New Wolsey Theatre, Civic Drive
Ipswich IP1 2AS
New Wolsey Theatre is a theatre in Ipswich.
In 1975, Breakfast at Tiffany’s author Truman Capote became a social pariah overnight, after his public betrayal of the group of New York socialites known as the “Swans”. Tru, Jay Presson Allen’s 1989 dramatisation of the incident, locks us in the New Journalism pioneer’s living room in th…
There is surely no event more certain in the dance calendar than an English National Ballet mixed bill at Sadler’s Wells. What creative offerings do they have for us this time?…
In a rental in Florida, Abigail is helping Alice to pack: the Nobel Prize winner and decorated scientist is leaving Earth to further space research. The two sisters haven’t spoken in seven years. Alex Rugman delivers a tender representation of sisterhood. Dorothea Myer-Bennett and Meghan Treadway …
Before Table 17 begins, a voice over the tannoy announces that audience interaction is encouraged, “like in panto”. It’s a good thing they warned us, because Douglas Lyons’s play is trying so hard to be a participatory experience that its core emotional truths are being lost along the way.…
Rooted in his own childhood in the British shipbuilding town of Wallsend, The Last Ship tells the moving story of a community of shipbuilders in the North East of England, faced with the closure of their shipyard – the heart of their existence. Sting takes on the role of Jackie White, the shipyard…
Plenty of heart in this full-throated condemnation of Mrs Thatcher's industrial policies, but great songs and a great set do not a musical make…
Disturbing and distressing, but a production for our times…
Directed by Jonathan O'Boyle, this production comes from Barn Theatre Cirencester where it was first staged in 2022, revived for a summer run and now transfers with its full Barn company before heading off on a national tour. It arrives as a hastily arranged replacement for the troubled Burlesque th…
Two young actors bring the eerie to a production that undermines its own tension with a choppy narrative…
250 years after her birth, with another new adaptation of Pride and Prejudice about to land on Netflix and a new film of Sense and Sensibility being released this week, the appetite for Jane Austen seems as ravenous as ever. Theatre company Thick as Thieves specialise in small company adaptations of…
Poems and stand-up with wit, pathos and silliness, from one of the most popular live poets in England. Later Life Letter tells the story of Luke Wright’s adoption – the life he leads, and the one he might have done. What’s it like to stumble across your birth mother on Facebook?...
The Inner Vision Orchestra, consisting entirely of blind musicians, boasts a diverse repertoire ranging from traditional melodies of Iran, Lebanon, Afghanistan, and India to soulful renditions of Gospel and Blues, as well as intricate Indian Ragas and Western Classical...
