IT’S BEGINNING TO LOOK A LOT LIKE CHRISTMAS…

MIRACLE ON 34^th STREET

THE CLASSIC CHRISTMAS MUSICAL

RETURNS FOR A UK TOUR

 

Based on one of the most popular and best-loved Christmas films of all time, classic musical MIRACLE ON 34^th STREET will return for a third UK Tour, opening at Croydon’s Fairfield Halls on Thursday 29 October 2015.

 

Based on the 1947 motion picture, Miracle on 34^th Street is the heart-warming story of Susan, a young girl who dreams of a father and brother to make her family whole, and Kris Kringle, a kindly old bearded man who claims he is the real Santa Claus. When employed as a Santa at a department store grotto, Kris quickly spreads a wave of love through New York City, but can he help make Susan’s wish come true? This dazzling musical is an uplifting family tale about what it truly means to believe.

 

“Sparkle and magic lit up the stage”

MAIDENHEAD ADVERTISER

“A beautifully staged production”

EALING GAZETTE

 

Miracle on 34th Street originated as a 1947 motion picture starring Maureen O’Hara, John Payne, Natalie Wood and Edmund Gwenn. The film became a perennial Christmas favorite, winning three Academy Awards and nominated for Best Picture. The stage version, originally entitled Here’s Love, opened on Broadway in 1963. A hugely popular remake of the film was also released in 1994 starring Richard Attenborough as Kris Kringle.

 

Miracle on 34^th Street has a book, music and lyrics by Meredith Willson, best known for writing and composing The Music Man which premiered on Broadway in 1957 and was adapted twice for film in1962 and 2003. It won the 1958 Tony Award for Best Musical and the cast recording won the first ever Grammy Award for Best Original Cast Album. His work for film includes composing the score for Charlie Chaplin’s The Great Dictator for which he received an Academy Award nomination for Best Original Score.

The cast features Danny Lane as Kris Kringle, Hannah Thompson as Susan Walker, Claire Hawkins as Doris Walker, Carl Lindquist as Fred Gaily, Michael Adams as R.H Macy and Brendan Matthew as Marvin Shellhammer. The cast also includes Joanna Gregory, Emily Barnett-Salter, Charlotte Jay,Jessica Lucy, Kate Hulme, Jack Warren, Frank Derrington, Dann Kharsa, Toby Joyce and David Muscat.

Miracle on 34^th Street is directed by Max Reynolds and choreographed by Russell Smith and Philip Joel, with musical direction by Lee Freeman, musical supervision by Mark Crossland and design by David Shields. It is produced by Paul Taylor-Mills Ltd.

A second production of Miracle on 34^th Street will also open for a festive season at the Madinat Theatre in Dubai from Saturday 19 to Wednesday 30 December 2015.

  

LISTINGS

 

Thursday 29 October 2015

CROYDON Fairfield Halls

Sunday 1 – Monday 2 November 2015

LANCASTER Grand Theatre

Tuesday 3 – Wednesday 4 November 2015

RHYL Pavilion Theatre

Thursday 5 – Saturday 7 November 2015

BILLINGHAM Forum Theatre

Monday 9 – Wednesday 11 November 2015

LINCOLN Theatre Royal

Thursday 12 – Saturday 14 November 2015

NEWCASTLE Tyne Theatre

Tuesday 17 – Wednesday 18 November 2015

TUNBRIDGE WELLS Assembly Halls

Thursday 19 – Saturday 21 November 2015

GLASGOW Kings Theatre

Monday 23 – Wednesday 25 November 2015

MANCHESTER Opera House

Thursday 26 – Saturday 28 November 2015

CHESTERFIELD Winding Wheel

Tuesday 1 – Saturday 5 December 2015

CARDIFF New Theatre

Wednesday 9 – Saturday 12 December 2015

EASTBOURNE Royal Hippodrome

Monday 14 – Thursday 17 December 2015

WORTHING Connaught Theatre

Friday 18 – Saturday 19 December 2015

PETERBOROUGH Broadway Theatre

 

Monday 21- Monday 28 December 2015

WATFORD Colosseum

BIOS

Max Reynolds | Director

Recent credits include Through the Mill (London Theatre Workshop), Ushers: The Front of House Musical (The Arts Theatre), September Tide (Theatre Royal, Windsor), Our House (Orchard Theatre, Dartford), When Midnight Strikes (The Marlowe Studio), The Witches of Eastwick, Zombie Prom and Little Shop of Horrors (The Quarterhouse Theatre) and I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change (The Tower Theatre).  

