Hairy Maclary and Friends
Out of the gate and off for a walk, went Hairy Maclary from Donaldson’s Dairy.
Anyone with young children will recognise these immortal words instantly as the opening lines of the book Hairy Maclary from Donaldson’s Dairy by Lynley Dodd. Following a sell-out run at the Fringe 2010, a UK Tour in 2011 and the Christmas season at the Sydney Opera ...
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Riverside Studios
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Macbeth: Leila and Ben - A Bloody History
The World Shakespeare Festival
Adapted by Lotfi Achour and Anissa Daoud
An Artistes, Producteurs, Associés Production
Macbeth: Leïla and Ben - A Bloody History
A Tunisian Macbeth where Shakespeare's malevolent tyrant and his wife are reincarnated as the equally diabolical modern-day duo, Leïla and Zine Ben Ali. Combinin ...
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Riverside Studios
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London
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United Kingdom
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Macbeth: Leila and Ben - A Bloody History
The World Shakespeare Festival
Adapted by Lotfi Achour and Anissa Daoud
An Artistes, Producteurs, Associés Production
A Tunisian Macbeth where Shakespeare's malevolent tyrant and his wife are reincarnated as the equally diabolical modern-day duo, Leïla and Zine Ben Ali. Combining Sheakespeare's text with film and reportage ...
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Riverside Studios
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London
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United Kingdom
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Before Your Very Eyes
Seven young actors aged 8-14 are locked inside a room of one-way mirrors. They peer into the future at their adult selves and back at their recent past before leaving their childhoods behind forever in a performance that reflects on society’s obsession with youth and the aging process.
Suitable for 14+.
Presented by LIFT ...
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Unicorn Theatre
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London
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United Kingdom
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Romeo and Juliet in Baghdad
The World Shakespeare Festival
An Iraqi Theatre Company production
Romeo and Juliet in Baghdad
Baghdad's Iraqi Theatre Company create a version of Romeo and Juliet for a new generation, infused with Iraq's rich traditions of poetry, music and ritual. This iconic play finds fresh purchase in the soil of contemporary Iraq, a country ...
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Riverside Studios
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London
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United Kingdom
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The Dark Side of Love
Roundhouse & LIFT production, directed by Companhia BufoMecânica performer Renato Rocha and inspired by Shakespeare's tragedies, The Dark Side of Love is a delirious and dreamlike journey into the depths of what we do for love. Performed by a cast of teenagers in an atmospheric underground performance space beneath the Roundhouse Main ...
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Roundhouse
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London
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United Kingdom
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Turandot
Turandot, the blockbuster show by veteran Chinese director Zhang Yimou, is set for a huge scale performance this June in Wembley stadium. Zhang Yimou is a master at creating a ceremony to remember. He was the director of the opening ceremony of the Beijing Olympic Games in 2008, a feat that made his name synonymous with ‘stunning visual effects’. N ...
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Wembley Stadium
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London
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United Kingdom
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Rest Upon the Wind
AM Productions presents
Rest Upon the Wind
Inspired by the life and times of Khalil Gibran
Written by Nadim Sawalha
Directed byTanushka Marah
Sound and Lighting by Jules Deering
The story of the difficult birth of a book that is still being read and quoted by millions of people across the world. Early in his life Khalil Gibran’s path was ...
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Riverside Studios
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London
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United Kingdom
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The Rest is Silence
The World Shakespeare Festival
A meditation on Hamlet by William Shakespeare
A dreamthinkspeak production
An ambitious textual and visual deconstruction of Hamlet interweaving performance, film and installation to create a vigorous new interpretation that cuts to the heart of the play. Meditative and dreamlike in quality, the hallmark of dre ...
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Riverside Studios
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London
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United Kingdom
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THE TEMPEST
Shakespeare's Prospero is usurped from his position as Duke of Milan and cast away with his daughter to a remote island. Twelve years later, and intent on revenge, he raises a magical tempest that shipwrecks his enemies on his shores. What begins as a search for retribution develops into a journey of acceptance and compassion in Shakespeare’s f ...
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Roundhouse
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London
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United Kingdom
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Twelfth Night
Shipwrecked on the shores of a strange land, Viola believes her twin brother Sebastian drowned. Disguising herself as a boy to work in the court of Count Orsino, she finds herself
a go-between for the man she serves and the woman who refuses to love him.
David Farr directs both Twelfth Night and The Tempest. David is a playwright, screenwriter ...
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Roundhouse
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London
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United Kingdom
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A Midsummer Night-s Dream
Danger penetrates A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Shakespeare’s enduring story of young love. As worlds real and unreal merge, romance struggles to survive and unlikely unions are forged.
