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FULL CAST ANNOUNCED FOR

WEST END PRODUCTION OF NOËL COWARD’S CLASSIC COMEDY

BLITHE SPIRIT

STARRING JENNIFER SAUNDERS

& DIRECTED BY SIR RICHARD EYRE

HAROLD PINTER THEATRE

16 SEPTEMBER – 6 NOVEMBER 2021

Tickets on sale via www.atgtickets.com

It was announced today that Madeleine Mantock will make her West End debut to play Elvira to complete the cast of the upcoming West End production of Blithe Spirit which stars Jennifer Saunders.  Madeleine recently played ‘Macy Vaughn’; a series lead in Charmedfor CBS Studios and ‘Miss Clara’, in the BBC adaptation of Andrea Levy’s novel The Long Song.  Other TV credits include: Casualty, The Tomorrow People,  Age Before Beauty and Into the Badlands.  Films include: Edge of Tomorrow with Tom Cruise, Breaking Brooklyn and The Truth Commissioner

Jennifer Saunders, one of the UK’s most popular comic actors, will revive her role as the preposterous clairvoyant Madame Arcati. She is joined by original cast members Geoffrey Streatfeild who will star as Charles Condomine, Lisa Dillon as Ruth Condomine, Simon Coates as Dr Bradman, Lucy Robinson as Mrs Bradman, and Rose Wardlaw as Edith. The production brings together a distinguished and multi-award-winning creative team, directed by former National Theatre director Sir Richard Eyre with design by Anthony Ward, lighting by Howard Harrison, sound by John Leonard and illusions by Paul Kieve.

Written in 1941, Coward’s inventive, witty and meticulously engineered comedy proved light relief and a popular distraction at the height of World War II when it was first staged. The show had a record-breaking run in the West End and on Broadway and remains one of the playwright’s most popular works.

Novelist Charles Condomine and his second wife Ruth are literally haunted by a past relationship when an eccentric medium inadvertently conjures up the ghost of his first wife, Elvira, at a séance. When she appears, visible only to Charles, and determined to sabotage his current marriage, life – and the afterlife – get complicated.

Noël Coward was an English playwright, composer, actor, producer and director. His dramas include Hay Fever and Private Lives. For film, he wrote and directed the Academy Award- winning In Which We Serve and the screenplay for Brief Encounter.

Jennifer Saunders is well known as one half of the comedy duo French and Saunders, for which she and Dawn French received a BAFTA fellowship in 2009, and for the hit comedy series and subsequent film, Absolutely Fabulous, which she also wrote and starred in. She has received numerous awards including two Emmys, five BAFTAs and four British Comedy Awards.

Geoffrey Streatfeild has appeared on TV in Spooks, The Hollow Crown, The Thick of It and The Other Boleyn Girl, and on film in Making Noise Quietly, The Lady in the Van, Kinky Boots and A Royal Night Out. Stage credits include the Histories Cycle (RSC), Cell Mates (Hampstead), The Beaux Stratagem (National Theatre) and My Night with Reg (Donmar).

Lisa Dillon starred as Mary Smith in the BBC series Cranford. Her stage credits include Richard Eyre’s Private Lives in the West End,the RSC’s The Roaring Girl and The Taming of the Shrew, A Flea in Her Ear and Design for Living at the Old Vic and The Knot of the Heart and When the Rain Stops Falling at the Almeida.

Simon Coates’s stage credits include Richard III (Almeida), 1984 (West End), The Cherry Orchard (Royal Exchange, Bristol Old Vic), King John (Shakespeare’s Globe). He has also toured the UK with Regeneration, The Misanthrope, Romeo & Juliet and The Hypochondriac.

Lucy Robinson’s stage credits include Waste, The Hard Problem (National Theatre), Handbagged (Vaudeville), Sweet Bird of Youth (Old Vic), In the Next Room (Theatre Royal Bath). Her many TV credits include Cold Feet, Coronation Street, Call the Midwife, Doc Martin, Doctor and Pride and Prejudice.

Rose Wardlaw recently performed in Outlying Islands at the King’s Head. She has previously appeared in Eyam, The Winter’s Tale (Shakespeare’s Globe), Jubilee (Lyric Hammersmith) and Great Expectations (West Yorkshire Playhouse) and, for television, Call the Midwife and Doctors.