Russell Smith | Choreographer

Recent credits include Dirty Dancing – Live on Stage (Paris), Miracle on 34th Street (UK Tour), Ushers: The Front of House Musical (Arts Theatre), The Snow Queen (Nuffield Theatre and Royal & Derngate Theatre), A Little Night Music (Stanwix Theatre), The Marriage of Figaro (King’s Head) and  The Three Musketeers (UK Tour). Russell was also Choreography Supervisor for Dirty Dancing – Live on Stage on K Tour and in the West End.

Philip Joel | Choreographer

Credits include Closer To Heaven (Union Theatre), Ivor Novello and the Great British Musical (St. James Theatre), One Twenty One Guns (Bridewell Theatre), Sweet Charity (Sadler’s Wells), An Evening with David Hasselhoff (indigO2), Aladdin (Milton Keynes Theatre) and Cinderella (Bristol Hippodrome).

Banter Productions in association with Jermyn Street Theatre

presents the world premiere of

DESPERATE MEASURES

A new musical based on Shakespeare’s Measure for Measure

Script by Robin Kingsland

Lyrics by Robin Kingsland & Chris Barton

Music by Chris Barton

Jermyn Street Theatre

24 November – 20 December 2015

Desperate Measures, a freewheeling new musical based on Shakespeare’s Measure for Measure, is set in London in the ‘swinging sixties’ against a backdrop of starchy middle class morality and hypocrisy in a country on the verge of Beatlemania and the sexual and social permissiveness that we know today.

This is the world of Profumo, Christine Keeler & the Kray twins.  Depravity and sexual licence are widespread. Members of parliament rub shoulders with glamour models and  journalists are all too happy to take bribes.

MP, Simon Di Angelo, in an attempt to stop the tide of ‘wickedness’ he sees permeating every corner of life decides to revive the Sexual Congress Act. Pop singer Milo Feather breaks the law by getting his girlfriend pregnant and is condemned to hang under  the new morality laws. His sister Isobel, a novice nun, sets out to rescue him. But she’s about to take holy orders, and the stakes will threaten all that she lives for.

Desperate Measures stars Ellie Nunn as Isobel. Ellie has appeared  in Gatsby (Arts Theatre), Shakespeare in Love (Noel Coward Theatre), Lady Windermere’s Fan (Kings Head Theatre), Bombshells (Jermyn Street Theatre,) and  The Last Laundress of Queensway (the Drayton Arms). Her film credits include ‘The Brief History’, ‘Untimely Death of George III’ and ‘Cracks’.

The cast  includes Harry Al-Adwani, Angharad George-Carey, Emily-Rose Hurdiss, Alice Jay, Jojo Macari, Callum Macdonald, Charlie Merriman, Timothy Patten, Tosin Thompson, and  James Wilson.

Design is by Dee Shulman and the Musical Director  is Jordan Li-Smith.

Robin Kingsland’s writing includes TV, radio, urban pantomimes, plays and musicals for young audiences, stage adaptations as well as the shameless plundering of William Shakespeare’s back catalogue. Pcuk – A Mid$ummer Night’s Remix – a modern idiom, blank verse, street dance reworking of another of Shakepeare’s works, was a critical and audience hit at the 2011 Edinburgh Festival, and Prospero’s Children– a re-invention of The Tempest was toured to great acclaim by Quicksilver Theatre.

Robin’s stage adaptations include Around the World in Eighty Days for the Queen’s Theatre, Hornchurch, and All Quiet on the Western Front for Nottingham Playhouse. Robin is also an accomplished stage actor, who has appeared in the West End as troubled Rat-Packer Peter Lawford in Rat Pack Confidential, and as Charlie Malloy in Steven Berkoff’s acclaimed production of On The  Waterfront.

