James Nelson-Joyce joins Julian Clary in comedy Le Grand Mort

James Nelson-Joyce in Le Grand Mort

  James Nelson-Joyce will co-star with Julian Clary in the World premiere of Stephen Clark’s black comedy Le Grand Mort at Trafalgar Studios from 20 September – 28 October 2017. James recently appeared as James yates in ITV’s Little Boy Blue and has appeared in Cilla, Mount Pleasant and Shameless. In his super stylish, sterilely beautiful Notting Hill kitchen, Michael is preparing dinner for two. As he meticulously cuts the vegetables with almost a surgeon’s precision, he talks, with knife-like wit, about cases in history where the human body has continued to prove useful even after death. As he slices and chops, one wonders who is coming for dinner and what the main course might be. When Tim, his young guest arrives, they engage in a series of funny, thrilling but searingly dangerous mind games, as they try to unravel the reasons why they are both there. Only when the … Read more

REVIEW: Pure Imagination, St James Theatre ✭✭✭

Giles Terera Interview

Bricusse’s output is so prodigious and so tuneful that only the tone deaf would not find lots of numbers here satisfying and delicious. Many will find something to enjoy in every song, and certainly Musical Director, Michael England, does a terrific job accompanying the singers with a six piece band (including England on piano) that does real justice to England’s arrangements. As ever, there could have been more strings to swell the underscoring, but that is a small quibble.