Stage: All Row Together

Jerome K Jerome paddles into Eastbourne & raucous ribaldry in Brighton

Get ready for the ultimate boating misadventure as Three Men In A Boat, an outstanding stage adaptation of Jerome K Jerome’s famously humorous novel, sets sail for Eastbourne’s Devonshire Park Theatre from Tuesday 3 – Saturday 7 March.

Craig Gilbert’s exuberant production comes complete with a working pub, live piano accompaniment, some ale, music hall singing, a dog and a lot of physical comedy.
In an attempt to escape the stresses of city life, three friends, J, Harris and George, accompanied by their faithful canine companion Montmorency, decide to take to the river in order to relax and rejuvenate. The holiday, however, quickly unravels and descends into chaos.
Originally intended as a guide to boating on the Thames, Jerome’s ripping yarn of youthful friendship, mischief and folly celebrates the very essence of Britishness.
Alastair Whatley, director of The Original Theatre Company which co-produced the show, said Jerome K Jerome has been credited with writing the funniest book of all time. “Now, over 125 years later, it still has the power to make people laugh uncontrollably in public places. Craig Gilbert’s adaptation also manages to make people laugh uncontrollably, but in the safety of a theatre.”
The cast of the UK tour of Three Men In A Boat includes Michael Rouse (The Bodyguard, Matilda, Oklahoma!) Anna Westlake, David Partridge and Tom Hackney.
Following highly successful tours in 2012 and 2014, the production will begin another UK tour later this month. Catch Three Men In A Boat when it docks at Eastbourne’s Devonshire Park Theatre.

Devonshire Park Theatre
Tues 3 – Sat 7 March, 7.45pm
Wednesday & Saturday, 2.30pm
Box office: 01323 412000 or visit eastbournetheatres.co.uk

A MAD WORLD MY MASTERS

London, Soho … 1956. Where glamour rubs up against filth, and likes it; where the posh mix with musicians, whores and racketeers; where ‘virginity is no city trade’, and where a dashingly impecunious bachelor in need of quick cash and a good time has to live on his wits.
Turning con-man to fool his rich uncle, he variously becomes a lord, a high class call girl, and – God forbid – a poor actor. But a beautiful Soho tart is also on the scam; a whore to some, a religious instructor to others, and a debutante in need of an eligible bachelor to yet more.
 Thomas Middleton (1580 – 1627) was an English Jacobean dramatist and poet. His principal works include Women Beware Women, The Changeling, A Chaste Maid in Cheapside and The Revenger’s Tragedy.

A Mad World My Masters, Tue 10 – Sat 14 March
Eves 7.30pm
Thu & Sat mats 2.30pm