Chris Barton has directed for the Royal National Theatre, Watford Palace Theatre, Basingstoke Theatre Royal, California Shakespeare Festival, SNAP Theatre Company, International Theatre Research Group KISS in The Netherlands, and as associate director in the West End and on Broadway, with Ian McKellen’s Richard III and Stephen Daldry’s An Inspector Calls, which he also recreated in Tokyo. He has taught and directed at numerous London Drama Schools, and for several years ran The Contemporary Shakespeare Company, taking tailor-made performance programmes into schools and colleges. Chris is also a musician, writer and actor, and is frequently called upon for his expertise as a deviser of training and entertainment events for corporate clients.

His musical writing credits include More Tales From the Magic Carpet at the Royal National Theatre, andHamlet House of Horror which was a sell-out success at the Old Red Lion in Islington, gaining Critics’ Choice in Time Out, 5 stars in London Theatre Guide and 4 stars in The Daily Mail.

Banter Productions  formed earlier this year to produce Jonathan Lewis’ A Level Playing Field. It premiered at Jermyn Street Theatre to much critical acclaim. Desperate Measures will be the Christmas show at Jermyn Street Theatre.

What the critics said about A Level Playing Field:

“Imagine a co-ed Lord of the Flies with iPhones, Facebook, selfies, sexual banter, gobby contempt for the system and dread of not getting into Oxbridge.” **** The Independent

“The atmosphere is so tense in the pressure-cooker of the third-floor music room, and the performances are so strong… the audience is carried along with the frenetic, carefully plotted action.”  **** The Public Reviews

“Lewis’ skilled writing and pacing resolves into something valuable, angry, and… darkly entertaining.” Libby Purves on Theatre Cat

“An explosive exploration into teenage angst and expectation that … crackles with emotional integrity” The Stage

 

Listings Information:

Theatre: Jermyn Street Theatre, 16b Jermyn Street, SE1Y 6ST

Dates: 24 November to 20 December 2015

PRESS NIGHT: Friday 27^th November 2015 at 7.30pm

Tuesday to Saturday 7.30pm

Sat & Sun matinees at 3.30pm

Tickets £22.00, £18.00

Earlybird offer: all tickets £17.00 if booked before 31^st October

Bookings: 020 7287 2875

www.jermynstreettheatre.co.uk

 

Booking period extended to 3 December 2016

The award-winning West End production of Roald Dahl’s Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, directed by Sam Mendes, will tonight mark its 1000th performance in the West End, since opening in June 2013.

To celebrate this milestone, producers have today announced that the booking period for the show has been extended for a further six months, until 3 December 2016.  The new booking period is on sale now.

The award-winning actor Jonathan Slinger is currently playing the role of Willy Wonka.

Roald Dahl’s Charlie and the Chocolate Factory has quickly become one of the West End’s most popular and successful stage musicals. It won two Olivier awards in April 2014, and has broken records at the Theatre Royal Drury Lane, where it has been seen by over 1,600,000 people since it opened in June 2013. It is now currently taking bookings until 3 December 2016.

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory is directed by Sam Mendes. Featuring ingenious stagecraft, the wonder of the original story that has captivated the world for almost 50 years is brought to life with music by Marc Shaiman, and lyrics by Scott Wittman and Marc Shaiman, a book by award-winning playwright and adaptor David Greig, set and costume designs by Mark Thompson and choreography by Peter Darling.

The Official Cast Recording album is available on Sony Records, on CD and download.

This world premiere musical is produced by Warner Bros. Theatre Ventures, Neal Street Productions and Langley Park Productions.

www.CharlieandtheChocolateFactory.com

Box Office: 0844 858 8877

Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, London, WC2B 5JF

Booking until 3 December 2016

Civic Theatre, Darlington – 11 October 2015

There is nothing better than a bit of nostalgia on a Sunday evening, mix it in with a lot of sparkle, feathers, fabulous singing and outstanding dancing and you have Puttin’ on the Ritz.