Sir Richard Eyre was at the helm of the National Theatre for 10 years and is the winner of five Olivier Awards including a Lifetime Achievement Award. His numerous hugely-acclaimed productions include Guys and Dolls, The Invention of Love and Private Lives. His award-winning film and television work includes Iris, Tumbledown and The Children Act.

Anthony Ward has designed numerous productions including the Tony Award-winning Mary Stuart, the Olivier Award-winning Oklahoma! and What’s on Stage Award winner Chitty Chitty Bang Bang.

Howard Harrison is a two-times Olivier Award-winning lighting designer whose recent works include Impossible and Mamma Mia! (London, Broadway and worldwide).

John Leonard is an award-winning sound designer and has worked extensively across the UK including at the National Theatre, Almeida, Royal Court, Chichester Festival Theatre, Birmingham Rep and Manchester Royal Exchange.

Paul Kieve is an internationally renowned illusionist whose recent theatre credits include Matilda (West End and UK tour) and Groundhog Day (Broadway). He is the co-creator of David Blaine Live and Dynamo’s international tour and consultant on the live shows for David Copperfield, Penn & Teller in Las Vegas and Derren Brown.

Blithe Spirit is presented by Theatre Royal Bath Productions, Lee Dean and Jonathan Church Theatre Productions.   The show had a sell-out run at Theatre Royal Bath as part of its 2019 Summer season, a UK tour and a short run of just 12 performances before the country’s first lockdown curtailed its six week run at the Duke of York’s Theatre in March 2020.

COMPLETE CAST AND CREATIVE TEAM

ANNOUNCED FOR HAMLET

Further tickets to be released:

Members Priority 6 September 12 noon / Public Booking 8 September 12 noon

Hamlet

By William ShakespeareDirected by Greg Hersov

Main House

From 25 September – 13 November 2021

Cush Jumbo (The Good Wife, The Good Fight) make her YV debut as a new kind of Hamlet, reuniting with her long-time collaborator Greg Hersov, to bring us this tale of power, politics and desire.  

Joining Cush Jumbo as Hamlet, the full cast includes Jonathan Ajayi (Laertes), Joana Borja  (Guildenstern/Osric), Adrian Dunbar (Claudius/The Ghost), Tara Fitzgerald (Gertrude), Norah Lopez Holden (Ophelia), Jonathan Livingstone (Horatio), Joseph Marcell (Polonius), Adele Oni (Bernardo), Taz Skylar (Rosencrantz/Fortinbras/Marcellus) and Leo Wringer (Fortinbras Captain/Player/Gravedigger).

With Hamlet, the Young Vic is delighted to introduce a Jerwood Assistant Designer, who will work with Anna Fleischle on the set and costume design process for the show. This new opportunity represents a shared ambition between the Young Vic and Jerwood Arts to create a greater range of paid opportunities for creatives to develop their craft as part of a production. The Assistant Designer role is in addition to the Jerwood Assistant Director (an opportunity established in 2010), and Boris Karloff Trainee Assistant Director role (established in 2011); two further examples of how the Young Vic Directors Program supports and nurtures theatre makers with paid opportunities.  

Hamlet is Directed by Greg Hersov, with Set and Costume Design by Anna Fleischle, Lighting Design by Aideen Malone,Sound Design by Emma Laxton, Video Design by Nina Dunn, Movement Direction by Lucy Hind, Casting by Sophie Holland CDG, with Casting Assistants Faye Timby and Finnian Tweed, Voice and Text by Barbara Houseman and Fight Direction by Kev McCurdy, withJerwood Assistant Director Zoe Templeman-Young, Boris Karloff Trainee Assistant Director Kirk-Ann Roberts and Jerwood Assistant Designer Jida Akil.

Audio Described performance: 19 October, 7.30pm

Relaxed performance: 2 November, 7.30pm

Captioned performance: 4 November, 7.30pm

Hamlet is currently sold out. Further Hamlet tickets to be released:

Members Priority Booking 6 September 12noon / Public Booking 8 September 12noon

Vaudeville Theatre – until 12 September 2021

Reviewed by Donna Easton

4****

Ah, after not setting foot in a theatre since March last year, the anticipation for this production replaced my usual butterflies of excitement with whacking great flapping birds that consumed my body and when I flipped down the red velvet seat (oh the feeling), I was fit to burst and the energy of the audience was palpable. I had a flash of a thought, ‘Oh please don’t let this be an anti-climax’ and in the safe hands of the Donmar Warehouse production team, I needn’t have worried. In fact, it was more than I could have wanted. 

