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Photo: Charlie Gray
Susie Trayling (Ginny Potter), Joe Idris-
Roberts (Albus Potter) and Jamie
Ballard (Harry Potter).
NEW COMPANY FOR HARRY
POTTER AND THE CURSED CHILD
To coincide with the first performances
of the new company, the producers of
Harry Potter and the Cursed Child have
released a first-look set of portraits by
Charlie Gray. Seen in character for the first
time are Jamie Ballard as Harry Potter,
Susie Trayling as Ginny Potter, Nicola
Alexis as Hermione Granger, Joe Idris-
Roberts as Albus Potter and Jonathan
Case as Scorpius Malfoy. They are joined
by Thomas Aldridge as Ron Weasley,
Helen Aluko as Rose Granger-Weasley
and James Howard as Draco Malfoy.
Harry Potter and the Cursed Child is
the eighth story in the Harry Potter series
and the first official Harry Potter story to
be presented on stage.
Since its premiere, Harry Potter and the
Cursed Child has won twenty-four major
British theatre awards including
the Evening Standard Best Play Award as
well as a record-breaking nine Olivier
Awards, including Best New Play and
Best Director, making it the most awarded
production in the history of the Oliviers.
The Broadway production officially
opened to equal critical acclaim at the
Lyric Theatre last month and has
subsequently received numerous
Broadway accolades, including ten Tony
Award nominations.
Tickets telephone: 0343 208 0500.
Anita Dobson. Photo: Charlie Round-Turner
ANITA DOBSON WORLD PREMIERE
OF 3WOMEN
3Women, the debut play by the
award-winning comedian and writer
Katy Brand is currently playing at
Trafalgar Studios, starring the celebrated
screen and stage actress Anita Dobson
(Eleanor), alongside Debbie Chazen
(Suzanne), Maisie Richardson-Sellers
(Laurie), and Oliver Greenall (Waiter).
3Women explores the relationships
between three generations of the same
family, brought together in one hotel
room, in a darkly comic and pertinent
exploration of what it means to be a
woman.
From generation to generation,
mother to daughter, this female-led play
explores what it means to be a woman in
the 21st Century and the consequences
of the generational gap on our attitudes,
cultural expectations and family
dynamics. From wedding celebrations to
relationship disillusionment, 3Women is
razor-sharp, funny and caustically
irresistible.This hilariously frank and
original debut brings our three women
and their own very different identities
and opinions into one hotel suite for a
single night of redemption.
Katy Brand said, ‘3Women is a play
I have been hoping to write for several
years, but now that feminism and
women’s rights are at the very forefront
of the global conversation, I wanted to
really explore those issues from the
point of view of three generations of
women, and how they interact and
intersect within the same family.’
WILTON’S MUSIC HALL LONDON
PREMIERE OF SANCHO
Following an international tour,
Wilton’s Music Hall will host the London
premiere of Sancho: An Act Of
Remembrance, acclaimed actor Paterson
Joseph’s one-man play that tells the
extraordinary unknown story of Charles
Ignatius Sancho, English gentleman,
socialite, composer, writer, abolitionist
and first Afro-Briton to vote in Britain.
Born on a slave ship in 1729 and
educated in London in secret, Sancho
spent his early life working as a butler
for aristocratic families in South London
where he immersed himself in music,
poetry, reading and writing.
He went on to own a greengrocers in
Westminster, mixing with notable actors,
writers and musicians, before becoming
the first British-African to vote in a
British election. He was immortalised by
the great English painter Thomas
Gainsborough and became a fierce voice
in the abolitionism movement and a
symbol of the immorality of the slave
trade. In a largely white society,
Sancho’s life was not just unusual but
completely unprecedented, and it was for
this reason that Joseph decided to bring
his story to life on stage.
This revealing and funny one-man
show casts a light on the widely
unknown and often-misunderstood
narratives of the African-Britain
experience; Joseph cleverly takes
audiences through Sancho’s early years
in 18th Century London and explores
his ascent into middle class society.
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