THE CARDINAL Finds Full Company at Southwark Payhouse
Natalie Simpson (Royal Shakespeare Company's recent productions of King Lear, Hamlet and Cymbeline) joins an eleven-strong cast to play Duchess Rosaura alongside the previously announced Stephen Boxer in THE CARDINAL at Southwark Playhouse. James Shirley's tragic masterpiece, directed by Justin Audibert, plays from 26 April - 27 May with a press performance on 28 April.
York Little Theatre to Present SEX PLEASE, WE'RE 60
York Little Theatre will present SEX PLEASE, WE'RE 60 in The Bon Ton Studio January 29-31, February 4-7, 2016. Mrs. Stancliffe's Rose Cottage Bed & Breakfast will never be the same. The elderly neighbor, 'Bud the Stud', believes the regular female guests come to spend time with him in romantic liaisons. Mrs. Stancliffe reluctantly accepts the fact that 'Bud the Stud' is, in fact, good for business. Her other neighbor is a retired chemist who had developed a blue pill called 'Venusia' to increase the libido of menopausal women. The women mix up Bud's Viagra pills with the Venusia, and we soon discover that it has a strange effect on men: it gives them all the symptoms of menopausal women, complete with hot flashes, mood swings, weeping and irritability!