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Derby Theatre Presents…
THE CEMETERY CLUB
A comedy by Ivan Menchell from Monday 23rd to Saturday 28th April
You’ll die laughing!
From Monday 23rd until Saturday 28th
April, Ian Dickens Productions Ltd. will
present the gloriously funny comedy, The
Cemetery Club starring Anne Charleston,
who is known to millions for her roles
as Madge Bishop in the Australian soap
opera Neighbours and Lily Butterfield in
Emmerdale, iconic film and television
actress, Shirley-Anne Field, well-loved
British stage and screen star, Anita Harris
and established television and stage actress
Debbie Norman, whose characters are all
affected when they meet widower Sam,
played by veteran The Bill actor, Peter Ellis
who played Chief Inspector Brownlow for
sixteen years.
Ida, Lucille and Doris are part of a club – the cemetery club. Every month
they meet at Ida’s New York house for tea, and then trundle off to the
cemetery to remember the good times and gossip with their late husbands.
Lucille fancies herself as a flamboyant swinger, Doris is a traditional
matronly widow and Ida is somewhere in between. When Sam, a butcher,
meets the widows at the cemetery while he is visiting his wife’s grave, he
changes their lives forever.
This touching play about three superannuated, feuding Jewish women
is funny, wise and gloriously witty- think Steel Magnolias meets The
Golden Girls. This charming and touching production from Ian Dickens
Productions Ltd. follows the great success of the recent critically acclaimed
productions of The Woman in White and Death by Fatal Murder.
Tickets: adults £8 - £21, concessions £8 - £19
YES, PRIME MINISTER
Yes, please to West End smash-hit political comedy coming to Derby!
Monday 30th April to Saturday 5th May
The smash-hit political stage comedy, Yes, Prime Minister, direct from the
West End, will run at Derby Theatre for one week only from Monday 30th
April until Saturday 5th May. This comedy hit will star Graham Seed (The
Archers) and Michael Simkins (Mamma Mia, Above Suspicion). The original
writers of the classic BBC TV series, Antony Jay and Jonathan Lynn, have
reunited for this anniversary production.
Graham Seed is best known for his role as Nigel Pargetter in BBC Radio
Four’s The Archers since 1983. Among his many TV appearances he has starred
as Jorkins in the TV series, Brideshead Revisited and Britannicus in I, Claudius.
His more recent TV credits include Spielberg’s Band of Brothers and Midsomer
Murders. Seed has featured in numerous stage productions, from the National
tour of Journey’s End to the Accolade earlier this year.
An associate member of RADA, Michael Simkins has made numerous film
and television appearances as well as starring as Billy Flyn in Chicago from
2007. His career in the West End has seen him featuring in Mamma Mia, The
King and I and Off West End in Harold Pinter’s The Old Masters and Terence
Rattigan’s Less than Kind. For TV, Michael has played a regular character in
Foyle’s War, as well as featuring in TV dramas such as A Touch of Frost, Judge
John Deed and, most recently, Above Suspicion: Silent Scream. His film credits
include Wilde and V for Vendetta.
Please note: contains scenes of an adult nature.
Tickets: adults £10 - £25, concessions £10 - £23
London Classic Theatre presents
EQUUS
In a Hampshire stable, a youth blinds six horses with a metal spike.
Tuesday 8th until Saturday 12th May
gradually gains Alan’s trust and the truth begins to emerge. As Alan struggles
to be free of his demons, he must first relive the events of that terrible night.
Inspired by a true story, Peter Shaffer’s unique psychological thriller explores
the complex relationships between worship, myth and sexuality. Following in
the footsteps of the immense success enjoyed by the play’s West End revival
in 2007, Shaffer’s powerful, absorbing drama tours the UK in Autumn
2011, with a vibrant new ensemble breathing fresh life into this theatrical
masterpiece.
Equus was originally staged in 1973 at the Royal National Theatre, London.
In 1977, a film adaptation of the play was released starring Richard Burton
and Peter Firth. In 2007, the play was revived in the West End for the first
time since its première, in a critically-acclaimed production starring Daniel
Radcliffe and Richard Griffiths. Peter Shaffer was born in 1926. His awardwinning
plays include The Royal Hunt of the Sun (1964), Black Comedy
(1965) and Amadeus (1979). Equus won the Tony Award and New York
Critics Circle Award for Best New Play in 1977.
In 2010, London Classic Theatre celebrated ten years on tour, having
performed to over 300,000 people at more than 150 theatres and arts centres
around the UK and Ireland. The company, led by founder and Artistic
Director Michael Cabot, produces challenging, accessible drama for audiences
in London and the regions. LCT has explored the work of some of the finest
playwrights of the last fifty years, including Joe Orton, Harold Pinter, Brian
Friel and Mike Leigh. They have also staged more challenging work, with
national tours of two plays by Marivaux, Bryony Lavery’s Frozen and a further
two UK premières, Nightfall by Joanna Murray-Smith and Love in the Title
by Hugh Leonard. Most recently, from Feb - June 2011, LCT toured two plays
at the same time with its Modern Takes Season of European Classic drama,
featuring productions of Patrick Marber’s After Miss Julie and Ibsen’s Ghosts
in a new version by Frank McGuinness.
London Classic Theatre tours its work to venues of all scales and sizes, from
arts centres and studio spaces to No. 1 and repertory theatres. The company
has never received any funding or sponsorship for its work. In spite of this
they have built and maintained relationships with many of the most respected
repertory theatres and touring venues in the UK and Ireland and continue to
produce theatre of the highest quality.
Equus contains strong language, adult themes and nudity.
Tickets: adults £8 - £21, concessions £8 - £19
In a world of spin, Blackberrys and ‘sexed up’ dossiers, the PM is staring
disaster in the face. The country is on the brink of financial meltdown and
the Government’s only apparent salvation comes from a morally dubious
deal with the Foreign Minister of Kumranistan. Will Jim Hacker and his
team of advisors be able to rescue the country from the edge?
Convicted of this appalling crime, seventeen-year-old Alan Strang is sent to
a secure psychiatric hospital. Martin Dysart, the child psychiatrist assigned
to him, begins to probe Alan’s past in an attempt to understand his motives.
Initially the boy is silent and uncooperative, but as Dysart digs deeper, he
For more information on any of these
shows or to book tickets, please call the
Derby Theatre Box Office on
01332 593939 or visit
www.derbytheatre.co.uk