This Is London 8 March 2019

63 Years Informing International & UK Visitors 

Est. 1956 Issue 3143 

Friday 8 March, 2019

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CONTENTS 

Events 4 

West End Opening for Waitress 

International Women’s Day 

Vitality Big Half 

Music 8 

Mountbatten Festival of Music 

Petros Singers Perform Brahms Requiem 

Exhibitions 12 

Fulham Palace reopens 

Romanovs at the Science Museum 

London Photograph Fair 

Theatre 16 

9 to 5 – The Musical Opens 

WICKED extra performances for 2019 

Witness For The Prosecution Extends 

Tartuffe at the National Theatre 

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The Drummers of Japan – Yamato 

World-renowned Japanese taiko drumming troupe, Yamato, returns to 

The Peacock from Tuesday 12th to Sunday 31st March for an evening of 

high-energy and thunderous performance with its newest work, Passion. 

Led by artistic director Masa Ogawa, the work was created in 2018 

and builds a kaleidoscope of sound through an assortment of enormous 

barrel-like Odaiko drums to cymbals, bamboo flutes and vocals. 

Used in Shinto rituals, the Odaiko drums weigh over half a tonne each 

and are played by the troupe with ferocious and staggering strength to 

produce a heart-thumping torrent of music. 

Requiring exceptional skill and physicality, the drummers use their 

entire bodies to play and engage with audiences to create an explosive 

spectacle. This plethora of energy ignited by both the performers and 

audience, and the drummers’ daily commitment to rigorous training, 

forms the inspiration for their latest work, Passion. 

“AN ABSOLUTE 

BLAST.” 

SW1V 1LG• 

The Guardian 

VICTORIA 

Photo: Masa Ogawa. 

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Photo: Johan Persson. 

WEST END OPENING NIGHT FOR WAITRESS 

Based upon the motion picture written by Adrienne Shelly, the Tony-nominated 

musical, Waitress, by six-time Grammy Award-nominee Sara Bareilles, opens this 

week at London’s Adelphi Theatre, the first Broadway and West End musical in 

history to have four women in the four top creative team spots. Pictured: Katharine 

McPhee (Jenna), Laura Baldwin (Dawn) and Marisha Wallace (Becky). 

WORLD BOOK DAY AT JASON 

ATHERTON’S THE BLIND PIG 

Celebrate World Book Day at Jason 

Atherton’s flagship bar, The Blind Pig 

with cocktails inspired by children’s 

literature. The eight cocktails have been 

designed to offer patrons the chance to 

travel through the pages of their 

favourite childhood stories with clever 

flavours and unique presentations. 

Designed by The Social Company’s 

Group Bar Manager Jay Doy, the menu 

draws upon the smart storylines of 

Britain’s cherished children’s novels. 

Additions include the ABC Fizz, a 

visually striking drink inspired by Peter 

Rabbit and Chef Jason Atherton’s ‘Social 

Sweets’ cookbook. 

SANDERSON RAISES A GLASS TO 

INTERNATIONAL WOMEN’S DAY 

Sanderson, part of sbe global 

hospitality lifestyle company, is 

celebrating some of the best female 

talent on International Women’s Day, 

Friday 8 March, with a stellar line up of 

DJs, cocktails and desserts, all on offer 

to help raise funds for charity of choice 

Womankind Worldwide. 

Womankind is a UK-based, global 

organisation that works in solidarity with 

women’s movements around the world to 

bring about lasting change in women’s 

lives. To show their support for the 

cause, Sanderson is hosting a female 

empowerment party, Women with 

Ambition, in their celebrated Long Bar. 

An all-female line up will include sets 

from DJ Harleem, DJ Morwenna and 

exclusive headliner, BBC Radio 1Xtra’s 

Jamz Supernova. Call 020 7300 5588. 

DAM BUSTERS VIRTUAL REALITY 

EXPERIENCE AT RAF MUSEUM 

The RAF Museum is launching a 

brand-new immersive VR Experience 

based around the Dambusters first raid 

of 1943. The VRE runs for 10 minutes 

and enables audiences to experience the 

legendary raid from a 360° first person 

view. The VRE surrounds the audience 

with a physical set, which in conjunction 

with virtual reality visuals, spatialised 

audio and haptic feedback completely 

transports audiences to the skies above 

the Möhne dam in 1943, aboard an Avro 

Lancaster bomber. 

The Dambusters VR Experience has 

been developed by All Seeing Eye with 

input from No. 617 Squadron's official 

historian, Robert Owen. It will be located 

in the Dambusters area in Hangar 5. 

The RAF Museum is in Grahame Park 

Way, NW9. www.rafmuseum.org 

The Very Hungry Caterpillar inspired 

5-a-Day cocktail features ice made from 

the five fruits from the story (apple, 

strawberry, pear, orange and plum), with 

Patron tequila, lime cordial and Sekfords 

newest ‘Tequila mixer’, served in a 

highball glass and garnished with a 

gummy Caterpillar sweet. 

Awarded a Michelin star in 2013, 

Social Eating House is split across three 

levels, with The Blind Pig cocktail bar on 

the first floor, the restaurant on the 

ground floor and an exclusive chef’s 

counter dining space in the kitchen. 

Further information on Jason 

Atherton at www.socialeatinghouse.com 


ROYAL WINDSOR HORSE SHOW 

This May, one of Her Majesty The 

Queen’s favourite annual fixtures, Royal 

Windsor Horse Show, returns with a 

glorious new twist. 2019 marks the 

200th anniversary of the birth of 

Queen Victoria, a significant occasion 

which will be commemorated in 

celebratory fashion. 

Staged by a BAFTA award-winning 

team on the evenings of 9, 10 & 11 May 

in the Show’s Castle Arena, The Pageant, 

a 90-minute spectacular, will bring 

together memorable and exciting events 

from this golden age of discovery. The 

show will encompass everything from 

the Music Hall, the Industrial Revolution, 

Gilbert and Sullivan, Charles Dickens, 

and our military heritage (The Crimean 

War and The Great Game). 

Compered by Alan Titchmarsh MBE, 

spectators will be treated to an outdoor 

theatre production involving a 600 

strong troupe of artists and dancers in 

addition to over 400 horses and 30 

carriages. There will be readings from 

Queen Victoria’s diaries and poems from 

Tennyson laced with equestrian action 

and music from the period. 

A host of international acts will be 

travelling to Windsor Castle to join the 

celebrations and play an important role 

in the 90-minute show, including 

participants from Oman, the Hungarian 

Csikós and stunt riders from Azerbaijan. 

From the UK there will be Shetland 

Ponies and their young jockeys, Pony 

Club riders, The Household Cavalry 

Mounted Regiment, The King’s Troop 

Royal Horse Artillery and a ‘Balmoral’ 

Quadrille, complete with pipes, drums 

and Scottish dancers. In homage to 

Dickens, a scene from the renowned film 

and play ‘Oliver’, will be a highlight. 

