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DAMSEL PRODUCTIONS ANNOUNCE

THE WORLD PREMIÈRE OF THE AMBER TRAP

Damsel Productions presents

The World Première of

THE AMBER TRAP

By Tabitha Mortiboy

Theatre503

24 April – 18 May

Director: Hannah Hauer-King; Designer: Jasmine Swan; Lighting Designer: Lucy Adams

Sound Designer: Annie May Fletcher

Damsel Productions today announces the world première of Tabitha Mortiboy’s The Amber Trap.Hannah Hauer-King directs the production which opens on 29 Aprilat Theatre503, with previews from 24 April and runs until 18 May.

“Some bones are like ice. They’re weaker than you’d think.”

Katie and her girlfriend Hope work at their local corner shop, where the days pass in quiet, comfortable rhythms. For Katie, the little shop is a sanctuary. A place where she can hold onto Hope without anybody watching.  But when new employee Michael arrives, the sands start to shift and the air begins to thicken.

Producing their fifth UK première, all-female theatre company Damsel Productions presents The Amber Trap, an unsettling portrait of devotion and control.

Playwright Tabitha Mortiboy said, “I’ve been collaborating with Damsel since the conception of this play – it’s inspired by a fascination with gender politics, and a drive to put authentic stories about queer women on stage, which is at the heart of Damsel’s company ethos. I’m thrilled to be able to share this story with characters so close to my heart, and hope that it will become a part of the critical conversation about the dynamics of power in sex and relationships.”

Tabitha Mortiboy began her writing career at Bristol Old Vic’s Open Sessions scheme. Her writing credits include Billy Through the Window (The Wardrobe Theatre/Edinburgh Fringe, Udderbelly), Beacons (Park Theatre) and Bare Skin on Briny Waters (Edinburgh Fringe).

Hannah Hauer-King is a London based theatre director; her work lies primarily in new writing, adaptation and narratives with female-drive and/or LGBTQ themes. Her theatre credits include The Funeral Director (Southwark Playhouse & UK tour 2019), Fabric (Soho Theatre), Grotty, Breathe  (Bunker Theatre), Fury (Soho Theatre), Revolt. She Said. Revolt Again (RCSSD), Clay  (Pleasance Theatre), Witt ‘n Camp (Edinburgh Fringe, Assembly Rooms) Dry Land (Jermyn Street Theatre), Hypernormal (Vaults Festival), Dead Playwright (ORL Theatre). Associate credits include Romeo and Juliet (Shakespeare’s Globe), Radiant Vermin (Soho Theatre) and Daytona (Theatre Royal Haymarket).

Damsel Productions

Hannah Hauer-King and Kitty Wordsworth co-founded Damsel Productions in 2015 to place women’s voices centre stage. Damsel Productions hopes to be one cog in a larger and crucial movement addressing both the misrepresentation and under-representation of women in theatre. The idea is simple: to bring together women directors, producers, designers and all other creatives to breathe life into scripts exclusively written by women. Damsel Productions aim to provoke, inspire and entertain with true and honest representations of the female experience. Critically successful productions include the UK première of Ruby Rae Spiegel’s Dry Land (Jermyn Street Theatre), Izzy Tennyson’s Brute (Soho Theatre), Phoebe Eclair-Powell’s Fury (Soho Theatre), Izzy Tennyson’s Grotty (The Bunker) and Abi Zakarian’s Fabric (Soho Theatre & London community centre Tour). Damsel also recently produced London’s first ever all women directing festival Damsel Develops at The Bunker.

www.damselproductions.co.uk

@DamselProd

#503AmberTrap

FULL CAST ANNOUNCED FOR THE

UK TOUR AND FIRST MAJOR STAGE PRODUCTION OF

LOUIS DE BERNIÈRES’ BEST-SELLING NOVEL

CAPTAIN CORELLI’S MANDOLIN

The 2019 UK tour and first major stage production of CAPTAIN CORELLI’S MANDOLIN features an ensemble cast of 15 with Alex Mugnaioni playing the title character and Madison Clare, Fred Fergus and Joseph Long playing Pelagia, Francesco and Dr Iannis respectively.  

