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Film, Television & Theatre June 2018 Film EVERYBODY’S TALKING ABOUT JAMIE: THE FILM – Announcement Warp Films and Film4 are adapting hit musical 'Everybody’s Talking About Jamie'. Filming is being lined up for Spring 2019 on location and at studios in Sheffield. The original creative team from the musical – director Jonathan Butterell, who was born and raised in Sheffield; writer Tom McRae; and composer Dan Gillespie-Sells – will reunite for the film. The Musical has also had its run at the Apollo Theatre extended until April 2019, whilst a live broadcast of the show will play in 500 cinema screens across the country on July 5 th . EVERYBODY’S TALKING ABOUT JAMIE THE YELLOW BIRDS – US Release (15 th June) Two young soldiers navigate the terrors of the Iraq war under the command of their troubled Sergeant, all the while troubled by promises made to their families. Starring Alden Ehrenreich and Jennifer Anniston. Based on the novel by Kevin Powers. Television POLDARK SERIES 2: BBC1 – 10 th June at 9pm Poldark returns to BBC1 on 10th June at 9pm on BBC1 for a fourth series, written and executive produced by Debbie Horsfield. OUR GIRL SERIES 3, Part 2: BBC One, Tuesday 5 th June at 9pm Created and written by Tony Grounds. This series sees the return of Corporal Georgie Lane (Michelle Keegan), who throws herself into her work training Nigerian forces in the fight against Boko Haram, only to find herself pitched headlong into danger. Episodes 1 (5 th June) and 2 (12 th June) are directed by Rob Evans. OUR GIRL A VERY ENGLISH SCANDAL Finale on BBC One 3 rd June at 9pm The final episode of this three-part drama featuring one of the biggest scandals in British politics, Liberal leader Jeremy Thorpe (Hugh Grant) and his former lover Norman Scott (Ben Whishaw). Written and Executive Produced by Russell T Davies and directed by Stephen Frears. A VERY ENGLISH SCANDAL

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Film, Television & Theatre June 2018

Film EVERYBODY’S TALKING ABOUT JAMIE: THE FILM – Announcement

Warp Films and Film4 are adapting hit musical 'Everybody’s Talking About

Jamie'. Filming is being lined up for Spring 2019 on location and at

studios in Sheffield. The original creative team from the musical –

director Jonathan Butterell, who was born and raised in Sheffield;

writer Tom McRae; and composer Dan Gillespie-Sells – will

reunite for the film. The Musical has also had its run at the Apollo

Theatre extended until April 2019, whilst a live broadcast of the

show will play in 500 cinema screens across the country on July 5th.

EVERYBODY’S TALKING ABOUT JAMIE

THE YELLOW BIRDS – US Release (15th June)

Two young soldiers navigate the terrors of the Iraq war under the

command of their troubled Sergeant, all the while troubled by

promises made to their families. Starring Alden Ehrenreich and

Jennifer Anniston. Based on the novel by Kevin Powers.

Television

POLDARK SERIES 2: BBC1 – 10th June at 9pm

Poldark returns to BBC1 on 10th June at 9pm on BBC1 for a

fourth series, written and executive produced by Debbie

Horsfield.

OUR GIRL SERIES 3, Part 2: BBC One, Tuesday 5th June at

9pm

Created and written by Tony Grounds. This series sees the

return of Corporal Georgie Lane (Michelle Keegan), who throws

herself into her work training Nigerian forces in the fight

against Boko Haram, only to find herself pitched headlong into

danger. Episodes 1 (5th June) and 2 (12th June) are directed by

Rob Evans.

OUR GIRL

A VERY ENGLISH SCANDAL Finale on BBC One 3rd June at 9pm

The final episode of this three-part drama featuring one of the biggest

scandals in British politics, Liberal leader Jeremy Thorpe (Hugh Grant)

and his former lover Norman Scott (Ben Whishaw). Written and

Executive Produced by Russell T Davies and directed by Stephen

Frears.

A VERY ENGLISH SCANDAL

ACKLEY BRIDGE SERIES 2: Channel 4 – 5th June at

8pm

The critically acclaimed TV drama returns for a second

season. Executive produced, co-created and episodes

by Ayub Khan Din.

