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An Extraordinary Story
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Exciting times for theatre lovers as the Ambassador Theatre Group expands across the UK There are moments in theatre
is always the thing of course,
Panter and Rosemary Squire.
of people across the UK, offering
in London; Spamalot and We Will
transformation in ATG,’ says
when everything seems to come
but if the audience get the sense
In 1992, the husband and wife
great quality shows, more choice,
Rock You are on tour or about to
Squire ‘both companies had real
together at the right time. A
that the people behind the stage
team, backed by a group of
and a special attention to detail.
take off. Meanwhile, the Donmar
strengths but together we have
thousand people in one place
are not that interested in it, then
friends and enthusiasts, bought
If you are part of one of these
Warehouse and Trafalgar Studios
something very special indeed.’
hear and see something special,
it really takes the shine off the
the Duke of York’s Theatre in
provide brilliant settings for
together. You could describe it as
evening. It does matter who
London’s West End. Panter and
a diverse range of theatre,
possible because audiences enjoy
a magical experience: it’s hard to
runs the show.
Squire were soon involved in
offering audiences inspiration
the Group’s approach. Great
the development of a new
and challenging ideas. Sonia
shows, great theatres, and a little
entertainment centre in Woking
Friedman Productions, as part
bit of magic - this is still what we
think of a better description for
ATG’s story has only been
it. But like most magic, there is a
The History
trick to it, and it’s a method that
The resonance that this approach
(which included the landmark
of ATG, has presented over 85
want from theatregoing, and the
has been learned by generation
has with audiences can be seen
New Victoria Theatre), and
new productions since 1990,
success of ATG is evidence that
after generation of theatre
as the Ambassador Theatre
continued through the 1990s to
including Boeing Boeing, Pinter’s
theatre in Britain has a very
managers.
Group takes on 15 additional
launch more regional theatres in
No Man’s Land with Michael
strong pulse indeed.
theatres across the UK, bringing
partnership with trusts and local
Gambon and David Walliams,
the Group’s network to a total of
authorities. As the Millennium
and Patrick Marber’s Dealer’s
38 (39 with the opening of the
began, ATG grew once more,
new Aylesbury Waterside Theatre
taking on seven West End
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as a convention-breaking
in October). It includes historic
theatres and a number of
audiences, you will notice the
producer in a West End where
theatres in the West End like the
regional venues, and this was
difference: you can sense the
risks are never easy to take.
Apollo Victoria, Comedy, Duke
the period where the ATG
excitement ATG still feels about
of York’s, Lyceum and Savoy, as
philosophy, born in cramped
putting on a show.
well as the landmark venues of
offices above the stage of the
Britain’s touring circuit, including
Duke of York’s, began to
be watching, look at some
power behind the stage, but
the big auditoria in Edinburgh,
influence theatre on a national
recent productions. Guys and
every management company
Bristol and Manchester, and
scale. 2010 brings the story up
Dolls started in the West End
knows that it is really the
Congratulations to the
thriving theatres from Brighton
to date, with theatres previously
with leads like Ewan McGregor,
audience who is in charge.
Theatre Royal Brighton.
to Glasgow. These venues are
managed by the Live Nation
Patrick Swayze, and Don
Audiences vote with their feet.
Part of the Ambassador
complicated. It’s a combination
the cornerstones of Britain’s
group passing to ATG.
Johnson, before touring ATG
They want a theatre experience
of three ingredients: a good
theatregoing, and their coming
that shows flair and attention
Theatre Group, it has
show, attention to what the
together marks the latest chapter
The Difference
venues across the country. Big shows like West Side Story, The
to detail, and when this is
just been named
audience needs, and a passion
in ATG’s extraordinary story. Only
As new venues join the group,
Rocky Horror Show and Matthew
supplied by a British company,
Most Welcoming Theatre
for theatre.
18 years ago, this great British
audiences will have the chance
Bourne’s Nutcracker! followed
responding to an enormous
at the TMA Theatre
theatre group contained just
to experience theatre as ATG
a similar pattern. Disney’s Lion
British audience, then we can
one theatre.
believes it should be delivered.
