucentio.
Sabrina Laurison (Alice, Feast of Fools, Myles Horgan, Theatre N16. Amy, Insane, Danielle Imara, Leicester Square Theatre. Luna, Eclipse, Nick Young, The Station) and Rachel Smart (Squidge, Cold Front, Dilek Latif, The Vaults. Cobweb, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Alexandra Spencer-Jones, River Stage: National Theatre.) take on the roles of Bianca and Biondello/Gremio respectively.
Evangeline Dickson (Mrs Millenium, Urinetown, The Musical, Josh Seymour, Pleasance Theatre. Shen Te/Shui Ta, The Good Person of Szechwan, Katie Henry, Bridewell Theatre. Malcolm, Macbeth, Zoé Ford, Karamel Club.) plays the role of Tranio.
While Shiv Rabheru (Cy, Everybody’s Talking About Jamie, Jonathan Butterell, Sheffield Crucible. Mr. Mistoffelees, CATS, Trevor Nunn, UK and European Tour. Dawn Bush, (Chorus, Henry V, John-Robert Partridge, Tread the Boards at the Attic Theatre, Stratford-on Avon. Miss Prism/Lane/Merriman, The Importance of Being Earnest, Michelle Shortland, Dot Productions tour.) Gareth Balai (Ensemble, Misa Criolla, Jonathan Griffith, David Geffen Hall, Lincoln Center. Dorian Gray, Wilde at Home, David Grant, Mary MacArthur Theatre.) and also returning to the company Mathew Foster (Previous Lazarus credits include; Achates, Dido, Queen of Carthage, France in King Lear, Greenwich Theatre. Other credits include; Richard, Dream Girl, Kris Hallett, Old Red Lion. Ensemble/Understudy, Wolf Hall & Bring Up The Bodies, Jeremy Herrin, RSC West End & Broadway) take on the roles of Hortensio, Baptista, Sly and Petruchio respectively.
Shakespeare’s Shrew…
Kate talks too much; at least, that’s what the men of Padua think. So they persuade Petruchio to marry her and bring his wilful wife to heel. Part farce, and part tragedy, The Taming of the Shrew dramatises society’s attempt to control and one woman’s bid to resist.
Lazarus is an award-winning Theatre Company, re-imagining and revitalising classic text for a contemporary audience. The Taming of the Shrew is directed by Lazarus Theatre Associate Director, Sara Reimers.
Listings
Dates 18th July – 5th August, Tuesday – Saturday at 7.45pm
Venue The Jack Studio Theatre
Tickets £15.00, £12.00 (Concessions) £10 (Previews 18th and 19th July) To Book www.brockleyjack.co.uk
OPENS SATURDAY 9 DECEMBER 2017
New Adventures are delighted to announce the tour dates for the much-anticipated return of Matthew Bourne’s “CINDERELLA”. The tour opens on Saturday 9 December 2017 at Sadler’s Wells where it plays a seven-week season until Saturday 27 January 2018. Press performances are Sunday 17 December at 2.00pm and 7.00pm. Full tour schedule below. www.new-adventures.net. Full casting to be announced shortly.
Matthew Bourne’s interpretation of the classic fairy tale has, at its heart, a true war-time romance. A chance meeting results in a magical night for Cinderella and her dashing young RAF pilot, together just long enough to fall in love before being parted by the horrors of the Blitz.
2017 marks 20 years since “CINDERELLA” first premiered in the West End and New Adventures’ 16th consecutive Christmas season at Sadler’s Wells. “CINDERELLA” concludes a year-long celebration of work to commemorate the 30th Anniversary of New Adventures.