HETTY FEATHER 4: CBBC – continues

Helen Blakeman’s series, adapted from Dame Jacqueline Wilson’s

novel, has returned for a fourth series. Episode 5 is written by

Gareth Sergeant (4th June).

HETTY FEATHER

London Theatre

THE LIEUTENANT OF INISHMORE: Noel Coward Theatre, 23rd

June – 8th September

Lynette Linton is the Associate Director on Michael

Grandage’s revival of Martin McDonagh’s critically acclaimed

play. Aidan Turner plays Mad Padraic, a terrorist deemed too

violent to be a member of the IRA, in this hilarious, acute

observation of violence in contemporary culture.

THE LIEUTENANT OF INISHMORE

EFFIGIES OF WICKEDNESS: The Gate Theatre – Extended

until 9th June

In this ground breaking collaboration, the Gate Theatre and

English National Opera present a cabaret of riotous, witty,

and shockingly prophetic songs banned by the Nazis in the

1930s. Directed by Ellen McDougall.

EFFIGIES OF WICKEDNESS

THE END OF HISTORY: St Giles-in-the-Fields/Soho Theatre – Runs

5th to 23rd June

A specially created site-specific new show at St Giles-in-the-

Fields. What happens when two totally different Londoners find

themselves face to face on the worst day of their lives? The End

of History is a moving and funny site-responsive play with music

which uses a chance encounter to explore the impact of

gentrification on two radically different individuals. Paul is a gay

party boy working in property, Wendy works in the charity sector.

They belong to two different London’s but have one thing in

common; they’re both alone in the city. Written by Marcelo Dos

Santos, Sound by Ed Lewis.

THE END OF HISTORY

TRANSLATIONS: National Theatre, Olivier – Continues

Brian Friel’s modern classic is a powerful account of nationhood, which

sees the turbulent relationship between England and Ireland play out in

one quiet community. Owen returns to rural Donegal from Dublin. With

him are two British army officers, their ambition is to create a map of

the area, replacing the Gaelic names with English. It is an

administrative act with radical consequences. Directed by Ian Rickson,

starring Colin Morgan and Ciarán Hinds - ‘This is Brian Friel’s finest and

most universal play.’ Sunday Times.

★★★★★ – The Guardian - ‘A flawless production. A culture-clash

masterpiece’

★★★★ - Time Out – ‘Brilliant. Poignant. Unmissable’

★★★★ The Times, The Stage, The Radio Times, What’s On Stage,

The Evening Standard

TRANSLATIONS

THE RINK: Southwark Playhouse, 30th May - 23rd June

Directed by Adam Lenson. The award-winning Kander &

Ebb musical skates into London for a strictly limited

season, for its first London revival in 30 years. With an

irresistible score and exhilarating book, The Rink

originally premiered on Broadway in 1984 starring Chita

Rivera and Liza Minnelli - Anna, an Italian housewife who

runs a roller-skating rink on the Eastern coast of America,

is about to sell it to developers until her estranged

daughter, Angel, returns after a long absence, hoping to

save the rink and patch things up with her mother.

★★★★★ Theatre Weekly - ‘Director, Adam Lenson has

taken a decades old musical and made it feel timeless and

engaging’

★★★★ The Stage - ‘Adam Lenson’s production has its

dazzling moments…but doesn’t sacrifice the complexity of

the characters…a big, bursting powerhouse of a revival’

★★★★ The Upcoming

★★★★ London Theatre

THE RINK

THE GREATEST WEALTH: Old Vic Theatre - Part 1: Monday 25 June, Part

2: Tuesday 26 June, Parts 1 and 2: Friday 29 June

This Old Vic commissioned set of world premiere monologues will salute

and discuss the past, present and future of our NHS, an extraordinary

institution that supports every single one of us. An absolute jewel in our

crown. Curated by Lolita Chakrabarti and Directed by Adrian Lester.

THE GREATEST WEALTH

ACIS AND GALATEA: English National Opera - 9th – 16th June

For the very first time, English National Opera will

perform Handel’s first dramatic work written in English, Acis

and Galatea, based on John Gay’s text after an episode from

Ovid’s Metamorphoses. Directed by Sarah Tipple.