King, the phenomenal Wicked,
say that this is a very exciting
From later this year that
Grease and Legally Blonde
time for British theatre.
experience could reach millions
currently play at ATG theatres
Wicked Here’s the secret. It isn’t that
That last ingredient is vital. It has to be a labour of love. If that passion is not there: well, 1
Bristol Hippodrome
audiences can just tell. The play
The driving forces behind ATG are its co-founders, Howard
Choice. Friedman is recognised
For an idea of what we might
Audiences in Charge Theatre management is the
‘I’m delighted by the
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Interview
all I want to do.’
Spamalot
he says. You wouldn’t think it to
to be an actor. On the grounds
listen to him inveighing against
that he was funny, a friend
Tony Blair and Jeremy Clarkson
booked him in to do a comedy
comedy at university and then
(‘the man is not just an idiot but
slot in a Kiss FM stand-up
entered the profession. On the
he’s deliberately being an idiot’) -
competition. ‘The first half they
club circuit he worked his way
but Brigstocke is a snug fit for
sat in pitying silence. I had a
up to a point where people were
Theatre Royal Brighton
another reason. Thanks to the
rubber chicken concealed in my
refusing to follow him. ‘Other
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shows his parents took him to as a boy, he is a closet devotee of musical theatre. ‘We were definitely up the Lloyd Webber end rather than the Sondheim end. When Starlight Express opened I couldn’t believe it. These people were singing and on rollerskates? I had ambitions for a very long time to be Greaseball. Then
‘
He did huge amounts of
comics would go, ‘F***ing hell,
I was a podium dancer for a couple of years... what can I say? When I throw shapes, people watch. I wasn’t in a thong...
’
I don’t want to go on after
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Brigstocke.’ Which is where you
Churchill Theatre Bromley
want to get to. You want to be
28 June - 3 July Box Office 0844 871 7620
unfollowable, because you’re so good. But I kept coming offstage and couldn’t understand why I
Manchester Opera House*
felt empty. And then the build-
5 -10 July Box Office 0844 847 2295
up to the Iraq war began to gain momentum and I found that I cared very very much about what
Regent Theatre, Stoke-on-Trent 2 -7 August Box Office 0844 871 7649
I saw Les Mis. Javert and Jean
suit. And I did props gags, all of
was happening. It was the first
Valjean are two of the best
which were awful. Once I’d used
time that something I felt so
characters I’ve seen onstage
up all the props and started
passionately about just came
Liverpool Empire*
in anything ever.’
talking, then people laughed. I
onstage with me anyway.’
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So it’s in the blood. Before
went, ‘You’re seriously telling me
he went to Bristol University
people will just pay you for this?
Brigstocke was even planning
I’m set. I’m done. That’s it. This is
Jodie Prenger, Todd Carty and Marcus Brigstocke
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Marcus Brigstocke on his SPAM-tastic new role as King Arthur
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Interview by Jasper Rees Photography by 3
Eric Richmond
Milton Keynes Theatre
Marcus Brigstocke in a musical?
him. ‘I actually ignored it
not a lot of people know that
You won’t have been the only
because I thought it was a rather
he has danced for money. ‘I was
one wondering how this
preposterous notion, and then
a podium dancer for a couple
happened. Brigstocke is the
it came through the official
of years,’ he confesses. ‘I worked
closest we have these days to a
channels.’ But exactly how
as a dancer who would get up
political satirist on the stand-up
preposterous is it? The role
during club night to get the
circuit. But his government-
has been filled before by
crowd going. It was a long, long
bashing on Radio 4’s The Now
consummate actor/singers - Tim
time ago in fairness. What can
Aylesbury Waterside Theatre
Show and his environmentally
Curry and Simon Russell Beale.
