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State Fair

Booking to 11 September 2010
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STATE FAIR

Set against the colourful backdrop of an American heartland tradition, State Fair travels with the Frake family as they leave behind the routine of the farm for three days of adventure at the 1946 annual Iowa State Fair. The Academy Award® winning score includes such Rodgers and Hammerstein classics as ‘It Might as Well Be Spring’ and ‘It's a Grand Night for Singing'.

''... nothing short of a miniature musical miracle.''' - The Stage

Educating Rita

Booking to 30 October 2010
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Much to the dismay of her husband Denny, Rita, a young, brash hairdresser, has recently discovered a passion for English literature and enrols with the Open University. Her fresh, unschooled reaction to the classics challenges the attitudes of the University and her lecturer Frank who begins to question his own understanding of his work and himself.

Commissioned by the RSC, Willy Russell's Educating Rita was first performed at The Warehouse, London, in June 1980 and later transferred to the Piccadilly Theatre. The production starred Julie Walters and Mark Kingston and won the Society of West End Theatres award for Best Comedy. Julie Walters went on to play Rita in the BAFTA award winning film version with Michael Caine as Frank. Both received BAFTA and Golden Globe Awards and Oscar nominations for their performances.

Starring Tim Pigott-Smith and Laura Dos Santos.

Superb, humourous and deeply moving. A truly great play. - Daily Telegraph

Part of the Willy Russell season at Trafalgar Studios.
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Shirley Valentine

Booking to 30 October 2010
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Meera Syal (Goodness Gracious Me, The Kumars at Number 42) stars in the first major London revival of Willy Russell’s Shirley Valentine following its sell-out run at the Menier Chocolate Factory
Directed by Glen Walford

Meet Shirley: a middle-aged Liverpudlian housewife who talks to the wall whilst preparing her husband’s egg and chips. She’s in a rut. What has happened to her life? When her best friend wins an all-expenses-paid vacation for two to Greece she packs her bags, heads for the sun and starts to see the world and herself rather differently….

“Gone to Greece/ Back in two weeks.”

Part of the Willy Russell season at Trafalgar Studios.
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