ACIS AND GALATEA

ISAAC CAME HOME FROM THE MOUNTAIN: Theatre 503, 9th

May – 2nd June

Bobby should be careful – sometimes even monsters take

themselves for underdogs. And even if you can’t tell love from

violence, you still have to answer for every bone you break.

Phil Ormrod’s latest work is about pride, what men imagine

makes them strong, and about searching for a future in the

dying heart of England.

ISAAC CAME HOME FROM THE MOUNTAIN

NOT TALKING: Arcola Theatre, 25th April – 2nd June

The never-before-seen first play by Olivier award-winning

writer Mike Bartlett. This gripping and lyrical drama

blasts open cultures of silence with small acts of protest,

Chopin and occasional dancing to Westlife.

NOT TALKING

SUGAR BABY: Soho Theatre, 22nd May - 2nd June

A one man-comedy from critically acclaimed Alan Harris,

SUGAR BABY explores the chaotic – and occasionally

farcical – life of a small-time drug dealer in Cardiff.

Everything wants something from Alex, but all Alex wants

is to survive.

SUGAR BABY

THE BIOGRAPH GIRL: Finborough Theatre, 22nd May –

2nd June

The first professional UK production since its 1980

premiere, THE BIOGRAPH GIRL is a love letter to the

stardust and scandals of the silent movie era.

Featuring music from HALF A SIXPENCE composer

David Heneker.

THE BIOGRAPH GIRL

SHEBEEN: Theatre Royal Stratford East, 20th June –

7th July

Specially commissioned by Nottingham Playhouse,

SHEBEEN invites you to a party you never knew

existed. This world premiere by Alfred Fagon-winning

Mufaro Makubika, shines a light on a community

under siege and the sacrifices made for love. Directed

by Matthew Xia. Music & Sound by Richard

Hammarton

SHEBEEN

UK Theatre

RANDOM/GENERATIONS: Minerva Theatre, 4th May – 2nd

June

Fierce, warm and funny, Debbie Tucker Green’s two

short and haunting dramas examine love, life and loss

through the lives of two families on two continents.

RANDOM/GENERATIONS

LOVE ON THE LINKS: Salisbury Playhouse – Runs to Saturday

23rd June

In the rarefied surroundings of Wood Hills Golf Club in deepest

Surrey all is very genteel. The Oldest Member is having a

snooze in the corner while the barman is pouring another White

Horse and Malvern at the ‘19th Hole’. It’s soon time, however,

for The Oldest Member to stir in his armchair and regale us with

stories of seduction, canoodling and thwarted love, with the

help of some biffo club members, not to mention the ever

graceful Daphne Cartwright and the dashing Jack

Ramage. Directed by Ryan McBryde, Adapted from the

stories of PG Wodehouse. Musical Supervisor – Paul Herbert.

LOVE ON THE LINKS

A MONSTER CALLS: Bristol Old Vic – previews begin 31st May

A MONSTER CALLS, the extraordinary novel by Patrick Ness,

based on an original idea by Siobhan Dowd, - now an

international bestseller and major motion picture - is brought

to the stage for the first time in a powerful new adaptation by

visionary director Sally Cookson (Jane Eyre, Peter

Pan, Sleeping Beauty).

A MONSTER CALLS

MATILDA THE MUSICAL: UK & Ireland Tour – Sunderland &

Milton Keynes

Matilda The Musical is the multi-award winning musical from the

Royal Shakespeare Company, inspired by the beloved book by

the incomparable Roald Dahl. Directed by Matthew

Warchus. Sunderland Empire, 08/05/2018 - 02/06/2018; Milton

Keynes, 05/06/2018 - 30/06/2018.

MALTILDA UK TOUR

THE FALL OF THE HOUSE OF USHER: Lyric Theatre

Belfast, 20th June- 24th June

In Conor Mitchell’s THE FALL OF THE HOUSE OF

USHER, an electric fusion of live music, video and

actors come together as a response to Edgar Allan

Poe’s masterpiece of terror, isolation and lunacy.