With Strictly stars Robin Windsor and Anya Garnis, 10 dancers and 5 multi-talented singers this was a good old fashioned entertainment at its best.

Some of the very best of Cole Porter, George Gershwin and Irving Berlin made it to a stage full of sheer energy, exuberance and downright determination to entertain.

Solos performance included very talented singer and dancer Simon Schofield, Summertime from Lucy Van Gasse and Ricky Rojas wowed us with Minnie the Moocher.

The ensemble excelled in their mass tap dances to Gershwin’s I’ve Got Rhythm and Berlin’s Puttin’ on the Ritz, both exciting, energetic numbers which contrasted with tamer dances like Easter Bonnet.

The sit-down hand jive on the edge of the stage complete with Mexican-wave arms and legs was excellent.

Although a brilliant show there were niggles, the set didn’t add to the show and a live band would have been so much better than backing music.  But the performers put so much into it and fans of Strictly will love it, so maybe the the bad bits can be glossed over with the good.

In Darlington until Tuesday 13 October and on tour around the UK

Ye Olde Rose and Crown, Walthamstow 6 – 31 October.  Reviewed by Claire Roderick

Tim McArthur’s take on A Little Night Music is a sheer delight. The simple, artful staging and swirling choreography draw you into complex love lives immediately with a partner swapping Night Waltz, and the ever present motif of autumn leaves creates a feeling of fading and lost dreams.

The plot revolves around the complex relationships of Desiree, who once had an affair with Frederick and wishes to rekindle their flame. Unfortunately she has a lover, Count Magnus, who says he will tolerate infidelity in his wife, not his lover. Frederick is married to an 18 year old, Anne – still a virgin after nearly a year of marriage – and the secret object of his son’s affections. Things come to a head during a weekend in the country at Desiree’s mother’s mansion, and lives are changed forever.

As Frederick, Alexander McMorran is fantastic, especially in his scenes with Sarah Waddell (Desiree) and Samuel Baker as the Count. The easy playfulness between McMorran and Waddell is in stark contrast to his frustrated longing when with his wife. Waddell resembles Katherine Hepburn both physically and in her comic style, and her Send in the Clowns is well judged and feels emotionally honest. Maria Coyne’s Anne is skittish and insecure, with a laugh that becomes extremely annoying, but suits the character perfectly.

The standout comic moments all involve the Count’s wife Charlotte (Jamie Birkett). Sardonic and desperately in love – and hate – with her husband, Charlotte gets the best lines, and Birkett delivers them brilliantly. A lifted eyebrow, a grimace, and perfect deadpan comic timing make her a joy to watch.

The entire cast are superb, with their voices matching their comic acting abilities. Everyone managed the tricky lyrics without stumbling. Although I must admit I did get distracted every so often by the facial expressions of Desiree’s acting troupe as they watched the other characters – imagine the lovechild of Kenneth Williams and Windsor Davies. Just breathe and relax!

The band – with only 4 musicians – were wonderful and did not drown out the cast in the tiny performance area, showcasing the lyrical beauty of the score and book.

Eileen Atkins has been announced as the recipient of The Gielgud Award at the UK Theatre Awards 2015. She is to receive The Gielgud Award for Excellence in the Dramatic Arts.

Atkins is an award-winning actress whose career has spanned seven decades. She has performed in numerous West End and Broadway productions and has won three Olivier Awards. Following a CBE in 1990, she was appointed Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 2001 for Services to Drama.

The Gielgud Award for Excellence in the Dramatic Arts was established by The Shakespeare Guild in 1994 and previous recipients include Kenneth Branagh, Judi Dench, Derek Jacobi, Ian McKellen, Christopher Plummer and Patrick Stewart.

The ceremony, which will take place on Sunday 18 October at the Guildhall, London, will be compered by Michael Xavier.

Norma Heyman, John Reid, Theatre Royal Bath Productions and Michael Harrison have announced that following a sell-out season at the Theatre Royal Bath this summer, Mrs Henderson Presents will open at the Noel Coward Theatre on Tuesday 9th February 2016, for a strictly limited season, with press night on Tuesday 16th February 2016.

