Andrew is on sabbatical but Phil is soldiering on to help you decide between the Merlot and the Marlowe and generally putting London's West End theatre to rights
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The Rose Theatre, Kingston is offering six budding actors an incredible and unique opportunity to perform in the Rose’s first in-house production, Shakespeare’s Love’s Labour’s Lost directed by Sir Peter Hall. You will appear alongside a truly talented cast which includes Peter Bowles and be directly involved in a hugely significant production in the history of the Rose Theatre. Read the rest of this entry »
Yet another fussing letter the other day from from Michael Grandage and Kate Mitchell at the Donmar Warehouse.
It is one of the benefits of friendship.
Regular readers may recall that the Donmar’s friendship programme comes in levels of friendship: Props, Lights, Costumes and Scenery and that the West End Whingers have hitherto always opted for the lowest level of friendship (much as they do in real life).
Anyway, the letter announces that although the price of the Props membership level will remain at a minimum donation of £30 a year, these friends will now only be able to purchase up to two tickets per production as opposed to the four.
But in a masterstroke of marketing aimed squarely at the West End Whingers a new membership level has been introduced which offers four tickets per production. It is called “Wigs”.
The cost of this new friendship would be £50.
We have to say that we’re almost tempted…
A West End Whinger 