THE FALL OF THE HOUSE OF USHER

BING LIVE SHOW: UK Tour – begins 20th June

Bing and his friends are going on tour in the first ever BING stage

show. Kicking off in St Albans at the Alban Arena, BING LIVE! will

visit 50 venues over 25 weeks. BING is based on the books

written and illustrated by Ted Dewan.

BING LIVE

SKIN A CAT UK Tour begins in June

Isley Lynn’s hit play starts its UK Tour this month. After opening at the

Wolsey Theatre for the Pulse Festival on June 3rd, it will move to

Wolverhampton and Oxford. It’ll be at the Edinburgh Fringe throughout

August, at the Assembly Rooms.

SKIN A CAT

THE LIGHT PRINCESS: Cardogan Hall – 1st July

Tori Amos and Samuel Adamson’s critically acclaimed musical

arrives at Cadogan Hall starring musical theatre powerhouses

Rosalie Craig and Hadley Fraser in this fairy-tale about grief,

rebellion and the power of love.

THE LIGHT PRINCESS

RICHARD III: Shakespeare’s Rose Theatre, York – Previews from 29th June

One of two plays directed by Lindsay Posner as part of Shakespeare’s Rose

Theatre’s upcoming season. This classic Shakespearean work is of particular

significance to the historic city of York whilst Shakespeare’s Richard III has

contributed to the real King’s reputation as one of the most colourful villains

in British history. Music composed by Olly Fox.

RICHARD III

ROMEO AND JULIET: Shakespeare’s Rose Theatre, York – Previews from

25th June

Director Lindsay Posner brings us this production of the most famous

love story ever written - a tale of young love, grand passion, feuding

families, street violence and the cruelties of fate. Music composed by Olly

Fox.

ROMEO AND JULIET

ART: UK & Ireland Tour – Ends its run on 9th June, Canterbury

Marlowe Theatre.

Nigel Havers, Denis Lawson and Stephen Tompkinson star in the UK

and Ireland Tour of Yasmina Reza’s multi award-winning

comedy. Based on the original production by Matthew Warchus,

ART will be directed by Ellie Jones. When Serge buys a large,

expensive, completely white painting, his friend Marc is horrified

and leads to a strained debate about what constitutes art. Caught

in the middle, Yvan tries to calm them but what effect does this

have on their friendship.

ART

THE COUNTRY WIFE: Chichester Festival Theatre –

Preview from 8th June

Widely regarded as one of the filthiest and funniest

plays ever written, William Wycherley’s The Country

Wife has outraged and excited audiences for over 300

years and today still casts a provocative light on

sexual mores. Jonathan Munby returns to Chichester

following his huge successes directing King

Lear (Festival 2017, West End 2018) and First

Light (Festival 2016).

THE COUNTRY WIFE

MOONBIRD: University of Reading - one-off performance on 23rd June

The unique Theatre Arts, Education & Deaf Studies (TAEDS) BA for deaf-

hearing integrated students will mark its 32-year-history with a

performance of Handprint Theatre’s new adaptation of MOONBIRD, based

on the book written by Joyce Dunbar and illustrated by Jane Ray.

MOONBIRD

TRYING IT ON opens at Warwick Arts Centre on June 7th; Birmingham

Rep on 12th June

Christopher Haydon directs David Elgar’s one-man show, and will

be at the RSC, the Royal Court, and the Midlands Arts Centre,

Birmingham, in October.

TRYING IT ON

ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO’S NEST: Sheffield Theatres

Crucible Stage, 7th June – 23rd June

Award-winning director Javaad Alipoor directs this

adaptation of Ken Kesey's classic novel, which inspired the

cult film. Rebellion and conformity clash, when McMurphy

and his fellow inmates come up against the authoritarian

Nurse Ratched, who is not about to give up her regime of

discipline and order without a fight. They soon learn what

happens to the individual when the institution takes control.

ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO'S

NEST

DOUBLE BILL: WHERE WE ARE: HOME Manchester, Wed 27 – Thu

28 June

Rebekah Harrison’s play THIS IS WHERE WE ARE, produced

by her award winning theatre collective Take Back will be

performed for two nights only as part of this exciting double bill

exploring Manchester and its people. We’re in Piccadilly

Gardens, It’s a hot day, People sit, People wait, People

walk, People drink lattes, People beg, Children play, They run in and around the

fountains. It’s about midday, By 1.15pm, their world will change forever.