Completing the cast are Graeme Dalling as Soldier, Ryan Donaldson as Carlo, Ashley Gayle as Mandras, Eliot Giuralarocca as Priest, Luisa Guerreiro as Goat, Kezrena James as Lemoni, Eve Polycarpou as Drosoula, John Sandeman as Soldier, Stewart Scudamore as Velisarios, Kate Spencer as Günter and Elizabeth Mary Williams as Psipsina.

CAPTAIN CORELLI’S MANDOLIN will be directed by Olivier and Tony Award nominee Melly Still and adapted by Evening Standard Award winner and Golden Globe and BAFTA Award nominee Rona Munro. 2019 marks 25 years since the book was first published.

The play will preview at Leicester Curve from 13 – 20 April and will play Rose Theatre Kingston from 23 April – 12 May, Theatre Royal Bath from 14 – 18 May, Newcastle Theatre Royal from 21 – 25 May, Birmingham Repertory Theatre from 29 May – 15 June, King’s Theatre Edinburgh from 18 – 22 June and Glasgow Theatre Royal from 25 – 29 June. The national press night will be held on Thursday 25 April 2019 at Rose Theatre Kingston at 7pm.

CAPTAIN CORELLI’S MANDOLIN is an epic love story set on the Greek island of Cephalonia. It follows the lives of Dr Iannis, his beautiful, strong-willed daughter Pelagia and the Italian Captain Antonio Corelli, during the Italian and German occupation of the island in World War II. For CAPTAIN CORELLI’S MANDOLIN, Louis de Bernières won the 1995 Commonwealth Writers’ Prize – Overall Winner for Best Book, the 1995 Lannan Literary Award for Fiction and the 1994 Sunday Express Book of the Year. In 2001, the novel was adapted into a film starring Nicolas Cage and Penélope Cruz.

CAPTAIN CORELLI’S MANDOLIN will have set and costume designs by Mayou Trikerioti, lighting design by Malcolm Rippeth, sound design by Jon Nicholls, projection design by Dom Baker for OD Vision and music composed by Harry Blake.

CAPTAIN CORELLI’S MANDOLIN is produced by Neil Laidlaw, Rose Theatre Kingston and Birmingham Repertory Theatre.

Website: CaptainCorellisMandolin.com

Twitter.com/corellionstage / @CorelliOnStage

Facebook.com/corellionstage

TOUR SCHEDULE 2019

13 – 20 April                              Curve, Leicester                                               0116 242 359

                                                 www.curveonline.co.uk

23 April – 12 May                      Rose Theatre Kingston                                    020 8174 0090

                                                www.rosetheatrekingston.org

14 – 18 May                              Theatre Royal Bath                                           01225 448844

                                                www.theatreroyal.org.uk

21 – 25 May                              Newcastle Theatre Royal                                  0844 811 2121

                                                www.theatreroyal.co.uk

29 May – 15 June                      Birmingham Repertory Theatre                        0121 236 4455.

                                                www.birmingham-rep.co.uk

18 – 22 June                             King’s Theatre Edinburgh                                0131 529 6000

                                                www.capitaltheatres.com

25 – 29 June                             Theatre Royal, Glasgow                                   0844 871 7647

                                                www.atgtickets.com/venues/theatre-royal-glasgow

FANE PRODUCTIONS IS PROUD TO ANNOUNCE THE ACQUISITION OF JO HUTCHISON INTERNATIONAL LTD

Fane Productions Ltd (“Fane Productions”) are delighted to announce the acquisition of Jo Hutchison International Ltd (T/A JHI Marketing) (“JHI”), which joins a stable of literary and talent-based companies owned by Original Talent Ltd.

JHI provides creative marketing services for live theatre events, both nationally and on an international platform. Their client list includes Kenny Wax Ltd, Littlestar Services Ltd, Flying Music as well as many other theatre companies, venues and general management teams. Over more than 10 years JHI has worked on marketing campaigns for many shows, but most recently Mischief Theatre’s critically acclaimed productions The Play That Goes Wrong, Peter Pan Goes Wrong and The Comedy About A Bank Robbery. Other clients include MAMMA MIA! International productions across the world; Thriller Live, celebrating its 11^th Year in the West End; critically acclaimed SIX by Toby Marlow and Lucy Moss; and with Birmingham Stage Company the stage adaptations of the legendary Horrible Histories and David Walliams‘ books Gangsta Granny and Awful Auntie and now Tom Gates by Liz Pichon.

