Sasha Regan’s All Male Iolanthe
By W.S. Gilbert And Arthur Sullivan
Torches flash in the darkness as a party of naughty schoolboys adventure into the magical surroundings of an old theatre. Amid all the backstage paraphernalia they discover a Narnia-like wardrobe and a dusty copy of Gilbert and Sullivan’s Iolanthe. What follows is pure magic!
If you remember the impact of Joe Papp’s ground-breaking Pirates of Penzance 30 years ago then this is a similar moment: a tired operetta kicked into new, fizzing life.
★★★★ Guardian
Universally regarded as Sir Arthur Sullivan’s most beautiful score, Iolanthe is a topsy-turvy love story between the most unlikely of couples… fairies and members of the House of Lord’s! Sasha Regan’s all male, award-winning company return with their best received production. Her inimitable inventiveness combined with Gilbert and Sullivan’s inherent barminess make for an un-missable night out.
- Director Sasha Regan
- Choreographer Mark Smith
- Musical Director Richard Baker
- Original Design Stewart Charlesworth
- Tour Set Design Kingsley Hall
- Lighting Designer Tim Deiling
- Vocal Consultant Alan Richardson
- Casting Director Adam Braham
- Resident Director Paul Callen
Creatives
Sasha Regan
Director
As a director Sasha’s recent credits include: Love Story which was runner up in WestEndFrame Best Production, We’re all doing Time (Critics Choice), Chelinot (Sunday Times Critics Choice), Kander & Ebb’s Cabaret, Sweeney Todd (Critics Choice) and Pirates of Penzance (Winner Of The Whatsonstage, Best Off West End Production). After performing at The Prince of Wales Theatre for the WhatsonStage Awards, Pirates then transferred to Wilton’s Music Hall and then moved to The Rose Theatre, Kingston. Pirates then completed a Number One tour of Australia, including a month’s run at The Sydney Theatre. Iolanthe (Critics Choice & Time Out’s top 10 musicals of 2010). Iolanthe transferred to Wilton’s Music Hall where the cast enjoyed a sold-out run and broke all Wilton’s box office records from the previous 12 years. Patience (Critics Choice). Sasha directed the European Premiere of Pipe Dream; the musical was nominated for both Best Production and Best Direction in the Broadway World Awards.
Other credits include: Love Story by Howard Goodall and Whistle Down the Wind by Russell Labey and Richard Taylor, an all male H.M.S. Pinafore UK Tour in 2016 (www.allmalehms.com), Cinderella for Paul Holman Associates, Beauty and The Beast and Snow White for Chris Jordan Productions, Associate Director to Jason Robert Brown on The Last Five Years at St. James Theatre, Blondel by Sir Tim Rice for Heartache Productions. Most recently Sasha has directed The Mikado for a UK Tour.
Sasha worked with Chris O’Dowd at The British Independent Film Awards.
Sasha is a working mum, with two daughters, Bea and Nellie Regan.
Mark Smith
Choreographer
Training: Royal Ballet School and London Studio Centre
Choreography credits: Paralympic Opening Ceremony London 2012; Blood Wedding (Dundee Rep); Marry Me A Little, Peter Pan, Just So and Starting Here, Starting Now (Chichester University); The Witches of Eastwick (The Institute of the Arts Barcelona); The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee (Arts Educational School); Cabaret (Mountview); Carousel (Royal Academy of Music ); As you Like It (Oxford Shakespeare Company); Hear! Hear!, Rosa, TEN, Sense of Freedom, Corazon a Corazon, Embrace, Let us tell you a story… and Alive! (Deaf Men Dancing); The Threepenny Opera (New Wolsey Theatre/Graeae Theatre – Tour Production); Die Fledermaus (Oslo Opera House); Reasons To Be Cheerful (Graeae Theatre – Tour Production); The Lion, The Witch & The Wardrobe, 101 Dalmatians, Noah and A Marvellous Year for Plum (Chichester Festival Theatre); Aladdin (Hammersmith Lyric); Shoes (Sadler’s Wells); Iolanthe, Call Me Madam & Ace of Clubs (Union Theatre/Wilton’s Music Hall); Money makes the world go round & Echoes in the Night (Carnival UK/3 Pins Productions); My Silent World (Ballet Boyz/Channel 4’s Random Acts); Orfeo ed Euridice (Longborough Festival), National English Ballet Theatre (Choreography Lab); The Who’s Tommy (Greenwich Theatre and Ramps on the Moon’s Tour Production).
