Max Stafford-Clark and Caryl Churchill are re-united once again for the smash-hit transfer of Top Girls. Suranne Jones (Coronation Street) stars in this provocative study of powerful women in Thatcher’s Britain. The critics are raving that this powerful and brilliant new production substantiates Top Girls as one of the great modern classics. It’s Thatcher’s England [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, October 12, 2010
Olivier Award winning star of Hairspray Tracie Bennett returns to the West End Stage in Peter Quilter’s new play based on the later life of Judy Garland. Directed by the multi celebrated award winning Terry Johnson, End Of The Rainbow received 5 star reviews and nightly standing ovations on its pre London run. It’s December [...]
Continue reading...Saturday, July 17, 2010
Much to the dismay of her husband Denny, Rita, a young, brash hairdresser, has recently discovered a passion for English literature and enrols with the Open University. Her fresh, unschooled reaction to the classics challenges the attitudes of the University and her lecturer Frank who begins to question his own understanding of his work and [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, June 22, 2010
Meera Syal (Goodness Gracious Me, The Kumars at Number 42) stars in the first major London revival of Willy Russell’s SHIRLEY VALENTINE following its sell-out run at the Menier Chocolate Factory. Meet Shirley: a middle-aged Liverpudlian housewife who talks to the wall whilst preparing her husband’s egg and chips. She?s in a rut. What has [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, June 2, 2010
Wolfboy at at Trafalgar Studios Studio 2 from Tuesday, 6 July 2010 until Saturday, 31 July 2010. Two boys share an intimate adventure in an institution: Bernie’s a Grade ‘A’ golden boy who has attempted suicide, David’s a street hustler who may or may not have the powers of a wolf. After 2009′s record-breaking New Boy [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, June 2, 2010
Politics and pop culture clash in this foul-mouthed theatrical cabaret – an accomplished and vivid performance for everyone who has ever felt like an ‘other’. Remixed and revisited for Pride 2010 Confessions of A Dancewhore fuses comedy, burlesque, drag and new media performance to explore the contradictions and cliches of queer life. Book Tickets for [...]
Continue reading...Friday, January 1, 2010
The Caretaker – first performed in 1940 – was Harold Pinter’s first big hit. Fifty years on, it remains as mysterious and compelling as ever. In this new production, Hollywood star and two-time Tony Award winner Jonathan Pryce joins the pantheon of great actors from Donald Pleasance to Michael Gambon who have played the part [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, December 3, 2009
A Daughter’s a Daughter will open at the Trafalgar Studios For a Limited Season 14th Dec – 9th Jan 2010. A Daughter’s A Daughter was penned under the pseudonym of ‘Mary Westmacott’, which Agatha Christie used for a series of six romantic novels published between 1930 and 1956. Quite different from any of Christie’s previous [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, June 16, 2009
Ella Hickson’s ‘Eight’ swept the board at the Edinburgh Festival in 2008. An underground hit, propagated by sensational word-of-mouth, it went on to garner excellent reviews and win the three top awards at the world’s largest arts festival. This thumpingly British show went stateside in January 2009 where it achieved huge critical acclaim and a [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, May 28, 2009
Love, racism, jealousy and desire are at the emotional core of Shakespeare’s monumental tragedy – a tender love story shattered by one man’s obsessive hatred of another. Othello is noble, brave and victorious. Iago, passed over for a position in the army, fuels his diabolical revenge with hatred and snarling racism. Poignant, intense and heartbreaking, [...]
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