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Harold and Maude
Equal parts dark comedy and romantic innocence, Harold and Maude is an idiosyncratic romantic fable told though the eyes of the most unlikely pairing: a compulsive, self-destructive young man and a devil-may-care, septuagenarian bohemian.

Maude (Linda Marlowe), is a free spirit who wears her hair in braids, believes in living each day to its fullest, and “trying something new every day”. Harold Parker Chasen (Patrick Walshe McBride) is an 18-year-old man who is obsessed with death, attends funerals of strangers for entertainment and stages elaborate fake suicides. Through meeting Maude at a funeral, he discovers joy in living for the first time. Harold and Maude dissolves the line between darkness and light along with ones that separate people by class, gender and age. 

★★★★★"Beautifully inventive, funny and moving production" British Theatre

★★★★ "Linda Marlowe embodies the eccentric Maude with an innate ease that’s simply heartwarming" Pocket Sized Theatre

★★★★★ Rewrite this Story ★★★★★ Stage Review  ★★★★★ London Theatre 1

★★★★  Financial Times★★★★ Spy in the Stalls  ★★★★ Jonathan Baz

★★★★ "Pure class. Director Thom Southerland has framed the production as a surrealist painting" Johnny Fox

★★★★ Reviews Hub ★★★★ Theatre Monkey ★★★★ The Upcoming

★★★★ "Delightfully funny, a beautiful production" Broadwayworld

The cast also includes: Anthony Cable (The Woman in White, Charing Cross Theatre), Rebecca Caine (Flowers For Mrs Harris, Crucible Sheffield), Christopher Dickins (Ragtime, Charing Cross Theatre), Joanna Hickman (Ragtime, Charing Cross Theatre), Samuel Townsend (84 Charing Cross Road, Cambridge Arts Theatre), Anne White (Love in the Past Participle, The Other Palace) and Johnson Willis (Dido Queen of Carthage, RSC).
 
Charing Cross Theatre’s artistic director Thom Southerland directs the production, with set design by Francis O’Connor, costumes by Jonathan Lipman, lighting by Matt Clutterham, sound design from Andrew Johnson and compositions by Michael Bruce.



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A Mirrored Monet

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A Mirrored Monet

A MIRRORED MONET

The man behind the masterpiece.

Paris, 1916. The painter Claude Monet struggles to complete the commission that will define his legacy: The Water Lilies — a project on which his survival depends, with food and essential supplies at stake as the First World War encroaches. Plagued by creative block, he retreats into memory, revisiting his early artist days with contemporaries Renoir and Manet, and his muse, Camille Doncieux.

Inspired by letters and diaries from Monet and his peers, A Mirrored Monet immerses audiences in the cafés, studios, and salons of Belle Époque Paris, with music and projections bringing the era vividly to life.

This dramatic new musical by composer/lyricist/dramatist Carmel Owen stars Jeff Shankley (Starlight Express, Cats) as Monet and Dean John-Wilson (Your Lie in April: The Musical, The King and I) as Young Monet. 

CAST
Jeff Shankley - Monet
Dean John-Wilson - Young Monet
John Addison - Leroy
Brooke Bazarian - Camille
Natalie Day - Blanche/Suzanne
Ritesh Manugula - Bazille
Sam Peggs - Renoir & Cover Young Monet
Aaron Pryce-Lewis - Manet / Durand-Ruel
Steven Serlin - Marquis
Nick Bligh - Cover (Old Monet and Marquis)
Samuel Haughton - Cover (Renoir, Manet/Durand-Ruel, Leroy, Bazille)
Meg Matthews - Cover (Camille and Blanche/Suzanne)
 
CREATIVE TEAM

Composer, Book & Lyrics — Carmel Owen
Director — Christian Durham
Musical Director — Michael Webborn
Designer — Libby Todd
Lighting Designer — Jodie Underwood
Sound Designer — Andy Johnson
Video Designer — Matt Powell
Production Manager — James Anderton
Assistant & Movement Director — Heather Douglas
Assistant Music Director — Rachel Blaquiere
Orchestration - Neil Metcalfe
Casting Director — Jane Deitch
General Managers - Katy Lipson & Kristie Winsen for Aria Entertainment

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Music Hall

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Under the Arches - Return to The Good Old Days.


Step back in time for this traditional Victorian Music Hall with a unique blend of audience participation, authentic characters and broad comedy.  
The Players’ Music Hall are delighted to be back at Charing Cross Theatre which was their home for many years so let us raise the roof and let London reverberate to the glorious sounds of the Music Hall and singing the wonderful songs that are an essential part of our heritage with Maestro Mr Tom Carradine.


A TRULY UNIQUE BRITISH THEATRICAL EXPERIENCE.

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