THE MIRROR CRACK'D FROM SIDE TO SIDE Comes to Jamshed Bhabha Theatre, NCPA
by Stephi Wild
- Dec 27, 2019
The new year 2020 in the theatre circuit will see the retelling of Agatha Christie's popular novel, The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side adapted for the stage by Rachel Wagstaff. This celebrated UK production is re-created by the NCPA by award-winning UK director Melly Still and reimagined for an Indian audience by Ayeesha Menon, starring Shernaz Patel, Sonali Kulkarni and Denzil Smith. The iconic Miss Marple (Shernaz Patel) is transported to a small sleepy village in Goa where a fading Bollywood star (Sonali Kulkarni) has bought a rambling colonial mansion with plans to shoot a film for her big comeback.
THE GIRL ON THE TRAIN Comes to Theatre Royal Brighton
by Stephi Wild
- May 1, 2019
Samantha Womack stars in a new production of The Girl on the Train, a gripping thriller based on the internationally acclaimed number one best-selling novel by Paula Hawkins and the Dreamworks film. The Girl on the Train heads to Theatre Royal Brighton from Monday 17 - Saturday 22 June.
THE GIRL ON THE TRAIN Makes a Stop At The Belgrade Theatre
by Julie Musbach
- Apr 10, 2019
Following its phenomenally successful West End stage debut in 2018, Paula Hawkins' nail-biting thriller The Girl on the Train heads out on a UK tour this spring, pulling into the Belgrade Theatre 13-18 May.
Cast Announced For The European Premiere Of Agatha Christie's THE MIRROR CRACK'D
by Stephi Wild
- Nov 23, 2018
Wales Millennium Centre and Wiltshire Creative have today announced casting for the first ever UK stage adaptation of Agatha Christie's much-loved Miss Marple thriller The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side. Colin R Campbell, Suzanna Hamilton, Julia Hills, Katherine Manners, Katie Matsell, Davina Moon, Huw Parmenter and Gillian Saker will join the previously announced Susie Blake and Simon Shepherd. The Mirror Crack'd will be a European Premiere, opening at Salisbury Playhouse on 15 February before touring to Dublin, Cambridge and Cardiff. The Mirror Crack'd will have an Opening Night on 25 February.
BWW Interview: Director Steph Dewar Talks BIRDSONG at Progress Theatre
by Louis Train
- Nov 2, 2018
On November 11, 2018, people everywhere will commemorate the centenary of the end of World War One with events, speeches, prayers, and moments of silence. At The Progress Theatre in Reading, a special performance of Birdsong, Rachel Wagstaff's adaptation of the novel by Sebastian Faulks, is being mounted to commemorate the lives lost to the war, and to raise money for British Legion. I sat down with director Steph Dewar, who told me why Birdsong is special to her, what her cast has done to prepare, and how theatre can help keep history alive.
Cast Announced For THE MIRROR CRACK'D
by Stephi Wild
- Oct 24, 2018
Wales Millennium Centre and Wiltshire Creative have today announced initial casting for the first ever UK stage adaptation of Agatha Christie's much-loved Miss Marple thriller The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side. The Mirror Crack'd will be a European Premiere, opening at Salisbury Playhouse on 15 February before touring to Dublin, Cambridge and Cardiff. The Mirror Crack'd will have an Opening Night on 25 February.
THE GIRL ON THE TRAIN Comes to Theatre Royal
by Stephi Wild
- Oct 1, 2018
Samantha plays Rachel Watson who longs for a different life. Her only escape is the perfect couple she watches through the train window every day, happy and in love. Or so it appears. When Rachel learns that the woman she's been secretly watching has suddenly disappeared, she finds herself as a witness and even a suspect in a thrilling mystery in which she will face bigger revelations than she could ever have anticipated.
BWW Review: FLOWERS FOR MRS HARRIS, Chichester Festival Theatre
by Natalie Fordham
- Sep 18, 2018
First staged at Sheffield Theatres for a short run in 2016, Richard Taylor and Rachel Wagstaff's Flowers for Mrs Harris is brought to life again by Daniel Evans at Chichester Festival Theatre. With Clare Burt returning to the title role, it becomes a tear-jerking, runaway success that will not fail to touch the hearts of its audience.
Samantha Womack Stars In UK & Ireland Tour Of THE GIRL ON THE TRAIN
by Stephi Wild
- Sep 17, 2018
Samantha Womack stars in a new production of The Girl on the Train, a gripping thriller based on the internationally acclaimed number one best-selling novel by Paula Hawkins and the Dreamworks film. The Girl on the Train begins a major tour of the UK & Ireland on 21 January 2019 in Milton Keynes. (Tour schedule below).
BWW Review: BIRDSONG, Bristol Old Vic
by Leah Tozer
- Jul 11, 2018
Birdsong, based on the book by Sebastian Faulks, is a brutal and beautiful observation of war and remembrance, with this new revival touring in time for the Armistice centenary this November.
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