Mark was nominated as Best Choreographer in the Off-West End Awards and the Broadway World UK Awards for Ace of Clubs, Call Me Madam & Iolanthe and Live Theatre & British Theatre for Tommy.
Mark Smith is the founder and artistic director for his own dance company Deaf Men Dancing.
Mark Smith’s future projects: Wales tour production of The Last Five Years (Director: Angharad Lee) and a new play The Meeting at Chichester Festival Theatre (Director: Natalie Abrahami. Writer: Charlotte Jones)
Mark Smith is represented by CVH Management
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Richard Baker
Musical Director
Richard is a freelance musical director, qualified teacher, composer and improviser. This is the second All Male tour Richard has musically directed, the first being The Mikado last year.
He has recently worked as MD for Mischief Movie Night at the Arts Theatre (nominated for Best New Comedy at the 2018 Olivier awards), The Secret Garden at the Ambassadors Theatre, Finian’s Rainbow at Charing Cross Theatre, NewsRevue at the Canal Café Theatre, Stephen Sondheim’s Road Show, Anyone Can Whistle, Lucky Stiff and Our House at the Union Theatre, Princess Ida at the Finborough Theatre, and the last four Newbury pantomimes. He also co-composed for the Olivier-nominated Peter Pan Goes Wrong at the Apollo Theatre and for the BBC production with Mischief Theatre. He initially joined Mischief Theatre in 2013 as an improvising musician for their show Lights! Camera! Improvise!, which has played several sold out runs at the Edinburgh Festival and had a monthly residency at the Duchess Theatre. His other improvisation work includes the last four London 50-Hour Improvathons at the Stockwell Playhouse, Park Theatre and Wilton’s Music Hall.
Richard is an audition pianist and vocal coach, and has worked at various drama schools including LAMDA, Rose Bruford and the Urdang Academy. He is a pianist for the company Opera Anywhere and occasionally sings bass with a capella groups. Other MD credits include: The Wandering Scholar at the King’s Head Theatre, City of Angels at the Hammersmith Lyric, The Last 5 Years at the Nursery Theatre and Much Ado About Nothing at the Riverside Studios. He has also worked at the Old Vic Tunnels, the Islington Pleasance and Royal Festival Hall, and has conducted Iolanthe at Buxton Opera House.
Stewart Charlesworth
Original Design
Kingsley Hall
Tour Set Design
Kingsley’s theatre design includes: The Penelopiad (Jackson’s Lane) Corazon a Corazon (Deaf men Dancing) Children of Eden (Union Productions) The Dreaming (Union Theatre), Cabaret (Aiglon College Switzerland – Set), Sasha Regan’s All Male The Mikado (UK Tour – Associate) Rita (Northern School of Contemporary Dance – Associate), Blak Whyte Gray (Barbican – Associate), Of Ham and Passion (DeNada Dance Theatre – Associate), Sasha Regan’s All Male Patience (Union Theatre), Once Upon A Mattress (Union Theatre), Goodnight Mrs Calabash (Upstairs at the Gatehouse – Costume) for which he won an Off West End Theatre Award for Best Costume Design, A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Aiglon Switzerland – Associate) A Cowardly Night (Sewerby Hall and Gardens) Showtime (The Bridlington Spa Theatre) Hear Hear (Deaf Men Dancing – Sadlers Wells – Associate), Sasha Regan’s All Male HMS Pinafore (UK Tour – Associate), Cabaret (Aiglon Switzerland – Associate), The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas (ASH Live Productions), The Baker’s Wife (Union Theatre – Costume), Dames at Sea (Union Theatre).