Producer, Simon Brooks-Ward said: 

‘When you reflect on the Victorian Era, 

you realise that there is so much to 

work with. We have picked some of the 

best bits to give our audience a real 

experience of the 19th century and a 

much loved Monarch.’ 

Box office telephone 0844 581 0755. 

Arrival at Her Majesty The Queen’s 90th Birthday Pageant. 

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Sir Mo Farah. 

VITALITY BIG HALF CELEBRATES 

RICH DIVERSITY OF CAPITAL 

The Vitality Big Half returns on 

Sunday 10 March bringing a festival of 

running and culture to the heart of 

London in a celebration of the rich and 

wonderful diversity of the capital city. 

Now in its second year, the event 

features three running events with a 

distance for everyone – including the 

flagship half marathon, The Vitality Big 

Half – plus The Vitality Big Festival 

which takes place in Greenwich Park 

and will feature fun for all the family 

including live music, games and 

cooking demonstrations. 

The Vitality Big Half will see more 

than 14,000 runners start north of the 

River Thames close to Tower Bridge at 

09:00, head east towards Canary Wharf, 

loop back and cross Tower Bridge before 

heading to a finish at the historic Cutty 

Sark in Greenwich. 

Leading the entrants is Sir Mo Farah 

who will be looking to defend the title he 

won last year. He will face a stern test 

from a pair of Kenyans who are both 

former London Marathon winners, 

Daniel Wanjiru and Wilson Kipsang. 

In the women’s race, defending 

champion Charlotte Purdue returns 

while Paralympic hero David Weir is the 

star name in the elite wheelchair races. 

Behind the elite competitors will be 

the masses including more than 4,000 

community runners – participants from 

the four London boroughs the event 

passes through, Tower Hamlets, 

Southwark, Lewisham and Greenwich. 

The aim of The Vitality Big Half is to 

create an event that truly reflects the 

boroughs and neighbourhoods it passes 

through and to encourage more people, 

from all backgrounds, to take up 

running. To achieve this, community 

groups from the four boroughs of the 

race were able to enter runners for just 

£10 per participant. 

Within The Vitality Big Half is The 

New Balance Big Relay where teams 

of four split the 13.1mile course 

between them. 

The Little Half is the second running 

event being held on the day. It is a 

2.4 mile run that starts at 12.45 in 

Southwark Park and joins the final miles 

of The Vitality Big Half to finish at the 

Cutty Sark. More than 1,770 people 

have signed up to run the event which is 

open to all ages. 

The third running event is The Vitality 

Big Mile which will take place inside 

Greenwich Park and finish in The Vitality 

Big Festival. There is a running wave 

which starts at 12:30 and a 

walking/jogging wave that gets under 

way at 13.00. 

The free Vitality Big Festival will keep 

runners, spectators, residents and 

visitors to Greenwich entertained 

throughout the day from 10.00-16.00 

with a wide-range of entertainment. 

Further information and route from 

www.thebighalf.co.uk 

ENB PRESENT CINDERELLA IN-THE- 

ROUND AT ROYAL ALBERT HALL 

English National Ballet will perform a 

new in-the-round version of multi award 

winning choreographer, Christopher 

Wheeldon’s, Cinderella, at the Royal 

Albert Hall from 6-16 June. 

Co-produced by English National 

Ballet and the Royal Albert Hall, 

Wheeldon’s inventive production features 

over 90 dancers and combines 

magnificent sets and costumes, 

theatrical surprises and lively 

choreography set to Prokofiev’s famous 

score performed by English National 

Ballet Philharmonic, in what promises to 

be the ballet spectacular of 2019. 

Working from the darkly intriguing 

Brothers Grimm version of the story, 

Wheeldon originally created Cinderella 

to great acclaim for Dutch National 

Ballet and San Francisco Ballet: he and 

his creative team now reunite for the 

re-staging of this sparkling ballet. The 

production includes striking set design 

by Julian Crouch – founder of the 

influential theatre company, Improbable 

– puppetry from Basil Twist (whose 

credits include Charlie and the 

Chocolate Factory) and projection from 

Daniel Brodie. 

English National Ballet has presented 

grand-scale in-the-round productions at 

the Royal Albert Hall since 1997, 

including Swan Lake – with its recordbreaking 

60 swans – and re-workings of 

Romeo & Juliet and Sleeping Beauty. 

For tickets, telephone 0845 401 5045. 


NATIONAL DANCE COMPANY WALES 

PRESENT AWAKENING 

This weekend, National Dance 

Company Wales are to present their new 

tour Awakening at the Royal Opera 

House’s Linbury Theatre. 

Visiting 11 venues across the UK, the 

Awakening tour continues the company’s 

commitment to making engaging and 

innovative dance with and for all kinds 

of people in all kinds of places. 

Performing in London on Friday 8 and 

Saturday 9 March, the programme 

consists of three dance pieces. Tundra, 

which tears pages from the Russian 

history books on folk dance, mass 

parades and revolution, a piece which is 

as mesmerisingly beautiful as it is 

robotically precise. 

The production was nominated for 

Best Achievement in Dance UK Theatre 

Awards 2018. Afterimage, by Brazilian 

choreographer Fernando Melo, is a 

journey of fleeting images, of 

appearance and disappearance and 

features mirrors on stage, creating a 

unique theatrical experience where the 

past and present collide with a poetic 

and creative style of dance. Finally, 

Revellers’ Mass, created by NDCWales’ 

Resident Choreographer Caroline Finn, 

explores the world of ritual and focuses 

on a gathering at a dinner party, where 

social etiquette is put to the test. 

NDCWales has toured widely across 

the UK and internationally, most recently 

the company has toured Hong Kong, 

Hungary, Germany and Austria. 

Tundra. Photo: Rhys Cozens. 

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MOUNTBATTEN FESTIVAL OF MUSIC 2019 

The Mountbatten Festival of Music, now in its 47th year, 

features the Massed Bands of Her Majesty’s Royal Marines 

and is one of the longest running events at London’s iconic 

Royal Albert Hall. 

With over 150 musicians on stage 

these concerts are renowned for 

displaying the outstanding versatility of 

some of the world’s finest military 

musicians. The concert is given the full 

works with spectacular lighting, 

fireworks and big screen imagery. 

Highlights from the 2019 programme 

include a wide variety of music from the 

movies, the jazz repertoire, brand new 

pop medleys as well as a moving 

commemorative tribute to the 75th 

anniversary of D-Day and some breathtaking 

solo items. There really is 

something for everyone as the Royal 

Marines display their incredible 

musicianship and pageantry. The 

Mountbatten Festival of Music would not 

be complete without the traditional 

marches and overtures which are always 

so popular with the Royal Albert Hall 

audience. 

The Bands of Her Majesty’s Royal 

Marines are renowned worldwide not 

only for their concert performances but 

also for their precision ceremonial 

marching displays. In their famous white 

pith helmets they are instantly 

recognisable at international sporting 

events, national commemorations and 

many other major state occasions. 

