THEATRE

Performance: Luca Silvestrini's Protein: Border Tales

Award-winning company, Protein, presents a thought-provoking yet poignant commentary on multicultural Britain through dance, live music and dialogue compiled from the performers’ personal experiences. Border Tales looks at post-Brexit Britain seen through the eyes of an international cast and gazes satirically on stereotypical thinking about migrant outsiders and bigoted home-landers.

Conceived and directed by Luca Silvestrini. Commissioned by Bath Dance, ICIA Bath, DanceEast, DanceXchange, Dance Manchester and The Place.

“Superbly staged and performed” The Telegraph...

Crazy for You

Venue: 
Theatre Royal Plymouth
Event Date: 
Thursday, August 17, 2017 - 20:00 to Saturday, August 26, 2017 - 20:00
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High energy, high kicking and gloriously glamorous, the acclaimed Watermill Theatre production of Crazy for You is the ultimate feel-good musical starring Tom Chambers (Top Hat and Strictly Come Dancing), Caroline Flack (Strictly Come Dancing, Love Island, The X Factor) and Charlotte Wakefield (Sound Of Music, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang) as ‘Polly’, featuring a fabulous score from the Gershwin brothers’ songbook.

Crazy For You charts the troubled love story of Bobby, son of a wealthy New York banking family and frustrated Broadway hoofer, and Polly, daughter of the proprietor of a...

Theatre Royal Plymouth’s Young Company presents The Blue Road

After the success of Buckets (2016) Theatre Royal Plymouth’s Young Company return to the stage with The Blue Road on Wednesday 23 – Saturday 26 August in The Drum.

The forest. The wake of an unnamed crisis. A group of young people work to make sense of what happened, what it means, and what they will do now.

The Blue Road is an exciting new play by acclaimed writer Laura Lomas...

Around The World In 80 Days comes to Plymouth

The New Vic Theatre’s celebrated production of Jules Verne’s Around The World In 80 Days adapted by Laura Eason and directed by Theresa Heskins comes to Theatre Royal Plymouth Tuesday 12 – Saturday 16 September.

Theresa Heskins’ production of Around The World In 80 Days first premiered at the New Vic Theatre in 2013 followed by a successful season at the Royal Exchange Theatre,...

Fix comes to Theatre Royal Plymoth

Internationally acclaimed, Fringe First winning Worklight Theatre, present a brand new ensemble, Fix at Theatre Royal Plymouth Tuesday 5 – Saturday 9 September. Fix is a show that examines the causes and effects of various addictions in society - from substance abuse to behavioural addiction.

Based on research and interviews with addicts, and the people who love or work with them,...

Gangsta Granny comes to Plymouth

Birmingham Stage Company are bringing their new show, David Walliams’ Gangsta Granny to Theatre Royal Plymouth from Wednesday 19 July – Sunday 23 July before heading to the West End on 26 July.

It’s Friday night and Ben knows that means only one thing – staying with Granny! There will be cabbage soup, cabbage pie and cabbage cake and Ben knows one thing for sure – it’s going to be...

Fantastic Mr Fox comes to Plymouth

Roald Dahl’s classic Fantastic Mr Fox, a co-production with Curve, in association with Lyric Hammersmith, comes to Theatre Royal Plymouth Tuesday 13 – Saturday 17 June. Mr Fox is smart, clever and rather fantastic, but he doesn’t realise how determined the farmers are to get revenge. Can he hatch a plan to save his family and friends? Can they outrun the diggers and outsmart the farmers, and...

Ben Forster to reprise lead role in Elf: The Musical at Theatre Royal Plymouth

Casting has been announced for the upcoming production of Elf: The Musical which returns to Theatre Royal Plymouth for one week only, Saturday 11 – Saturday 18 November 2017.

West End star and ITV ‘Superstar’ winner Ben Forster will reprise the key role of Buddy the Elf, a role which he originated in the UK première in 2014 at Theatre Royal Plymouth and continued to perform throughout...

Children’s Touring Partnership presents Running Wild

The first UK tour adaptation of Michael Morpurgo’s award-winning novel based on a true story, Running Wild is coming to Theatre Royal Plymouth Tuesday 16 – Saturday 20 May.

Running Wild is the story is of a girl named Lilly, who, whilst on holiday with her mother in Indonesia, takes an elephant ride. During the ride, Oona, the elephant, suddenly becomes anxious and runs from the beach...

Step over the cobbles and back in time with new theatrical walking tours

A series of family-friendly theatrical walking tours will soon hit the cobbled streets of Plymouth's Barbican.

‘Ropewalks’ will lead audiences around some of the area’s most historic locations offering a series of entertaining encounters along the way.

Audiences will get the chance to follow in the footsteps of some of the most colourful characters from the Barbican’s past....

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