Kingsley has also worked as a costume maker for theatre including Beethoven (Anjali Dance Company) Soiree Dangereuse (Private Drama) Toro (DeNada Dance Theatre) In Gay Company (Jermyn Street Theatre) Matilda the Musical (Cambridge Theatre London), Hamlet (Creation theatre Oxford) Of Ham and Passion (DeNada Dance Theatre) Cabaret Des Distractions (Cafe De Paris) As You Like It (Creation Theatre Oxford) Hear Hear (Deaf Men Dancing – Sadlers Wells) Into the Woods (Chichester University), Carousel (Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance), Godspell (Trinity Laban), Respect La Diva (Garrick Theatre London), Colonel Blood and the Raven (Oxford Shakespeare Company – Tower Of London), Jekyll and Hyde (Morphic Graffiti).
Tim Deiling
Lighting Designer
American Idiot (West End), Our House (UK Tour), Summer Holiday (UK Tour), Dedication (Nuffield Theatre), Miss Atomic Bomb (St James), Crazy For Your, Guys & Dolls, On The 20th Century (Guildhall), Dick Whittington, Cinderella, Aladdin, Jack & The Beanstalk (Lyric Hammersmith), Vanities, Bash (Trafalgar Studios), The Mikado (UK Tour), Miracle on 34th st (UK Tour), HMS Pinafore (Hackney Empire/UK Tour), Incognito (The Bush), Fuck The Polar Bears (The Bush), Table (Arts Ed), Zombie Prom (Landor Theatre), The Dr Who Experience (BBC Cardiff), Bare (Greenwich Theatre), The Last Days of Judas Iscariot (Platform Theatre), Moby Dick, Annie Get Your Gun, Closer To Heaven, Honk, Louserville The Musical, Whistle Down The Wind, Pacific Overtures, Bare, and Billy (The Union), Good With People (59E59, NYC), The 8th (The Barbican), Boiling Frogs (Southwark Playhouse), Wigan, & 65 Miles (Hull Truck), Chips With Everything (Embassy Studio), As Is (Finbourgh Theatre), Concrete Jungle (Riverside Studios), The Oikos Project and Protozoa (The Red Room), Zombie Prom The Musical (Landor Theatre), Macbeth (Sprite Productions), Boiling Frogs (Factory Theatre).
Tim was the Associate Lighting designer for the National Theatre. He’s also worked as an Associate Lighting Designer on projects like Scottsboro Boys (West End), White Christmas, (West End), Chicago The Musical (West End, Uk Tour, International), 9 to 5 The Musical (UK Tour), Pippin (Chocolate Factory), and High School Musical 2 (UK Tour).
Film Credits: Film Stars Don’t Die In Liverpool (EON Films), Animal Charm, The Prank Show (BBC).
Alan Richardson
Vocal Consultant
As an actor, Alan trained at the Guildford School of Acting receiving a Distinction and the Principal’s Award for Excellence. He has worked in theatre in the UK and Internationally, and is currently performing as Mary Sunshine in Chicago at the Phoenix Theatre in London’s West End. He has worked extensively with Sasha Regan in her exceptional all-male productions of Gilbert and Sullivan’s timeless operettas, including H.M.S. Pinafore and The Mikado, and winning an Off-West End Award for the People’s Choice Best Male Performance as Mabel in The Pirates of Penzance.
He recently trained as a vocal teacher with The Voice College, under the tuition of Dr Ria Keen, graduating with an Advanced Professional Diploma in Teaching Contemporary Singing achieving a Distinction and winning the P.J. Proby Award for Student of the Year. He was then honoured to be asked to join the faculty as a tutor and now teaches vocalists and prospective vocal tutors.