Working alongside Fane Productions on recent tours with Stacey Dooley, Nigella Lawson, Gareth Malone and Grayson Perry, the synergies of the two companies and benefits of working closer together became obvious. Now with the support of Fane Productions and Original Talent, JHI Marketing can achieve its greater ambition more quickly; to provide bespoke and original marketing campaigns to more live entertainment clients.

Jo Hutchison, founder and managing director of JHI Marketing says…

“We are so excited to have the support and backing of Fane Productions and Original Talent so we can concentrate on the work we do and provide it more economically and effectively to our clients. That this support comes from such a prestigious and creative stable, assures us that we are in good and faithful company.

We are looking to recruit 4 new roles immediately in Campaign Management, Sales and Ticketing and Digital Media to provide more effective services for current and future clients.”

Alex Fane, of Fane Productions says…

“Jo Hutchison has developed a company that is ready to shake-up the marketing industry and we are thrilled that they have decided to partner with us for the next stage of their company’s development. Within the Original Talent Group they can keep doing what they do for their clients to the same standards, but with greater resources, greater creative freedom and greater commercial reach.”

PRESS RELEASE – 16th January 2019

@AllAboutEvePlay | AllAboutEvePlay.com

Sonia Friedman Productions and Fox Stage Productions present

ALL ABOUT EVE 
by Joseph L Mankiewicz

Adapted and directed for the stage by Ivo van Hove

• First rehearsal images released of Ivo van Hove’s All About Eve starring Gillian Anderson and Lily James 
   
• All About Eve begins previews at the Noël Coward Theatre on 2nd February. Best availability from late March 2019
   
• Day Seats to be available from the Box Office throughout the run alongside a Front Row Lottery via Today Tix, both with tickets at £25

         Gillian Anderson and Lily James in rehearsals for All About Eve. Photography by Jan Versweyveld

With just under three weeks until previews commence at the Noël Coward Theatre, Sonia Friedman Productions and Fox Stage Productions have today released the first photography from rehearsals for the world premiere of All About Eve. Shot by Jan Versweyveld, these images give the first glimpse of Ivo van Hove’s highly anticipated stage production of the 1950 Twentieth Century Fox film.  

Led by Emmy Award-winning Gillian Anderson and Lily James, the cast includes Monica Dolan, Ian Drysdale, Tsion Habte, Jessie Mei Li, Julian Ovenden, Sheila Reid, Rhashan Stone, Stanley Townsend and Philip Voyzey. 

Merric Boyd, Fejiro Emasiobi, Charles Hagerty, Chanelle Modi, Stuart Nunn, Phillipa Peak, Grace Stone and Michael Warburton complete the Ensemble.

Ivo van Hove’s direction will be accompanied by set and lighting design from Jan Versweyveld,costume design by An D’Huys and music from double Mercury Prize-winner PJ Harvey,alongside Tom Gibbons’ sound design. Casting is by Julia Horan CDG.

Margo Channing. Legend. True star of the theatre. The spotlight is hers, always has been. But now there’s Eve. Her biggest fan. Young, beautiful Eve. The golden girl, the girl next door. But you know all about Eve…don’t you…?

 Ivo van Hove directs Gillian Anderson and Lily James in his new adaptation of All About Eve, a razor-sharp, unsettling exposé of the eternal obsession at the heart of show-business. Lifting the curtain on a world of jealousy and ambition, this new production, from one of the world’s most innovative theatre directors, asks why our fascination with celebrity, youth and identity never seems to get old.

Throughout the run of All About Eve, over 20,000 tickets will be offered at £25 or under. It is today announced that Day Seats will be available each day from 10am at the Box Office for performances on that same day, priced at £25. Audiences can also access front row seats through the Today Tix mobile and online lottery at the same price.–

LISTINGS

Sonia Friedman Productions and Fox Stage Productions present

ALL ABOUT EVE
by Joseph L Mankiewicz
Adapted and directed for the stage by Ivo van Hove
Set and Lighting Jan Versweyveld
Costume An D’Huys
Music PJ Harvey
Sound Tom Gibbons
Casting  Julia Horan CDG

Noël Coward Theatre

A Delfont Mackintosh Theatre
85-88 St Martin’s Lane, London WC2N 4AU

First performance: 2nd February 2019
Opening night: 12th February 2019
Final performance: 11th May 2019

Captioned performance:  12th March 2019
Audio Described performance: 19th March 2019

Monday to Saturday at 7.30pm
Thursday & Saturday matinee performances at 2.30pm

Box office details
http://AllAboutEvePlay.com 
0844 482 5151*
Access Bookings: 03444825137

Champagne and VIP: 08444825166*

Calls cost 7p per minute, plus your phone company’s access charge

Tickets from £15.00. Best Availability from 18 March 2019. Check daily for late-release and returned tickets.

