SUNDAYS AND MONDAYS AT JERMYN STREET
On selected Sundays and Mondays through the year, Jermyn Street Theatre brings high-quality entertainment to the London stage.

To book call the box office on:
020 7287 2875

Until 25th February 2012

Paul Deavin in association
with Jermyn Street Theatre
presents
A Primavera production
BLOODY POETRY

by Howard Brenton

Director: Tom Littler
Set & Projection Design: Will Reynolds
Costume: Emily Stuart
Lighting Design: Tim Mascall
Sound Design: George Dennis

“The two poets meet on a beach. Light blazes off the water, behind them.
In their exile, they embrace. It will be like a statue.
And I have been the lover of one, and am the lover of the other.”

Penniless and hounded by the tabloid press, the Romantic poet Shelley has fled to the shores of Lake Geneva. With him, his new wife, Mary Shelley, and her half-sister, Claire Clairmont. As their scandalous ménage-a-trois threatens to implode, Claire introduces the Shelleys to the world’s most famous poet – her other lover, Lord Byron.
“In a hotel room, ten miles from London, I lifted my skirts. For the good of English poetry?”

Tom Littler directs Howard Brenton’s masterpiece about one of the most spectacular summers in English literature: a summer of sex, jealousy, and genius.

Howard Brenton’s work includes Anne Boleyn, Danton’s Death, Paul, Pravda (with David Hare), The Romans in Britain and Weapons of Happiness, which opened the new National Theatre. He won a Whatonstage Best New Play award for Anne Boleyn and Evening Standard Best Play awards for Pravda and Weapons of Happiness. His 14 episodes of Spooks won a BAFTA Best Drama Series in 2003.

Primavera returns to the Jermyn Street Theatre after previous sell-out productions of Saturday Night and Anyone Can Whistle. Praise for Primavera’s work includes:

“Thirtysomething directors Rupert Goold and Josie Rourke are big names now, but those keen to talent-spot the next generation should take a look at Tom Littler.” – Evening Standard
***** Critics’ Choice, Show of the Week – Time Out on Saturday Night
**** “Tom Littler’s fine, detailed production ensures you hang on every word.”
The Telegraph on Madagascar
**** “Tom Littler’s lucid production is extraordinarily moving … A work of intricate imagination, immaculately delivered.” – The Times on Origin of the Species.


CAST:
Joe Bannister, Joanna Christie, Emily Glenister
Rhiannon Sommers, David Sturzaker, Nick Trumble


Monday to Saturday 7.30pm. Saturday matinees 3.30pm

Tickets: £18.00 & £14.00 concessions.


Call the Box Office for further information on: 020 7287 2875
OR online ticketweb.co.uk :http://www.ticketweb.co.uk

Late Night Fridays
from 17th February 2012

Richard Leigh
for False Impressions
presents

LATE NIGHT MAGIC



Richard Leigh's long running season of Late Night Magic cabarets continue with an ever changing programme of top magicians and speciality acts.
Enjoy a drink in the theatre whilst close up magic is presented right under your very eyes and then sit back and be totally amazed by an hour of magic,comedy and illusion.

"Richard Leigh's series of Late Night Magic shows has turned up some gems"
The Stage Newspaper.


Fridays at 10.45pm
All shows finish by Midnight


£14.00 & £12.00 concessions.
Group rate (Min of 4 ) £10 each. ADULTS Only

Call the Box Office for further information on: 020 7287 2875

28th February to 3rd March 2012

Jermyn Street Theatre

presents

SOLDIERS' WIVES

by Sarah Daniels

Directed by Anthony Biggs

"I wouldn't put it like that, but yes I am married to someone whose job description includes being prepared to die"

Five wives living on an army base somewhere in England.
Five lives caught up in the humdrum tension of waiting for their men to return whole and unharmed.
War does terrible things to people, leaves scars both visible and invisible.
A front-line incident ricochets through their lives and each woman is forced to confront hidden and painful truths.

Sarah Daniels' plays have been performed at theatres including the Royal Court and the National Theatre. Soldiers Wives was originally broadcast on Woman's Hour on BBC Radio 4.

Catherine Shipton is best known for creating the iconic and hugely popular role of DUFFY in the BBC's award-winning drama Casualty, which she played from 1986-93; 1998-2004. She has starred countless TV shows include TAGGART, THE BILL,ONE FOOT IN THE GRAVE and DOCTORS. She had a cameo in the movie SPICEWORLD playing a nurse! 'Catherine was in the original cast of Sarah Daniels' GUT GIRLS at the Albany Empire'. Her theatre career spans over 30 years playing at the National and in the West End and she has just finished a UK Tour.