Iolanthe is very close to Alan’s heart, having performed in the original productions at The Union Theatre and, then, Wilton’s Music Hall, and is thrilled to be working with this wonderful cast to recreate the magic of this beautiful production.
Adam Braham
Casting Director
Adam started his work as a freelance Casting Director and Project Manager for the company Mad Dog Casting.
Credits include: Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides; W.E. directed by Madonna and the Tim Burton feature film Dark Shadows.
Theatre casting has included: Shout! (UK Tour); Up4aMeet? (Waterloo East Theatre & UK Tour); Jekyll and Hyde the musical (Morphic Graffiti); I Love You Because (Theatro Technis); The Tailor-Made Man (The White Bear Theatre).
Casting for The Union Theatre includes: Chess the Musical; On a Clear Day You Can See Forever; Rogers and Hammerstein’s Pipe Dream; Whistle Down the Wind; the triple bill of Howard Goodall works: the dreaming, Girlfriends and Love Story; Loserville; Our House; Bad Girls the Musical; The Rise and Fall of Little Voice; Children of Eden; Annie Get Your Gun; Out There; Lucky Stiff; Salad Days; Privates on Parade; Blondel!
For The Phil Willmott Company: Brecht’s Fear and Misery Of the Third Reich, Sondheim’s Road Show and Anyone Can Whistle; Three Sisters; Heartbreak House; The Cherry Orchard.
For Amy Anzel Productions: Moby Dick the musical.
For Regan De Wynter Williams Productions: Sasha Regan’s All-Male The Pirates of Penzance, which played The Hackney Empire prior to an Australian tour in 2012, and again toured the UK in 2015; Sasha Regan’s All-Male HMS Pinafore which toured the UK in both 2014 and 2016, and most recently Sasha Regan’s All-Male Mikado UK Tour.
For S4K International: Twelfth Night International Tour.
Adam is also the UK casting consultant for Icon People; a production company in Tallinn, Estonia.
Twitter: @AdamBraham
Instagram: adam.braham
www.adambrahamcasting.co.uk
Paul Callen
Resident Director
Directing credits: Lucky Stiff at the Union Theatre (Best Director nomination, Off-West End Awards).
Associate Director credits: The Fix; Stephen Sondheim’s Pacific Overtures, Company and Assassins (Best Production, Off-West End Awards), Billy; Duncton Wood; The Baker’s Wife and The Who’s Tommy (Greenwich Theatre).
Cast
Alastair Hill
Lord Chancellor
Alastair graduated from Guildford School of Acting’s MA Course in October 2014. Since then he has twice toured the UK as Norman in Dreamboats and Petticoats and Dreamboats and Petticoats, twice appeared at The Union Theatre in The Dreaming (Alexander) and The Fix (Bobby ‘Cracker’ Barrel) and twice played Prince Charming in Cinderella for Darlington and Newbury’s pantomimes. He clearly only works in twos!
Richard Russell Edwards
Fairy Queen
Richard trained at Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama where he gained a Masters Degree with Distinction, He was awarded The RWCMD Musical Theatre Prize for gaining the highest marks in his year group.
Theatre credits: Jesus Christ Superstar, Slovenia. Cousin Hebe – Sasha Regan’s All-Male HMS Pinafore at The Union Theatre for which he won the 2013 Craig Dodd Prize for Best Actor in a Featured Role. He continued to play Cousin Hebe in the two subsequent UK Tours. The White Rabbit – Alice in Wonderland, Dubai. Hebe – Sasha Regan’s All Male Pirates of Penzance UK Tour. Peep-Bo/ cover Katisha – Sasha Regan’s All Male Mikado UK Tour.
