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The Kite Runner’s incredible, critically acclaimed West End stage success continues to soar to new heights!

The production’s second West End season of the year at the Playhouse Theatre is being extended by a month to 26 August

Emilio Doorgasingh has been nominated Best Actor of the Year in Eastern Eye’s Arts Culture & Theatre Awards for The Kite Runner’s West End premiere

And The Kite Runner will tour 11 cities and towns across the UK from 31 August with more dates to be announced for 2018

 

After winning rave reviews at Wyndham’s Theatre, receiving standing ovations at every show and captivating an audience of 60,000 theatregoers earlier this year, The Kite Runner announced that it would fly again in the West End in a strictly limited 8-week season at the Playhouse Theatre from 8 June.

 

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David Ahmad now plays the show’s narrator, Amir.

New to the West End cast are Ravi Aujla, Umar Pasha Jay Sajjid and Karl Seth.

Emilio Doorgasingh, who is returning to the show in the pivotal role of Baba, was nasmed Best Actor of the Year in the annual Eastern Eye Arts Culture & Theatre Awards for The Kite Runner’s West End premiere at Wyndham’s Theatre.

Emilio is returning to the show at the Playhouse Theatre together with Andrei Costin as Hassan, Lisa Zahra, Ezra Khan, Bhavin Bhatt and Tabla musician Hanif Khan.

Producers recently announced a major 11-venue UK tour following the West End season. The Kite Runner will open at Nottingham Playhouse (31 Aug – 9 Sept) then visit Glasgow Theatre Royal (11 – 16 Sept), Leeds West Yorkshire Playhouse (19 – 23 Sept), Cambridge Arts Theatre (25 – 30 September), Salford Lowry (3 – 7 Oct) , Edinburgh King’s Theatre (9 – 14 Oct), Sheffield Lyceum (17 – 21 Oct), Cheltenham Everyman (30 Oct – 4 Nov), Bath (6 – 11 Nov), Brighton Theatre Royal (14 – 18 Nov), Exeter Northcott Theatre (21- 25 Nov).

 

Further 2018 tour dates will be announced soon.

 

 

THE KITE RUNNER

Adapted by Matthew Spangler
Based on the best-selling novel by Khaled Hosseini

8 June – 26 August 2017

Playhouse Theatre
Northumberland Avenue,
London
WC2N 5DE

 

TheKiteRunnerPlay.com

 

 

 

 

Joybubbles

The cast of The Other Palace’s latest Work In Progress production, Joybubbles have started rehearsals ahead of their public sharing this Saturday 17 June.

 

 

The cast is led by Jonathan Slinger (Charlie and The Chocolate Factory, Urinetown) as Joybubbles with Evelyn Hoskins (Carrie, Spring Awakening) as Little Joe supported by: 

Esh Alladi, Emma Thornett, Ben Fox, Ceri-Lyn Cissone, Terence Frisch, Julie LeGrand andStuart Matthew Price.

 

Tickets are £7.50 for the public sharing of Joybubbles via:

 

www.TheOtherPalace.co.uk

 

 

The Other Palace’s Work in Progress series offers productions a space to create, develop and explore their work. Each show has a public sharing where audiences can be the first not only to see the new work but also help in the development of the show by offering feedback and opinion. The audience feedback is then given to the production to help inform the next stage of the project’s development.

Joybubbles is the third Work In Progress production at The Other Palace, it follows Heathers, The Musical and Dr Feelgood which took place in June. The Work In Progress series continues with Bonnie & Clyde from Mon 26 Jun and finishes with Pitch Perfects The Little Beasts, the biggest of our Work In Progress productions, opening in our main theatre in July.