The Landor Theatre Announces July Events, Including The Songs of Johnny Mercer & More

Coming Up This July at The Landor Theatre

The Bright & Bold Design
by Peter Whelan
Jessie and the girls are happy in their work as the ‘paintresses' of a Stoke pottery. Then along comes Jim, a radical free-thinker with big ideas. It isn't long before the cracks begin to show.

Thursday 9th - Saturday 11th July at 7.30pm
(Matinee Sun 12th at 2.30pm)
Tickets: £12, £10 concessions
For tickets call the box office on
020 7737 7276 or visit www.landortheatre.co.uk

Too Marvellous For Words
The Songs of Johnny Mercer

Those who entertain, and those who love entertainment have long known Johnny Mercer's work. Now it's your turn!

From the mid 1930s through the mid 1960s many of the songs Mercer wrote were among the most popular hits of the time. Born in Savannah, 100 years ago this year, Johnny's exposure to black music was perhaps unique among the white songwriters of his generation. The music he loved - Jazz and Blues - was booming in Harlem when he moved to New York, and Broadway was singing along to the like of George Gershwin, Cole Porter and Irving Berlin. He may have collaborated with the greats - Harold Arlen, Hoagy Carmichael and Henry Mancini among them, but Mercer has remained the unknown of the American Musical Scene - the guy behind some of the greatest music of the 20th century.

Song after song trips a memory synapse...Think The Days of Wine And Roses, Ac-cent-tchu-ate The Positive, One For My Baby and of course Moon River... Sit back, relax and remember an incident, a friend, a lover, a beautiful day...

Directed by Robert McWhir
Musical Direction by Andrew Friesner

Tuesday 14th - Saturday 18th July
at 7.30pm
(Sunday matinee 19th July at 2.30pm
Tickets: £12, £10 concessions

For tickets call the box office on
020 7737 7276 or visit www.landortheatre.co.uk

Plus our three Comedy Nights!

Sit Down Sundays with the boys...
Hosted by
Jon Petrie and Mr Doolan
Sunday 12th July at 8pm
Tickets: £5, no concessions

Scuttlebutt Gala Cabaret
Featuring a splendiferous array of comic delights to tickle your bits and bobs!
Sunday 19th July at 8pm
Tickets: £5, no concessions

Tommy & The Weeks -Wonderbang

Comedy so good your mind will think it's won a prize.
Sell-out Edinburgh 2007 and 2008.

Monday 27th July at 8pm
Tickets: £5, no concessions
For tickets call the box office on 020 7737 7276 or visit www.landortheatre.co.uk

Stockwell
The Inquest into the Death of Jean Charles de Menezes
‘They think it is him and he is very, very jumpy...'

Opening exactly four years after the events of 22nd July 2005 that culminated in the tragic death of the innocent Brazilian Jean Charles de Menezes, Stockwell runs just a few hundred yards from the scene of the shooting. Weaving together the diverse voices of the inquest's many witnesses, Stockwell is an urgent and compelling verbatim work that charts the desperate acceleration towards one of the most controversial moments in the history of the Metropolitan Police.

In addition to exploring the sequence of events that lead to the fatal shooting, the play also paints a vivid portrait of a city still in shock from the suicide bombs of previous weeks and a jittery and overstretched police force agonising over its methods and ability to prevent further terror.

Directed by Sophie Lifschutz / Created by Kieron Barry from the inquest transcripts

Tuesday 21st July - Saturday 8th August at 7.30pm
(matinee Sunday 2nd August at 2.30pm)
Tickets: £12, £10 concessions

For tickets call the box office on 020 7737 7276 or visit www.landortheatre.co.uk

Plus New Writing at the Landor Theatre Shorts
New writing at the Landor Theatre BEHIND CLOSED DOORS

Behind closed doors and in the corners of the mind extraordinary things can happen... Seven short pieces by new writers, performed for one night only.

Sunday, 26th July at 8.00pm

Tickets: £8, no concessions

70 Landor Road, LONDON SW9 9PH

 

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