Day Seats: Available in person at the Box Office from 10am on a first come, first served basis. Maximum x2 per person. Limited availability. £25.00 per ticket.

Front Row Lottery: In partnership with Today Tix. More information on how to enter will be announced on the All About Eve social media channels from Friday 25 January 2019. Maximum x2 per person. £25.00 per ticket.

Twitter/Facebook/Instagram @AllAboutEvePlay | AllAboutEvePlay.com 

KAY MELLOR RETURNS TO LEEDS GRAND THEATRE WITH TV GOLD

Leeds Grand Theatre is proud to announce that Leeds’ own Kay Mellor will return to The Grand in 2019 with the world premiere stage production of the multi award-winning ITV series Band of Gold.

Following the unprecedented sell-out success of Fat Friends The Musical,which premiered at The Grand in November 2017, Band of Gold, directed by Mellor and produced by Joshua Andrews,will run from Thursday 28 November to Saturday 14 December 2019. The gritty thriller tells the story of a group of women – Carol, Rose, Anita and Gina – as they battle to survive whilst working in Bradford’s red-light district.

First aired on ITV in March 1995,Band of Gold captivated over 15 million viewers each week and starred (amongst others) Geraldine James, Cathy Tyson, Barbara Dickson and Samantha Morton. The groundbreaking crime drama ran for two series after which Kay felt the series had run its course, but over 20 years on, Kay is thrilled to breathe life back into this iconic piece: “I get asked once a day if I’m going to bring Band of Gold back.” says award-winning writer and director Mellor: “My answer will now be yes, on stage at The Grand Theatre! I’m thrilled that it’s going to premiere in my home town.”

General Manager, Ian Sime, comments: “We are so excited to welcome our good friend Kay Mellor back to The Grand Theatre & Opera House with another hugely successful stage adaptation of one of her many iconic TV classics. Kay knows Leeds and Yorkshire audiences like no other and is one of the great writers of our time; this is going to be pure gold.”

Band of Gold is at Leeds Grand Theatre from Thursday 28 November to Saturday 14 December 2019. Priority Membership tickets go onsale on Wednesday 16 January. General onsale is Wednesday 23 January.

Book online at leedsgrandtheatre.com or call Box Office on 0844 848 2700

CARLOS ACOSTA CBE APPOINTED AS THE NEW DIRECTOR OF BIRMINGHAM ROYAL BALLET

Birmingham Royal Ballet is delighted to announce that internationally renowned Carlos Acosta CBE has been appointed as its new Director. He will take up his appointment in January 2020.

The appointment follows an open competition and extensive international search by Birmingham Royal Ballet Board, supported by an expert panel of leading figures in the dance world. It follows the news earlier this year that David Bintley CBE, the current Director, will be standing down as Director in July 2019 at the end of the current season. The new Director will work alongside the company’s Chief Executive, Caroline Miller OBE who was appointed on a permanent basis just before Christmas.

Carlos Acosta CBE, said: “It is a tremendous honour and privilege to have been appointed to lead Birmingham Royal Ballet. I am a great admirer of its heritage and of what David Bintley has done to establish it as one of the country’s leading classical ballet companies, following on from the wonderful foundations laid down by Sir Peter Wright. My ambition is to build on its classical traditions, to expand its repertoire and to reach out to new and more diverse audiences. I want to define what it is to be a world leading classical ballet company in the 21st century.”   

Chair of Birmingham Royal Ballet Sir David Normington GCB, said: “This is a great moment for Birmingham Royal Ballet. We have secured the greatest male dancer of his generation to be our new Director. I know he will bring us his legendary artistry, energy and charisma and enable us to connect with new audiences, particularly in Birmingham. It is a statement to the whole dance world that, building on David Bintley’s great legacy, Birmingham Royal Ballet intends to remain a major force for classical ballet in the UK and beyond.” 

