Made in Dagenham by Pimlico Opera and the prisoners of HMP Bronzefield at Bronzefield Prison, Ashford, Surrey. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ They stood up for their rights and we stood up for their amazing performances. I’d love to see it again.
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Jodie Jacobs will lead the cast of Pimlico Opera’s prison production of Made in Dagenham
Award-winning Jodie Jacobs (Rock of Ages) is to lead the cast as strike leader Rita O’Grady in Pimlico Opera’s prison production of the musical Made in Dagenham which runs from 5-9 March 2025 at HMP Bronzefield in Ashford, Surrey.
Pimlico Opera’s next production at HMP Bronzefield will be Betty Blue Eyes
After 32 months off for good behaviour (and Covid), musical theatre goes back to jail next month with Pimlico Opera’s production of Betty Blue Eyes at HMP Bronzefield at Ashford, Surrey.
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INTERVIEW: Actress Chlöe Hart on returning to the role of Tracy Turnblad – in a prison production – & what it meant to her
In February and March, just before Covid-19 locked down theatreland, CHLÖE HART went to prison to revisit the role of Tracy Turnblad in Hairspray that took her from the Guildford School of Acting directly to a West End lead role at the Shaftesbury in 2009. Here she tells Musical Theatre Review contributor Jeremy Chapman what […]
Hairspray The Musical – HMP Bronzefield, Surrey
Hairspray The Musical at HMP Bronzefield, Ashford, Surrey. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Once again Pimlico Opera has worked a near-miracle in training up the “residents” of Europe’s biggest all-women prison in five short weeks to sing, dance and act to undreamed-of heights. This is the fourth time Pimlico and HMP Bronzefield […]
Chloe Hart revisits the role of Tracy Turnblad in Pimlico Opera’s Hairspray at HMP Bronzefield
Chloe Hart revisits the role of Tracy Turnblad in March 2020, the part which put her on a West End stage even before she had graduated from the Guildford School of Acting in 2009. And she’s going to prison to do it. Hart stars with Christopher Howell in Hairspray when Pimlico Opera returns to HMP […]
Sweet Charity – Pimlico Opera – HMP Bronzefield
Sweet Charity by Pimlico Opera and the inmates of HMP Bronzefield at Ashford, Surrey. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Put an Olivier-nominated actress alongside inmates of HMP Bronzefield, stir in a 12-piece orchestra, a stage in a prison and the expertise of Pimlico Opera and what you got was a terrific Sweet Charity. […]