We meet Manuel (Omari Douglas) and Roland (Russell Tovey) in this delicious two-hander housed in the buzzing, pulsating and flickering world where the actors pulled the audience through a quantum multiverse world of possibilities where “every choice, every decision you’ve ever and never made exists in an unimaginably vast ensemble of parallel universes.” Pow! 

Douglas is just a dream to watch with Manuel’s dialogue seemingly coming from the depths of his soul with just the most sublime physical storytelling whilst Tovey’s Roland cuts a steady contrast that makes the pairing utterly compelling. 

Nick Payne’s writing transports us from giggly, light and fizzy dialogue to the dark shades of terminal illness and euthanasia as we see multiple journeys not ending in the not inevitable….I think….*reaches for Quantum Physics for beginners​*. 

With the dialogue moving at such pace the moment that packed a firm punch was a scene played purely in BSL. Now, I cannot sign or understand sign language, but every word of this scene was possibly the loudest and clearest of the entire production and as I felt the whole audience pull in as a collective energy, the tears started to flow.    

Needless to say, this play did not disappoint for my first trip back to the theatre and as I was revelling in my gratitude for a world where we are able to watch live action again, I started to daydream of a parallel me watching a play in a world that had never even heard of Covid-bastard-19. 

The Pleasance Theatre London. On demand from 6th – 30th August. In person at The Pleasance Theatre London from 7th – 11th September.

Reviewed by Aimee Liddington.

4****

Written and performed by Marcus Hercules, Prison Game is a monologue which tells the story of an innocent young man who finds himself in prison for a crime that he did not commit. Once there, he soon learns the tricks of the trade and despite his attempts to stay lawful upon his release, his life takes a turn for the worse and he ends up in and out of prison and eventually becoming a drug addict.

Mike’s parents came to England from Jamaica in the 1950’s and Caribbean culture is integral to the telling of the story. The first character we meet is the dynamic, Jamaican, carnival-loving narrator who returns throughout the performance to debrief the audience on each step of Mike’s journey into adulthood. Despite the darkness and gravity of the themes discussed, you cannot help but smile at the narrator’s energy which is accompanied by carnival music each time he appears on the stage.

Marcus Hercules’ ability to shift shape and form in order to clearly differentiate between each of the characters is commendable. His use of repeated phrases and mannerisms to signal character change is flawless and allows the audience to seamlessly follow the storyline without confusion. Hercules switches to and from Jamaican Patois and Manchester slang with ease as he performs roles of a stark contrast (Nana May to the drug dealer TQ). His energy, commitment and physical dynamism helps us transform the bare stage into Mike’s world which we are able to imagine in full.

At the beginning of the performance Mike is a naïve, respectful and ambitious young man and although at the end of the story we can see a glimmer of the young boy he once was, it is clear that he has been changed forever by what he has seen whilst playing the prison game

Vann Garden, Godalming – until 15 August 2021

Reviewed by Antonia Hebbert

3***

An enchanting garden, a summer evening and a Shakespeare comedy full of playfulness. What more could you want? (Apart from midge repellent, which would have been handy as it got dark.) This is a production by Troubadour Stageworks, who put on shows in non-theatre spaces, such as gardens, village greens and churches. They’re young, enthusiastic, and confident with the text. I took along a 23-year-old who said he struggles with Shakespeare, but these actors made it easy to understand. He loved the show.

All’s Well That Ends Well is tricky, because its clever and resourceful heroine Helena (Jasmine Silk) seems far too good for Bertram, the dim plonker (he really is) that she loves. The shenanigans that bring the two together for a happy ending are potentially nauseating. Then there’s a subplot involving Bertram’s loudmouth friend Parolles, whose unscrupulousness shadows Bertram’s own. But this production manages to find the happiness and fun. Bruce Allinson’s Bertram is gullible rather than horrible, and Megan Good’s Parolles is positively lovable. The second half bounced along as the cast seemed to find extra energy in the different characters they played. Sophy Taylor Lafeu and Dan Nash especially had fine comic timing and big voices.

