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Plenty Moyet to come
You can’t accuse Kathy Burke of being afraid of hard work. The God of Hell finished earlier this month, and she’s already signed up for another directing stint. Smaller, written by TV writer Carmel Morgan (Coronation St, Brookside, Shameless), will star comic legend Dawn French alongside songstress and friend Alison Moyet, and will open in Milton Keynes on 20 February. From then it will go to Brighton, Birmingham and then settle in for a six-week run at the Lyric Theatre in London (on Shaftesbury Avenue). All details and links below. Smaller is a musical play and tells the story of Bernice Clulow (Dawn French), a teacher and the life and soul of the staff room,…
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Orange on tour
Blue/Orange is to finish its Sheffield run this weekend and then move onto Northampton, Brighton and finally Cambridge, full details below. Coincidentally, a televised version of the play featuring the terrific John Simm, Shaun Parkes and Brian Cox was shown last night (23 Feb) at 9pm on BBC4. It is pretty good, although you always lose something when plays are put on TV because the immediate connection with the actors is lost. 1-5 Mar Northampton Theatre Royal 01604 624811 www.royalandderngate.com 8-12 Mar Brighton Theatre Royal 08700 606 650 www.theambassadors.com/theatreroyal/ 22-26 Mar Cambridge Arts Theatre 01223 503 333 www.cambridgeartstheatre.com Links to reviews of Blue/Orange has been added to the Career/Directing section, and an article in…