I say? When I throw shapes
friendly comedy routines about
And here’s a man who really
people watch. I wasn’t in a
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saving the planet are suspended
knows his comedy. He can also
thong,’ he adds.
forthwith while he takes the
act: he got good reviews for his
part of King Arthur in Spamalot.
ne’er-do-well Charles Surface in
Spamalot’s allure for any
He wasn’t in chainmail either.
the all-comedians production of
comedian, of course, is the
surprised when he heard the
The School for Scandal at last
hallowed aura of Monty Python.
producers were considering
year’s Edinburgh Festival. But
‘This is really really cool for me,’
Even Brigstocke was a bit
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Interview
and breadth of France. Into this
individual thinker, attracted by
theatre. Reaching his half-
Mark Rylance in Jez
high-minded ambience flounces
ideas and issues far beyond the
century in January has had a
Butterworth’s Jerusalem
Valere (Rylance), a vulgar
confines of the Stage Door. Is
bearing on his decision.
David Hyde Pierce
mountebank from the streets,
he concerned about being
whose populist instincts and
labelled an oddball or an
ahead and hope that I might
unashamed showmanship
eccentric by a sceptical media?
have another twenty-five years
threaten to undermine both
The La Bête star talks tribes, trout & turning 50
Interview by
thinks. I’m not a missionary: I’m
lucky with my fitness and my
within the company.
a simple, sincere, honest person.’
memory doesn’t go. So time is
says Rylance. ‘I’ve just been
precious. I came to England to
writing and I’ve always been
appointed an ambassador for
be a theatre actor and it would
interested in one of the main
Survival International, which
be silly for me not to use what I
themes of the play - the
campaigns for the rights of tribal
have to offer. When I’m working,
relationship between popular
people to maintain their own
the question I ask myself day-to-
culture and sophisticated art’
way of life. I’ve always been
day and minute-by-minute is
explains Rylance. ‘Valere
interested in tribal societies. As
simple. Am I enjoying myself? Of
represents the first tradition
a boy, I remember reading about
course, I’m pleased to have made
while Elomire embodies the
Sitting Bull and Geronimo and
some good films but film doesn’t
second. What would I call
being absolutely fascinated by
interest me ultimately and I
myself? A bit of both perhaps.’
them. Indigenous people have
don’t find the process of making
Although he has just passed
a number of abilities which it is
a film satisfying. Doing a play,
his fiftieth birthday, there is still
hard for us to find in our culture
on the other hand, creates a
something of the wiry boy about
yet so many of them are in grave
sense of community, especially
Rylance, now passionate, now
danger of extinction.’
when you’re in a long run. You
bashful. Though born in Kent,
In a career that has been
Joanna Lumley
‘I came to England to be a theatre actor and it would be silly for me not to use what I have to offer. When I’m working, the question I ask myself day-to-day and minute-by-minute is simple. Am I enjoying myself?’
live together in a particular
Rylance spent his formative years
mainly devoted to the theatre,
place, you share in each other’s
in the American Mid-West where
Rylance has made periodic, much
lives and by doing the play every
It would be understandable if
few days R & R on a fishing
his father had taken up a
praised appearances on screen,
night, you develop deep and
actor Mark Rylance had chosen
expedition with Butterworth.
teaching post, and this may have
as if their very rarity enhances
valuable relationships with your
to rest on his considerable laurels
‘Catch a brown trout?
reinforced the sense that he is
their worth in the eyes of the
fellow performers.’
for the remainder of 2010. He
I’m not too hopeful’ before
something of an outsider in the
critics. His playing of the ill-fated
Rylance may downplay his
has, after all, presented the
hunkering down to play yet
clubby world of British theatre.
Dr. David Kelly, tragically caught
angling skills but it seems likely,
Comedy Theatre, London
London theatre with two thick
another monster part in the
He is certainly not afraid to voice
up in the wheels of the Iraq
for the next twenty-five years at
slices of his mesmerising, award-
eagerly-awaited revival of David
unpopular or alternative
Enquiry, won him a BAFTA
least, that he’ll continue to land
La Bête
winning Johnny Byron in Jez
Hirson’s La Bête at the Comedy.
opinions and he had to battle
Award. Yet he reveals that he
some of the most formidable
Butterworth’s Jerusalem, with
Set in Provence in 1654 and
during the first few years of his
has just dispensed with the
catches in the theatre and
a season of Beckett’s Endgame
written in rhyming couplets,
tenure as Artistic Director of
services of his agents, reasoning
audiences and critics alike will
at the Duchess as the meat in
the play tracks down Elomire,
Shakespeare’s Globe against
that they are geared to the more
eagerly take the bait. Not even
Photography by
the sandwich. Not a bit of it...
a thinly disguised Molière, as
establishment prejudice that
lucrative opportunities in film
Moby Dick himself, you think,
Shaun Webb and
At the time of writing he was
he leads his troupe of strolling
the venue was more theme park
and television whereas Rylance’s
could resist a lure from this
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admittedly allowing himself a
players through the length
than theatre. Rylance is a highly
sights are set exclusively on the
latter-day Captain Ahab.
