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The Theatre Royal Winchester has a
packed programme for the coming
months, with something for everyone.
English literature fans can enjoy a new
stage adaptation of Jane Austen’s final
novel Persuasion (10th-15th September)
and a new play written by Simon Reade,
A Pure Woman, based on Christopher
Nicholson’s highly-acclaimed novel Winter
about a poignant imagining of Thomas
Hardy’s relationship with his last muse
(18th-19th October).
The theatre will be commemorating
the 100-year anniversary of the ending
of the First World War with a number of
events, including Michael Morpurgo’s
Private Peaceful from 13th-17th November
about Private Tommo Peaceful, a young
soldier awaiting the firing squad at dawn,
and Stephen Macdonald’s play Not About
Heroes on 17th October, which tells of the
unique friendship between the celebrated
poets Wilfred Owen and Siegfried
Sassoon.
Comedy lovers are in for a treat.
The surreal, chaotic humour, bizarre
characters and fantastical plots of The
Goon Show by Spike Milligan come alive
on stage on 22nd September, and some
of the UK’s quickest comic performers
will create a brand-new, improvised ‘lost’
Jane Austen novel based on audience
suggestions in Austentatious on 4th
October.
Young theatre goers and their families
can enjoy stage adaptations of the best-
selling books Guess How Much I Love
S O U T H A M P T O N
Theatre extravaganza
L O N D O N
DEAD ANDBURIED
A 1,600-year-old sarcophagus
and skeletons of people from
Roman London help tell a
story of death and burial
in ancient times in Roman
Dead, an exhibition at London
Docklands Museum until 28th
October. The sarcophagus,
discovered in London in 2017,
is the centrepiece to over 250
other objects, many of which
have never been displayed
before. The exhibition is the
result of 40 years of research
and archaeological work, and
is the first of its kind to explore
the beliefs, rituals, deaths and
burials in ancient London.
The Museum of London
Docklands is at West India
Quay in east London. Opened
in 2003, this Grade I-listed
converted Georgian sugar
warehouse tells the story of the
port, river and city.
docklands
You (16th-17th September), Tabby McTat
(5th-7th October) and How To Hide A Lion
(22nd-23rd October).
Dance fans can see Charles Dickens’
Oliver Twist in a new light, as Tony Adigun’s
Avant Garde Dance flips expectations
of five familiar characters with their
unmatched contemporary hip-hop style in
Fagin’s Twist (2nd-3rd October), and Ballet
Black returns with a double bill celebrating
dancers of black and Asian descent (16th
October).
There’s plenty for music lovers too.
Showstopper! The Improvised Musical
sees a brand-new, all-singing, all-dancing
musical created from scratch on the
night from audience suggestions (27th
September), past principals from Les
Miserables will perform Broadway and
West End hits in Beyond the Barricade
(29th September), and Lee Mead returns
on his 10th anniversary since first donning
the coat in Joseph and the Amazing
Technicolor Dreamcoat (30th September).
TV and West End star Wendi Peters
(Coronation Street, Hetty Feather) will star
in one of Britain’s best-loved and sunniest
musicals, Salad Days, from 8th-13th
October. It’s an absolute romp of polite
naughtiness and saucy encounters, with
an energetic and peppy score. It puts a
smile on your face and a tap in your toes
and is the show that famously inspired a
seven-year-old Cameron Mackintosh to
fall in love with the theatre.
And that’s just a taste of what’s in store.