REVIEW: Coming Clean, Trafalgar Studios ✭✭✭
Paul T Davies reviews Kevin Elyot’s play Coming Clean which is now playing at Trafalgar Studios 2.
Paul T Davies reviews Kevin Elyot’s play Coming Clean which is now playing at Trafalgar Studios 2.
The King’s Head Theatre have announced the full line-up for its 2018 Queer Season.
The Olivier Award nominated King’s Head Theatre announces it’s next radically reimagined opera production Verdi’s La Traviata.
What shines through in strangers In Between is tenderness, and this coming of age tale is steadfast in its honesty about life’s complications and how we struggle to escape the past, and our families.
If you have ever yearned to be a starving artist in a garret, this could well be the production to convince you it’s a good idea. Unmissable!
Trainspotting Live returns to London in an immersive production at the Vaults following a pre-London tour. Book Now!
As the King’s Head Theatre prepares for its move to a new purpose built theatre space in Islington Square, they have announced that their sell-out productions of Puccini’s La Boheme and Tommy Murphy’s Strangers In Between will transfer to Trafalgar Studios 2 from 6 December 2017. Adam Spreadbury-Maher and Becca Marriott’s reinterpretation of Puccini’s classic La bohème is set in present-day East London and delves into the lives and loves of Mimi, Musetta, Ralph and Mark. The production lays bare the damaging effects of co-dependent relationships against a backdrop of spiralling rents and social media. The cast will include Becca Marriott as Mimi, Matthew Kimble and Roger Paterson sharing the role of Ralph, Matthew Palmer and Thomas Isherwood sharing the role of Mark, Honey Rouhani as Musetta, and Lizzie Holmes playing both Mimi and Musetta. Tommy Murphy’s Strangers in Between tells the story of Shane, a timid 16 year-old who has fled his rural … Read more
Following hot on the heels of an audacious winter season, the King’s Head Theatre will show two critical revivals plus London transfers for three Edinburgh Fringe success stories between April and July. After the success of Trainspotting, artistic director of the King’s Head Theatre, Adam Spreadbury-Maher returns to the director’s chair for Strangers in Between. First staged by Sydney’s Griffin Theatre Company in February 2005, Tommy Murphy’s play won the New South Wales Premiere literary award. Adam said: “I’m delighted to be bringing this brilliant play by one of Australia’s finest playwrights to audiences in London for the first time.” Before that, April will see the venue’s first full cabaret season, complete with on-stage tables and a pop-up bar to welcome hit cult musical Saucy Jacks and the Space Vixens, as well as a musical comedy taxidermy puppet show from avant-garde performance artist, Charlie Tuesday Gates; Sing For Your Life. … Read more