Mrs Henderson Presents will star Tracie Bennett as Laura Henderson, Ian Bartholomew as Vivian Van Damm and Emma Williams as Maureen who all reprise the roles they played in Bath. Full casting is to be announced shortly.

Based on the 2005 British comedy film Mrs Henderson Presents, written by American playwright Martin Sherman and directed by Stephen Frears. It starred Judi Dench, Bob Hoskins, Kelly Reilly, and Pop Idol winner Will Young in his acting debut.

The Book is by multi-award winning Terry Johnson, who is also the Director. Lyrics by the Oscar, Tony and Golden Globe winning Don Black with music by Oscar nominated George Fenton and Simon Chamberlain, who both collaborated on the original film. It is choreographed by Andrew Wright, has set design by Tim Shortall, costume design by Paul Wills and lighting design by Ben Ormerod. Wig, hair and make-up design is by Richard Mawbey, orchestrations are by Larry Blank with musical supervision by Mike Dixon.

It’s London, 1937, and recently-widowed eccentric, Laura Henderson, is looking for a way of spending her time and money when her attention falls on a run-down former cinema in Great Windmill Street. Hiring feisty impresario Vivian Van Damm to look after the newly renovated Windmill Theatre, the improbable duo present a bill of non-stop variety acts. But as war looms something more is required to boost morale and box office… When Mrs Henderson comes up with the idea of The Windmill Girls – glamorous young women posing as nude statues – audiences flock. And as the Blitz hits London, The Windmill provides a refuge for all, boasting the spirit-raising slogan “We Never Close“.

Tracie Bennett is a double Olivier Award-winner for her performances in the musicals She Loves Me and Hairspray. She received huge acclaim around the world for her portrayal of Judy Garland in End Of The Rainbow, and was Tony Award nominated for her lead role in the production, also directed by Terry Johnson. Her West End credits also include the musicals La Cage Aux Folles and Les Miserables. Her many popular television roles include playing Sharon Gaskell inCoronation Street and Sharon in Scott and Bailey. Ian Bartholomew was Olivier Award-nominated for the West End musicals Into the Woods and Radio Times. His many theatre credits include performing extensively at the National Theatre, most recently in The Power of Yes. His many West End credits include Shakespeare in Love, Tommy and Terry Johnson’s Dead Funny. Emma Williams played Truly Scrumptious in the original cast of Chitty Chitty Bang Bang at the London Palladium. She was Olivier-nominated for her roles in the West End musicals Zorro and Love Story.

Terry Johnson’s work has been seen around the world. He is the recipient of a dozen major theatre awards including: the Tony Award for Best Director of a Musical 2010, the Olivier Award for Best Musical Revival and Critics’ Circle Best Musical 2009 for La Cage Aux Folles. He won the Olivier Awards for Best Comedy of 1994 and of 1999, Playwright of the Year 1995, Critics’ Circle Best New Play 1995, two Evening Standard Theatre Awards, and Writers’ Guild Best Play in 1995 and 1996. His most recent West End productions have included End of the Rainbow, Whipping It Up, Dead Funny, Hysteria, The Graduate and Entertaining Mr Sloane as well as Rain Man, The Rise and Fall of Little Voice, La Cage Aux Folles, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, The Memory Of Water, Elton John’s Glasses and Hitchcock Blonde. In Chicago, he directed John Malkovich in The Libertine, which was nominated for five Jeff Awards. For the National Theatre, he wrote and directed Cleo, Camping, Emmanuelle and Dick and The London Cuckolds.