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of work in me, provided I’m
Elomire’s aesthetic and his status ‘I loved the boldness of the
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Interview
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Derren Brown Steve Pemberton as his character Pauline Campbell Jones from The League Of Gentlemen
something far more baroque!’
That’s brilliant, and the opposite
The show retells a series of
But first Andy, who had not
of telly, where you can write
original ghost stories, but says
acted in a play for a decade, did
scripts and endless drafts, but
Andy, ‘while they are each
a theatre job: ‘I was in a play
there’s no guarantee of anything
completely original, fans of the
at the Tricycle Theatre called
being made. With this, we knew
genre will recognise many
Fright Night
Moonlight and Magnolias a
it was going to happen. The dare
nods to other things in there!’
couple of years ago, directed
of it was exciting, and it fed into
by Sean Holmes. And I had such
the finished product!’
Spooks and supernatural stories at the Duke of York’s Theatre this summer
excitement for the theatre.’
joy doing it, it rekindled my Fast forward to last year, when
Main image: Jeremy Dyson and Andy Nyman
Mark Shenton Photography by Helen Maybanks and 9
courtesy of Rex features
comedy - where you know that
certain amount of pressure, but
a show is working purely by
says Andy, it’s something he is
whether an audience is laughing
Andy Nyman and Jeremy Dyson
with him, and he made me laugh
and he loved it, but the reality
Sean was made Artistic Director
used to: ‘I’m happy working that
or not - so with this genre you
WARNING
are leading figures in the
with dirty jokes - then we started
of children and mortgages kept
of the Lyric Hammersmith. Andy
way - that’s the way all the
know the same thing from
Please be advised that Ghost
entertainment industry - Andy
talking about horror films, which
getting in the way.’
goes on, ‘On his first day in the
Derren Brown stage shows that
whether or not they are
Stories contains moments of
as co-writer and co-creator of
we both loved, and we bonded
office, he rang and asked me for
I’ve written and directed are
screaming. ‘The analogy with
extreme shock and tension.
Derren Brown’s TV shows, as well
over those two things,’ says
one or two conversations about
ideas, and I told him about the
done. Any writer will put up
comedy is spot-on,’ says Jeremy.
The show is unsuitable for
as Brown’s stage shows including
Jeremy. ‘We have been a
doing a walk-round spookhouse
ideas that Jeremy and I had been
their hands and say there’s no
‘The beautiful thing about
anyone under the age of 15.
the Olivier Award winning
constant presence in each
event,’ says Jeremy, picking up
working on. He told us to come
incentive quite like the date for
comedy is that it is completely
We strongly advise those of
Something Wicked This Way
other’s lives since.’
the story, but then Andy came
in tomorrow. So we went in on
the arrival of an audience to
binary - it either works or it
a nervous disposition to think
up with a better idea. ‘I had this
the second day that he was in
drive the creative juices.’
doesn’t, you can’t debate it. And
very seriously before attending.
Comes, and Jeremy as co-founder
Interview by
It put them both under a
And, just as they are deeply familiar with the rigours of stage
It has taken them a long time
But they kept talking: ‘We had
They duly set about writing
the first night that we did this
of The League of Gentlemen.
to work with each other. ‘I’m
idea in my head of doing a kind
his job, and we left his office
Nyman and Dyson have also
obsessed with horror,’ points
of Vagina Monologues, but with
with the play not only
it - and it went fast. ‘In three
show was exactly the same as the
been friends for over 25 years,
out Andy, ‘and Jeremy and I
ghost stories, and featuring
commissioned but scheduled
days, the structure of the play
first night of a live comedy show
ever since they met at summer
had been talking to each other
three people sitting on stools
and announced - even though it
had written itself,’ says Andy.