Whilst there is obviously not quite 

enough room on the stage for the entire 

Massed Bands to march, no concert 

would be complete without the 

participation of their Corps of Drums 

who always provide a flavour of the 

Band’s ceremonial role and so the world 

famous Royal Marines Corps of Drums 

and Ceremonial Fanfare Trumpeters will 

again feature in the traditional Naval 

Sunset Ceremony which once witnessed 

in the fantastic surroundings of the 

Royal Albert Hall is surely never to be 

forgotten. With Rule Britannia and Land 

of Hope and Glory given the unique 

Royal Marines treatment, this is an 

occasion that is a must for all the Naval 

Service family and visitors from around 

the world. 

Performances will take place on 

Friday 15 March at 19.30 and Saturday 

16 March at 14.00 and 19.30. 

For ticket availability contact the 

Royal Albert Hall Box Office on 

0845 401 5018. 


LONDON MOZART PLAYERS IN 

PIANO EXPLORED AT ST JOHN’S 

London Mozart Players’ 70th birthday 

season continues with the March concert 

in the acclaimed Piano Explored 

lunchtime series at St John’s Smith 

Square in the heart of Westminster. In a 

whistle-stop hour, Conductor Laureate 

and soloist Howard Shelley will lead the 

orchestra in his engaging repertoire 

deconstructions, followed by a 

performance of the works in question, 

this time joined by LMP musicians 

performing multiple soloist concerti 

alongside him at the piano. 

This concert sees two pieces 

examined by Howard Shelley: Haydn’s 

Sinfonia Concertante in B Flat and 

Hummel’s Concertino for Piano and 

Orchestra in G. Haydn’s tuneful and 

inventive concertante for violin, oboe, 

cello and bassoon features the four solo 

instruments in ever-changing 

permutations; but this is glorious 

chamber music rather than a succession 

of flashy solos, showcasing ingenious 

interplay between soloists and orchestra. 

Hummel’s concertino for piano shows 

Mozart’s influence on the young 

composer but is also packed full of 

original Hummelian froth and sparkle. 

It’s the perfect work to demonstrate both 

Howard Shelley’s virtuosic brilliance at 

the piano and this underrated 

composer’s sheer genius. 

These lively and popular lunchtime 

concerts are perfect for London’s 

visitors, day-trippers or workers – truly 

‘the best lunch-break you’ve ever had’ 

(International Piano). Why not make a 

day of it and enjoy lunch in the 

delightful Footstool Restaurant at 

St John’s Smith Square before the 

concert? It’s the perfect way to step into 

spring! 

The performance will take place on 

Wednesday 13 March from 13.05 to 

14.00. This is the final Piano Explored 

concert of the series, so be sure not to 

miss it! 

Tickets from the box office telephone 

020 7222 1061 or at www.sjss.org.uk 

Brahms 

Ein Deutsches Requiem 

Miriam Allan – Soprano 

Marcus Farnsworth – Baritone 

Libby Burgess – Piano 

William Vann – Piano 

Saturday 23rd March 2019 

7:30pm 

St James’s Piccadilly 

tickets from £25 to £5 

www.wegottickets.com/petrossingers 

tickets@petrossingers.org 

sponsored by 

supporting The Upper Room 

www.petrossingers.org 

musical director Richard Bannan 

registered charity number 1074643 

Image: Wikimedia Commons: ‘Uttewalder Grund’ by 

Caspar David Friedrich (1774-1840) 

details correct when printed January 2019 

Photo: Kevin Day. 

London Mozart Players. 

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St Bride’s Church, Fleet Street. 

Onyx Brass. 

CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY CHOIR 

SINGS MUSIC OF OUR TIME 

On Thursday 21 March (19.30) at 

St Bride’s Church, Fleet Street, one of 

Cambridge University’s most recorded 

choirs, the Chapel Choir of Selwyn 

College will perform a captivating 

concert. Selwyn will be joined by Onyx 

Brass ‘the classiest brass ensemble in 

Britain’ (Gramophone) and organist 

Simon Hogan. This concert, Music of 

our Time, launches JAM’s 2019 season. 

‘JAM concerts are fresh, energised 

and surprising. The combination of 

amazing performance spaces, aweinspiring 

musicians and head-turning 

composition is very potent. A JAM 

experience is unrelentingly exciting and 

always enjoyable.’ – Audience 

The dramatic sea-churning The Fifth 

Continent by Paul Patterson and Ben 

Kaye (JAM commission 2005) describing 

the mysteries of Kent’s Romney Marsh 

headlines the evening. This magical work 

starts with all the performers offstage; 

space and physical movement are used 

as an integral part of the musical 

structure. A sense of boundless mystery 

prevails, encompassing a huge range of 

extremes, from the dark and austere, to 

the serene and tranquil via storms of 

violent winds and high seas. Performers 

will include internationally renowned 

countertenor, Andrew Watts, (Royal Opera 

House (London), Paris Opera, La Scala 

(Milan)) who premiered the work in 2005. 

Since, The Fifth Continent is JAM’s most 

successful commission with over forty 

performances, enjoying rapturous 

applause and international broadcast. 

Songs from the Marshes by Rory 

Boyle (JAM commission 2018) will be 

programmed with The Fifth Continent. 

This is a collection of modern folk 

songs based on subjects of a timeless 

nature which hark back to an earlier era. 

The songs deal with love, death, war, 

ghosts and nature all relating to 

communities living near the sea. 

Premiered last July by BBC Singers and 

broadcast live on Radio 3, this work 

receives its London premiere in this 

concert. 

Six further new pieces of vivid, vibrant 

music by Phillip Cooke, Steven Nunes, 

David Nunn, Richard Peat, Helen Roe and 

Frederick Viner showcase the great pool of 

talent working in the UK today. 

Tickets available on 0800 988 7984 

or www.jamconcert.org 

UNDERBELLY FESTIVAL 2019 

Underbelly Festival Southbank’s 2019 

programme is shaping up to be its most 

exciting and diverse to date, with over 

forty more shows added to the line-up 

bringing some of the very best circus, 

comedy, cabaret, variety, live podcasting 

and family entertainment to the banks of 

the Thames. 

Flip Fabrique, the Quebecois 

company whose style is a totally unique 

mix of joyous free-play, high-concept 

theatrics and an array of first-class 

circus skills, return to the Southbank 

from 27 May to 7 July with Transit – a 

visuallly arresting, thrillingly highoctane 

circus show with an enigmatic 

and engrossing subtext throughout 

which the performers’ ruminations on 

their own careers raise questions about 

the transient nature of life itself. 

Also set for the Southbank (6-8 May) 

are Sons of Pitches – the acapella and 

beatbox group who shot to fame as 

winners of BBC 2’s The Naked Choir and 

will be showcasing their astonishing 

singing talent and innovative vocal 

arrangements at Underbelly Festival for 

the first time. 


