Off-West End Announcements – 6 November 2009
Nobody Missing Miss Julie
As Stephen Unwin’s production of Miss Julie
draws to a close at Kingston’s Rose this month, another version opens at the
Hen and Chickens in Islington. Lady Julia is James and Ben
Kenward’s modern translation of the Strindberg classic, transposing his tale of
money, status and sexual politics to New Year’s Eve 2009. Running from 1-19
December, the production is the latest production from In the Lime Light
theatre company and will be directed by Gabriella Santinelli.
Conti Comedy At Pleasance
Also in Islington, Tom Conti is back at the Pleasance from
24-29 November, reprising his feted one man show Jesus My Boy
for its tenth anniversary. Written by
comedian John Dowie, the play is a funny but moving account of that most famous
of father son duos, with Oliver award-winning Conti playing Joseph. There’s even
a cameo from the so-called Three Wise Men. And all this a full month before
Christmas!
Can’t Get No Satisfaction
Back for another
festive rerun is Austria’s number
one comedy hit, A Guide to Sexual Misery, returning to the Arts Theatre from 27 November to 31 December.
Created by Austrian sex therapist Bernhard Ludwig in a bid to lighten up the
subject, the show was unsurprisingly a smash hit in the home of psychotherapy, Vienna. But it
even managed to thaw stuck-up Brits with sell-out runs at the Edinburgh
Fringe and Leicester Square Theatre. We’ll
have what they’re having.
Money, Money, Money
Finally, Shunt has announced new performances of its
awesome site-specific show Money on Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays at 9.45pm. The show in a disused Bermondsey warehouse near London Bridge is an adaptation of
Emile Zola’s 1891 novel L’Argent, which the writer based on
the real-life collapse of French bank Union Generale. If you’d had a hard day at
work, what better way to remind yourself that it could be worse – you could be
a banker! Until 22 December.