- until the audience comes in and
camp when they were both 15,
for years about doing something
telling them.’
wasn’t written yet!’
‘It spewed out of our fetid
tells you by their response, you
but they have never worked
together. About twelve years
memories - 35 years of watching
just don’t know. We sat there
together - till now.
Jeremy was attracted by it:
For Jeremy, ‘It was a clever
ago, I did a mock séance where
‘There was something very
and bold and brave thing to
horror and our combined
completely on tenterhooks. But
‘I remember that Andy had
I took over the House of
alluring in the purity of that,
programme it without us having
phoning of each other merged
when it became apparent that
brought a big pile of rag mags
Detention in Clerkenwell,
though we ended up doing
written it yet, so we had to do it!
into this love letter to the genre.’
it worked, we were thrilled.’
Duke of York’s Theatre, London
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Interview
Edmonds and Kenny Everett,
boy - ‘so it wasn’t much of a
classic moments from my
the label has been hard to shake
push, really’, he points out.
35 years in the business, and it
off, especially in terms of being
‘They said I was born to play it;
worked a treat. Then suddenly
taken more seriously. ‘I’ve been
but then everything I have done
the phone call came to see if I’d
in the game a long time. My
since they’ve said the same
like to audition for this, and then
initial shot to fame was in my
thing about, too. So it has been
there I was, kissing Nigel Planer
early 20s and people still
interesting to see whether they
onstage!’ (Planer played Edna’s
remember that; they’re afraid
think that of Edna!’
husband Wilbur, reuniting the
On the one hand, it’s a role
always going to come out. I
that, as a family man, he readily
Grimleys, they once starred
always tell them, ‘yes, I was
identifies with. It was in fact as
in together).
‘
The hardest part of the job
He’s proud of the fact that he’s recorded three albums now - ‘they’ve always gone cardboard,’ he quips, and adds, ‘the next one I’m going to call the Beatles Greatest Hits - I think that might do well.
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one place he is more than used
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to is being onstage: ‘I love it
But not in every way: he’s
fans of it, so I came with them.
there. I remember Jim Davidson
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particularly pleased to be back
I sat there and just loved it. But
saying to me once, ‘you’ll always
onstage singing for a living,
I never thought in my wildest
work, Brian, because everyone
Sunderland Empire*
which is how he began his career
dreams that I would be taking
knows you’re good live’. I love
in nightclubs. ‘I always say I was
over from Michael.’
taking the audience somewhere
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But then his career never has
and blowing them away.’ He
Milton Keynes Theatre
learnt. The comedy came later,
been minutely mapped out. ‘I
never gives less than his all:
when I was about 18 or 19.’
don’t think it can be. Things
‘Every performance is 110% - I
He’s proud of the fact that he’s
just come about; I put it down
have to! It’s just my job, it’s what
recorded three albums now -
to fate. I was doing a show
I do - I could never short change
New Theatre Oxford*
‘they’ve always gone cardboard,’
called The Best of Brian
the audience. It’s an obligation.’
he quips, and adds, ‘the next
Conley, a live theatre
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one I’m going to call the Beatles
show in which we
Greatest Hits - I think that might
played some of the
It has equipped him well though, for a career in West End musicals. He did his first
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one in 1992 when he took
Brian Conley goes large in Hairspray
over in Me and My Girl,
Bristol Hippodrome*
playing a cockney barrow
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They always say that you can’t
now sharing the role on the new
that Conley originated in the
Brian Conley
teach an old dog new tricks, but
national tour of the show with
West End in 1995, and
and Nigel Planer
it seems that it’s never too late
Michael Starke, and Brian says of
subsequently took to Toronto,
to learn new skills if you’re one
his West End predecessor: ‘They
and he says, ‘That show turned
of Britain’s most popular stage
are great shoes to fill - but he’s
it all around for me, without
and television entertainers. The
been very charming, and given
a doubt. Up until then, I was
perennially youthful and ever-
me advice’. It’s not the first time
always zany comedian Brian
jovial Brian Conley is facing a
he’s followed where Ball has led:
Conley; but once I did that,
new and welcome challenge:
he also inherited the role of
perceptions changed. One review
‘I’d never played an 18-stone
Caractacus Potts in the stage
said, I came to wince and I stayed
woman from Baltimore before!’,
version of Chitty Chitty Bang
to cheer; that pretty much
he says, until he inherited the
Bang at the London Palladium.
