Sitting In The Cheap Seats

Hot off the presses, one of our favourite musicals and most anticipated shows of 2018 has just announced full casting! Read on to find out who is setting sail from Southampton!

It’s the simplest of structures for a play. A small group of people take turns telling each other stories. Nothing ground-breaking in the premise. Add a setting – a village pub in rural Ireland, a cast of 5, four local men and a woman new to the locale and give the stories a whiff of the supernatural – a hint of possibilities that could all have a logical explanation but nonetheless make the hairs stand up on your neck. Mix it all together and you have a truly excellent play on your hands.

It’s the musical that blew Broadway away and for the last month it has been wowing audiences on this side of the ocean too. Just how is a musical about an almost forgotten founding father of the US driving so many Brits wild? Well there’s only one way to find out… you’ve gotta be in the room where it happens!

“ I am big! It’s the pictures that got small ” With those words we learn everything we need to know about Norma Desmond in Andrew Lloyd Webber ’s stage adaptation of the classic Billy Wilder movie. Ostensibly an ode to the glory days of Hollywood and its first stars, this is really the story of a woman stuck in the trappings of her former life and unable to escape that she is growing old.

We sent  Emma van Kooperen  to  Chichester Festival Theatre  to find out just what keeps going wrong as  Mischief Theatre  take on a murder mystery by way of Monty Python…

We’re huge fans of Shakespeare here at  Sitting In The Cheap Seats and there are few things better than the Bard’s work, done well, in the open air at Shakespeare’s Globe . In her inaugural season as Artistic Director  Michelle Terry brings us some old favourites, a couple of interesting choices and a trio of new plays. Read on to find out all about the new season!