Anthony Biggs is Associate Director, Jermyn Street Theatre, where he directs new work and lesser known plays by classic authors.
He recently directed high-acclaimed productions of Charles Morgan’s The River Line (**** Critics Choice in Time Out, The Times, Daily Telegraph,WhatsOnStage and Independent) and Ibsen’s Little Eyolf starring Imogen Stubbs and Doreen Mantle (***** Sunday Telegraph, **** Critics Choice in The Times, Daily Telegraph and Independent).

CAST:
Catherine Shipton


Tuesday to Saturday 7.30pm (no performance Mon 27th)
Saturday Matinees 3.30pm

All Tickets: £12.00
ALL proceeds from this production will be donated to HELP FOR HEROES

Call the Box Office for further information on: 020 7287 2875

6th to 31st March 2012

Masterpiece Entertainment Ltd
in association with
Jermyn Street Theatre
presents

RAINER HERSCH'S VICTOR BORGE


Victor Borge was a brilliant pianist, virtuoso comedian and once voted “the funniest man in the world” by The New York Times. During the 1960s he became the highest paid entertainer on the planet, loved by audiences worldwide.
In the London premiere of this one-man show, his extraordinary life is retold and his hilarious act re-imagined for the 21st century by his natural successor, Rainer Hersch.
Rainer is well known to BBC radio and television audiences for his many appearances – including as a regular guest on Quote....Unquote, Loose Ends and, most recently, winner of a special celebrity edition of Counterpoint.
He has appeared at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival 13 times and toured the world as a comedian, pianist and conductor. More than just a tribute, Rainer Hersch’s Victor Borge is a rollercoaster ride of outstanding comedy and dramatic insight. A hit on four continents, it has been greeted with critical acclaim and sold-out theatres from Montreal to Adelaide.

"Victor Borge for a new generation" The Sunday Times
**** "Two great comics for the price of one" Edinburgh Metro
"Don’t miss this divine comedy" The Daily Mail
"It’s hard to imagine that if the great Victor Borge himself had
taken the stage, he would be more entertaining that Rainer Hersch’s tear-streamingly funny tribute" The Scotsman


CAST:
Rainer Hersch

Tuesday - Friday 7.30pm
Saturday evening 8.00pm
Sat/Sun matinees 3.30pm

Tickets: £18.00, £15.00 concessions.
Earlybird Offer
All tickets only £14.00 if booked before 20th February 2012.
Please quote "Earlybird"

Call the Box Office for further information on: 020 7287 2875

8th May to 2nd June

Jermyn Street Theatre
presents
MOTHER ADAM

by Charles Dyer

Directed by Gene David Kirk
Designed by Cherry Truluck

A rarely performed modern classic

Mammels is bed-ridden and so arthritic that she can only view the outside world through an angled mirror, like the Lady of Shallot. Adam, her son dances attendance upon her – but cannot, or will not, cut the apron-strings and marry a piano-teacher who is available and evidently aridity personified. The play is set in the late Sixties and Adam is redolent in his rueful, resentful attitude to sex of Philip Larkin.

Adam is a "child of Empire" in the drolly ambiguous sense of not knowing who his father is, despite the family's long, if contested, history of missionary work in the colonies. The discrepant versions (everything from martyrdom to death at the circus) of his uncles' and aunts' lives is one of the comic joys of the piece.

And it very much speaks to now with our ageing population and more and more people discovering that the most important relationship of their lives – indeed the only real relationship – has been with a mother or father who has come to seem indistinguishable from the phantom spouse they never had time to find.

Veteran playwright Charles Dyer learned his craft as an actor, his first London appearance being in 1948 when he took over as Duke in Worms’ Eye View at the Whitehall Theatre. His first play Who On Earth reached London at the old Q Theatre in 1951, and ever since those early times, most Countries of the World have hosted his works. The eminent American Walter Winchell wrote of Dyer's “Profound thoughts and emotions expressed with humour... People in the shadows discovering sunshine in each other."

Sir Harold Hobson (Sunday Times) coined the phrase The Lonely Trilogy to include: Rattle of a Simple Man (Garrick Theatre 1962-3) and Staircase (RSC 1966-67), plays which have been in constant production throughout the years. Of the middle duologue, Hobson wrote: “In Mother Adam Dyer has written one of the few real tragedies of our time…. it has deeper resonances; it is more beautifully written, with an imagination at once exotic and desperately familiar; it has a profounder pity, and a more exquisite falling Close.”


CAST:
to be announced

Monday to Saturday 7.30pm Saturday matinees 3.30pm

£16.00 & £14.00 concessions.

Call the Box Office for further information on: 020 7287 2875