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Playbox Theatre with Marla Rubin Producons Ltd
LET THE RIGHT ONE INDiDirected by Stewart McGill
A stage adaptaon by Jack Thorne,based on the novel and film by John Ajvide Lindqvist
OsOskar is a bullied lonely teenage boy living with his mother on a housing estate at the edge of town, when a spate of sinister killings rock the neighbourhood.
Eli is the young girl who has just moved in next door. She doesn’t go to school and never leaves the flat by day.
Sensing in each other a kindSensing in each other a kindred spirit, the two become devoted friends. What Oskar doesn’t know is that Eli has been a teenager for a very long me…
A must-see major new producon, Let The Right One In is an enchanng, brutal vampire myth and coming-of-age love story.
“The gasp, so rarely heard in the theatre, rings out oen here. First-rate… situated on the slipway between dream and daily life… a mesmerising evening.” – The Observer on the Royal Court Theatre producon 2014
“A vampire tale like no other. MesmerisingMesmerising.” – Newsweek
Performances at The Dream Factory, WarwickThursday 5th November, 7.30pmFriday 6th November, 7.30pmSaturday 7th November, 3.00pm & 7.30pm
Tickets £12 Standard, £8 Concessions Please Please contact the Box Office for Group Bookings and discounted ckets for Playbox Members.
Suitable for 15+ years
AUTUMN/WINTER 2015
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THE THREE MUSKETEERS
Inspired by the novel by Alexandre DumasDirected by Mary King and Stewart McGillDesigns by Commedia del Hollywood
Hollywood – the Golden Age of swashbuckling movie making and this is the big one! Playbox Theatre transport audiences to the studios, the back lot, the lback lot, the lavish world of film making in the 1930s for a fabulous extravaganza set in the 17th century telling of D’Artagnan leaving his rural home to travel to Paris to become a musketeer. His life changes when he meets Athos, Porthos and Aramis, inseparable friends who live by the moo ““All for one, one for all”.
With swashbuckling fights, romance and treachery, cunning plots and deceit, the story is one of the most loved with its heroes and heroines. Perfect for the family, ideal for the holidays… Lights, camera, acon!
Your call… Musketeers, Louis XIII, Cardinal Richelieu, Milady de WiMilady de Winter… ‘to make up please!’
Performances at The Dream Factory, WarwickThursday 17th December, 7.00pmFriday 18th December, 7.00pmSaturday 19th December, 3.00pmSunday 20th December, 3.00pmThursday 24th December, 11.00amTTuesday 29th December, 3.00pmWednesday 30th December, 3.00pmThursday 31st December, 3.00pmFriday 1st January, 3.00pmSaturday 2nd January, 3.00 & 7.00pmSunday 3rd January, 3.00pm
Tickets £14 Standard, £8 ConcessionsPlease contact the Box Office for Group Bookings
Christmas 2015 with Playbox Theatre
BOX OFFICE 01926 419555 ext 2
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BRINGING DISNEY TO THE STAGEPlaybox Theatre’s second musical theatre fesval brings Disney’s The Lile Mermaid Jr to Warwick’s Dream Factory
We blame The Lion King for this! Following a run of of Beauty & The Beast on Broadway, Disney’s novice theatrical group, under the leadership of Thomas Schumacher, invited unique director Julie Taymor to reimagine the animated feature The Lion King for the stage. It was, and remains, a triumphant show, winning audiences across the world. The show has been lovingly duplicated in cies cies everywhere with the London producon sll selling out aer 15 years at the Lyceum Theatre on The Strand.
Disney Theatrical Group is now among the world’s most successful theatre enterprises, reaching more than 19 million people in over 50 countries. It was in 2007 that Playbox Musical TheTheatre Director Juliet Vankay staged Disney’s High School Musical during August and to our surprise for what is oen a quiet me of year, the show sold out with demand for extra performances sll not sasfying the demand for ckets.
Having staged a wide selecon of musical theatre shshows over the past 15 years we all felt inspired to mount an annual musical theatre fesval in the summer and hoped that the event would become a calendar ‘must’ each year if we got the selecon and variety right. So, in 2014, Playbox relooked at the Broadway version of The Secret Garden and audiences responded with warmth and and affecon for this melancholic musical. How to follow? Lots of discussions, lots of names, lots of styles were mooted and, at length, it was generally felt that we need to celebrate with a show everyone could enjoy, leave the theatre humming and eagerly want to return the next day to experience again!
Disney’s The Lile Mermaid Jr is perfect for Playbox Theatre to stage this autumn. It’s an original new producon by Juliet Vankay of the show which is both reimagined and redesigned for its summer oung yet full of all the songs people will love and remember from the film.
A A cast of 38 began rehearsing in June for the opening on 9th September and everyone at The Dream Factory is ancipang another hit show for the fesval.
Book now on 01926 419555 ext 2 or online at www.playboxtheatre.com.
Disney’s 2007 Broadway producon of The Lile Mermaid
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PECULIAR PRINCESSESPlaybox Theatre’s Jinks producon takes an affeconate look at fairy tales
When did the When did the term ‘Disney’ became a negave way to describe storytelling on screen and stage? We oen hear of the Disneyficaon of something meaning sweet, sugar, popular and whimsical yet since very early days lots of writers, storytellers, film and theatre makers, even visual arsts and composers have felt able to make their own statements and versions of the best loved tales. Perhaps inspired by Hans Andersen, Perault or The Brothers Grimm, storytellers enjoy taking the iconic characters of the tales and giving new twists… Perhaps we’ve overdone the negave with Disney who, it seems to us, does a pdoes a prey good job balancing the elements of fear and love, friendship, trust and journeys through difficulty to happiness. Frozen is the latest take on a classical tale being inspired by The Snow Queen and then moving into its own, quite unique direcon. So popular that we have another film coming up and a giganc stage show opening on Broadway.
With Playbox Theatre’s Jinks producons we always try to create something very special for our younger audiences. Having sourced stories and tales from Japan, Asia, Europe, Great Britain and the world of faerie itself we have brought unicorns, magical trees, magicians, princes, princesses and witches to scare and delight.
The PrinThe Princess and The Pea is a take on the collecon of fairy tale princesses that we have come to know and love (or get fed up with from me to me!) and is an original new play wrien for us by Toby Quash. We feel sure our young audiences will recognise many of the characters and their personalies!
RigRight now it’s quite an excing me in the reinvenon of ‘loved tales’ in theatre and art. The Naonal Theatre open Wonder.land this Christmas, a digital age version of Alice in Wonderland and at the opposite end of the spectrum, the Bristol arst Banksy has opened Dismaland, a subversive theme park in Weston-Super-Mare where all our favourite fairy tales are given the horror treatment!
With Playbox you are in safe hands but do be prepared for laughter and a lile ironic humour with our princesses.
The Princess and The Pea opens on 18th October.Book nBook now on 01926 419555 ext 2 or online at www.playboxtheatre.com
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AS YOU LIKE IT & MACBETHOur repertoire season of Shakespeare’s joyous comedy As You Like It and the dardarkest of tragedies Macbeth played their in-the-round season at The Dream Factory in late April/early May. The ensembles brought very different and fascinang interpretaons to the plays taking audiences from downtown Tokyo to a harsh and very contemporary Scotland. The SYC return to the the studio and rehearsal rooms this autumn, along with their junior branch ‘Pucks’.
HOT NEWSMary King will direct All’s Well That Ends Well to conclude our 2016 Shakespeare Fesval.
GET INVOLVED...If you would like to audion for Shakespeare Young Company or find out more, do contact [email protected] and we can send you regular updates and details of forthcoming events, shows, tours and audions.
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