Theatre credits whilst training: Charley Kringas – Merrily We Roll Along, Arthur – Spring Storm. Peter – Bare a Pop Opera, Anthony/ Beadle Bamford – Sweeney Todd, Captain Hook – Peter Pan, Malvolio – Twelfth Night.
Twitter @RichardREdward
Richard Carson
Strephon
Recent credits include: Jason in Myth (Workshop Production, The Other Palace), Sky in Mamma Mia! (Novello Theatre), Ensemble/Cover Chris in Miss Saigon (Prince Edward Theatre), Ensemble/Cover Fiyero in Wicked (Original Company UK and Ireland Tour), Man 1 in Closer Than Ever (The Pheasantry), Prince Charming in Cinderella (Radlett Centre), John in The Hired Man (Bernie Grant Centre) and Ensemble/Farmer in Oklahoma! (Royal Albert Hall, BBC Proms).
Workshops include: Last of the Mohicans (Marylebone Studios), LHO (Delicatessen Studios) and Sky in Dino Story (The Other Palace).
Film and Television includes: Miss Saigon 25th Anniversary Performance (Universal Pictures) and Oklahoma! (BBC Proms).
Recordings include: Wit & Whimsy: Songs by Alexander Bermange.
Twitter – @RichardCarson21
Joe Henry
Phylliss
Training: Guildford School of Acting
Theatre credits includes: Mungojerrie/cover Skimbleshanks in Cats (UK/International Tour), Ensemble/Dance Captain in Miracle on 34th Street (Madinat Theatre, Dubai).
Credits whilst training: Ballet Dancer in LIFT the Musical, Pablo in Sister Act, Ensemble/Swing in On the Town.
Christopher Finn
Iolanthe
Theatre includes: Captain Cook, Mr Popper’s Penguins (Kenny Wax Productions) Mayor Muddlenut, The Giant Jam Sandwich (New Perspectives) Woodrow, Dr Longitude’s Marvellous Imaginary Menagerie (Les Enfants Terribles); Justin/Zac, Cosi (King’s Head Theatre); White Rabbit, Alice’s Adventures Underground (The Vaults, Waterloo); Robbie, Molly Wobbly’s Tit Factory (Leicester Square Theatre, Phoenix London and Lyric Theatre, Belfast); Jack, Tinseltown (Theatre at the Mill); Lady Macbeth, Macbeth & Dromio, The Comedy of Errors (Festival Players Tour); Quasimodo, Hunchback the Musical (Theatre at the Mill); Puck/Hermia , A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Festival Players Tour); Bao, The Three Little Pigs (Greenwich Theatre); Gregory Peck, Hansel and Grettel (Lyric Theatre, Belfast); Iolanthe, Iolanthe (Union Theatre and Wilton’s Music Hall); Brian, Elegies for Angels, Punks and Raging Queens (Black Box, Belfast); Donald, Scouts in Bondage (King’s Head Theatre);Brakenbury in Richard III (Brockley Jack); Mark, Edges (C Venues, Edinburgh); The Governer, The Happy End (Chelsea Theatre); Queenie, Not About Nightingales (Landor); Jacko, Piaf (Rocket, Edinburgh).
Adam Pettit
Lord Tolloller
Recent credits include: Beast in Beauty and the Beast (Palace Theatre Newark), The 12 Tenors 10th Anniversary Tour (European Tour), Billy in Out There (Union Theatre), Oliviers in Concert (Royal Festival Hall).
Credits whilst training: Dad in Our House, Douglas Panch in 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, The Baker in Into the Woods, Peter in Company, King Richard III in Richard III.
Michael Burgen
Lord Mountararat
Training: The Royal Central School of Speech and Drama
Theatre: Patsy in Spamalot (West End & UK Tour), Sir Joseph Porter KCB in All-male HMS Pinafore (UK Tour), Samuel in All-male Pirates of Penzance (Wilton’s Music Hall, Hackney Empire & Sydney Theatre), Assassin in Blondel (Union Theatre), The White Rabbit in Alice in Wonderland (Italian Tour), The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe (New Vic Theatre), Zaide (Sadlers Wells & UK Tour), Buttons in Cinderella (Wyllotts Theatre).
