Dolly Parton’s ‘9 to 5: The Musical’ returns to Brighton
Back by popular demand! Dolly Parton’s 9 to 5: The Musical returns to Theatre Royal Brighton next week.
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Back by popular demand! Dolly Parton’s 9 to 5: The Musical returns to Theatre Royal Brighton next week.
Stick the word ‘American’ in the title of your play, and you’re invoking some pretty big spirits, whether it be the deeply buried but suddenly dislodged secrets of well-meaning families in an Arthur Miller, or the suffocating summers and memory plays of a Tennessee Williams.
Adapted from Sebastian Faulks’s wartime epic, Birdsong arrives at Theatre Royal Brighton for a week long run later this month.
On paper, it’s red-hot. Capitalise on the Jubilee / Will & Kate / Royal Baby mania with a show starring Helen Mirren as Elizabeth Regina (again) backed by the writer and director of The Queen and a neat concept: a series of era-hopping sequences giving us a backstage pass to the Queen’s weekly audience with the Prime Minister.
The world’s longest running stage production, The Mousetrap, arrives in Brighton next week for a 6-day run.
A group of old codgers drinking in a pub. A questionable doctor and his coquettish nurse. A work-experience lad languishing in a stale newsroom. A young boy with a penchant for kicking pigs. These are the characters that populate the bizarre world of Kill The Beast’s new production of The Boy Who Kicked Pigs.
A potentially big problem for any little voice is that the production risks being unbalanced by the very thing you likely bought your ticket for in the first place: scene stealing sequences in which a mighty songstress rips forth from a delicate frame. While Jess Robinson delivers on this (and finds space to provide LV with a wry humour) all of this would to naught if there wasn’t a great supporting cast – and, for that matter – plot – to populate the world that Little Voice is so desperately attempting to avoid.
Sixty years ago, according to Maurice, he met a beautiful young woman on the eve of her becoming a Queen. Apparently she promised to look him up if she was still on the throne in 2012.
The Olivier Award-winning The Rise and Fall of Little Voice, written and directed by Jim Cartwright, runs at Theatre Royal Brighton from Monday 4 March to Saturday 9 March (evenings 7.45pm, Thursday & Saturday mats 2.30pm). To celebrate, we’ve got a pair of tickets (Monday 4 March, 7.45pm performance) to give away to one of … >
Following a sell-out run at the 2012 Edinburgh Festival, Maurice’s Jubilee visits Brighton next month, starring Star Wars actor Julian Glover.