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Musical THE MIKADO at Tabard Theatre, Chiswick 23 Apr - 24 May 2025
Gilbert & Sullivan’s The Mikado bursts onto the Tabard Theatre stage transporting us to post-war Britain, where privilege, power, and pompous authority are rife and a love-struck minstrel is on the run. Military chief The Mikado has set out that executions are mandatory; but Lord High Executioner Ko-Ko—a slippery spiv in a zoot suit—avoids carrying them out. Enter Nanki-Poo, the Mikado’s son in disguise, desperate to marry Yum-Yum, who’s unfortunately betrothed to Ko-Ko. When the Mikado demands an execution, Ko-Ko fakes one to save himself, roping in Pooh-Bah, a pompous bureaucrat, and Pish-Tush, a clueless toff. Meanwhile, the formidable Katisha arrives, determined to reclaim Nanki-Poo as her rightful fiancé.
Comedic Thriller THE SOCIABLE PLOVER at Old Red Lion 13 - 24 May
Nothing and nobody will stop Roy Tunt from spotting his wild birds and today, a stormy December morning on England's desolate east coast, he pursues a very special mission. With one more tick in his dog-eared notebook, Roy will have recorded all 567 species on the British List. The prevailing conditions are ideal and the time is perfect to welcome an elusive vagrant from the Asian Steppe, the rare and beautiful Sociable Plover. Roy sequesters himself away in a bird-spotter's hide on a stretch of flooded marshland. With a packed lunch and a framed photograph of his ex-wife for company, he watches and waits. But who is the tall, dark and handsome stranger battling his way through the flood waters towards him? All will be revealed inside the hide...
Thriller Diagnosis by Athena Stevens at Finborough Theatre 13 May- 7 June 2025
A London police station, late at night. A vulnerable woman with a disability is brought in. But is she making a confession, a plea, a threat, or is she just plain mad? After spending years flying surveillance drones through the tunnels of London’s Underground, she begins seeing things – glowing words above people’s heads, predicting their future injuries and diagnoses. And when she sees a countdown above a stranger’s head at a bar – one that’s ticking down in minutes – she knows she has to act…
Gripping, taut and unsettling, Diagnosis is a speculative fiction thriller that asks…if you knew what was coming, would you be able to change it?
Diagnosis marks the return to the theatre after four years of creative exile for Olivier Award nominated and OffWestEnd Award Best Play winner Athena Stevens, and is directed by the multi-award-winning Ché Walker whose sell-out production of Burnt-Up Love at the Finborough Theatre in November 2024 was selected by The Observer as one of the UK’s Top 10 Productions of 2024.
Comedy GRAVE MISTAKE at The Hope Theatre, Islington 27th May - 7th June
“Rule Number One: Funerals are spiritual, we are not.”
Burke & Sons Family Funerals are in crisis!
This funeral directorship has been established for over a hundred and fifty years, being safely handed down through the generations - Right up to the point Regina got hold of it!
Her latest in a long line of life ambitions is to open Jolly Gina’s Gin Bar & Spa, in the intimate yet spacious area of the building between the second floor and the roof, which the unimaginative might call… the loft.
Harriet, Regina’s sister and business partner, is left with a seemingly impossible task - save the business from bankruptcy!
Matthew Ballantyne & Toby Hampton reunite to write this fast-paced & witty new comedy after their 5-star, award-nominated run of ‘21 Round For Christmas’ at Park Theatre in 2023. Produced by the award-winning in-house team at The Hope Theatre, Grave Mistake is sure to be a hilarious, chaotic treat!
Gala AWARD WINNING PERFORMANCES AT 10TH ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION of London Pub Theatres Magazine at Golden Goose Theatre 1 June
Please join us for
Party and networking
Award winning performances (past winners of London Pub Theatres awards)
Canapes and birthday cake prepared by a top chef
Auction (to raise funds for LPT Awards)
Satire PRESS by Nathaniel Brimmer-Beller at Jack Studio Theatre 17 June - 5 July
It’s the big day. The announcement is in a few hours’ time, and film producers David and Kate anticipate their prestigious Civil War epic Catch Me Some Freedom will be nominated for plenty of Goldies. Until, however, they learn that the film’s heroic lead role, played by a white actor, was in real life actually Black. Fearing an intense and career-jeopardizing backlash, David and Kate frantically try to avoid public scrutiny, and keep the film from getting any attention whatsoever. Featuring award-winning writer and performer Nathaniel Brimmer-Beller as David, and the acclaimed Rosie Hart as Kate, this “comedic yet poignant” Hollywood satire returns, acclaimed as “genius” (★★★★★ Broadway Baby) with “a wonderful set-up” that “delivers in every manner” (★★★★★ Violet Curtain).
Drama PROVENANCE by Jonathan Skinner at Barons Court Theatre 24 - 28 June
Ellie wants to get on. Move up. Get ahead for once.
She can't do that on her own, so when she lands a cushy mentorship scheme, she thinks she's finally on her way.
But when Ellie meets her new mentor Patrick, an older artist who hides away painting abstracts in a dingy studio, she's sure she buzzed the wrong flat.
Ellie pushes Patrick to the limit and then some. As banter turns to barbs that cut too close to the quick, Ellie and Patrick find themselves in a standoff of culture, class and secrets.
Jonathan Skinner returns to the Barons Court Theatre (Everything's Brilliant, 2022) with the world premiere of his award-winning play Provenance, directed by Artistic Director Sharon Willems.
Produced by Kibo Productions
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