PETROS SINGERS PERFORM 

BRAHMS REQUIEM 

One of the great choral masterpieces 

of all time, Brahms Ein Deutsches 

Requiem is being performed in the 

stunning surroundings of St James’s 

Piccadilly on 23 March. First performed 

on Good Friday 1868, it is a work of 

considerable physical and emotional 

magnitude, as well as being profoundly 

personal. While Brahms was indifferent 

to organised religion, the death of his 

beloved mother in 1865 brought his 

spiritual convictions into sharper focus. 

The Requiem was therefore a highly 

personal undertaking of coming to terms 

with his loss while recalibrating his 

spiritual compass. 

In his Requiem, rather than dwelling 

on the judgment of the deceased, 

Brahms seemed intent on consoling 

those left behind. In a letter to Clara 

Schumann, he calls it a ‘human requiem’ 

and it is this sentiment that makes it so 

captivating to audiences both familiar 

with and new to this monumental 

composition. 

Brahms was also a keen musical 

historian, collecting and editing music 

by many of his famous predecessors. In 

this concert, the Requiem is preceded by 

a series of motets and songs by 

composers known to Brahms – 

including J S Bach, Heinrich Schütz, 

Fanny Mendelssohn and Clara 

Schumann – which illuminated his 

influences in the composition of this 

masterful work. 

The programme will be performed by 

top-class soloists – Miriam Allan 

(Soprano) and Marcus Farnsworth 

(Baritone) will be accompanied by Libby 

Burgess and William Vann playing 

Brahms' piano arrangement for fourhands. 

The chorus will be provided by 

the well-regarded chamber choir, Petros 

Singers, and the concert directed by 

Richard Bannan. 

The concert starts at 19.30 and tickets 

are available either on the door, from 

15.00 on the day, or from the website 

www.wegottickets.com/petrossingers 

(no booking fee). For further details, 

visit www.petrossingers.org 

WALTHAM FOREST LONDON 

BOROUGH OF CULTURE 

In a major nature writing commission, 

Faber New Poet and Caught by the River 

poet-in-residence Will Burns are to 

create a series of new works inspired by 

Epping Forest as part of an exciting 

literacy strand for The People’s Forest. 

The People’s Forest is year-long 

programme of work taking place as part 

of the Mayor’s first London Borough of 

Culture in Waltham Forest. Curated by 

arts consultant and events producer 

Kirsteen McNish and writer Luke Turner, 

the project will celebrate the borough’s 

unique relationship with Epping Forest 

and its importance as an urban 

woodland. 

Alongside a comprehensive 

programme of events, talks, gigs and 

artist collaborations, The People’s Forest 

will continue the history of great writers 

drawing inspiration from nature to present 

a literary programme designed to seek out 

new writing related to London’s strange 

and wonderful woodland. 

Acclaimed poet Burns will walk from 

Wendover Woods to Epping Forest to 

shape a new series of poems to be 

released throughout the year as part of 

The People’s Forest, revisiting family 

history, memory and the forest. 

Woodlands and forests have provided 

the setting and themes for storytelling 

since the birth of human culture, from 

the founding myths of our modern 

civilisations via Shakespeare and the 

fairy tales that scared us as children. 

Charles Dickens used Epping Forest as 

the place to open Barnaby Rudge, and 

Alfred, Lord Tennyson, the poet Edward 

Thomas, and TE Lawrence spent time 

among the trees. www.wfculture19.co.uk 

May Day Fayre. 

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Photo: Cinzia Sinicropi. 

BRICKS, BOTANY AND BISHOPS AT FULHAM PALACE 

Following a major restoration project, Fulham Palace will 

be officially re-opening on 25 May with a brand new 

museum, a painstakingly restored Tudor courtyard and 

expanded collection of historically significant plants. 

The newly restored Palace is the 

result of a £3.8 million project, 

including £1.9m from The National 

Lottery Heritage Fund, to revitalise the 

Palace and help more people discover 

its long and varied history. 

The Palace is free to visit and the 

restoration has doubled the size of the 

museum, which has been completely 

re-interpreted and includes historic 

rooms never before opened to the 

public. It provides insight into both the 

long history of the site, and also the 

most notable residents, the Bishops of 

London, who called the Palace home 

from AD 704 to 1973. 

Visitors will be able to marvel at the 

restored Tudor Great Hall, decide who to 

invite for dinner at the table in Bishop 

Sherlock’s dining room, explore the 

history of Bishop Compton and his 

legacy to British gardens and discover 

the Victorian chapel’s past through 

interpretation hidden in hymn books. 

The first temporary exhibition in the 

new museum will celebrate the 

archaeological finds unearthed during 

the restoration project and celebrate the 

contribution made by volunteers in the 

restoration process. The Palace shop 

will relocate to the new museum, 

stocking an array of beautiful items. 

The landscape itself has also been 

transformed, with the addition of new 

beds in the garden filled with 400 plants. 

All were originally grown at the Palace in 

the 17th century by plant-loving Bishop 

Compton, including the first magnolia in 

Europe, Magnolia virginiana. 

At the heart of the Palace, the Tudor 

courtyard once again looks proud and 

ready to welcome guests. It had been 

somewhat neglected over the years, and 

a patchwork of repairs scarred the 

brickwork façade. The restoration of the 

walls was painstakingly carried out over 

many months, with perished bricks 

being replaced with new ones made and 

fired using traditional Tudor techniques. 

Sian Harrington, CEO of Fulham 

Palace Trust said: ‘The project marks a 

real change in the way Fulham Palace is 

enjoyed and understood for generations 

to come. We look forward to sharing the 

stories of the Palace, which was home to 

the Bishops of London for well over a 

millennium, with our visitors. This huge 

restoration project has really brought the 

soul back to the Palace and wouldn’t 

have been possible without a major 

grant from The National Lottery Heritage 

Fund as well as our core supporters and 

volunteers, all of whom I would like to 

thank for their support in helping us 

realise our vision for the Palace.’ 

The Palace reopens on 25 May, and 

on 26 May the Palace will host a Free 

Tudor Fun Day where visitors will be 

encouraged to dress up, make music, 

create a May crown or a suncatcher and 

keep their eyes peeled for Katherine of 

Aragon, who may be making an 

appearance! 

Further information from the website 

at www.fulhampalace.org 


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The Tsarskoe Selo State Museum and 

Heritage Site, St. Petersburg, 2018. 

LAST CHANCE TO SEE ROMANOVS 

AT THE SCIENCE MUSEUM 

The Science Museum’s latest free 

exhibition, The Last Tsar: Blood and 

Revolution, is to close on the 24 March. 

Since opening in September last year 

over 55,000 people have booked to see 

this hugely popular exhibition. Taking 

visitors behind the scenes of one of the 

greatest mysteries of the 20th century, 

The Last Tsar investigates the role of 

science in the lives and deaths of Tsar 

Nicholas II and his family. 