It helps to be watching in the lovely setting of Vann Garden, beside a beautiful old house. The actors are on the lawn, with the audience all around. The scene setting consisted of a large chair being moved, which was super-simple but effective. It was sometimes difficult to hear when the actors turned away, and sometimes they just talked too fast (at least for me). If you don’t know the play, you should definitely prepare by getting a rough idea of the plot, and read the brief synopsis in the programme. And take chairs, blankets, picnic and midge repellant for the evening show.

Burnt Lemon Theatre in association with MAST Mayflower Southampton and
Birmingham Hippodrome
Incredible cast announced for UK
tour of Tokyo Rose
16th September – 30th October 2021

The highly anticipated tour of the Edinburgh Fringe hit Tokyo Rose has announced their all female cast, starring Kanako Nakano (Miss Saigon, West End; Priscilla Queen of the Desert, West End). The production, winner of the coveted Les Enfant Terribles Stepladder Award, will also feature Maya Britto (Tokyo Rose, New Diorama Theatre/Edinburgh Fringe; Arabian Nights, Hoxton Hall) in the titular role, Lucy Park (Tokyo Rose, New Diorama Theatre/Edinburgh Fringe; Game Face, Q Theatre/Tristan Bates Theatre), Yuki Sutton (Tokyo Rose, New Diorama Theatre/Edinburgh Fringe; Satanic Panic ’87, Channel 4), Amy Parker (Ride, Vault Festival; Dancing By Myself, King’s Head Theatre), and Cara Baldwin (The Marathon Project, online; The Half Moon Shania, Zoo Venues/Vault Festival).

Tokyo Rose is an electrifying new musical about one of America’s most controversial trials, examining a real-life story of scaremongering and scapegoating. New Diorama Theatre and Underbelly first commissioned this exciting project as part of the Untapped Award, and its potential was realised following a sold out run at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in 2019.

A nickname given to the female broadcasters spreading Japanese propaganda to the Allied Forces during the Second World War, ‘Tokyo Rose’ became a symbol of the enemy. So when Iva Ikuko Toguri D’Aquino was accused of being the original notorious ‘Tokyo Rose’ she became the seventh person in US history to stand trial for treason. This musical foregrounds the voice of the individual, so often drowned out by rabble-rousing discourse, which Iva herself struggles to hold on to during a journey of self-acceptance.

A figure referenced across popular culture, from Joni Mitchell to The Golden Girls, Tokyo Rose provides a female-centric view of a male dominated period of history. Now in a new two-act full length format, this thought-provoking production is a timely examination of xenophobia and anti-Asian sentiment, unfortunately still relevant today. This production celebrates a community whose point of view is not only overlooked in history, but also underrepresented on stage and screen.

Co-writer Maryhee Yoon says, The most important part of Tokyo Rose is that Iva Toguri D’Aquino lived. She was here. I hope to tell Iva’s story in a way that she would have wanted, honouring her heartbreaks, her fight, her family, and her joys to honour our collective fight and radical joy. Just like Iva, our community is here and it is thriving. I hope that Tokyo Rose can serve as a love letter to this vibrant community.

Co-writer Cara Baldwin comments, The cast and creative team have gone on such an incredible journey together, shining a light on a side of history some would rather forget. While Iva Toguri survived a tidal wave of turmoil, the greatest thing we’ve learnt is that Iva’s life is not one to lament, but celebrate.

Black Comedy Snowflakes re-announced for
Islington premiere after Covid cancellation
Old Red Lion Theatre, 418 St John St, Islington, London EC1V 4NJ
Tuesday 28th September – Saturday 16th October 2021

Think of us like the active hand of impotent rage.

How far would you go to right a wrong? Snowflakes takes Cancel Culture quite literally to question ideas of morality, revenge and justice with gleeful, violent abandon. Combining the technological nihilism of Black Mirror with the dark comedy and horror of Inside No. 9, it lacerates modern outrage and trial by social media.

Marcus and Sarah work for a very special start-up. They don’t work in a shared office. They don’t sell locally sourced, gluten-free coconut water. They do the job that so many people call out for in the comments section. So, outsource your rage, disgust and vitriol and let’s get to the truth before the media storm blows over. They may not based in a co-working space but they do have an app: Justice isn’t blind, it’s streamed to millions. Don’t forget to like, comment and subscribe!

