Chantelle Nolan, Theatre Manager said: “We are very excited to welcome Ben and Holly to St Helens Theatre Royal, It is certain to be one of the highlights of our season of family shows for 2019!”
“The music for Pepperland, arranged and extrapolating from tracks on The Beatles’ Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band is important to me because of the enormous impact the album caused in popular culture at large. Beatlemania in the UK and particularly in the US was a pivotal event in the turbulent social/political semi-revolution of the late 1960s.”
“The 55 hours of never-before-seen footage and 140 hours of audio made available to us, ensures this movie will be the ultimate ‘fly on the wall’ experience that Beatles fans have long dreamt about”
‘Imagine Kurt Weill conjuring up images of prewar Berlin while a falsetto vocalist screams, squeaks and squarks his way through every number like some rambling madman, and you’ve got the picture.’
“The Butterfly Effect has the same level of detail and widescreen storytelling that you would expect from a television documentary.” Financial Times
“Hancock’s Half Hour was one of the greatest comedy shows of all time and it is truly an honour to be able to bring it to the www. We are so used to sitcoms as a part of the comedy landscape these days that it is hard to imagine a time without them”
“This is a drama with a theme of escape, lost souls and retribution set five years after the American Civil War, with equally strong female and male lead characters. We are pushing the genre out of its stereotypical frame, giving the Old West a true sense of identity that has long been forgotten on www.”
“This was an enjoyable production… with strong performances from cast members. Donovan’s Mancunian apothecary was laugh-out-loud funny; Templeton’s good humour is infectious; Wood’s Mercutio captured all aspects of an entertaining albeit complex character.”
& Juliet is the joyous, new West End musical that asks: what if Juliet’s famous ending was really just her beginning? What if she decided…
Scottish writer and poet Jackie Kay’s personal memoir, Red Dust Road, to play at HOME Manchester in September 2019