WHERE WE ARE

Overseas Theatre

TREMOR: 59E59’s Brits Off Broadway festival, New York, runs to

10th June 2018

David Mercatali directs Brad Birch’s play, transferring from

Sherman Theatre.

TREMOR

ANGELS IN AMERICA: Broadway – Continues

Following a sold-out run at the National Theatre, Marianne Elliott’s

production of Tony Kushner’s masterpiece transfers to The Neil

Simon Theatre on Broadway in 2018. America in the mid-1980s. In

the midst of the AIDS crisis and a conservative Reagan

administration, New Yorkers grapple with life and death, love and

sex, heaven and hell. Puppetry design by Finn Caldwell & Nick

Barnes, Puppetry Direction & Movement by Finn Caldwell.

ANGELS BROADWAY

ASKING FOR IT: Everyman Cork, Dublin – 15th June –

23rd June

The world premiere of Meadhbh McHugh’s stage

adaptation of Louise O’Neill’s devastating novel, which

shines an unflinching light on the experience of a

young woman whose life is changed for ever by a

horrific act of violence.

ASKING FOR IT

WOMAN AND SCARECROW: Irish Repertory Theater,

New York, until 24th June

Irish Repertory Theatre presents the New York

premiere of WOMAN AND SCARECROW by Marina

Carr. Woman is dying. Mother to eight children and

wife to an unfaithful husband, she is living her final

hours with Scarecrow, her alter ego. Together, the

women revisit her life with biting humour and brutal

honesty. Woman and Scarecrow is a fierce, passionate,

and moving lament for a life half-lived.

WOMAN AND SCARECROW

A GAMBLER’S GUIDE TO DYING: Basement Theatre, Auckland, New

Zealand, 12th – 23rd June

Written by Gary McNair, the story of one boy’s granddad who won a

fortune betting on the 1966 World Cup and, when diagnosed with

cancer, gambled it all on living to see the year 2000.

**** The Guardian, **** The Times, **** The Telegraph, **** The

Scotsman, **** The Observer.

A GAMBLER’S GUIDE TO DYING

THE DIARY OF MAYNARD PERDU: Wexford Arts Centre, Ireland, 20th –

30th June

Written and directed by the award-winning playwright Billy Roche, THE

DIARY OF MAYNARD PERDU is set in the fantastic, mirrored, burlesque

world of the Spiegeltent where fantasy and delusion reign supreme.

Based on the novella by Billy Roche, this one man show takes us on a

romantic journey of adventure and intrigue all of which serves to mask

the pain and loss that are buried deep within.

THE DIARY OF MAYNARD PERDU

THE FRUIT TRILOGY: Lucille Lortel Theatre: 2nd – 23rd

June

Abingdon Theatre Company will conclude its 25th

anniversary this summer with a production of Fruit

Trilogy, three short plays by The Vagina Monologues Tony

Award winner Eve Ensler, who was recently seen Off-

Broadway with her solo piece In The Body of the World.

The pieces will be performed at the Lucille Lortel Theatre

by Kiersey Clemons and Liz Mikel with direction by Mark

Rosenblatt.

THE FRUIT TRILOGY

Continuing Theatre

BOOK STORY Little Angel Studios & UK

Tour

HARRY POTTER AND THE

CURSED CHILD

Palace Theatre

MAMMA MIA Novella Theatre

42nd STREET Theatre Royal Drury Lane

HAMILTON Victoria Palace Theatre

EVERYBODY’S TALKING ABOUT JAMIE

Apollo Theatre

WHAT THE LADYBIRD

HEARD

International tour

MATILDA Sunderland

Empire/Milton Keynes

THE COMEDY ABOUT THE BANK

ROBBERY

Criterion Theatre

ART Canterbury Marlowe

Theatre

TRANSLATIONS National Theatre London

ANGELS IN AMERICA

Neil Simon Theatre Broadway