This sci-fi black comedy resonates in various directions, implicating questions about the potency of social media, female empowerment and how characters earnestly confront trauma. Comedy, drama and satire; Snowflakes is brought by Dissident Theatre – a company with the goal of making theatre to confront the base, the repressed and ambiguous corners of the world we live in.

Making his writing debut, Robert Boulton (False Choices, King’s Head Theatre; Baked Beans) will also star in Snowflakes as Marcus alongside Niamh Finlay (Gutted, The Marlowe Theatre and UK Tour; Everything that Rises Must Dance, Complicité) as Sarah and Henry Davis (Hanna, Amazon Prime, The Essex Serpent, Apple TV) as Tony.

Robert Boulton comments, My favourite stories have always been dark, twisted and morally dubious – what that says about me as a person, God only knows. I want to make people laugh through the darkness; I don’t respond well to moral preaching or superiority and don’t expect an audience to. I’m flitting somewhere in between terror and excitement to see how the audience responds. I hope Snowflakes is a relevant, if irreverent, riff on contemporary society, not just examining the problems we’re encountering now and where we might be going; but also asking where we want to be when and if we solve these problems. Then again, maybe not.

Snowflakes is brought to life by an angular, minimalist set by Offie-nominated Alys Whitehead (Aisha, The Old Red Lion & Tristan Bates Theatre) designed to reflect the nature of internet streaming, courtrooms and the dystopian future-present in which the play is set. Lighting design from Jonathan Chan (Sticks and Stones, Tristan Bates Theatre) interplays with the set design to create compelling changes in mood through the production.

PRESS RELEASE – 13 August 2021

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MICHAEL MORPURGO TO MAKE SPECIAL APPEARANCE AT THE BARN THEATRE FOR AN ELEPHANT IN THE GARDEN EVENT

• MICHAEL MORPURGO WILL TAKE PART IN A SPECIAL Q&A SESSION WITH DIRECTOR & ADAPTOR SIMON READE AND STAR ALISON REID, FOLLOWING THE OPENING NIGHT PERFORMANCE OF AN ELEPHANT IN THE GARDEN ON 31 AUGUST
• THE PRODUCTION RETURNS TO THE BARN THEATRE FOLLOWING ITS CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED AND AWARD-NOMINATED DIGITAL RUN IN APRIL 2021

The Barn Theatre in Cirencester have today announced that internationally best-selling author Michael Morpurgo will make a special appearance for a post-show Q&A session following the opening night performance of Simon Reade’s critically acclaimed play adaptation of his children’s novel An Elephant in the Garden on 31 August.

The question-and-answer session will see Morpurgo discuss with director and adaptor Simon Reade and star Alison Reid their ongoing relationship as collaborators, the process of bringing Morpurgo’s work to the stage and the trio’s ongoing relationship with the Barn Theatre.

An Elephant in the Garden returns to the Barn Theatre from 31 August – 11 September, following its critically acclaimed andOnComm Award-nominated digital run earlier in the year. Simon Reade’s adaptation of the beloved Michael Morpurgo children’s novel follows Lizzie, her mother – and an elephant from the zoo in 1945 Dresden, Germany, as they flee the Allied fire-bombing in the endgame of the Second World War.

The question-and-answer session will take place following the 7:30pm opening night performance on 31 August with access to the Q&A event only for ticket holders to the performance. Tickets to the production range from £11.50.

Michael Morpurgo said of his return to the theatre, “Back in The Barn!  A new beginning beckons for everyone involved with theatre. The Barn has led the way, doing everything that was possible to keep live theatre going during these dire times.  Well, dire is over, we hope, over and done with. Plays can play again. Audiences need wait no longer for the show to begin. How they will love it, how we will all love it, to be together again! 

I am looking forward so, so much to being back at The Barn with you for Alison Reade’s bravura solo performance of Simon Reid’s wonderful adaptation of my story An Elephant in the Garden.” 

The Poonamallee Productions and Barn Theatre production is adapted and directed by Simon Reade and performed by Alison Reid with design by Max Johns, lighting design by Matthew Graham, costumes by Elizabeth De-Tisi, sound design by Jason Barnes, radio voices by Chris Bianchi and juggling choreography by Rod Laver.

