Surreal comedy meets genuinely spooky chiller in this unmissable production of Gilbert & Sullivan’s RUDDIGORE.
Directed by Peter Benedict (Mapp & Lucia – The Musical and Terry Pratchett’s Guards! Guards!), expect all the familiar G&S elements: terrific music, cheeky social satire, comic pathos and a terrific cast singing faster than you’d think humanly possible - but with a seasoning of sinister spectres.
A family curse means a baronet must commit a crime every day or perish. In trying to escape his fate, he encounters dancing sailors, a bunch of frustrated bridesmaids and a chorus of ghosts. What could possibly go wrong?
In this innovative production, audiences should be prepared for plenty of laughs and spine-tingling moments. Those who are familiar with RUDDIGORE are also in for a few surprises, both visual and musical…
Running time: 135 minutes + 20 minute interval
Oracle Productions have presented classic theatre and new writing in the West End and Off Broadway as well as touring major venues across the UK and overseas for the British Council. Previous successes have included:
THE COUNTRY WIFE
‘A night of visual enchantment and fast-moving comedy which only demands of the audience that it sits enraptured’ – EVENING STANDARD
TWELFTH NIGHT
‘Meticulously polished and exuberantly convincing’ - THE TIMES
Terry Pratchett’s GUARDS! GUARDS!
‘A MASTERPIECE. Cult theatre for the new millennium’ – THE SCOTSMAN
MAPP & LUCIA – The Musical
‘JOYOUS! The whole thing should be served up with cream teas’
- SHERIDAN MORLEY, INTERNATIONAL HERALD TRIBUNE
NAKED FLAME
‘The audience laughed more loudly than anything I’ve heard in 20 years of theatregoing. At one point they were so convulsed that it looked like a Mexican wave’ - YORK EVENING
Image credit: Gentleman Skeleton portrait courtesy of ©Lisa Zador