Chichester Festival Theatre has announced the opening productions of its anniversary Festival 2022 season plus the transfer of South Pacific to London.
It’s been nine years since Mike Bartlett proudly premiered his provocative Cock at the Royal Court and who’d have guessed that its subject matter – sexual confusion –
Stupid, cuckolded men and duplicitous women. It doesn’t matter how you dress it up, little has changed over the centuries in the battle of the sexes. William Wycherley’s
“No-one likes a cheat.” James Graham has turned his attention to national greed and our addiction to TV game shows for his latest factional stage play, Quiz, which
It has been 57 years since Edna O’Brien wrote her debut novel, The Country Girls, and it so shocked 1960s Ireland that it was promptly banned. Despite the
The theme of this year’s Festival season at Chichester is change, apt considering that the Sussex powerhouse is now under new artistic management. But Caroline, Or Change, which
At the terminus of her celebrated life the renowned actress, Mrs Patrick Campbell, is stranded. Unable to head home because of quarantine rules she is waiting for a
Penelope Keith returns to Chichester this autumn to play celebrated actress Mrs Patrick Campbell in Anton Burge’s Mrs Pat. In advance of the winter season, Penelope Keith will
Lenny Henry who makes his Chichester debut in Willy Russell’s classic comedy, Educating Rita, about the transformative power of education, is set to pass on advice and his
Women get short shrift in the annuls of history. We can all rattle off dozens of famous men, responsible for new inventions and innovations. But women? The compelling
Get out your glitterballs and Lycra. John Godber’s classic comedy about disco, clubbing and the men who man the doors, comes to Chichester’s Minerva Theatre on February 3.
