Hayley Sprout

Category: theatre

  • Honour @ Park Theatre*

    Honour @ Park Theatre*

    Rating: ⭐⭐⭐ Tickets and more information: https://www.parktheatre.co.uk/whats-on/honour Booking until: 24th November 2018 Production Photos by: Alex Brenner In the first revival of Joanna Murray-Smith’s play Honour, the play follows couple Honour and George whose 32 year marriage is sent into a spiral with the arrival of Claudia. The play is filled with two character conversations in which…

  • Pickle Jar @ Soho Theatre*

    Pickle Jar @ Soho Theatre*

    Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Tickets and more information: https://sohotheatre.com/shows/pickle-jar/ Booking until: 10th November 2018 Production Photos by: Ali Wright Having previously performed in a UK tour of Phoebe Waller-Bridge’s one woman monologue Fleabag, actress and writer Maddie Rice has brought her own original one woman monologue to the Soho Theatre. Rice’s piece follows a school teacher as she juggles…

  • The Trench @ Southwark Playhouse*

    The Trench @ Southwark Playhouse*

    Rating: ⭐⭐⭐ Tickets and more information: https://southwarkplayhouse.co.uk/show/the-trench/ Booking until: 17th November 2018 Production Photos by: Rah Petherbridge Having seen recent success with their immersive production of Alice’s Adventures Underground, theatre company Les Enfant Terribles have brought their production of The Trench to London. The play follows a miner called Bert who goes on a mystical trip…

  • Company @ Gielgud Theatre*

    Company @ Gielgud Theatre*

    Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Tickets and more information: https://www.londonboxoffice.co.uk/company-tickets Production Photos by: Brinkhoff/Moegenburg Booking until: 30th March 2019 In their joint venture producer Chris Harper and director Marianne Elliott have brought back the classic Sondheim musical Company, but with a twist. When the musical originated, the show centred around Robert, a newly turned 35 year old man whose married…

  • Lights Over Tesco Car Park @ Pleasance Theatre*

    Lights Over Tesco Car Park @ Pleasance Theatre*

    Rating: ⭐⭐⭐ The second Edinburgh import that I managed to catch was Lights Over Tesco Car Park performed by the Poltergeist theatre company. The premise of the show follows the theatre company being contacted by a man called Robert who claims to have seen bright red lights over the car park in Tesco. Then he received…

  • Pretty Woman: The Musical @ Nederlander Theatre

    Pretty Woman: The Musical @ Nederlander Theatre

    Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Tickets and more information: https://prettywomanthemusical.com/ Booking until: 9th June 2019 Director/choreographer wizard Jerry Mitchell has waved his magical wand on another musical adaptation that’s arrived on Broadway. Based on the iconic movie, Pretty Woman follows rich businessman Edward Lewis as he meets Vivian Ward who is working as a prostitute on the streets of…

  • Mythic @ Charing Cross Theatre*

    Mythic @ Charing Cross Theatre*

    Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Tickets and more information: http://charingcrosstheatre.co.uk/theatre/mythic Production Photos by: Marc Brenner Booking until: 24th November 2018 Do you ever look back and think about how much angst you carried in your teenage years? Well, the Titans children did it first by overthrowing their parents and becoming the Olympians. Now, Marcus Stevens and Oran Elder have created…

  • We’ve Got Each Other @ Pleasance Theatre*

    We’ve Got Each Other @ Pleasance Theatre*

    Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐ As part of their Caledonian Express season, the Pleasance Theatre in Islington is playing host to a whole range of shows that performed at this year’s Edinburgh Fringe Festival. Having had major FOMO over the summer, I was super excited to check out the season. The first show I visited was Paul O’Donnell’s hysterical…

  • Mrs Dalloway @ Arcola Theatre*

    Mrs Dalloway @ Arcola Theatre*

    Rating: ⭐⭐ Tickets and more information: https://www.arcolatheatre.com/event/mrs-dalloway/ Production Photos by: Ollie Grove Booking until: 20th October 2018 Based on the novel by Virginia Woolf, a new stage adaptation of the classic story Mrs Dalloway has arrived at the Arcola Theatre. The story takes place in 1920s London as the title character Clarissa Dalloway prepares to throw a…

  • Mean Girls @ August Wilson Theatre

    Mean Girls @ August Wilson Theatre

    Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Tickets and more information: https://meangirlsonbroadway.com/ Booking until: 13th July 2019 In collaboration with her husband composer Jeff Richmond and lyricist Nell Benjamin, national American treasure Tina Fey has brought her 2003 movie Mean Girls to the stage in the form of a musical. Having grown up on the film, I was hesitant to see what…