Don't know where to start with our jam-packed new brochure? In the first of a new series of blogs, let the Eden Court team guide you through some personal highlights from our Spring Summer programme...
Dracula: Mina's Reckoning
I can't wait for Dracula: Mina's Reckoning. Since a young child I have loved gruesome stories. I come from the era of Goosebumps and Point Horror books, where I would literally read until my mum shouted at me to stop at night. Dracula is the ultimate gruesome tale. I have a love hate relationship with watching something that makes me jump and when the opportunity comes to watch it at the theatre I can't say no. I will love every second of this spinechilling play and having that feminist twist by seeing it from Mina's perspective.
Andrew Simpkins, Arts Practitioner for Theatre
Sister Act
Sister Act promises to be "the most feel-good show of the year" and I think we all need a bit of ‘Raise your voice, fabulous Baby’ feel-good. One of my earliest experiences of theatre was watching my mum rehearse and play Sister Robert Anne, the sassy nun in Nunsense. Something about the wimple makes facial expression all that more interesting. I reckon Lesley Joseph and Clive Rowe will be a hoot! Favourite song - The Life I Never Led sung by Sister Mary Robert.
Nic Gray, Artist + Company Liaison Manager
Stewart Lee: Basic Lee
Hard to choose from Eden Court’s Spring Summer 2023 Programme but I’m really looking forward to Stewart Lee this month, his unmatched brand of cynicism and derision is really the perfect tonic for modern times.
Sean Mckay, Visitor Experience Supervisor
Pride and Prejudice* (*sort of)
“It’s a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of good fortune must be in want of a wife!”
This first line sets the tone for a humorous and thoughtful book with plenty of sarcasm and irony thrown in. With all the sisters having a real mixture of personalities it will be very interesting to see how this translates on to the stage in Pride and Prejudice* (*sort of). I have read and enjoyed almost all of Jane Austen’s books so it’s one production that I am really looking forward to seeing.
Emma Watson, Building + Estates Manager
Abigail's Party
Mike Leigh is one of my favourite filmmakers, his sense of finding truth and humour in familial and social situations is unmatched in British film. Seeing Abigail’s Party, which he directed for the stage and TV in 1977, repeated on TV in the 1990s was an important moment in my love for film, drama, awkwardness and bad furnishings. It was thrilling to see Beverly (a wonderful Alison Steadman) being scarier than the movie baddies I had grown up watching. It’s an amazing play, so darkly funny, full of class warfare and cutting dialogue, which I can’t wait to see on the stage.
Paul MacDonald-Taylor, Head of Film + Visual Art
