The stage is bare, but for two stacks of three chairs, placed as bookends at the right and left wings. Over each stack is a thread of fairy lights. Our protagonist, and sole cast member, enters, clad in worn suit, overcoat and cravat. Placing his jacket on a hook at the side of the stage, he carefully unwinds the lights, and takes the chairs from their perch. Thus he begins his tale: a story as popular and resonant today as it was when penned by Britain’s greatest novelist in 1843. Last year, … [Read more...]
Cinderella with a difference: Boy Meets Boy at the Jermyn Street Theatre
It is 1936, a time of political and economic turmoil. The United States is in the throes of the Great Depression, and Europe is just beginning to learn of Hitler’s menace. But at the Savoy hotel in London, dashing American journalist Casey O’Brien is facing his own crisis. Having enjoyed the Savoy’s hospitality a little too much, he sleeps through the scoop of the century: King Edward’s abdication with Wallis Simpson. Casey must find a story to save his reputation, and settles on the marriage of … [Read more...]