Seventy-two years on from its UK film première at Marble Arch Odeon, The Lavender Hill Mob stops off at Theatre Royal Bath on its penultimate week of touring. Adapted for the stage by Phil Porter (The Miser and Vice Versa), the source material is considered by the British Film Institute to be the 17th greatest British film of all… Continue reading The Lavender Hill Mob
Month: July 2024
Wagatha Christie Trial for Lowry
Vardy v Rooney: The Wagatha Christie Trial will tour following its run in the West End this spring—including three nights at The Lowry in Salford Lucy May Barker (Rebekah Vardy), Laura Dos Santos (Coleen Rooney), Jonathan Broadbent (Hugh Tomlinson QC), Tom Turner (David Sherborne) and Nathan McMullan reprise their roles at London’s Ambassadors Theatre before… Continue reading Wagatha Christie Trial for Lowry
New Surrey summer season venue goes great guns
A new 250-seat covered, open air theatre is being opened for summer season shows in Banstead, Surrey. To be called The Lavender Theatre, the venue will host musicals and plays against a farmland setting, and the site offers a coffee bar, a full service glasshouse restaurant and picnic spaces. The opening production is to be Irving… Continue reading New Surrey summer season venue goes great guns
My Fruits
Amy Townsend-Lowcock’s multimedia show My Fruits takes place on the main stage at HOME in Manchester. Literally. A dozen audience members are seated on the darkened stage at a table with screens at either end. One screen shows events in the main narrative while the other occasionally features an actor articulating the thoughts and experiences… Continue reading My Fruits
Animal unleashed in three cities
Park Theatre and Hope Mill Theatre in Manchester present a brand-new play Animal, exploring how disability, sexuality and lust coexist for people who require round-the-clock assistance. Written by Jon Bradfield and developed by disability activist and equality trainer Josh Hepple, it looks at hook-up culture, navigating relationships and how they intersect with practical needs and… Continue reading Animal unleashed in three cities
A “shabby little shocker” is next up for Northern Ireland Opera
Northern Ireland Opera has announced Puccini’s Tosca, which will be directed by the company’s Artistic Director Cameron Menzies, as its next major production at the Grand Opera House, Belfast in September. First staged in Rome in 1900, the opera is set during Napoleon’s invasion of Italy in 1799 and is a torrid tale taking place… Continue reading A “shabby little shocker” is next up for Northern Ireland Opera
Wodehouse in Wonderland
Wodehouse in Wonderland is at first attempt a tricky play to describe; part memoir and part monologue, it features a sprinkling of cabaret and a deceptively meandering plot. The setting, however, firmly establishes the action in P G Wodehouse’s study and for two acts the audience glimpse into life of a man with “nothing to… Continue reading Wodehouse in Wonderland
One Who Wants to Cross
Marc-Emmanuel Soriano’s play One Who Wants to Cross (Un Qui Veut Traverser), first performed in France, is essentially a lyrical monologue with the occasional briefest contribution from a second character. There is a mood of melancholy, and many of the things said in the piece can feel like a form of mourning for the plight… Continue reading One Who Wants to Cross
DNA
DNA by prolific writer Dennis Kelly was born out of a National Theatre initiative to develop plays for young people specifically between 14 and 18 years old. It has since become a set GCSE text and been studied by up to 40,000 students. Debuted in 2008, it has its roots in the classic novel Lord… Continue reading DNA
Norway National brings Strindberg to London
The National Theatre of Norway returns to The Coronet in London, last there with its production of Little Eyolf, with a new version of Strindberg’s savagely comic domestic drama Dance of Death. Norwegian director Marit Moum Aune directs film, stage and TV stars Jon Øigarden, Thorbjørn Harr and Pia Tjelta. Moum Aune’s productions of Ibsen’s… Continue reading Norway National brings Strindberg to London