Sir Nicholas Serota, Chair of Arts Council England, said: “We’re delighted to welcome Carlos Acosta CBE as the new Director of Birmingham Royal Ballet, with his wealth of experience and knowledge from the international world of dance. Birmingham Royal Ballet is an exceptional company, with an international reputation for the artistic quality of its work, and as Carlos takes to the helm, we’d like to pay tribute to the commitment, contribution and charisma of David Bintley, who leaves behind him an extraordinary legacy. We look forward to seeing Carlos build on this legacy, and to the company continuing to delight audiences with their array of classical and ground-breaking ballets.”

Born in Havana, the youngest of eleven children in an impoverished family, Acosta went on to train at the National Ballet School of Cuba, winning the prestigious Prix de Lausanne at the age of 16, before enjoying a celebrated thirty-year career in dance with many of the world’s leading ballet companies. He was a Principal with the Royal Ballet for 17 years and danced all the major classical, and many contemporary roles. He is the greatest male dancer of his generation and, in many people’s eyes, one of the greatest dancers of all time.

Since retiring from the Royal Ballet he has founded his Cuban dance company Acosta Danza and established his own dance academy in Havana which opened its doors to its first students in September 2017. His 2007 autobiography No Way Home told the extraordinary story of his progress from the poorest of beginnings in Cuba to world ballet star and became a UK bestseller. His many awards include an Olivier Award for Outstanding Achievement in Dance, a Prix Benois de la Danse, an Outstanding Achievement Award at the Critics’ Circle National Dance Awards and the Queen Elizabeth II Coronation Award from The Royal Academy of Dance in recognition of his standing as one of the most influential figures in dance today.

CAROLINE SHEEN TO JOIN THE CAST OF

DOLLY PARTON’S

9 TO 5 THE MUSICAL

Music and Lyrics by Dolly Parton, Book by Patricia Resnick

and Directed by Jeff Calhoun

Based on the 20^th Century Fox Picture

AT THE SAVOY THEATRE FROM 28 JANUARY 2019

Caroline Sheen will be joining the company of 9 TO 5 THE MUSICAL in the role of ‘Violet Newstead’ at theSavoy Theatre, London from 28 January until the end of March.  Louise Redknapp will re-join the company and play ‘Violet Newstead’ in the musical from the end of March.

Caroline Sheen is renowned for her leading roles in the West End, US and on tour throughout the UK. These include the West End productions of “Les Misérables” at the Palace and Queen’s theatres, “Chitty Chitty Bang Bang” at the London Palladium, the original cast of “Witches of Eastwick” at Theatre Royal Drury Lane, ‘Once in a Lifetime’ and ‘A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum’ at the National Theatre and the title role in “Mary Poppins” on tour throughout the US and the UK. She will be seen later this year as a lead role in the new BBC series ‘Pitching In.’

Caroline joins the previously announced Amber Davies as ‘Judy Bernly’, Natalie McQueen as ‘Doralee Rhodes’, Bonnie Langford as ‘Roz Keith’ and Brian Conley as ‘Franklin Hart’.

The cast also includes Victoria Anderson, Alexander Bartles, Ashford Campbell, Simon Campbell, Rhiane Drummond, Demmileigh Foster, Llandyll Gove, Lucinda Lawrence, Jenny Legg, Christopher Jordan Marshall, Jacob Maynard, Natasha Mould, Sean Needham, Jon Reynolds, James Royden-Lyley, Giles Surridge, Sasha Wareham and Emily Woodford.

9 TO 5 THE MUSICAL features a book by Patricia Resnick, the legendary film’s original screenwriter, and an original Oscar, Grammy and Tony award-nominated score by country legend and pop icon Dolly Parton. It tells the story of Doralee, Violet and Judy – three workmates pushed to boiling point by their sexist and egotistical boss. Concocting a plan to kidnap and turn the tables on their despicable supervisor, will the girls manage to reform their office – or will events unravel when the CEO pays an unexpected visit? Inspired by the cult film this hilarious new West End production is about teaming up, standing up and taking care of business!

9 TO 5 THE MUSICAL is written by Patricia Resnick, with music and lyrics by Dolly Parton. It is directed by Jeff Calhoun, choreography by Lisa Stevens, design by Tom Rogers, lighting design by Howard Hudson, musical supervision, arrangements and orchestrations by Mark Crossland, musical direction by Andrew Hilton and casting by Victoria Roe.