Featuring the Open Air Theatre’s celebrated fusion of original music, movement and unique setting, this magical, comedic and seductive tale is set to be one of the ...
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Regents Park Theatre Ltd
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London
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United Kingdom
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Something Very Far Away
Written and directed by Mark Arends
Design and animation by Matthew Robins
Lighting Design by Declan Randall
Kepler is an ordinary man who loves two things beyond all others: the cosmos and his wife Tomasina. After a sudden and tragic loss, he looks to the stars for answers and journeys deep into space to keep the thing most precious to him al ...
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Unicorn Theatre
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London
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United Kingdom
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The Comedy of Errors
Shakespeare's joyful comedy of mistaken identity follows the fortunes of two sets of identical twins, accidentally separated at birth, then miraculously thrown together again. In a town the size of Ephesus, events like these can only lead to confusion.
The Comedy of Errors is directed by Amir Nizar Zuabi. Founder of the Palestinian theatre c ...
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Roundhouse
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London
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United Kingdom
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Timon of Athens
In this expose of human selfishness, absurd comedy and grotesque spectacle evolve into tragic satire. Containing some of Shakespeare’s greatest poetry, Timon of Athens is the perfect play for our times.
Performed in German. ...
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Shakespeare’s Globe
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London
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United Kingdom
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Explore Shakespeare - By Speaking Him
With Matthew Collins, voice coach and former presenter on BBC TV’s The Travel Show.
Explore your voice and powerful texts in a three-hour workshop for actors/non-actors, aficionados and people who’ve never seen a Shakespeare play. ...
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Riverside Studios
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London
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United Kingdom
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Pour Les Francais a Londres
Pour Les Français a Londres: Decouvrez Shakespeare en Parlant son Langage
Explorez votre voix et découvrez la joie de parler quelques uns des textes les plus intenses et les plus éminents en anglais dans cet atelier de Speaking Shakespeare (75 minutes) avec Matthew Collins, entraineur vocal, présentateur á la BBC, franco ...
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Riverside Studios
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London
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United Kingdom
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Weekend at Wilton-s
Duckie in association with Magic Me present
Weekend at Wilton’s
New wave performance in an old time music hall.
A swanky performance palais for senior citizens … and the younger Duckie fraternity.
Hostessed & Disc Jockeyed by
Miss Amy Lamé
Starring
Up & Over It, Scottee, Miss Behave, Dickie Beau, The LipSinke ...
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Wilton’s Music Hall
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London
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United Kingdom
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Ballo Della Regina
George Balanchine's joyful ballet is set to music from Verdi's Don Carlos. Its bravura choreography and zestful energy are guaranteed to lift the spirits. ...
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THE ROYAL OPERA HOUSE
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London
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United Kingdom
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Ragtime the Musical
Tragic, poignant and ultimately triumphant, Ragtime is a modern classic. Set at the turn of the 20th century, this powerful musical unites three families separated by race and destiny.
The timeless contradictions of wealth and poverty, freedom and prejudice, and hope and despair, make this a theatre experience not to be missed.
Last season’s ...
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Regents Park Theatre Ltd Open Air Thea
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London
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United Kingdom
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TWO ROSES FOR RICHARD III
From Brazil, Companhia BufoMecânica brings a breathtaking production, combining Shakespeare's text with circus, multimedia, visual metaphor and aerial choreography. Inspired by Shakespeare's history plays, the bloody events of the War of the Roses are vividly re-imagined in a glorious black carnival of villainy, corruption and seductio ...
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Roundhouse
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London
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United Kingdom
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Mad About the Boy
Written by Gbolahan Obisesan
Directed by Ria Parry
Boy wants to be bad like the rest.
Dad wants the best for the Boy.
Man wants the Boy to do what’s best.
A lyrical tussle of will and minds.
Winner of an Edinburgh Fringe First Award 2011, this timely, urgent, razor-sharp drama sees a teenage boy fighting to save his reputation.
Insight ...
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Unicorn Theatre
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London
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United Kingdom
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Blue Stocking Cabaret
in Space: May 4th Be With You. Cabaret Show with critically acclaimed burlesque. ...
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SEVEN DIALS CLUB
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London
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United Kingdom
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Three Kingdoms
‘A profoundly great evening.’
Die Welt
‘Wonderful… A superb production.’
Sueddeutsche Zeitung
The London premiere of a dark new thriller by Simon Stephens, set across three countries exploring human trafficking and the vice trade.
A woman's head is washed up on the banks of the Thames in Hammersmith. Two British detectives set off ...