Set against a turbulent backdrop of 

social upheaval and war between 1900 

and 1918, the exhibition explores the 

significant influence of medicine on the 

private lives of the imperial family during 

this period and the advances in medicine 

and forensic science over 70 years later 

that transformed the investigation into 

their sudden disappearance. 

Rare artefacts, including the family’s 

personal diaries, private possessions 

and jewellery found at the scene of their 

murder, and two Imperial Fabergé Easter 

Eggs presented by the Tsar to his wife 

just a year before the fall of the imperial 

house, help bring the personal lives of 

autocrat Nicholas II and his family to 

life. For the first time, photographic 

albums created by an English tutor to 

the Tsar’s nephews, and now part of the 

Science Museum Group collection, are 

on public display, providing a fascinating 

glimpse into the daily lives of the 

Romanov family. 

From the treatment of their only son 

and heir Alexei’s life-threatening 

haemophilia B, a rare blood condition 

and infamous ‘royal disease’ passed 

down from Queen Victoria, to the 

Tsarina’s fertility and the Red Cross 

medical training of the Tsar’s daughters, 

this exhibition explores the imperial 

family’s contrasting reliance on both the 

latest medical discoveries of the time as 

well as traditional and spiritual healers. 

The family’s determination to keep 

Alexei’s illness a secret compelled them 

to take controversial measures that 

ultimately contributed to the fall of the 

300-year-old dynasty. 

Ian Blatchford, Director of the Science 

Museum, said: ‘This exhibition marks 

100 years since the end of the Romanov 

dynasty and explores one of the most 

dramatic periods in Russian history, all 

through the unique lens of science. Our 

curatorial team have brought together 

an exceptional, rare and poignant 

collection to tell this remarkable story. 

I want to thank all our lenders in the UK, 

Russia and America for making this 

exhibition possible.’ 

The investigation into the 

disappearance of Tsar Nicholas II, his 

family and entourage following the 

revolutions of 1917, started in July 

1918. Over one hundred years later, this 

exhibition takes visitors behind the 

scenes to uncover the science behind 

the investigation into one of the greatest 

mysteries of the 20th century. This 

investigation was one of the first 

occasions that forensic DNA analysis 

was used to solve a historic case. 

THE LONDON PHOTOGRAPH FAIR 

The London Photograph Fair, 

London's marketplace for fine vintage 

photographs, the meeting place for 

collectors, curators and aficionados 

since 1982, will take place in 

Marylebone on 17 March. A resource for 

dealers, collectors and curators from 

around the world, best-kept secret of the 

cognoscenti, a variety of works will be 

on display and for sale: from original 

vintage fine art, press and fashion 

photographs, to contemporary, modern 

and 19th Century rarities. Prices range 

from a few pounds to many thousands. 

Whether new to the field or an 

experienced collector, you will find a 

wealth of specialist knowledge, and new 

discoveries on every visit. 

The Hellenic Centre, Paddington. 


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Natalie McQueen 'Doralee Rhodes' 

Caroline Sheen 'Violet Newstead', Amber Davies 'Judy Bernly', Natalie McQueen 

'Doralee Rhodes' and company. 

Photos: Craig Sugden. 

9 TO 5 – THE MUSICAL 

Nothing quite matches the irresistibly 

catchy vim of the opening theme tune, 

but this enjoyable musical – visibly 

endorsed by Dolly Parton herself, who 

not only provides all the songs but also 

tops and tails the production with 

enthusiastic video screen appearances – 

still makes for exactly the entertaining 

evening one would expect. It’s almost 40 

years since Patricia Resnick’s 1980 

revenge movie brought Jane Fonda, Lily 

Tomlin and Parton herself to the screen 

as a trio of disgruntled office workers 

who get their own back on their 

chauvinistic sleaze ball boss Franklin 

Hart Jnr – here played by Brian Conley, 

who docks young Judy’s pay, passes 

over Violet for a well-deserved 

promotion and spreads rumours of a 

non-existent liaison with Doralee. 

It’s all way OTT – from the Jessica 

Rabbit curves of buxom backwoods 

blonde Doralee (Natalie McQueen) to 

Hart’s lengthy suspension, in bondage 

gear, from the chandelier fixture in his 

own bedroom. 

The message is there (and there are, 

to be fair, a couple of supportive men in 

the background), but Jeff Calhoun’s 

smooth production is basically light 

hearted fun as new employee Judy 

(recently deserted by her husband) finds 

her feet, and Caroline Sheen’s widowed 

career woman Violet takes control, 

transforming the dull grey office 

(designer Tom Rogers) into a light-filled 

blaze of colour. And despite the efforts 

to protect her boss of besotted older 

Roz (a lithe Bonnie Langford who, after 

almost five decades in showbiz, 

effortlessly does the splits clad in sexy 

undies) these girls definitely come out 

on top. 

Louise Kingsley 

WITNESS FOR THE PROSECUTION 

EXTENDS AT COUNTY HALL 

A new cast will be sworn in on 

Tuesday 28 May, as further tickets go on 

sale for Witness for the Prosecution, 

extending into its third year at London’s 

historic County Hall. Carolin Stoltz will 

play Romaine Vole, Lewis Cope the 

accused Leonard Vole, Simon Dutton is 

Sir Wilfrid Robarts, Giles Taylor will play 

Mr Myers QC and Michael Cochrane is 

Mr Justice Wainwright. 

Director Lucy Bailey thrillingly places 

the audience in the thick of the action, 

with some even watching from the jury 

box, as this gripping tale of justice, 

passion and betrayal unfolds. 

Leonard Vole is accused of murdering 

a widow to inherit her wealth. The stakes 

are high. Will Leonard survive the 

shocking witness testimony? Will he be 

able to convince the jury of his 

innocence and escape the hangman’s 

noose? 

Witness for the Prosecution is now 

booking until 29 March 2020. 

The new cast in Witness for the 

Prosecution at London's County Hall. 

Photo: Ellie Kurttz. 


MAN OF LA MANCHA AT THE 

LONDON COLISEUM 

Nicholas Lyndhurst and West End star 

Cassidy Janson are to join Kelsey 

Grammer and Danielle de Niese in the 

acclaimed musical Man of La Mancha 

which opens at the London Coliseum on 

26 April. Man of La Mancha, produced 

by Michael Linnit and Michael Grade, 

the producers who brought Chess, 

Carousel, Sunset Boulevard and 

Sweeney Todd to the London Coliseum - 

are collaborating again with English 

National Opera to bring a brand new 

production of the Tony award winning 

Broadway musical to London, the first 

West End production in over 50 years. 

Alice Fearn (Elphaba) and Sophie Evans (Glinda) in Wicked. 

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Danielle de Niese. Photo: Chris Dunlop DECCA. 

