Warwick Davis to Launch The Reduced Height Theatre Company with SEE HOW THEY RUN Tour, Feb-May 2014
By: BWW News Desk Jan. 22, 2014
A comedy of huge 'small' proportions is about to embark on a 12 week UK tour from February - May 2014.
See How They Run, the wonderfully funny and much loved farce is brought to life on stage once again but this time with a difference - all of the actors are under four feet tall!
The Reduced Height Theatre Company is the first theatre company made up of entirely short actors and is the brainchild of Warwick Davis, the most successful short actor in Britain. With a career spanning over three decades, he is best known for his roles in Willow, Star Wars, the Harry Potter films and most recently on our TV screens in Life's Too Short, Doctor Who and An Idiot Abroad 3. This will be Warwick's first venture as actor and producer.
Warwick Davis, who also appears in the play says:
' The formation of The Reduced Height Theatre Company is a dream realised for me. As a short actor, I am not always afforded the same professional opportunities as my taller colleagues. This new venture will tip the balance in favour of myself and the other talented short actors in the UK. In these times of equality and diversity, this will be a unique, bold and empowering journey'.
See How They Run is nowadays widely regarded as one of the best farces written by Philip King. Set in 1944 in a vicarage in the village of Merton-cum-Middlewick, it is a quintessentially British, extremely well written play featuring timelessly funny characters - a maid, a spinster, a German soldier, retired actors, a bishop and a handful of vicars. A plot of mishaps and mistaken identity causes the action to spiral out of control, culminating in a houseful of bishops, deacons and other assorted clergymen.
The show is suitable for the whole family so for an evening of theatre that won't be 'short' of laughs, book your tickets now.
For more information and to book tickets visit www.reducedheighttheatre.co.uk.
TOURING SCHEDULE:
19th - 22nd Feb
Churchill Theatre, BROMLEY
0844 871 7620
24th Feb - 1st Mar
Palace Theatre, WESTCLIFF-ON-SEA
01702 351135
www.palacetheatresouthend.co.uk
3rd - 8th Mar
Belgrade Theatre, COVENTRY
024 7655 3055
10th - 15th Mar
New Victoria Theatre
WOKING
0844 871 7645
17th - 22nd Mar
Devonshire Park Theatre
EASTBOURNE
01323 412000
24th - 29th Mar
Richmond Theatre
RICHMOND
0844 871 7651
31st Mar - 5th Apr
Wycombe Swan
HIGH WYCOMBE
01494 512000
7th - 12th Apr
Derby Theatre
DERBY
01332 593939
14th - 19th Apr
Theatre Royal
PLYMOUTH
01752 267222
22nd - 26th Apr
Darlington Civic Theatre
DARLINGTON
01325 486555
29th Apr - 3rd May
Opera House
MANCHESTER
0844 871 3018
6th - 10th May
New Theatre
CARDIFF
029 2087 8889
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