Don Black’s stage musicals include Billy, Tell Me On A Sunday, Aspects Of Love, and Sunset Boulevard, for which he won two Tony Awards. His film lyrics include The Italian Job and Born Free and his popular hit songs include Michael Jackson’s Ben and Lulu’s To Sir With Love. He has written a several James Bond theme songs: Thunderball, Diamonds Are Forever, The Man With The Golden Gun, Surrender from Tomorrow Never Dies and The World Is Not Enough. He has won a many of Awards including an Oscar, six Ivor Novello Awards and a Golden Globe. George Fenton’s many film scores include the original film of Mrs Henderson Presents, Gandhi, Cry Freedom, Dangerous Liaisons and The Wind That Shakes The Barley, and his music for television includes the series The Jewel In The Crown, The Blue Planet and Planet Earth. Simon Chamberlain was the original Music Director on the film Mrs Henderson Presents.

The Old Vic has today announced casting for David Greig’s adaptation of Dr. Seuss’s The Lorax, directed by Max Webster. Simon Lipkin will play the role of the Lorax, alongside puppeteers Laura Cubitt and Ben Thompson, whilst Simon Paisley Day takes the role of the Once-ler.

Dr. Seuss’s The Lorax is the third production in Matthew Warchus’ opening season as Artistic Director and opens on 16th December, with previews from 3rd December, 2015.

The Old Vic has also incorporated a special concession for Dr. Seuss’s The Lorax where children aged 14 and under will be given a 50% reduction on tickets priced £60 and £50 throughout the run, excluding Friday and Saturday evenings.

Inspired by Dr. Seuss’s classic tale, Dr. Seuss’s The Lorax tells of a moustachioed and cantankerous critter who’s on a mission to protect the earth from the greedy, tree-chopping, Thneed-knitting businessman known only as the Once-ler.

Brought to the stage by The Old Vic’s Baylis Director Max Webster (James And The Giant Peach, To Kill A Mockingbird, Twelfth Night), Dr. Seuss’s The Lorax blends theatrical invention, songs and zany humour in a timely and vibrant Christmas show with a message that will speak to audiences of all ages.

Simon Lipkin, who plays the Lorax, trained at the Sylvia Young Theatre School and then at the Arts Educational. His past theatre credits include The Proprietor in Assassins (Menier Chocolate Factory), Touchstone in As You Like It (Southwark Playhouse), Barlow in I Can’t Sing (London Palladium), Lonny in Rock Of Ages (Original West End cast), Galahad in Spamalot (Original UK and International Tour), Nicky and Trekkie Monster in Avenue Q (Original West End cast), I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change (Arts Theatre), The Wedding Singer (Original UK cast); Willard in Footloose (UK Tour); A Christmas Carol (West End); Pharaoh in Joseph And The Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat (West End), Alice In Wonderland (Nuffield Theatre), Austentatious (Landor Theatre), News Revue (Canal Café) and Leopold in Never The Sinner (Kenneth Moore Theatre). TV and film credits include Doctor Who, The Bill, Casualty, The Royal Variety Performance, Children In Need, Muppets Most Wanted (Disney), The Harry Hill Movie, That Puppet Game Show and Nativity 3. He also voices characters on the Cartoon Network show The Amazing World of Gumball.

Simon Paisley Day is a British screen and stage actor and will play the Once-ler. Simon has an extensive list of film and television credits including Tommy’s Honor, The Falling, Pudsey: The Movie, Family Tree, Dr. Who (Series 9), The Musketeers, Sherlock – Hound of the Baskervilles, Doc Martin (Series 5), Hustle, Being Human, Midsomer Murders, The Belsen Redeption, The Bill, The Catherine Tate Show and portraying Sir Cosmo Duff Gordon in the ITV mini-series, Titanic. On stage, Simon’s theatrical credits include Urinetown, The Taming of the Shrew, Timon of Athens (Shakespeare’s Globe), The Low Road (ETT / Royal Court), Twelfth Night (National Theatre), Private Lives (Theatre Royal Both), The Ugly One (Royal Court Theatre), Don’t Look Now (Sheffield Theatre / Lyric Hammersmith), The 39 Steps (Fiery Angel), The Philanthropist (Donmar Warehouse), Cymbeline, Twelfth Night (Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre), Anything Goes (Theatre Royal Drury Lane), Love’s Labour’s Lost, Anything Goes, The Coast of Utopia, Hamlet, Candide, Money and Oh What a Lovely War (National Theatre). Simon has also published two plays: Spike at Southampton’s Nuffield Theatre in 2001, and Raving at Hampstead Theatre in 2013, which starred Robert Webb and Tamzin Outhwaite.