Man of La Mancha will play a limited 

season, with performances from 26 April 

to 8 June. Featuring the iconic song 

‘Dream the Impossible Dream’, Man of 

La Mancha is Inspired by Miguel de 

Cervantes’s masterpiece Don Quixote. 

In a 16th century dungeon Cervantes 

and his man servant await trial from the 

Spanish Inquisition. In his possession he 

has a trunk carrying an unfinished novel, 

Don Quixote. As prisoners attempt to steal 

his possessions, Cervantes embarks on 

acting out his novel as his defence, 

transforming himself into Alonso Quijano. 

Quijano, deluded, believes he is a knight 

errant, renames himself Don Quixote de la 

Mancha, and sets off on a fantastical 

quest with his man servant Sancho Panza. 

HIT MUSICAL WICKED ADDS EXTRA 

SHOWS FOR 2019 

Wicked, the West End and Broadway 

musical sensation that tells the 

incredible untold story of the Witches of 

Oz, is now booking until 30 November 

at London’s Apollo Victoria Theatre. 

Extra shows have been added in 2019 – 

for the Easter holiday on Thursday 

18 April, plus Thursday 15 August, 

Thursday 29 August and Thursday 

24 October, each starting at 14.30. 

Already the 5th longest running musical 

currently playing in the West End, Wicked 

recently surpassed the run of Buddy - The 

Buddy Holly Story, to become the 13th 

longest running West End show in history. 

Alice Fearn as Elphaba in WICKED. 

Wicked has won more than 100 major 

international awards, including three 

Tony Awards, two Olivier Awards and ten 

theatregoer-voted WhatsOnStage Awards. 

Based on the acclaimed, best-selling 

novel by Gregory Maguire, Wicked 

ingeniously re-imagines the stories and 

characters created by L. Frank Baum in 

‘The Wonderful Wizard of Oz’. The show 

tells the incredible story of an unlikely 

but profound friendship between two 

sorcery students, whose extraordinary 

adventures in Oz will ultimately see them 

fulfil their destinies as Glinda The Good 

and the Wicked Witch of the West. 

For tickets telephone 0844 871 3001 

or visit www.WickedTheMusical.co.uk 

Photos: Matt Crockett. 


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Kitty Archer, Geoffrey Lumb and Kathy Kiera Clarke in Tartuffe by Moliere in a new 

version by John Donnelly. 

Photos: Manuel Harlan. 

TARTUFFE National Theatre 

This is London, 2019, so it is 

obvious that Tartuffe, a charismatic 

charlatan, cheat, swindler and ne’er-dowell 

is a sort of homeless person 

encountered by the aristocratic Orgon in 

a workman’s caff in Archway. 

Orgon himself has been transposed to 

Highgate, a bourgeois neighbourhood 

some hundred feet geographically and, 

perhaps, socially above Tartuffe’s old 

haunt. He is not an aristo as such in 

John Donnelly’s new version of Moliere’s 

comedy, but rather a wheeler dealer 

awarded a lifetime peerage by the British 

government for his work, which may 

have benefitted him rather more than his 

compatriots. 

The updates of the drama are 

amusing. The general tone of Donnelly’s 

prose – all acrobatic argument and 

mind-boggling sophistry – is hilarious. 

Key to the success of this satire is the 

undying folly of mankind. How can a 

highly intelligent man such as Orgon fall 

victim to such a false fakir, such an 

unconvincing guru as Tartuffe? Does the 

man not live in Orgon’s house, eat his 

food, ransack his cellar and fancy his 

wife? Orgon sees none of this. 

Instead, his blind faith leads him to 

suspect his own family is in sore need of 

a lesson. Soon Orgon hits upon the idea 

of marrying off his only daughter to the 

smelly and sagging Tartuffe, whilst 

throwing his admittedly dopey son out 

of the house and offering to usher his 

second wife into the charlatan’s arms as 

often as possible to prove the point that 

she has nothing to fear from him. 

Nothing he does makes any sense. 

If the scenario is ludicrous, the stage 

business is entirely fitting. No sooner is 

one character discovered in the pot 

plants than another has to be slammed 

into the cleaning cupboard. The rather 

beautiful modern sofa in Robert Jones’s 

grandiose set is trampled over by leap 

frogging antagonists rather more than it 

is sat on. A preposterously high-backed 

armchair serves only partly as throne to 

its upper-class owners; it also illustrates 

that diminutive guttersnipes like Tartuffe 

find it hard to strike a pose where they 

are dwarfed by expensive furniture. 

As usual at the National, the 

ensemble playing is superb. Blanche 

McIntyre’s direction has every player 

teetering on their own personal best. 

Denis O’Hare is so convincing as 

Tartuffe with his greasy ponytail, 

careless proclamations and affected 

‘Namaste!’s, his performance makes your 

toes curl. Kevin Doyle’s Orgon is a 

carefully judged incarnation of a willing 

dupe – by turns pompous and pathetic, 

with occasional funny turns in which his 

throbbing frustrations turn him literally 

puce with rage. 

Comic devices aside, the evening is 

no mere re-working of a literary classic. 

Since Tartuffe is cast as one of the 

dispossessed and his ilk – a silent 

chorus of men and women in cheap 

tracksuits and hoodies – come to 

inhabit the rich man’s home, an 

uncomfortable vein of criticism runs 

through the production. By the end of 

this production, will you feel bad about 

social inequalities, or relieved at the 

maintenance of the status quo? 

Only you can decide. Enjoy! 

Sue Webster 


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PLAYS 

RICHARD III 

John Haidar directs Tom Mothersdale as 

Shakespeare’s most notorious and complex 

villain. 

ALEXANDRA PALACE 

Alexandra Palace Way, N22 (020 7400 1257) 

TWILIGHT ZONE 

Adapted by Anne Washburn and directed by 

Olivier Award-winner Richard Jones, the 

acclaimed CBS Television production arrives 

in the West End fresh from a rapturously 

received, sell-out run at the Almeida. 

AMBASSADORS THEATRE 

West Street, WC2 (020 7395 5405) 

ALYS, ALWAYS 

A gripping psychological thriller that excavates 

the fault line that separates the entitled from the 

unentitled. Starring Joanne Froggatt. 

BRIDGE THEATRE 

One Tower Bridge, SE1 (0843 208 1846) 

WITNESS FOR THE PROSECUTION 

The acclaimed production of Agatha Christie’s 

classic courtroom play has captured the 

imagination of audiences inside the unique 

setting of County Hall’s ornate Chamber on 

the South Bank. 

COUNTY HALL 

South Bank, SE1 (0844 815 7141) 

THE COMEDY ABOUT A BANK ROBBERY 

One enormous diamond, eight incompetent 

crooks and a snoozing security guard. What 

could possibly go right? 

CRITERION THEATRE 

Piccadilly Circus, (020 7492 0810) 

THE PLAY THAT GOES WRONG 

A Polytechnic amateur drama group are 

putting on a 1920s murder mystery and 

everything that can go wrong... does! 

