‘So the mum carried it and pushed it out and that. But does anyone say to the dad, ‘What high quality sperms you have?’ No they do not. An’ those nine months are long. Seriously talking about calling her ‘Ariadne’, ‘Bentley’ or ‘Oceana’, so you are literally delighted with ‘Bowie’ for the easy life…’
Leo’s seventeen. He’s got college, a healthy right-swipe-rate on Tinder and a six-month-old.
He’s mashing avocado and buying Pampers over own-brand because of the more reliable gusset. Leo’s on the triple shift of school, work and night feeds and wants to be a dad in every...
Amy’s making a play. It’s an experiment. It’s about motherhood.
Amy Golding is an award-winning theatre-maker whose work has been seen across the UK and in South Africa.
As Artistic Director of Curious Monkey, Amy makes shows from real stories, told to her by real people.
Now she’s making her own story. It’s about the before, the now and the what might be.
In Preggers, Amy attempts to work out motherhood – what does it really mean? For women now and for women of previous generations. Her mother’s unconventional approach to family life was captured by a 1979...
Part of ‘A Message From…’ live music seriesThe Other Place very general flattened: ‘The Other Place – A Vox-popera by Billy Bottle & The Multiple’
On the evening of 7th May, 2015, a pint of milk mysteriously appears at the gates of Parliament.
Set in the week running up to a UK general election, The Other Place tells the true story of two musi-cians from Devon as they make their way slowly to Westminster. On high streets, market squares and seafront promenades, they perform the same song, forty-nine times over, and at each stop they start conversations with whoever they...
William Shakespeare’s much loved comedy is set in 1920s London.
Fairyland is the wild and wonderful night club world of ‘The 43’ in Gerrard Street and the Kit Kat Club. The wood ‘a mile outside the town’, is St James’ Park.
Theseus has an Art Deco palace and music from the period, chosen to fit both characters and scenes, is played and sung by the marvellous ‘Music Deco’.
Duke Theseus has won the war but how will he cope with marriage? Will the lovers ever sort out who ends up with whom? Will Oberon and Titania finally get the weather sorted out? Will Bottom’s...
Returning after a critically acclaimed, total sell-out spring 2014 tour the Grumpies are back to knock some sense into the nation. Perrier Award-winning comedian, writer and original star of Grumpy Old Women Jenny Eclair will be joined by fellow recruits Susie Blake (Mrs Brown’s Boys BBC One, Coronation Street, ITV1) and actress and singer Kate Robbins (Where The Heart Is ITV1, Casualty BBC One).
This jam-packed show includes… learning the art of ‘Grumpy Grooming’, the joy of large pants, a free nagging master class (how to get your own way without him even noticing), beards for...
Shadowlands is the stunning drama written by William Nicholson that poses classic questions about religion, pain and love, through childhood innocence through the beautiful wonder of late-flowering love.This West End and Broadway hit is the love story of C.S. Lewis – Oxford don and author of The Chronicles of Narnia and The Screwtape Letters – and American poet Joy Davidman.
Lewis is comfortable in his life at Oxford University, smug in his convictions about God and His plan for the world until his fan Joy and her young son enter his life and the...
Following the blockbuster sell-out success of Les Miserables in 2014 and Grease in 2015, Stage by Stage returns with another high-energy, high comedy explosion! This spectacular staging of the award-winning Broadway and West End show features all the classic characters, including The Knights who Say Ni and the ferocious Frenchmen with a taste for elderberries. The hilarious score by Eric Idle and John DuPrez includes such favourites as Brave Sir Robin and We’re Knights of the Round Table, but lobs in capering corpses and dramatic divas for good measure!
A young woman, using skills bequeathed her by her father, saves the French King’s life and is rewarded with the right to choose her own husband. But what if the chosen one won’t play the game? How can she win him to her? How can she get him into bed?
All’s Well That Ends Well is presented in repertoire alongside Hamlet, to celebrate ‘Shakespeare 400’ – four centuries since the great playwright died on April 23 1616.
Hamlet Tue 14 - Sat 18 June 2016 book now Tue, Thu, Fri & Sat 7.30pm Wed Schools’ matinee 1.30pm
By William Shakespeare Directed by Andrew Hilton
Hamlet turns a new face to every decade. So many elements – realpolitik, madness, sex, murder – are all brought together in a drama that is both a thriller and the profoundest meditation on our human condition.
Hamlet is presented in repertoire alongside All’s Well That Ends Well, to celebrate ‘Shakespeare 400’ – four centuries since the great playwright died on April 23 1616.