summed it up.’
role of Edna Turnblad from
‘Whatever Michael does, I tend
Michael Ball in the original West
to follow him,’ he quips. ‘But
entertainment who started his
End production of Hairspray.
he never took over from me in
career as warm-up man for the
Jolson!’ That was the title part
likes of Terry Wogan, Noel
Both Michael and Brian are
above your eyes. But I’m sure I’ll
Manchester Opera House*
kids - Lucy and Amy - are huge
you could sing’.
Tristram Kenton
having a couple of boxing gloves
Hairspray
3 months’ - and I’ve moved on!’
live, and say I had no idea
Hugo Glendinning &
the false eyelashes! It’s a bit like
get used to it eventually.’ But
when they come to see me
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one thing that doesn’t sit right is
Brian Conley
that he first saw the show. ‘My
People are always surprised
Photography by
‘I’m coping with that, but the
a family treat last Christmas
am in my box, which is comedy.
Mark Shenton
wear to bring him up to size -
years ago, and I only did it for
do well. But unfortunately I
Interview by
’
isn’t the fat suit that he has to
a Blue Coat, but it was thirty
born to sing - everything else I
Big is Beautiful
two from a TV series, The
that the Butlin’s Blue Coat is
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For Conley, a star of TV light
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Donmar Trafalgar Trafalgar Studios 2, London*
Lower Ninth Joseph
Cinderella
Evita
30 Sep - 23 Oct
Novecento 28 Oct - 20 Nov
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Spamalot
West End Comes to the Waterside A new era for theatre in Aylesbury
It’s so easy to get to this great new theatre
Catch the next generation of young directors in the Donmar Trafalgar season
This Autumn, the brand-new
Lee Mead, Rhod Gilbert, Julian
converts into a 1,800-capacity
Donmar Warehouse Artistic
directors through the Donmar’s
professional careers the
their worldly possessions swept
Aylesbury Waterside Theatre will
Lloyd Webber, Jimmy Carr and
hall for standing events and a
Director Michael Grandage
RAD scheme and this residency
opportunity to work alongside
away and the body of their
raise the curtain on a world class
Reginald D Hunter. This milestone
more intimate 225-seat second
recently announced the launch
at the Trafalgar Studios will now
leading theatre directors for
young friend lies before them.
opening season. This landmark
season wraps up in time for
space. The venue offers a range
of an exciting new initiative at
give everyone an opportunity
a year at the Donmar.
building, in a picturesque
Christmas with the £1 million
of versatile meeting rooms, public
the Trafalgar Studios - Donmar
to watch the next generation of
The first year of Donmar
riverside setting, is inspired by
sparkling family pantomime -
spaces and a waterfront café,
Trafalgar. Demonstrating the
theatre directors at work. I have
Trafalgar will see Charlotte
Atlantic cruise liner, Novecento
the hills and forests of the
Cinderella, everybody’s favourite.
making it the area’s premier
Donmar’s commitment to the
every confidence that over the
Westenra, Róisín McBrinn and
was born. He became the
centre for meeting, exhibition
next generation of young
next three years we will see some
Chris Rolls each direct a production greatest jazz musician the world
and conference facilities.
directors, the company will
serious and important talent
- Lower Ninth, Novecento and Les
would ever know. For six years
take up a residency at Trafalgar
emerging that will help us focus
Parents Terribles respectively.
before World War II, Tim Tooney
District Council John Cartwright
Studio 2 for 12 weeks a year for
on the theatre practitioners of
says ‘The realisation of our dream
the next three years to enable
the future’ says Grandage.