DUCHESS THEATRE 

Catherine Street, WC2 (0330 333 4810) 

HOME, I’M DARLING 

The National Theatre and Theatr Clwyd’s 

critically acclaimed co-production of a new 

play by Laura Wade, directed by Tamara 

Harvey. 

DUKE OF YORK’S THEATRE 

St Martin’s Lane, WC2 (020 7492 1552) 

THE WOMAN IN BLACK 

An innocent outsider, a suspicious rural 

community, a gothic house and a misty marsh 

are the ingredients of this Victorian ghost story. 

FORTUNE THEATRE 

Russell Street, WC2 (0844 871 7626) 

BETRAYAL 

Golden Globe and Olivier Award winner Tom 

Hiddleston stars in the Jamie Lloyd 

Company’s revival for a 12 week season. 

HAROLD PINTER THEATRE 

Panton Street, SW1 (0844 871 7627) 

Royal National Theatre Plays in repertory 

OLIVIER THEATRE 

FOLLIES 

After a sold-out run, winner of the Olivier 

Award for Best Musical Revival returns to the 

National Theatre. Stephen Sondheim’s 

legendary musical includes such classic 

songs as Broadway Baby. 

LYTTELTON THEATRE 

TARTUFFE 

A ferocious new version of Molière’s comic 

masterpiece. A scalpel-sharp comedy looking 

at the lengths we go to find meaning – and 

what happens when we find chaos instead. 

DORFMAN THEATRE 

DOWNSTATE 

Provocative new play focuses on the limits of 

our compassion and what happens when 

society deems anyone beyond forgiveness. 

NATIONAL THEATRE 

South Bank, SE1 (020 7452 3000) 

ALL ABOUT EVE 

Based on the 1950 Academy Award-winning 

film, Gillian Anderson stars as Margo 

Channing. Director Ivo van Hove explores our 

fascination with celebrity, youth and identity. 

NOEL COWARD THEATRE 

St. Martin’s Lane, WC2 (0844 482 5140) 

HARRY POTTER AND THE CURSED 

CHILD PARTS I & II 

Stage play based on the Harry Potter franchise 

written by Jack Thorne, based on an original 

story by J.K Rowling. 

PALACE THEATRE 

Shaftesbury Avenue, W1 (0330 333 4813) 

THE CURIOUS INCIDENT OF THE DOG 

IN THE NIGHT-TIME 

Acclaimed National Theatre production returns 

to the West End. Winner of 7 Olivier Awards, 

the play is based on Mark Haddon’s multiaward 

winning and best selling novel. 

PICCADILLY THEATRE 

Denman Street, W1 (020 7492 1566) 

FAULTY TOWERS DINING EXPERIENCE 

Inspired by one of Britain's greatest ever 

comedy series, this 2 hour interactive 

production is set in a restaurant where you the 

audience are the diners. 

RADISSON BLU EDWARDIAN 

Bloomsbury Street, (0845 1544 145) 

THE MOUSETRAP 

Agatha Christie’s whodunnit is the longest 

running play of its kind in the history of 

British theatre. 

ST MARTIN’S THEATRE 

West Street, WC2 (0844 499 1515) 

EMILIA 

400 years ago Emilia Bassano wanted her 

voice to be heard. It wasn’t. Could she have 

been the ‘Dark Lady’ of Shakespeare’s 

sonnets? 

VAUDEVILLE THEATRE 

Strand, WC2 (020 7400 1257) 

THE PRICE 

David Suchet delivers a comic tour de force 

as a silver-tongued 90 year old furniture 

dealer in Arthur Miller’s masterpiece. 

WYNDHAM’S THEATRE 

Charing Cross Road, WC2 (0844 482 5120) 

MUSICALS 

WAITRESS 

Hit Broadway musical brought to life by a 

ground breaking all-female creative team, 

featuring original music and lyrics by 6-time 

Grammy® nominee Sara Bareilles. 

ADELPHI THEATRE 

Strand, WC2 (020 3725 7060) 

TINA 

New stage musical reveals the untold story of 

Tina Turner, a woman who dared to defy the 

bounds of her age, gender and race. 

ALDWYCH THEATRE 

The Aldwych, WC2 (0845 2007981) 

WICKED 

Hit Broadway story of how a clever, 

misunderstood girl with emerald green skin 

and a girl who is beautiful and popular turn 

into the Wicked Witch of the West and Glinda 

the Good Witch in the Land of Oz. 

APOLLO VICTORIA THEATRE 

Wilton Road, SW1 (0844 826 8000) 

EVERYBODY’S TALKING ABOUT JAMIE 

New feel good musical – supported by his 

mum and friends, Jamie overcomes prejudice, 

beats the bullies and steps into the spotlight. 

APOLLO THEATRE 


SIX THE MUSICAL 

Tudor Queens meet Pop Princesses in a 

musical retelling of the six wives of Henry 

VIII. A celebration of sisterly sass-itude, 

powered by an all-female band. 

ARTS THEATRE 

Great Newport Street, WC2 (020 7836 8463) 


Joanne Froggatt (Frances) and Robert 

Glenister (Laurence) in Lucinda Coxon’s new 

play Alys, Always at the Bridge Theatre. 

Photo: Helen Maybanks 

MATILDA 

Critically acclaimed Royal Shakespeare 

Company production of Roald Dahl’s book, 

directed by Matthew Warchus. 

CAMBRIDGE THEATRE 

Earlham Street, WC2 (0844 800 1110) 

RIP IT UP 

Strictly Come Dancing’s champions are back 

with the latest song and dance instalment, this 

time bringing the swinging sixties straight to 

the 21st century. 

GARRICK THEATRE 


COMPANY 

Marianne Elliott directs Stephen Sondheim and 

George Furth’s multi-award winning musical 

comedy about life, love and marriage. 

GIELGUD THEATRE 


THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA 

Long running epic romance by Andrew Lloyd 

Webber, set in Paris opera house where a 

deformed phantom stalks his prey. 

HER MAJESTY’S THEATRE 

Haymarket, SW1 (0844 412 2707) 

THE LION KING 

Disney‘s phenomenally successful animated 

film is transformed into a spectacular stage 

musical, a superb evening of visual delight. 

LYCEUM THEATRE 

Wellington Street, WC2 (0844 871 3000) 

THRILLER – LIVE 

High octane show celebrating the career of the 

King of Pop, Michael Jackson. Over two hours 

of the non-stop hit songs that marked his 

legendary live performances. 

LYRIC THEATRE 

Shaftesbury Avenue, WC2 (0330 333 4812) 

SCHOOL OF ROCK 

Andrew Lloyd Webber's new stage musical with 

lyrics by Glenn Slater and book by Julian 

Fellowes, adapted from the film. 

GILLIAN LYNNE THEATRE 

Drury Lane, WC2 (020 7492 0810) 

MAMMA MIA! 