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Lyric Hammersmith
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London
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United Kingdom
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The Art of Concealment
GC Productions/John B Hobbs/Alexander Marshall
The Art of Concealment
by Giles Cole
Terence Rattigan, once regarded as the golden boy of the West End stage, and who suffered a sudden and catastrophic fall from favour, is sixty-six years old, in failing health and waiting for the curtain to rise on his last play.
The Art of Concealment i ...
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Riverside Studios
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London
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United Kingdom
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The Man With The Disturbingly Smelly Foot
Based on Philoctetes, by Sophocles
By Nancy Harris
Directed by Ellen McDougall
He’s furious. Some say his hate is the only thing still keeping him alive.
The Trojan War. You’ve heard of Achilles and Odysseus, but have you heard of Philoctetes? Probably not, because although Philoctetes signed up to go and fight, he never made it: his ship ...
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Unicorn Theatre
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London
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United Kingdom
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How To Think The Unthinkable
Based on Antigone
By Ryan Craig
Directed by Ellen McDougall
Antigone makes everything OK. Gives me hope. I’m utterly devoted to her. I couldn’t imagine what would happen if she weren’t here.
What could a play written 2,500 years ago possibly mean today? Ryan Craig’s new adaptation of Sophocles’ famous tragedy captures the passion, danger ...
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Unicorn Theatre
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London
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United Kingdom
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The Great Gatsby
By F. Scott Fitzgerald
Adapted and Directed by Peter Joucla
It’s 1922 and we welcome you to prohibition Wilton’s.
SURELY there is no better place to experience this new and immersive adaptation
produced by the Wilton’s Team and directed by Peter Joucla. Expect late night
foxtrots, moonshine in teapots, pearls and flappers, bootleggers ...
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Wilton’s Music Hall
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London
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- The Chair Plays - Have I None - The Under Room
Continuing the Lyric’s celebration of the work of Edward Bond, Sean Holmes and the dramatist himself revive three of Bond’s one act plays.
Have I None (directed by Holmes) and The Under Room (directed by Bond) are presented as a double bill.
You can also see a special triple bill featuring Have I None, The Under Room and Chair on Saturday 19 ...
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Lyric Hammersmith
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London
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United Kingdom
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Oedipussy
Time Out Critics' Choice, read an interview with Spymonkey here.
'Joyful... Inventive comedy.' **** The Times
‘If only all Greek mythology had been taught this way.’ **** WhatsOnStage
'Brilliant... Riotous laughter.' Guardian
Kneehigh’s artistic director Emma Rice (Brief Encounter, The Red Shoes, The Wild Bride) join ...
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Lyric Hammersmith
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London
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United Kingdom
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EDEM the musical
Based on an ancient African myth, the son of an oil plant owner has to full fill his destiny by going against his family and stopping the oil spills which are destroying the ancient world of Edem which lies deep within the Nigerian rainforest.
The Last Laugh Theatre Company have come together to create a musical tale of survival, friendship and ...
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The Spring Arena
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London
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United Kingdom
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The Sinking of the Titanic
A national event organised by CoMA Sussex, CoMA presents a joint concert with the Southampton Concert Orchestra, to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic. Members of both CoMA and the SCO will perform Gavin Bryars' 'The Sinking of the Titanic'. The Southampton Concert Orchestra will perform Dvorak's New Wor ...
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Southampton Guildhall
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London
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United Kingdom
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80 - 20 - Natalie Michelles School of Drama
A Comedy Drama about a tantalizing love story based on the struggles between finding a balance between love and following your dreams. Let's take you on a journey of Denzel and Eliza's childhood romance that is sometimes bitter sweet.
The future is unknown and the present is yet to be discovered...........
"I for one am very exc ...
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Watermans
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London
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United Kingdom
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Mary Rose
Midnight (12am) Productions in association with Darbourne Luff present the DogOrange production of
Mary Rose
by J.M. Barrie
Director: Matthew Parker
Composer/Musical Director: Maria Haik Escudero
Designer: Cherry Truluck
Lighting Designer: Gary Bowman
Sound Designers: Mike Thacker and Andy Graham
Costume Designer: Penelope Watson
Can ...
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Riverside Studios
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London
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United Kingdom
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Showstopper! The Improvised Musical
The Showstoppers return to E4 Udderbelly Festival for a third year. A brand new musical is created from scratch at each performance of this award-winning production, as heard on BBC Radio Four. Audience suggestions help to create a show on the spot, as the all-singing, all-dancing cast improvise with unpredictable and hilarious results. Suitable fo ...
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Southbank Centre
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London
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United Kingdom
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