This will continue the theatre’s ongoing relationship with Morpurgo, who has been a long-time supporter of the charity. This production will mark the third of his works to be staged at the theatre, following 2019’s The Butterfly Lion and 2020’s Private Peaceful, with Vicki Berwick’s previously announced adaptation of The Mozart Question also in active development.

Morpurgo made appearances for a special digital event “An Evening with Michael Morpurgo” during the height of the pandemic to raise funds for the theatre and his charity Farms For City Childrenas part of the Barn Theatre’s free digital service Behind The Barn Door, which was set up during the first national lockdown to provide free entertainment and information to connect both local, national and international communities.

2020 also saw the critically acclaimed runs of the Barn Theatre, Take Two Theatricals and BoxLess Theatre production of Michael Morporgo’s Private Peaceful, which was also a Simon Reade adaptation. The run started at the theatre’s summer theatre festival BarnFest (which has returned this week) before successful transfers to the theatre’s main auditorium and to Bristol Old Vic. The production was originally scheduled to debut in the West End, however due to the second National lockdown the production was cancelled and returned as a digital production alongside An Elephant in the Garden in Spring 2021.

The production will mark the first of two Simon Reade productions for the Barn’s 2021 reopening season with Reade’s actor-musician reimagining of David Copperfield set to make its world debut from 28 September – 6 November.

Tickets for the special event, An Elephant in the Garden and David Copperfield are now on sale with tickets ranging from £11.50. Tickets can be purchased at barntheatre.org.uk or by calling the box office at 01285 648 255 (M-Sa 10am-1pm & 5:30pm–7pm, Sa 5:30pm-7pm).

CRUCIBLE

A Sheffield Theatres and Clean Break Production

World Première

SHEFFIELD THEATRES AND CLEAN BREAK ANNOUNCE CASTING FOR TYPICAL GIRLS

Writer Morgan Lloyd Malcolm

DirectorRóisín McBrinn

Musical Director Rosie Bergonzi
Assistant Director Aaliyah Mckay

Designer Kat Heath
Lighting Designer Katy Morrison

Associate Lighting Designer Rachel Cleary

Sound Designer Beth Duke

Movement Director Chi San Howard

Music Director Mentor Yshani Perinpanayagam

Line Producer 45 North

Featuring the music of The Slits

Friday 24 September – Saturday 16 October 2021

Sheffield Theatres and Clean Break todayannounce the cast for Typical Girls by Morgan Lloyd Malcolm, at the Crucible Theatre from Friday 24 September to Saturday 16 October.

Directed by Clean Break’s Joint Artistic Director Róisín McBrinn (Afterplay, Sheffield Theatres)full casting includes Helen Cripps (Women Beware Women, Shakespeare’s Globe), Lucy Edkins ([BLANK], Donmar Warehouse), Lucy Ellinson (Run Sister Run, Sheffield Theatres), Eddy Queens (Through This Mist, Clean Break), Alison Fitzjohn (Take That’s – The Band Musical, UK Tour), Lara Grace Ilori (Living Newspaper Edition 6, Royal Court) and Carrie Rock (Julius Caesar, Donmar Warehouse/St Ann’s Warehouse, New York).

“This is punk. This is rebellion. This is how we make change. This is what we need to do.”

From writer Morgan Lloyd Malcolm (Emilia) and featuring the music of influential all-female punk band, The Slits, Typical Girls is part gig, part play and is funny, fierce and furious.

In a mental health unit inside a prison, a group of women discover the music of punk rock band The Slits and form their own group. An outlet for their frustration, they find remedy in revolution. But in a system that suffocates, can rebellion ever be allowed?

Robert Hastie, Artistic Director of Sheffield Theatres: “We couldn’t be more excited to be producing such a bold, riotous new play with a company as inspiring as Clean Break, and can’t wait to welcome this brilliant cast and creative team into the rehearsal room.” 

Róisín McBrinn, Joint Artistic Director of Clean Break: “We’re over the moon to be co-producing this raucous, explosive show! Morgan’s script is electric, and we have a stellar creative team and hugely exciting cast. Clean Break is so proud to be returning with this joyous, important play and to be exploding it onto the beautiful Crucible stage!” 

