Mary Franklin

Casting announced for Outlaws To In-Laws at King’s Head Theatre

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Outlaws to in-laws at King's Head Theatre

Final casting has been announced for the world premiere of Outlaws to In-Laws, seven one-act plays by leading gay writers dedicated to the struggles and joys of gay men connecting with each other over the last seven decades. From the darkest days of criminality to the legalising of gay marriage, the works by Jonathan Harvey, Jonathan Kemp, Joshua Val Martin, Matt Harris, Patrick Wilde, Philip Meeks and Topher Campbell each represent one of the decades from the 1950s to the present day. The cast are: Elliot Balchin (Hollyoaks, Kenneth Branagh’s Macbeth – Manchester and New York), Jack Bence (The Interceptor – BBC1, Eastenders, BadEducation), Myles Devonté (Exhibit B – Barbican, Hospital Chapel 6am – Southwark Playhouse), Michael Duke (Beautiful – Aldwych Theatre, Thriller Live – West End and World Tour, The Lion King – Lyceum Theatre), Alex Marlow (Halycon Days, Just Another Blockbuster – English Theatre Company), and James Richard … Read more

Critical revivals and London transfers for King’s Head Theatre spring season

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Strangers In Between

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

Rough Haired Pointer stage child’s-eye-view of the world

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The Young Visiters

The Young Visiters is the most famous book in history written by a nine-year-old. Precocious Victorian child, Daisy Ashford, and her child’s-eye-view of the adult world was championed by J.M. Barrie and first published in 1919 (28 years after it was written) complete with idiosyncratic spellings. Now Rough Haired Pointer (Diary of a Nobody, Fred & Madge) are giving London audiences another chance to see their adaptation of this cult book at The Tabard Theatre in Chiswick for four weeks in March. The Young Visiters is and Ashford’s eye for adult absurdity has real comic bite. A young cast of six will bring The Young Visitors – full of innocent (or not so innocent) double entendres – to life. Rough Haired Pointer was founded by Mary Franklin and Carin Nakanishi in 2013. Since then the company has expanded to include a composer, producer and a company of associate actors. Intentionally rough … Read more