is moving closer. We knew that
recent graduates of their
when we chose ATG as the
Resident Assistant Director (RAD)
RAD scheme has become widely
tells the story of two African
Terribles is set in a bohemian
management operators for this
programme to stage productions
regarded as the most prestigious
Americans, Malcolm and EZee,
household in 1930’s Paris. When
wonderful theatre, we were at
under the Donmar banner.
training programme of its kind
who find themselves stranded
Michael declares his love for a
in the country, offering young
on a rooftop waiting for rescue.
girl, his devoted mother burns
directors at the start of their
Their city has been devastated,
with jealousy while his father is
surrounding Chiltern countryside. Situated right at the heart of Aylesbury, it opens its doors on 12 October with the awardwinning Northern Ballet Theatre’s Swan Lake. Must have entertainment A world-beating theatre, the opening season includes global phenomenon Calendar Girls with Aylesbury-born Linda Bellingham, Andrew Lloyd
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‘It has always been a great
the beginning of a very special
privilege to support young
relationship and this opening
Since it began in 1994, the
Lower Ninth is a new play by Beau Willimon. Set in New Orleans’ Lower Ninth district, it
Novecento is by Alessandro Baricco. In 1900 on board a great
played trumpet with him and Novecento gave him his story... Jean Cocteau’s Les Parents
season and commitment to
shocked to discover that his son’s
creative learning and education
lover is someone he knows only too well.
Webber’s family favourite
Escape to entertainment heaven
demonstrates the quality and
Joseph, dazzling, show-stopping
As the first new theatre of the
the breadth of shows and
Evita, hilarious, Tony award-
decade in Britain, Aylesbury
opportunities ATG will bring to
support of the Donmar’s West
winning Spamalot, the hit rock
Waterside Theatre holds an
us. We are absolutely delighted.’
End Season, leading housing
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and roll musical Rocky Horror
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history and marks the beginning
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Culture and countryside in England’s vibrant North West
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Home to the cosmopolitan cities
for children interested in nature
As the sun goes down, liven
to navigate by foot, the funky
Modern Bar and Restaurant,
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of Liverpool and Manchester,
with its magical realm revealing
up the entertainment by booking
Northern Quarter combines vinyl
which is accessed by a private
on one of its open days in July.
North West England also boasts
the secret world of plants,
tickets for a show at the
shops, vintage fashion stores and
elevator that transports guests
You’ll have a chance to get
breathtaking countryside just
from leafy canopies to huge
Liverpool Empire. This summer
art galleries. Afflecks emporium
to the top of the Urbis building.
involved with bringing in the
waiting to be discovered as the
root systems. Best of all, the
sees the famous venue hosting
and the Manchester Craft &
Here panoramic views are served
lavender harvest and treat
weather warms up. So whether
exhibition and other attractions
award-winning productions of
Design Centre are two must-sees
up with a seasonal menu that
yourself to essential oil-based
you are planning family fun or
are free.
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang and
for creative types while visitors
places an emphasis on
gifts.
Hairspray.
with a sweet tooth shouldn’t
provenance.
an indulgent day of me-time,
A morning of exploration
miss Cupcakery opening on
come to a region that’s got
deserves to be followed by an
something for everyone.
open-air adventure so make your
Manchester Rocks
way towards the Albert Dock
Manchester is a free-spirited city
where a five to ten-minute stroll
in which to find inspiration and
packed day at le petit spa, an
Liverpool and Manchester, St
Since being named the European
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intimate oasis based in the
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Capital of Culture 2008, Liverpool
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Those seeking to explore its
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birdwatchers. Pack a picnic and
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retail stores, more than 20
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and a special effects film show.
restaurants, a 14-screen cinema
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beautiful woodland walks and
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and five-acre park, this is a great
Palace Theatre. Originally
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opened in 1891, the auditorium
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group of listed buildings include
contemporary 20th-century
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dining. The leisure terrace comes
and foyers have retained many
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the farmhouse itself, dating
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an aquarium, bughouse and
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of their original late-Victorian
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planetarium come together
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on the day.
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displayed for the first time.
House & Manchester
under one roof. An interactive
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proscenium arch and grand
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29 NOV - 4 DEC
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