Returning to the Crucible are Lucy Ellinson, following her starring role in Run Sister Run in 2020; and Róisín McBrinn, after directing the 2014 production Afterplay by Brian Friel.

Typical Girls will be at the Crucible Theatre from 24 September to 16 October with the performance on 6 October live-streamed and available to watch online. Tickets will be available from sheffieldtheatres.co.uk.

THE CELEBRATED LONDON REVIVAL OF  

MY NIGHT WITH REG 

THE AWARD-WINNING BITTERSWEET COMEDY BY KEVIN ELYOT 

EXTENDS ITS RUN AT THE TURBINE THEATRE  

UNTIL 11 SEPTEMBER 2021 

AND HOSTS A SPECIAL GALA NIGHT PERFORMANCE ON  

18 AUGUST IN AID OF THE TERRENCE HIGGINS TRUST 

★★★★★ 

Shenton Stage, Boyz, A Younger Theatre, Out News Global 

‘A riveting revival and a superb ensemble cast’ – Boyz  

★★★★ 

What’s On Stage, Chortle, Broadway World, Time & Leisure,  

Sardines, London Theatre 1, The Spy In The Stalls 

The celebrated London revival of Kevin Elyot’s award-winning play, My Night With Reg, extends its run for a further three weeks at Paul Taylor-Mills’ Turbine Theatre, now running until 11 September 2021.  

The production also announces a special charity night gala on Wednesday 18 August. The evening is in aid of the Terrence Higgins Trust, the UK’s leading HIV and sexual health charity. The charity help support people living with HIV and amplify their voices, continue to fight against HIV and provide services and support to help improve the nation’s sexual health.  

This dazzling new revival of the iconic bittersweet comedy is directed by Matt Ryan and stars Stephen K Amos (Benny), James Bradwell (Eric), Edward M Corrie (John), Paul Keating (Guy), Gerard McCarthy (Daniel) and Alan Turkington (Bernie).  

Kevin Elyot’s much-loved modern classic, which captures the fragility of friendship, happiness and life itself, won both the 1995 Olivier and Evening Standard Award for Best Comedy, after its premiere at the Royal Court and subsequent transfer to the West End. 

Set in Guy’s London flat, old friends and new gather to party through the night. This is the summer of 1985 and, for Guy and his circle, the world is about to change forever, thanks to the mounting AIDS crisis. 

My Night With Reg at The Turbine Theatre has designs by Lee Newby and casting by Will Burton CDG.  

THE TURBINE THEATRE

GENERATING NEW WORK.      POWERING PREMIERES.      RE-ENERGISING CLASSICS. 

The Turbine Theatre is a brand-new theatre on the banks of the Thames next to the iconic Battersea Power Station, presented by Bill Kenwright and founded and led by Artistic Director Paul Taylor-Mills. The theatre is located under the Grosvenor Bridge railway arches at Circus West Village, the first chapter of the iconic Battersea Power Station’s regeneration, which is already a thriving riverside destination with exciting restaurants, bars and cafés already open, located at the foot of the iconic Grade II* listed landmark.  

The Turbine Theatre is an intimate theatre with big ambitions. Everything we do revolves around one simple idea: powering the imagination. 

New energy drives everything we do, from festivals of brand-new works, world premieres of new productions and classic stories reimagined for contemporary audiences. 

Every story is a journey and The Turbine Theatre aims to be just the first stage for every idea, risk and labour of love that is brought to life in this electric new environment. We want to be the spark for the most talented and diverse voices that theatre has to offer. 

We’re also passionate about playing a vital role at the heart of the emerging local Battersea community, offering a dynamic public space by day, and a ground-breaking theatre by night. 

LISTINGS

MY NIGHT WITH REG  

Running until 11 September 2021  

The Turbine Theatre  

Written by Kevin Elyot 

Directed by Matt Ryan  

Designs by Lee Newby 

Casting by Will Burton CDG 

Performances: 

Tuesday – Fridays at 7.30pm  

Saturdays at 3pm & 7.30pm  

Sundays at 6pm 

Ticket Price: £32.00 

Address: Arches Lane, Circus West Village, London, SW11 8AB 

Website: TheTurbineTheatre.com 

Twitter: @TurbineTheatre   

#PoweringTheImagination 

TERRENCE HIGGINS TRUST – GALA NIGHT

Wednesday 18 August  

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