Category Archives: Production Photos

The Band – Production Images

Ahead of opening at Manchester Opera House on Tuesday 26th September, take a look at some of the stunning images just released from the show:

PHOTOGRAPHY BY MATT CROCKETT

 

The cast of THE BAND is led by Rachel Lumberg as Rachel, Alison Fitzjohn as Claire, Emily Joyce as Heather, Jayne McKenna as Zoe, with AJ Bentley, Nick Carsberg, Curtis T Johns, Yazdan Qafouri and Sario Solomon, collectively known as Five To Five, winners of BBC’s Let It Shine, as The Band, and Faye Christall as Young Rachel, Katy Clayton as Young Heather, Rachelle Diedericks as Debbie, Sarah Kate Howarth as Young Claire, Lauren Jacobs as Young Zoe, Martin Miller as Jeff and Andy Williams as Dave.

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THE BAND is a musical about what it’s like to grow up with a boyband. For five 16 year-old friends in 1992, ‘the band’ is everything. 25 years on, we are reunited with the group of friends, now 40-something women, as they try once more to fulfil their dream of meeting their heroes.
THE BAND is directed by Kim Gavin and Jack Ryder, designed by Jon Bausor and choreographed by Kim Gavin. It is produced by David Pugh & Dafydd Rogers and Gary Barlow, Howard Donald, Mark Owen, Robbie Williams.

 

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The Lady in the Van – Production Images

Productions photos have been released for Theatre Royal Bath’s new adaptation of Alan Bennett’s The Lady in the Van.

Photography by Nobby Clark

 

In 1974, Miss Mary Shepherd, a homeless woman, temporarily moved her clapped out Bedford van into Alan Bennett’s front garden at Gloucester Crescent, Camden. She
remained parked there for the next fifteen years. 

Olivier Award-winner Sara Kestelman (Filthy Business, Copenhagen, Cabaret) stars as Bennett’s beloved character Miss Mary Shepherd. She is joined by Sam Alexander as Alan
Bennett, William Gaunt as Underwood and James Northcote who will share the role of Alan Bennett. The full cast includes Emma Amos, Lia Burge, Paul Hickey, Gabrielle Lloyd, David Shaw Parker, Steve Simmonds and Cat Simmons.

Lady in The Van

 

THE LADY IN THE VAN

By Alan Bennett

Directed by Jonathan Church

 

link TRB

Theatre Royal Bath, Sawclose, Bath, BA1 1ET

Thursday 17 August – Saturday 2 September
Monday – Saturday, 7.30pm

Matinees Thursday & Saturday, 2.30pm

www.theatreroyal.org.uk