My Fair Lady
By Alan Jay Lerner & Frederick Loewe. Adapted from George Bernard Shaw's PygmalionLerner & Loewe's glorious, evergreen musical My Fair Lady – with an overflowing bouquet of ravishing songs including The Rain in Spain, I Could Have Danced All Night, With a Little Bit of Luck and Wouldn't It be Loverly – has never before been produced at Chichester. With its sparkling dialogue, brilliant...
Continue reading...The Cherry Orchard
By Anton Chekhov in a new version by Laura WadeRanyevskaya and Lopakhin are giants at war over a cherished estate. Madame Ranyevskaya returns from five years in Paris to find her house crumbling under the weight of debt and memory and her beloved cherry orchard under threat. Attempting to mend her extravagance, Lopakhin, the son of a serf, insists...
Continue reading...Summer Holiday The Musical
Adapted by Michael Gyngell & Mark HaddiganAboard a double decker bus, Don and his friends are on a fun-packed trip to Paris, The Alps, Italy and Greece, in search of a good time and a brilliant summer. On the way they encounter pop bands, runaway pop stars and of course holiday romance.
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Atlantis
By Emily WhiteChichester Theatre - Minerva Theatre, Chichester
& touring
In a small coastal village in Wales, Bryn and Gwen learn they will be forced to abandon their cherished home in the face of rising seawater. Their crisis rekindles Gwen's crusading spirit, cradled at the Greenham Common protests in the 1980s – a commitment inherited by her granddaughter Rhiannon. But as the years pass, their passionate activism threatens to divide mother from daughter, sister from brother, husband from wife.
See cast, creatives, and 2 reviewsSweeney Todd
By Stephen Sondheim & Hugh WheelerBirmingham Repertory Theatre, Birmingham
UK premiere Theatre Royal Drury Lane, 1980
World premiere of this revival
Sondheinm's musical noir based on Christopher Bond's play tells the tale of a barber transported for life for a crime he didn't commit so that the Judge and Beadle can have their wicked way with his beautiful wife. Escaping and returning to London under the name of Sweeney Todd he plots his revenge with the help of Mrs Lovett who runs the failing pie shop under his old business. Recognised by a rival who attempts to blackmail him, Todd kills and Lovett, ever one for a bargin, hatches the plot to dispose of the body and make her little business a success - such lovely pies, such tasty gravy. The Captian who brought him home falls for a beautiful girl who, it turns out, is Todd's daughter now the ward (and intended) of the Judge so the planned revenge must be more swiftly enacted - but in his haste Todd, kills more than he intended and no one wins in the end.
See cast, creatives, and 6 reviewsThe Market Deeping Model Railway Club
By William IvoryPlayhouse, Nottingham
The Market Deeping Model Railway Club's chances of victory at the Annual Show have been ripped apart by vandals, and the group must rally to piece their miniature world back together. When their story goes global, help floods in from unexpected sources ? including fellow enthusiast Sir Rod Stewart. But what lies ahead for the club? Chairman Graham, his long-suffering wife Linda and the eclectic bunch of enthusiasts must face the question: what exactly is it about their everyday lives, that makes recreating the England of the past in miniature so appealing? Based on a true story, Nottingham playwright William Ivory (The Great Escaper, Made in Dagenham, Common As Muck) brings warmth and wit to this comedy of highstakes drama in a small-town setting - celebrating community, friendship, and British eccentricity. Whilst this play is inspired by real events, characters, names and events have been fictionalised for the purposes of the play.
See cast, creatives, and 6 reviews