Teddy continues at The Vaults, London until 3 June 2018. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Contrasts and culture clashes lie at the heart of all the best dramas. And you can’t get much more of a contrast than the world of the 1950s Teddy Boy, as brought to life in Tristan […]
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Teddy London season extended until June
The award-winning rock‘n’roll musical Teddy’s London season at The Vaults has been extended by four weeks, following its successful launch at the Watermill Theatre and UK tour dates. Produced by Sarah Loader for Snapdragon Productions in association with the Watermill Theatre, the show will now play the Waterloo venue from 29 March to 3 June. Directed […]
Teddy – Watermill Theatre, Newbury and Touring
Teddy continues at the Watermill Theatre, Bagnor until 10 February and will tour nationally before a London season at The Vaults, London (29 March to 5 May 2018). Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ For those of us who did not grow up in the height of the Teddy Boy era but […]
Cast for new production of Teddy revealed
Full casting has been announced for the new production of the award-winning Teddy which is due to open at the Watermill Theatre in January ahead of a UK tour and London season. Directed by Eleanor Rhode, the production will feature: Molly Chesworth (If and When, Soho Theatre); Andrew Gallo (Sunny Afternoon, UK tour); George Parker […]
Rock ‘n’ roll musical Teddy opens at Watermill before national tour
Tristan Bernays and Dougal Irvine’s award-winning musical Teddy will open at the Watermill Theatre, Newbury in January 2018, ahead of a national tour and a London season at The Vaults. Teddy will run at the Watermill from 11 January to 10 February 2018 (press night is 15 January), while the season at The Vaults will […]
Teddy – Southwark Playhouse
Teddy continues at the Southwark Playhouse, London until 27 June. Star rating: 4 stars ★ ★ ★ ★ Tristan Bernays’ Teddy doesn’t quite defy definition – it’s a play, written in free verse, featuring original songs – but its lyrical, musical and beat-poetical theatricality is refreshing and innovative and wholly welcomed. Teddy is set in the 1950s and located not too […]
Interview – Dougal Irvine, composer of Teddy at the Southwark Playhouse
Teddy is an original piece of writing set around London’s Elephant and Castle in the 1950s. Opening tonight at the Southwark Playhouse, just a minute’s walk from the Elephant’s infamous roundabout, the piece is described as a play with an original score and new songs. The show, produced by Snapdragon Productions and Theatre Bench, is the brainchild […]