Full cast includes: Stuart Angell, Thomas Arnold, Miles Barrow, Jack Beale, Laura Cubitt, Caleb Frederick, Emily Houghton, Richard Katz, Anabel Kutay, Penny Layden, Melanie La Barrie, Carly Mercedes Dyer, Ebony Molina, Ben Thompson, Juma Sharkah, Silas Wyatt-Barke, Joe Evans and Jo Nichols.

David Greig is an acclaimed and award-winning playwright, whose work encompasses theatre, radio and film. Plays include The Events (Traverse, Scotland and Young Vic), The Strange Undoing of Prudencia Hart (Tron, National Theatre Of Scotland), Midsummer (Traverse, Soho And Tricycle), Dunsinane (RSC At Hampstead And National Theatre Of Scotland), Damascus (Traverse, Scotland And Tricycle), Outlying Islands (Traverse And Royal Court), The American Pilot (RSC), Pyrenees (Paines Plough), The Cosmonaut’s Last Message To The Woman He Wonce Loved In The Former Soviet Union (Donmar Warehouse And Paines Plough) and The Architect And Europe (Traverse). Adaptations include Creditors (Donmar Warehouse), The Bacchae (Edinburgh International Festival), Tintin in Tibet (Barbican, Playhouse And UK Tour), When the Bulbul Stopped Singing (Traverse Theatre, – Amnesty International Award; Tapwater Award and Herald Angel), Caligula (Donmar Warehouse) and Peter Pan (National Theatre of Scotland, Traverse and Barbican). David wrote the book for Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (West End from 2013).

David’s work for children and young people includes: The Monster in the Hall (Tag Theatre Co. Glasgow, 2010) Yellow Moon (Tag Theatre Co. Glasgow, 2006 – TMA Award for Best Show For Children and Young People 2007 and Brian Way Award for Best Children’s Play 2007), Gobbo (National Theatre Of Scotland, 2006) and Dr Korczak’s Example (Tag Theatre Co. Glasgow, 2001).

Max Webster is fast emerging as one of the most exciting young directors working in the UK and internationally.  Current work includes the upcoming Mary Stuart for PARCO Productions in Tokyo and a re-mount of Much Ado About Nothing for Shakespeare’s Globe, which will go on a world tour later this year. Other recent credits include Orlando, To Kill a Mockingbird and My Young and Foolish Heart (Manchester Royal Exchange), Opera Highlights (Scottish Opera, Tour), James and the Giant Peach and My Generation (West Yorkshire Playhouse), Twelfth Night (Regent’s Park Open Air), Skewered Snails (Iron Oxide/Southbank Centre), Anna Karenina (Arcola), The Chalk Circle (Aarohan Theatre, Nepal), Sense (Southwark Playhouse), Carnival Under the Rainbow & Feast Kakulu (Hilton Arts Festival, South Africa), Mustard (Company of Angels), Finisterre (Theatre 503).

Adapted for the stage by David Greig
Director Max Webster
Design Rob Howell
Choreography Drew McOnie
Puppetry Director Finn Caldwell for Gyre and Gimble
Lighting Jon Clark
Music Charlie Fink
Musical Director/Arranger Phil Bateman
Sound Tom Gibbons
Casting Jessica Ronane CDG

 

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DR. SEUSS’S THE LORAX
Thu 3 Dec 2015 – Sat 16 Jan 2016

The National Youth Theatre opened its West End REP Season yesterday with an abundance of exciting guests attending including Sir Ian McKellen, Prince Edward, Julie Hesmondhalgh, Nanette Newman, Shane Zaza and Paula Wilcox, plus many more! The drinks were flowing as this year’s exciting and provocative season kicked off, including brand new play Consensualwritten by Evan Placey, exploring the issue of sexual consent, Stephanie Street’s modern adaptation of the classic Wuthering Heights and Tom Stoppard’s abridged version of The Merchant of Venice.