Workshops: The Likes of Us, Rehab: The Musical
Michael also works as a director having worked on Loserville (Garrick Theatre, West End), Our House, Out There (Union Theatre, London) and also directed Cinderella at Wyllotts Theatre last Christmas.
Twitter: @michael_burgen
Duncan Sandilands
Private Willis
Duncan studied at Trinity Laban Conservatoire and graduated from their first Musical Theatre degree programme.
Theatre credits include: Carousel at the Barbican, South Pacific at Kilworth House, three seasons at the Thursford Christmas Spectacular and Impact Opera’s UK tour of Carmen.
For the past two years, he has split his time touring internationally as bass singer with British A Cappella group, The Magnets, whilst also performing the role of Nick Massi with The Valli Seasons.
Lee Greenaway
Leila
Credits include: Skimbleshanks in Cats (International Tour), Cover Mary Sunshine in Chicago (West End,China and Istanbul), Isachaar in Joseph And The Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat (UK Tour), Eugene in Grease (Lljubliana), Connie in Sasha Regan’s All Male Pirates Of Penzance (London and Australia),The Elephant’s Child in Just So (London), Dance Captain in Children Of Eden – Gala Concert (West End), Cover The Diva in Frank’s Closet (London), Ensemble in We Will Rock You (Germany), Ensemble in Annie Get Your Gun ( UK Tour), Jack in Into The Woods (Oxford).
Lee directed and choreographed Alan Menken’s A Christmas Carol (The Tabard Theatre,London) and choreographed Now We Are Sixty (The Kings Head, London) and The Pirates Of Penzance (Tabard Theatre,London).
Dominic Harbison
Celia
Dominic trained at Performance Preparation Academy (PPA), Guildford.
Theatre credits include: Tommy Keeler in Annie Get Your Gun (Union Theatre, London), Ensemble in Sunset Boulevard (Yvonne Arnaud, Guildford), PC Pong in Aladdin (Stratford Arts House, Stratford Upon Avon), Prince Charming in Cinderella (Exeter Corn Exchange, Exeter) and Flynn Rider in Rapunzel (DUCTAC, Dubai).
Roles whilst training include: Melchior Gabor in Spring Awakening, Snickers in The Life and Joe Josephson in Merrily We Roll Along.
Ben Mundy
Ensemble
Training: Arts Educational Schools, London.
Theatre: Pollux and Dance Captain in Orpheus The Mythical (The Other Palace), Swing & Assistant Dance Captain in Annie (Piccadilly Theatre), Eugene Florczyk in Grease (Dubai), Bert Healy & Dance Captain in Annie (South Africa), Swing in Annie (UK & European Tour), Coricopat in Cats (West End Revival, London Palladium), Coricopat & Understudy Rum Tum Tugger Cats (UK & International Tour), The Olivier Awards in both 2013 & 2014 (The Royal Opera House, London), Ensemble for Kerry Ellis In Concert (London Palladium), Dance Captain & Understudy Silly Billy in Sleeping Beauty (Pavilion Theatre, Rhyl, Wales) & Ensemble in The Olympia Horse Show (Olympia, London).
Workshops: Band Member in the new Take That musical – The Band, Ensemble in Candide (Menier Chocolate Factory, London) & Bad Noos & Leo in Floatin’ The Blue (Watford Palace Theatre & later, ATG).
TV: Sunday Night At The Palladium (ITV).
Reece Budin
Ensemble
Reece studied Musical Theatre at the Western Academy of Performing Arts.
Theatre while training: 42nd St, Company, Cabaret, Anything Goes and Ragtime.
Independent Theatre includes; La Cage Aux Folles, Pacific Overtures and Man of La Mancha.