9 TO 5 THE MUSICAL Original Broadway Cast Recording is planned for re-release via Dolly Records/Sony Music.

Based on the 20^th Century Fox Picture. Originally produced on Broadway by Robert Greenblatt, April 2009.

9 TO 5 THE MUSICAL is produced by Ambassador Theatre Group and Selladoor Worldwide with Gavin Kalin Productions, Glass Half Full Productions, Showtime Theatre Productions, Hartshorn – Hook Productions and Kilimanjaro Live.

FULL CASTING ANNOUNCED FOR

THE RUBENSTEIN KISS

AT SOUTHWARK PLAYHOUSE

FROM 14 MARCH TO 13 APRIL 2019

NATIONAL PRESS NIGHT 18 MARCH 2019

Devil You Know Theatre Company are delighted to announce full casting for the first London production since 2005 of the multi-award winning play THE RUBENSTEIN KISS by James Phillips.

This new production will star Ruby Bentall as Esther Rubenstein. Ruby is perhaps best known for playing Verity in the BBC’s adaptation of Poldark. Other notable acting credits include Hils in ITV’s Jekyll & Hyde, Minnie Mude in BBC’s Lark Rise to Candleford and Mary Bennett in BBC’s Lost in Austen. She’s also had film roles in Ridley Scott’s Robin Hood, Mr Turner directed by Mike Leigh, and Armando Iannucci’s forthcoming adaptation of David Copperfield.

Esther’s husband Jakob Rubenstein will be played by Henry Proffit. Henry’s stage credits include For King and Country (Southwark Playhouse), Great Expectations (York Theatre Royal), Kindertransport (UK Tour), and A Dance of Death (Finborough Theatre).

Sean Ribgy will play David Girshfeld. Sean has starred as DS Jim Strange in ITV’s Endeavour since 2013, and is also known for his role as Lord Monteagle in the BBC drama Gunpowder. His theatre credits include Pomona (National Theatre, Orange Tree Richmond), Table Talk (Short Back And Sides), and Still Life And Red Peppers (Folie a Deux Productions).

FBI Agent Paul Cranmer will be played by Stephen Billington. Stephen’s acting credits include television roles in Armchair Detectives (BBC), Danny Lomax in Hollyoaks (Channel 4), Greg Kelly in Coronation Street (ITV), Edward Thurlow in Casualty (BBC), Doctors (BBC), and Jonathan Creek (BBC). On stage he has starred in The Crucible (York Theatre Royal), Peter James’s Not Dead Enough (UK Tour), and Alan Ayckbourn’s Hero’s Welcome and Confusions (UK Tours, Brits Off Broadway). He also played Phillip in Mel Gibson’s 1995 film Braveheart.

Matthew will be played by Dario Coates. Dario’s television acting credits include Damned (Channel 4), Endeavour (ITV), The Coroner (BBC), Drifters (E4) and Alex Neeson in Coronation Street (ITV).

Completing the cast are Katie Eldred as Anna, and Eva-Jane Willis as Rachel Girshfeld.

Directed by Joe Harmston (The Lover and The Collection, Donmar Warehouse; The Father, Belgrade Theatre, Coventry) this new production will play for a limited season at Southwark Playhouse from 14 March to 13 April 2019, with a national press night on Monday 18 March.

James Phillips said, “I’m thrilled about Joe Harmston’s new production of The Rubenstein Kiss, and I can’t wait to see the exciting new generation of actors he’s assembled in these roles I love. Our current, dangerous, fraught political moment – where so many are trying again to test the limits of political idealism, where we read daily of Russian agents in this country and in the United States – seems a perfect time from him to revive the play.”

THE RUBENSTEIN KISS is the story of the Rubensteins, a deeply devoted Jewish couple whose Communist idealism leads to their world being torn apart by suspicion and treachery which then echoes through the generations. Phillips’s explosive and affecting drama, inspired by the haunting true story of Ethel and Julius Rosenberg, who were executed in 1953 for allegedly providing atomic secrets to the Soviet Union, is the study of conspiracy, betrayal, and guilt.

THE RUBENSTEIN KISS was originally staged in 2005 at Hampstead Theatre starring Gary Kemp and Samantha Bond, winning the John Whiting Award and the TMA Award for Best New Play.

