National Treasures Nigel Havers and Sian Phillips in New U.K Tour of Oscar Wilde’s Vintage Comedy Classic. We’re very excited to announce that much-loved stars of stage and screen, Nigel Havers and Sian Phillips will visit the Belgrade Theatre this Autumn in the new U.K touring production of Oscar Wilde’s vintage comedy classic The Importance of Being Earnest from 29 Sept – Sat 3 Oct. The show is one of three hit dramas confirmed to visit the Belgrade this Autumn with other newly announced titles including Moira Buffini’s Olivier award-nominated comedy, Handbagged (6-10 Oct) and the return of Agatha Christie’s recordbreaking, Box Office smash-hit The Mousetrap (9 -14 Nov). Direct from the West End, Oscar Wilde’s much loved and brilliantly witty masterpiece The Importance of Being Earnest comes to Coventry from Tues 29 Sept – Sat 3 Oct starring Nigel Havers, Christine Kavanagh and Sian Phillips performing as The Bunbury Company of Players. Much-loved for its elegant lampooning of the hypocrisies of Victorian society, Oscar Wilde’s enduring masterpiece opens as two bachelors, the dependable John Worthing, J.P. and upper class playboy Algernon Moncrieff, feel compelled to create different identities in order to pursue two eligible ladies Cecily Cardew and Gwendolyn Fairfax. The hilarious misadventures which result from their subterfuge; their brushes with the redoubtable Lady Bracknell and the uptight Miss Prism result in a production that fizzles with some of the finest dialogue to be found in theatre. This will be followed by a visit from Moira Buffini’s Olivier award-nominated comedy, Handbagged from 6-10 October. Having enjoyed smash-hit success on the West End,
Handbagged is a wickedly funny new play that opens the clasp on the relationship between two giants of 20th Century politics, Queen Elizabeth II and Margaret Thatcher. Described by The Independent as ‘Irresistibly mischievous’, this celebrated and brilliantly astute new comedy speculates on that most provocative of questions: What did the world’s most powerful women talk about behind closed palace doors? Back by popular demand following a recordbreaking week in 2012/13, Agatha Christie’s legendary Box Office smash-hit The Mousetrap returns from 9 - 14 Nov. The Mousetrap is famous around the world for being the longest running show of any kind in the history of theatre, with over 25,000 performances and now the 60th anniversary production is back by popular demand following a record breaking sell out week in 2012/2013. The scene is set when a group of people gathered in a country house cut off by the snow discover, to their horror, that there is a murderer in their midst.Who can it be? One by one the suspicious characters reveal their sordid pasts until at the last, nerve-shredding moment the identity and the motive are finally revealed. In her own inimitable style, Dame Agatha Christie has created an atmosphere of shuddering suspense and a brilliantly intricate plot where murder lurks around every corner.
Tickets for all three shows are now on sale via the Belgrade Theatre Box Office on 024 7655 3055 or via the website: www.belgrade.co.uk where cheaper tickets are available.
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