Leicester’s only pub theatre, Upstairs at the Western, is “bursting" with drama in its spring season, with a programme that includes the Rolling Stones and a Columbian revolutionary spy.
The Ornate Johnsons and the Foundry Group will present Those Magnificent Men by Brian Mitchell and Joseph Nixon, the story of the first non-stop transatlantic flight, on 20 February.
Peppermint Muse will stage two productions. Altamont is a one-man show about a free concert in northern California featuring, among others, the Rolling Stones. It became known for the death of Meredith Hunter, stabbed to death by a Hell’s Angel who was working as a security guard. It will be Upstairs at the Western on Saturday 14 March.
The following Saturday Peppermint Muse’s Lavender Junction will be a one-woman show recalling memories of colonial India.
Darwin, The Origin of Species tells how Charles Darwin came to discover the secrets of evolution and why it took him more than 20 years to pluck up the courage to publish his idea. It is a show “packed with big ideas, terrible puns, brilliant physical comedy and six cracking original songs about everything from blasted boring barnacles to the perils of marrying your cousin”. John Hinton appears in the Tangram Theatre production on Thursday 2 April.
Tamsin Clarke will bring to life the story of Manuelita Saenz, a “revolutionary, proto-feminist, underground spy and the beating heart of South American liberation”, in Manuelita. Blending storytelling, physical theatre, comedy and live music, Manuelita will be at the pub theatre on Friday 1 May.
Further details are available at the Upstairs at the Western web site.