THE RUBENSTEIN KISS has set design by Sean Cavanagh, sound design by Matthew Bugg, lighting design by Mike Robertson, and casting by Kate Plantin CDG. THE RUBENSTEIN KISS is produced by Devil You Know Theatre Company.

LISTINGS INFORMATION

14 March – 13 April 2019

Southwark Playhouse

77-85 Newington Causeway

London SE1 6BD

Performance Times:

Monday – Friday 7.30pm

Saturday and Tuesday – 3pm and 7.30pm

Tickets: £22 (£18 concessions), £14 preview performance tickets available

Box Office:  020 7407 0234Website:  southwarkplayhouse.co.uk / devilyouknowtheatre.com

Facebook: www.facebook.com/DevilYouKnowTheatre

Twitter: @DYKTheatre / @swkplay

Instagram: @DYKTheatre / @swkplay

GRAND OPERA HOUSE, York AND CITY OF YORK COUNCIL PARTNER TO OFFER AUDIENCES AGED 26 AND UNDER 
£5* TICKETS FOR ABIGAIL’S PARTY.

To help make theatre accessible to everyone, Grand Opera House York and City of York Council have teamed up to offer any students or people aged 26 and under the chance to see Mike Leigh’s iconic Abigail’s Party. One of Britain’s most celebrated comedies, it was described by The Guardian as ‘One of the greatest plays about the human condition ever written’.

Abigail’s Party stars Jodie Prenger and it tells the story of a 1970’s cocktail party that goes terribly wrong…

Beverly and her husband Laurence are throwing a party for their newlywed neighbours, Tony and Angela.  Joining them is highly strung Susan who’s been banished from the party of her teenage daughter Abigail.  Welcome to 1970’s suburbia and its heady mix of free-flowing cocktails, classic disco and cheese and pineapple sticks.  As tensions rise and tempers flare the sheen of respectability is torn away by the warring couples with hilarious and potentially disastrous consequences. 

Originally directed in 1977 by Mike Leigh and then starring Alison Steadman, Abigail’s Partyis a suburban situation comedy of manners, and a satire on the aspirations and tastes of the new middle class that emerged in Britain in the 1970s.  Leigh had developed a method for creating narratives that relied on actors’ improvisations to manufacture characters and conflict in an organic manner. That method would become a signature feature of Leigh’s work thereafter.

Cllr Keith Myers, executive member for education, children and young people, said: “We welcome this offer which gives young people and students the opportunity to access the theatre whether for part of their studies or for the pleasure of seeing a great, live performance.”

Cllr Nigel Ayre, executive member for culture, leisure and tourism, said: “This is a great offer which make’s the city’s rich and varied arts even more easily accessible. Live theatre is a spectacle worth enjoying and I hope many take advantage of this partnership. ”

People aged 26 or under and students can get tickets for just £5. Available for all performances, simply give the code ABIGAIL5 and present ID on collection

Book tickets at the box office on Cumberland Street, York or at:www.atgtickets.com/shows/abigails-party/grand-opera-house-york/

NEW CAST AND ADDITIONAL TOUR DATES ANNOUNCED FOR

TOM WELLS AND MATTHEW ROBINS’ DRIP

Script Club & Boundless Theatre present

DRIP

Words by Tom Wells

Music by Matthew Robins

Director: Jane Fallowfield; Designer: Russ Henry

Lighting Designer: Adam Foley; Musical Director & Sound Designer: Matthew Robins

Boundless Theatre and Script Club today announce that Josh Tucker will play the role of Liam in Tom Wells and Matthew Robins’ Drip, as it embarks on a new 2019 tour following its recent run at Bush Theatre. Directed byJane Fallowfield, the production tours to The Lowry, Salford; Customs House, South Shields; Curve, Leicester as part of#DMUpride festival; North Wall, Oxford; The Coliseum, Oldham; Slung Low, Leeds; New Wolsey, Ipswich; Nonsuch Studios, Nottingham; Brewery Arts Centre, Kendal; Phoenix Arts, Hampshire; Harrogate Theatre; Cast, Doncaster; LIVE, Newcastle; and Stephen Joseph Theatre, Scarborough.

Drip is a one-man musical comedy about a 15-year old boy who signs up to Hull’s first ever synchronised swimming team, though he can’t swim. It tells a story of getting the hang of being a queer teenager in Hull, and feeling proud of yourself and your city.