Hit musical based on the songs of ABBA, set 

around the story of a mother and daughter on 

the eve of the daughter’s wedding. 

NOVELLO THEATRE 

Aldwych, WC2 (0844 482 5170) 

COME FROM AWAY 

UK Premiere of the Tony Award-winning 

musical which tells the remarkable true story 

of 7,000 stranded air passengers in the wake 

of 9/11, and the small town in Newfoundland 

that welcomed them. 

PHOENIX THEATRE 


ALADDIN 

The classic hit film has been brought to thrilling 

life onstage by Disney, featuring all the songs 

from the Academy Award winning score. 

PRINCE EDWARD THEATRE 

Old Compton Street, W1 (0844 482 5151) 

LES MISERABLES 

A spectacularly staged version of Victor Hugo’s 

epic novel about an escaped convict’s 

search for redemption in Revolutionary France. 

QUEEN’S THEATRE 


9 TO 5 THE MUSICAL 

Based on the much loved movie and making its 

West End debut, Dolly Parton’s musical comes 

to London for a strictly limited season. 

SAVOY THEATRE 

Strand, WC2 (020 7492 0810) 

MOTOWN THE MUSICAL 

Featuring all the much loved classics from 

Diana Ross, Stevie Wonder, and the Jackson 5, 

the show tells the story behind the hits. 

SHAFTESBURY THEATRE 


ONLY FOOLS AND HORSES 

The landmark, record-breaking and top-rated 

television series written by the late, great John 

Sullivan, becomes a brand-new, home-grown 

British musical. 

THEATRE ROYAL HAYMARKET 

Haymarket SW1 (020 7930 8800) 

HAMILTON 

Lin-Manuel Miranda's multi award-winning 

musical, based on one of America’s Founding 

Father, Alexander Hamilton. 

VICTORIA PALACE THEATRE 

Victoria Street, SW1 (0844 248 5000) 

NEW CAST FOR 30th ANNIVERSARY 

OF THE WOMAN IN BLACK 

As Susan Hill’s The Woman in Black 

prepares to celebrate its 30th 

Anniversary at the Fortune Theatre in 

June, PW Productions have announced 

that from Tuesday 19 March, the show 

will star Stuart Fox as ‘Arthur Kipps’ and 

Matthew Spencer as ‘The Actor’. 

Having previously played the role of 

‘Arthur Kipps’ at the Fortune Theatre and 

during the UK Tour, Stuart Fox’s other 

West End credits include ‘Woman in 

Mind’ at the Vaudeville Theatre, ‘The 

Normal Heart’ at the Royal Court and 

‘Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas’ at the 

Fortune Theatre. 

Matthew Spencer (pictured above) 

has played the role of ‘The Actor’ at the 

Fortune Theatre and during the UK Tour 

of the show. His other West End credits 

include ‘Amadeus’ at the National 

Theatre, ‘1984’ and the Almeida and 

Playhouse Theatre, and ‘War Horse’ at 

the New London Theatre. 

Stephen Mallatratt’s adaptation of 

Susan Hill’s best-selling novel tells the 

story of a lawyer obsessed with a curse 

that he believes has been cast over his 

family by the spectre of a ‘Woman in 

Black’. He engages a young actor to help 

him tell his story and exorcise the fear 

that grips his soul. It begins innocently 

enough, but as they delve further into his 

darkest memories, they find themselves 

caught up in a world of eerie marshes and 

moaning winds. The borders between 

make-believe and reality begin to blur and 

the flesh begins creep... 

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YEN: JAPANESE FINE-DINING 

RESTAURANT ON THE STRAND 

Parisian Soba noodle specialists Yen 

launched their London flagship 

restaurant on The Strand in November 

2017 to much critical acclaim. Since its 

opening, the restaurant has become 

synonymous with eating elegant, highend 

Japanese cuisine in the capital, 

including London’s first handmade Soba 

from master chefs. 

Head Chef Hirkoki Hiyama came to 

Yen following an impressive career 

working in multiple Michelin-starred 

restaurants, including Ristorante Da 

Vittorio in Italy. Kasuki Sakurai, Yen’s 

director of Soba, was trained by ‘Master 

of Soba’ Mr Takahashi Kunihiro in 

Yamanashi, Japan. Head sushi chef 

Akinori Yasuda also boasts an 

impressive CV, with over 20 years’ 

experience crafting sushi, including a 

six-year stint at Zuma. 

The menu at Yen showcases 

perfectly-executed Japanese dishes with 

an emphasis on using the highest 

quality ingredients and freshest fish 

alongside handmade Soba, which are 

prepared twice a day in the restaurant’s 

dedicated soba room. 

Guests can choose from an extensive 

à la carte menu (including sushi, 

tempura, sashimi and robata grilled 

meats and fish), or a daily changing 

omakase menu chosen by the chefs. 

QUAGLINO’S NEW Q BAR MENU 

The iconic London venue, Quaglino’s, 

is launching a new Q Bar menu in the 

heart of its stunning restaurant that will 

serve up bottled classic cocktails 

inspired by the greatest artists and 

songs of the past. 

Titled All Time Classics, this expertly 

devised menu by Marco Sangion (bar 

manager) and Federico Pasian (head 

mixologist) will feature 10 bottled 

cocktails, served by the glass or bottle 

ideal for groups to share. The serves will 

be presented in the form of an upcycled 

wine bottle, in keeping with Quaglino's 

focus on sustainability, and each with its 

own uniquely designed label. Every 

concoction created for the menu will be 

a twist on the most iconic classic 

cocktails. 

A delicious array of newly developed 

bar snacks, by recently appointed 

Executive chef, Nuno Goncalves, will 

also be available to order by those 

residing at the Q Bar. 

Live entertainment from reputable 

bands and solo acts frequently take to 

the stage at Quaglino’s. 

Synonymous with style and glamour 

since its establishment in 1929, the 

restaurant and bar has been a bastion of 

the London scene for almost a century. 

Quaglino’s remains as fashionable as 

ever following a stunning refurbishment 

in 2014. 

Quaglino’s is one of London’s iconic 

restaurants situated within historic and 

stylish Mayfair. It was founded in 1929 

by Giovanni Quaglino, a restaurateur 

hailing from the Piedmont region of 

Northern Italy. 

Throughout the years Quaglino’s 

became a haven for Royalty with visits 

from the Queen and Prince Phillip in 

1956 and for Hollywood legends, the 

political elite and celebrities such as 

Judy Garland and Angelina Jolie. Among 

one of the first through the doors after 

the restaurant’s reopening in 2014 was 

Prince Harry. This further cemented 

Quaglino’s position as one of St James’s 

most spectacular dining destinations. 

Quaglino’s serves contemporary 

European food and legendary cocktails 

in an unrivalled setting. The resturant 

owned by D&D London, who operate 

over 35 leading restaurants in London, 

Leeds, Paris, New York and Tokyo.

This Is London 8 March 2019

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