Stage: Royal Flush
A stunning season of theatrical delights at the Theatre Royal Brighton this Autumn
Ambassadors Theatre Group have announced a stunning line-up for Autumn 2014 at the Theatre Royal Brighton, and an equally stunning line-up of stars that includes Maureen Lipman, Felicity Kendal, Nigel Havers, Tony Robinson and Tom Conti among the many big names next season.
The Autumn season, which runs from September 2014 to January 2015, offers a packed programme of quality drama with some of
the greatest names in theatre confirmed to appear on stage at the much loved 207-year-old venue.
The variety of work to be performed ranges from Shakespeare to Oscar Wilde, Noël Coward, Agatha Christie and Molière, along with plays by acclaimed contemporary writers and film adaptations.
The season opens with Agatha Christie’s Murder On Air, three gripping thrillers featuring the much loved Hercule Poirot and starring Tom Conti and Jenny Seagrove. Equally compelling, The Small Hand by Susan Hill who created The Woman In Black, the most terrifying play ever staged, visits for a week-long run.
Suspense and mystery are also at the heart of the critically acclaimed Daytona, a contemporary drama currently enjoying a West End season and starring the hugely talented Maureen Lipman.
Coming to Brighton direct from that West End run, Daytona is the hauntingly beautiful story of a long-married couple who receive an unexpected visit from the husband’s long-lost brother, who has an extraordinary tale to tell.
Reunited siblings – this time shipwrecked twins – are also central to the plot of Twelfth Night, Shakespeare’s hilarious comedy of mischief, madness and infatuation, brought to Theatre Royal Brighton by English Touring Theatre, whose recent productions included Eternal Love and Ghosts.
In Noël Coward’s hilarious comedy of bad manners, Hay Fever, starring Felicity Kendal and Simon Shepherd, we encounter the unconventional, risqué and often downright rude Bliss family during one outrageous weekend at their rural Berkshire retreat.
Another comic masterpiece forms one of the season’s highlights. Currently playing to packed houses in the West End, Oscar Wilde’s The Importance Of Being Earnest features an all-star cast including Rosalind Ayres, Niall Buggy, Patrick Godfrey, Nigel Havers, Martin Jarvis, Christine Kavanagh, Cherie Lunghi and Sian Phillips.
The riotous French farce The Hypocondriach by Molière stars Tony Robinson, one of the UK’s best-loved actors. The play has been adapted by Richard Bean, the adaptor of One Man, Two Guvnors.
Also appearing is Our Country’s Good, the powerful true story of a group of convicts who put on a play under the guidance of a young marine officer. The play is directed by Max Stafford-Clark, who directed the original play 25 years ago, when Our Country’s Good won a series of major awards on both sides of the Atlantic.
The perfect pre-Christmas treat, a dazzling new production of Miracle On 34th Street – The Musical will play for a limited run in December.
Already enjoying extremely strong advanced sales, the award-winning The Full Monty, another transfer direct from London, will visit for one week in December.
The season concludes with the hilarious National Theatre production of One Man, Two Guvnors, which runs from Tue 16 Dec to Sun 4 Jan 2015.
The National Theatre’s “wildly”, “gobsmackingly”, “deliriously” funny smash hit is set in the 1960s here in Brighton.
This glorious celebration of British comedy is a unique, laugh-out-loud mix of satire, songs, slapstick and glittering one-liners.
Fired from his skiffle band, Francis Henshall becomes minder to Roscoe Crabbe. But Roscoe is really Rachel, posing as her own dead brother – who’s been killed by her boyfriend Stanley Stubbers. Francis spots the chance of an extra meal ticket and takes a job with one Stanley Stubbers – but to prevent discovery, he must keep his
two guvnors apart. Simple!
Booking is now open, with tickets available online, by telephone or in person at the Box Office: 0844 871 7650*
www.atgtickets.com/brighton*
*Subject to a booking fee
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