He most recently appeared in the original Australian company of Matilda the Musical (RSC/Louise Withers).
Jack Hinton
Ensemble
Jack graduated from Bird College with a First class Honours Degree in Dance and Musical Theatre in July.
Theatre credits include: Ensemble/ U/S Santa’s Vocal Coach in The Christmasaurus: Live! (Eventim Hammersmith Apollo).
TV and Film credits include: Mamma Mia: Here We Go Again! (Universal Pictures).
Dan Miles
Ensemble
Training: Mountview Academy Of Theatre Arts
Recent credits include: Alan in One Man Two Guvnors (Welsh Tour), Ensemble U/S Yum Yum in The All Male Mikado (UK Tour), Peter Pan in Peter Pan (Middle Eastern International Tour), Abel/Ham in Children Of Eden (Union Theatre London), Doody in Grease (Scandinavia), Tussie in Princess Phyllida’s Fortnight (Tristan Bates Theatre London) and Hansel in Hansel & Gretel (Gate Theatre Cardiff)
Daniel is also part of Frankie’s Guys – A Celebration Of Frankie Valli And The Four Seasons which regularly tours internationally.
Daniel is thrilled to be returning to the Regan De Wynter company for this year’s All Male Tour.
Sam Kipling
Ensemble
Training; The Guildford School of Acting with a BA (Hons) in Musical Theatre 2018.
Credits whilst training include Archibald Craven in The Secret Garden, Bill Bailey in Cats, Warner Purcell in Bullets Over Broadway, Frankie Diamonte in The Fix and Oscar in Sweet Charity.
Further Credits; Charlie in Alan Bennett’s The Habit of Art with National Theatre.
Sam is extremely blessed and super excited to be a part of this company, and thrilled to be working with Sasha Regan and this wonderfully talented cast.
James Gulliford
Ensemble
Training: Royal Central School of Speech and Drama.
Theatre: Nigel in Salad Days (Theatre Royal, Bath); Labyrinth (Hampstead Theatre); Joseph Meisinger in the workshop of Luna Park (Tristan Bates Theatre); understudy Steve Loomas, Jacob Arkwright & Doc Murphy in The Stripper (The Other Palace).
Film & Television: Chris Wilson in My Online Nightmare (Channel 4); Finn in The Langford Loop (Lamont Pictures); Gary in Sleep Tight, and Don’t Let the Existential Crisis Bite (These People Make Pictures); James in Naations – We Want More (Greatcoat Films); Nicholas in Nicolas & Alexandra: The Letters (Back2Back Productions).
Workshops: Benny in Benny/Alice (Theatre Royal Stratford East); Alfie/Adele in A Kind of Love (White Bear Theatre); Norbert in Feather Boy (National Theatre); Soldier in The Wall (Complicite); The Zoo Director in Bedbug (NT connections).
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An unalloyed delight ... Pitch-perfect ... A feast
Sasha Regan and her boys are doing something just as gloriously fresh and inventive as Matthew Bourne did with Swan Lake.
distinctive choreography, expertly delivered by an apparently tireless company. Skilfully timed… pathos in all the right places.
Excellently clear and the physicality hilarious. A joy
The total effect is spell-binding and nothing short of a triumph. Go and fall in love with this heavenly production of one of the finest works on the British musical stage.
However, in spite of all the spectacle that the huge forces at The Coliseum are able to bring to the piece, the revival of Sasha Regan’s All Male Iolanthe currently playing in Richmond wins hands down for originality, charm, and even – dare I say it – acting.
Close your eyes for a moment and it is easy to forget that this is an all-male cast. There is a purity to the finely tuned falsetto that is genuinely moving.
What a triumph Sasha Regan’s All Male Iolanthe is. I was lucky enough to see this when it toured to Windsor, and as a huge G&S aficionado, this production filled me with so much happiness, I’m still grinning hours after the curtain came down.