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“I coulda had class. I coulda been a contender. I coulda been somebody.”

The classic story of the guy who ‘coulda been a contender', ON THE WATERFRONT is best known for the multi-Oscar winning film starring Marlon Brando. Steven Berkoff brings this iconic work to the stage directing a 12 strong ensemble with his trademark style of bold physical theatre.

In 1950s New York, the dock workers' unions are in the stranglehold of the Mob. If you're on the inside then life is sweet - kickbacks, bribes and easy shifts are your rewards. Go against them and your life isn't worth living.

Unwittingly implicated in a murder, Terry starts to question where his loyalties lie. When he falls for the dead man's beautiful sister, he enlists the help of the street-wise Father Barry to bring down the racketeers.

**** - The Guardian
**** - Financial Times
**** - The Times
**** - The Independent

“I coulda had class. I coulda been a contender. I coulda been somebody.”

The classic story of the guy who ‘coulda been a contender', ON THE WATERFRONT is best known for the multi-Oscar winning film starring Marlon Brando. Steven Berkoff brings this iconic work to the stage directing a 12 strong ensemble with his trademark style of bold physical theatre.

In 1950s New York, the dock workers' unions are in the stranglehold of the Mob. If you're on the inside then life is sweet - kickbacks, bribes and easy shifts are your rewards. Go against them and your life isn't worth living.

Unwittingly implicated in a murder, Terry starts to question where his loyalties lie. When he falls for the dead man's beautiful sister, he enlists the help of the street-wise Father Barry to bring down the racketeers.

**** - The Guardian
**** - Financial Times
**** - The Times
**** - The Independent

Bill Kenwright, Howard Panter for Ambassador Theatre Group and John Reid present

Plague Over England by Nicholas De Jongh

"Enthralling… outstanding… ambitious… bravo!" - Charles Spencer, Daily Telegraph

21st October 1953. The recently knighted Sir John Gielgud, poised to return to the West End in a new play, is arrested in a public lavatory on charges of importuning for immoral purposes. As news of his conviction is splashed across the national press - at a time when judges, politicians and doctors were describing homosexuality in terms of a cancer, an epidemic and a threat to national life - Gielgud faces personal and professional ruin. Then something extraordinary happens.

PLAGUE OVER ENGLAND offers a fascinating insight into the dramatic changes in social attitudes to gay life in the last fifty years. The play received excellent reviews when it was previewed at The Finborough Theatre last year. Now a new production once again directed by Tamara Harvey arrives in the West End for a limited season at The Duchess Theatre from 11 Feb to 16 May.

The Guardian ****
The Times ****

Designer - Alex Marker
Costume Designer - Trish Wilkinson
Lighting Designer - James Farncombe
Sound Designer - Colin Pink

Interval(s): One 20 minute interval
Running time: 2.5 hours inclusive of interval

 At the outbreak of World War One, Joey, young Albert's beloved horse, is sold to the cavalry and shipped to France. he's soon caught up in enemy fire, and fate takes him on an extraordinary odyssey, serving on both sides before finding himself alone in no man's land. But Albert cannot forget Joey and, still not old enough to enlist, he embarks on a treacherous mission to find him and bring him home.

Please note - This show is suitable for children 10 and above.

Peter Wolff & Louisa Prodromou (The Producers of Golda's Balcony) with Stars and Angels and The Shaw Theatre proudly presents…
DAI (ENOUGH)

Acclaimed solo show from EDINBURGH and NEW YORK

Iris Bahr's critically acclaimed solo show that thrusts the audience into a bustling Tel Aviv cafe moments before a suicide bomber enters. Through her razor sharp characterisations Bahr brings to life all strata of society as well as its observers and critics. remarkably capturing the humour and humanity of their exsistence under the most tragic circumstances.

"DAI HAS A JOLT WHICH IS UNDENIABLE!" - The New York Times

"DAI SHOWS US HOW ONE-PERSON SHOWS SHOULD BE" - The Times

Clergyman’s wife, Susan, bored, restless and frustrated with life in general and her family in particular, escapes to a happier, more exciting dream world of her own imagining. But when Susan’s two worlds start to overlap and finally collide, danger threatens.

After a critically acclaimed run in Scarborough, Janie Dee heads the cast as Susan in this major revival of Alan Ayckbourn’s bitter sweet 1985 comedy hit, directed by the author for the first time in over two decades.

In 2000, Dee’s performance in Ayckbourn's Comic Potential at the Lyric Theatre received all of British theatre’s most prestigious drama awards, an achievement only ever matched by Dame Judi Dench: The Olivier, London Evening Standard and Critics' Circle Theatre Best Actress Awards. For the Broadway transfer she received further awards and honours including: Obie, Theatre World, Lucille Lortel, Drama League Citation and Drama Desk Nomination for 'Best Actress'.

Award winning comedy starring Sarah Miles and Natalie Casey comes to the West End. When “avant-garde performance artist” Lisa decided to write her mother Ann into her latest play, she went a step too far. Now the stage is set for a riveting mother-daughter showdown, as her well planned show collapses into an explosion of riotous comedy and heartbreaking home truths.

CAST
Sarah Miles, Natalie Casey, Oli Chris, Zara Tempest-Walters, Jason Rowe and Maggie Service.

Colonel Kotov, decorated hero of the Russian Revolution, is spending an idyllic summer in the country with his beloved young wife and family. But on one glorious sunny morning in 1936, his wife's former lover returns from a long and unexplained absence. Amidst a tangle of sexual jealousy, retribution and remorseless political backstabbing, Kotov feels the full, horrifying reach of Stalin's rule.
I'll give you one chance. Go now and type your confession. I take you and the confession to Moscow tonight - two big feathers in my cap - and maybe, maybe. they'll spare Maroussia. as the wife of a traitor. We all have a choice, Comrade.
Poised at the beginning of Stalin's Great Terror, Burnt by the Sun shows a brutal future encroaching on the last days of a fading world.

The Conways, celebrating Kay's 21st birthday in 1919, seem a golden family - safe and well after the Great War, looking forward to future careers, marriages, and a brave new world. Through J B Priestley's masterly manipulation of time, we see into their future and back again to where the seeds of their downfall were planted.
There's a great devil in the universe, and we call it Time.
Priestley was fascinated by the study of time. Writing in 1937, he saw how Britain was complacently failing to learn from history and charging headlong towards another conflagration.
Time doesn't destroy anything. It merely moves us on - in this life - from one peep-hole to the next.

Nigeria, 1943. The King is dead, and tonight his Horseman must escort him to the Ancestors.

I am the master of my fate.
When the hour comes watch me dance
along the narrowing path…
My soul is eager. I shall not turn aside.

As Elesin Oba dances through the closing marketplace, flirting with the women, pursued by his praise-singer and an entourage of drummers, he promises to honour the ancient Yoruba custom of ritual suicide and so accompany his ruler on the final journey. But a life so rich is hard to leave, and this is a British colony where such customs are not tolerated, no matter how sacred.

Set against the conflict of indigenous and invader, Nobel Laureate Wole Soyinka's extraordinary play uses Elesin's transition from the living to the dead to examine the essence of corruption and the power of the human will.

You white races know how to survive; I've seen proof of that. But at least have the humility to let others survive in their own way.