Winslow Boy, Quartet, Jekyll & Hyde, Me & My Bee, Crimes Under The Sun
The Winslow Boy - tour starts 8 February
Rachel Kavanaugh directs Tessa-Peake Jones, Aden Gillett and Timothy Watson in a new touring production of The Winslow Boy.
Tessa Peake-Jones's theatre career includes Beacons, Home, The Five Wives of Maurice Pinder, Shirley Valentine, A Comedy Of Errors, Quartermaine’s Terms and Ring Around The Moon whilst on television she has been seen in Grantchester, Marchlands, Doctor Who and perhaps most famously in Only Fools and Horses for 15 years.
Aden Gillett's theatre credits include R and D, ORCA, The Doctor’s Dilemma, Noises Off, Accolade, Mary Poppins, Blithe Spirit and Betrayal. His television work includes The House of Eliott.
Timothy Watson's stage credits include The Beaux’ Stratagem, An Inspector Calls and The Woman in Black, but to millions he will always be known as the baddie Rob Titchener in The Archers.
Based on a real-life event, The Winslow Boy has become a British stage classic and one of Terrance Rattigan’s best-known plays.
The Winslow Boy opens at Chichester Festival Theatre then visits Birmingham Rep Theatre, Bath Theatre Royal, Oxford Playhouse, Cambridge Arts Theatre, Salford The Lowry, Cheltenham Everyman Theatre, Brighton Theatre Royal, Belfast Grand Opera House, Richmond, Richmond Theatre and Canterbury Marlowe Theatre.
Quartet - tour starts 8 February
Ronald Harwood's comedy Quartet, about four ageing opera singers growing old disgracefully, opens at Cheltenham Everyman Theatre prior to a tour.
Directed by Peter Rowe, Quartet stars Paul Nicholas, Wendi Peters, Sue Holderness and Jeff Rawle.
Their collective credits are extensive, chief amongst them are for Nicholas television's The Real Marigold Hotel, Just Good Friends and EastEnders, for Peters Coronation Street and Oh What A Lovely War, for Holderness Only Fools and Horses and The Green Grass and for Rawle Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire and Drop the Dead Donkey.
Quartet is presented on tour by Mark Goucher and David Ian. On leaving Cheltenham Everyman Theatre, it visits Sheffield Theatres, New Wolsey Theatre Ipswich, Birmingham Repertory Theatre,, Salisbury Playhouse, Theatre Royal Brighton, Cambridge Arts Theatre, Richmond Theatre and Bath Theatre Royal.
Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde - tour starts 9 February
Touring Consortium Theatre Company and Rose Theatre Kingston present Robert Louis Stevenson's classic Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde on tour.
This timeless gothic tale has been adapted by David Edgar and will be directed by Kate Saxon.
Edgar has written a number of original works including Destiny, Playing with Fire and Written on the Heart, with adaptations that include The Jail Diary of Albie Sachs, Nicholas Nickleby and A Christmas Carol.
Phil Daniels takes the title roles. His theatre credits include King Lear, Antony and Cleopatra, The Knight of The Burning Pestle, Les Miserables and This House. On television, he is perhaps best known for EastEnders.
Alongside Daniels are Rosie Abraham, Sam Cox, Polly Frame, Anyebe Godwin, Ben Jones, Robin Kingsland, Grace Hogg-Robinson and Matthew Romain.
After opening at Rose Theatre Kingston, Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde visits His Majesty’s Theatre Aberdeen, Malvern Festival Theatre, Dartford Orchard Theatre, Nottingham Theatre Royal, Grand Theatre Blackpool, Wycombe Swan, King’s Theatre Edinburgh, Bradford Alhambra, Wolverhampton Grand Theatre, Cambridge Arts Theatre and Darlington Hippodrome.
Me & My Bee - tour starts 10 February
ThisEgg had a hit at last year's Edinburgh Festival Fringe with Me & My Bee which now tours.
This award-winning comic family show looks at climate change, the ecosystem and the disappearance of bees for audiences aged five an overusing storytelling, clowning, original live music and audience interaction.
The show is devised and performed by Joe Boylan, Josie Dale-Jones and Greta Mitchell.
With Me & My Bee, ThisEgg won the inaugural Les Enfants Terribles Stepladder Award as well as being shortlisted for the NSDF Edinburgh Emerging Artists Award, The Fringe Sustainable Practice Award and Brighton Award for Excellence. The tour is supported by house.
Me & My Bee visits Southbank Centre London as part of Imagine Children’s Festival, The Drum Theatre Royal Plymouth, Theatre Deli Sheffield, Curve Leicester, The Garage Norwich, Robinson Theatre Cambridge, VAULT Festival London, The Electric Theatre Guildford, Cambridge Junction, New Wolsey Ipswich, Stantonbury Theatre Milton Keynes, Greenwich Theatre London, The Seagull, Norden Farm Centre for the Arts Maidenhead, CAST Doncaster, artsdepot London, Botanical Gardens Edinburgh, The Egg Theatre Royal Bath, New Diorama London, Lyric Hammersmith London, Richard Whiteley Theatre Giggleswick School, Sheringham Little Theatre, St. George’s Theatre Great Yarmouth, Komedia Brighton, Touchstones, The Dukes Lancaster, Horse & Bamboo, The Hawth Crawley, Hertford Theatre, The North Wall Arts Centre Oxford, The Woodville Gravesend, Ovalhouse London, Little Feet Festival York Theatre Royal, E M Forster Theatre, The Theatre Chipping Norton, Key Theatre Peterborough, The Henderson Hub Abbots Langley and Sherman Theatre Cardiff. More dates are to be announced.
Crimes Under The Sun - tour starts 13 February
Crimes Under The Sun will take audiences on a hilarious yet murderous trip to a classic English Riviera retreat where a femme-fatale meets her end in a secluded island hotel and all the guests on the island become suspects.
Inspired by Agatha Christie, 39 Steps and film noir, this romp is brought to the stage by award-winning theatre company New Old Friends.
Crimes Under The Sun is directed by James Farrell and features the music of Kathryn Levell. Heather Westwell, Jonny Maclean, Feargus Woods Dunlop and Jill Myers make up the cast.
Crimes Under The Sun visits Ustinov Studio Theatre Royal Bath, Arena Theatre Wolverhampton, The Hazlitt Theatre Maidstone, Harlow Playhouse, Theatr Clwyd Mold, Middlesbrough Theatre, Old Laundry Theatre Bowness-on-Windermere, Swindon Arts Centre, The Theatre Chipping Norton, Lichfield Garrick, The Roses - Tewkesbury, Blackwood Miner’s Institute, Theatre Royal Winchester, The Riverfront Newport, Dorchester Arts, Nottingham Lakeside Arts Djanogly Theatre, Corn Exchange Newbury, Tacchi-Morris Arts Centre Taunton, Taliesin Arts Centre Swansea, Torch Theatre Pembrokeshire, Eden Court Inverness, Queen’s Hall Arts Centre Hexham, Gala theatre Durham, The Civic Barnsley, The Hawth Studio Crawley, Lincoln Drill Hall, Square Chapel Halifax, Riley Smith Leeds, Artrix Bromsgrove, Salisbury Playhouse, The Dukes Lancaster, Core Corby Cube, The Marlowe Studio Canterbury, Rothes Hall Glenrothes, Lochgelly Centre Fife, Carnegie Hall Dunfermline and Adam Smith Theatre Kirkcaldy.