Music and laughter in store at New Theatre

Greece is the word at the New Theatre next week. Ancient Greece to be specific.

Mischief, the team behind the multi award-winning The Play That Goes Wrong, rewrite ancient history with a new musical comedy, Thespians, which runs from Tuesday 23 June to Saturday 27.

It's 534 BC - Thespis and his sister Poly live on the tiny island of Ikaria where nothing ever really happens, until the entire population (all five of them) are forced to go to Athens to compete in a deadly prayer competition. All hope is lost until Thespis stumbles upon something that will change the world forever.

Written by Jonathan Sayer (co-writer of The Play That Goes Wrong, Peter Pan Goes Wrong and The Comedy About A Bank Robbery) and Ed Zanders (musical director, Mischief Movie Night), this promises to be a very entertaining show.

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🎭 Three of Britain's all-time comedy greats are revived in The Last Laugh, which visits the New Theatre 7-11 July.  It imagines the legendary Tommy Cooper, Eric Morecambe, and Bob Monkhouse in a dressing room, discussing life, death, and comedy.

Described as warm, funny, nostalgic and poignant, The Last Laugh has been praised by reviewers as "pure gold" and "pitch-perfect" (Mail on Sunday) and “irresistible, blissful blast of nostalgia and belly laughs” (Sunday Express).

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🎭 A lavish new production of the Cole Porter classic High Society comes to the New Theatre next month (21-25 July), after a sell-out season in London’s West End.

Helen George (from TV's Call the Midwife) leads a 28-strong cast which also includes many familiar faces from TV and film.

Among them are: Freddie Fox (Slow Horses), Nigel Lindsay (Victoria, Four Lions), Julian Ovenden (Downton Abbey, Bridgerton), and Malcolm Sinclair (Casino Royale).

Performed with a full-size orchestra, the show features many of Porter's greatest songs, including Just One Of Those Things, Let’s Misbehave, I Love Paris, Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?, and Well, Did You Evah!

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