Press production photos have been released of Sheila Hancock and Jenna Russell in the European premiere of Grey Gardens ahead of the Press Night on 7th January 2016 at Southwark Playhouse.
The eagerly awaited European première of the Broadway musical Grey Gardens, is based on an iconic 1975 documentary, telling the spectacular real life rise and fall of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis’s aunt and cousin, Edith and Edie Bouvier Beale.
Grey Gardens, with Book by Doug Wright, Music by Scott Frankel, Lyrics by Michael Korie, is produced by Danielle Tarento and directed by Thom Southerland, the award-winning team behind Grand Hotel, Titanic, Parade and Mack & Mabel.
It will open for a 6-week season in The Large at Southwark Playhouse from Saturday 2nd January, 2016.
Starting in 1941 at an engagement party at Grey Gardens, the Bouvier’s mansion in East Hampton, Long Island, the musical tracks the progression of the two women’s lives from American aristocrats to reclusive social outcasts living in such squalid conditions, in a home overrun by cats, that the Health Department deemed the mansion ‘unfit for human habitation’.
Sheila Hancock and Jenna Russell in Grey Gardens
Southwark Playhouse
The Large
77-85 Newington Causeway
London, SE1 6BD
Box Office: 020 7407 0234
www.southwarkplayhouse.co.uk
Saturday 2nd January – Saturday 6th February 2016