#DripTheMusical

@boundlessabound

@ScriptClubPlays

Tom Wells is a playwright. His theatre credits include Me, As A Penguin (Arcola Theatre/UK tour), The Kitchen Sink – which won the Critics Circle Award for Most Promising Playwright and the George Devine Award (Bush Theatre), Jumpers For Goalposts (Watford Palace Theatre/UK tour), Cosmic (Hull Truck Theatre), Folk and Broken Biscuits (UK tour). He has also written Ben & Lump (Channel 4) and Jonesy (BBC Radio 4). He is currently under commission to the Royal Court Theatre and National Theatre. 

Matthew Robins composes the music following his previous collaboration with Tom Wells on Broken Biscuits in 2016. His writing and performing credits include Flyboy is alone again this Christmas and Lullaby (Barbican). As a designer and puppet maker his credits include Something Very Far Away (Unicorn Theatre), A Most Peculiar Wintry Thing (The Ark, Dublin) and Laila (Watford Palace Theatre). He also recently directed and designed an adaption of Ted Hughes’ The Iron Man (Unicorn Theatre). A collection of Matthew’s animations, songs and mechanical puppet installations is on permanent display at the Science Museum in London in the Information Age gallery.

Josh Tucker plays Liam.His theatre credits include The Dip (Bunker Theatre/Edinburgh Festival Fringe), Five:Eight (Bernie Grant Arts Centre) and Witch, Witch, Witch (Camden People’s Theatre). 

Jane Fallowfield directs. Her credits includeGerm Free Adolescent, Bird (Derby Theatre), Fingertips (Clean Break), Cosmic, Spacewang (Hull Truck), The Only Way is Chelsea’s (York Theatre Royal/Soho Theatre) andLagan (Ovalhouse). She is the Literary Associate at Talawa Theatre Company.  Previously, Jane was Director on Attachment at Clean Break, Director on Attachment at Birmingham Rep (John Fernald Award) and Senior Reader at Paines Plough.  She is a mentor for Graeae Theatre Company and she has been on the script panel for the George Devine Award panel, BBC Writersroom and Channel 4 Screenwriting Course.   

DRIP                                                                                                                                                Listings

UK tour

31 January – 14 May 2019

www.boundlesstheatre.org.uk

2019 Tour Dates

The Lowry

Thursday 31 January, 8pm           

Box Office: 0843 208 6000 / www.thelowry.com

Customs House

Sunday 3 February, 7.30pm        

Box Office: 0191 454 1234 / www.customshouse.co.uk

Curve, Leicester

Wednesday 20 February

Box Office: 0116 242 3595/ www.curveonline.co.uk

North Wall

Tuesday 26 February, 8pm          

Box Office: 01865 319450 / www.thenorthwall.com

Oldham Coliseum

Friday 1 – Saturday 2 March, 7.30pm       

Box Office: 0161 624 2829 / www.coliseum.org.uk

Slung Low

Sunday 10 March, 5pm

Box Office: www.slunglow.org

New Wolsey, Ipswich

Tuesday 12 March, 7.45pm         

Box Office: 01473 295900 / www.wolseytheatre.co.uk                                                                                                                                

Nonsuch Studios

Wednesday 20 March, 7.30pm  

Box Office: 0115 837 1950 / www.wearenonsuch.com                                                                                                                                 

Brewery Arts Centre, Kendal

Saturday 23 March, 8pm

Box Office: 01539 725133 / www.breweryarts.co.uk                                                                                                                                      

Phoenix Arts Hampshire

Thursday 28 March, 7.30pm       

Box Office: 01420 472664 / www.phoenixarts.co.uk

Harrogate Theatre         

Thursday 4 April, 7.45pm             

Box Office: 01423 502116 / www.harrogatetheatre.co.uk                                                                                                                                           

Cast, Doncaster

Thursday 11 April, 7.15pm           

Box Office: 01302 303959 / www.castindoncaster.com                                                                                                                                

LIVE, Newcastle

Tuesday 23 – Friday 26 April, 7.30pm

Box Office: 0191 232 1232 / www.live.org.uk    

Stephen Joseph Theatre

Tuesday 14 May, 7.30pm             

Box Office: 01723 370541 / www.sjt.uk.com