One of the biggest and best musicals from the Edinburgh Fringe, ‘Adam & Eve … and Steve’ makes its London debut at the Kings Head, Islington from 21st March for a 5 week run. This toe-tapping, warm-hearted new musical delivers laugh-out-loud moments in abundance and turns the age-old story of The Garden of Eden completely on its head. The show is set to delight audiences and critics alike after a hugely successful Fringe Festival run last August.
God’s plan to create Adam and Eve goes deliciously wrong when the mischievous Beelzebub interferes, and God creates Steve instead of Eve. Adam is delighted with Steve (who thinks he is a woman called St. Eve) and all is harmonious until the two new BFFs are confronted by Eve herself. A ménage a trois for the modern era ensues, and the future of humankind hangs in the balance as everyman Adam, loveable OTT Steve and jealous Eve try to sort out their tangled emotions….
COMPETITION
Courtesy of our lovely friends at the show, thespyinthestalls.com is offering the chance to win one of two pairs of tickets in our latest competition.
To be in with a chance of winning all you need to do is:
There are two prizes, each consisting of one pair of tickets to see ‘Adam & Eve .. and Steve’ at the King’s Head Theatre. There is no cash or other alternative.
Entrants must have retweeted the competition message posted by us and be following @spyinthestalls on Twitter at the time the competition closes (19th March 2017)
The prize does not include travel to the venue or any other costs incurred
The winner agrees to their name being published on our Twitter account and web page
The winner agrees to partake in any publicity that may be arranged by the production or its agents
Competition is only open to residents of the United Kingdom aged 18 years or over.
The winners will be contacted by direct message on Twitter on or shortly after the closing date.
The winner will be asked to provide their preferred choice of date from the show’s run (21st March to 29th April).
If the winner does not respond within 48 hours then we will draw another winner.
Dates are subject to availability so we may not be able to accommodate your first choice.
PRICKED OUT
By Nicholas de Jongh
Nicholas de Jongh’s new play Pricked Out will play for 4 performances in a production without décor from 25-29 March.
A young man, lying asleep on a deserted beach, is woken up by another young man who has lost his bearings and needs help in discovering where he is. After beginning to question each other it quickly becomes clear that neither of them have any idea of who they are or where they find themselves. But did they perhaps know each other well a very long time ago?
From further along the beach come the sounds of something strange going on. Two young women, a Runner on a film set disturbed by a recurrent dream, a middle aged figure adorned in long blonde hair and snoring in a deck chair, a retired Professor of English Literature form part of the puzzle. Finally somebody arrives swimming from the sea and the painful truth begins to emerge.
Nicholas de Jongh’s magic realist play Pricked Out delves into time past to pose questions and offers tentative answers about the one sensational and turbulent love affair of William Shakespeare’s life.
This is Nicholas de Jongh’s third play – the first, Plague Over England premièred at the Finborough in 2008, before being transferring to the West End by Bill Kenwright in 2009. The second, The Unquiet Grave of Garcia Lorca, debuted in an early version as part of the Finborough’s Vibrant 2013 – their season dedicated to rehearsed readings, where, in two earlier of these seasons his Keep the Ghost Awake and There Goes my Future had been presented – and then later at the Drayton Arms. He has also contributed a one act play Aids Memoire in 1990 to Max Stafford Clark’s season of Platonic Dialogues at the Royal Court.
De Jongh went almost straight from University to the Guardian as a reporter, he subsequently became the paper’s arts correspondent and deputy theatre critic, covered three major Obscenity trials Oz School Kids, the Gay News Blasphemous Libel and the Romans in Britain. He wrote about gay issues and wrote features on a succession of gay artists from Derek Jarman to Thom Gunn at a time when gayness was more of a taboo subject than out in the open . From 1991 to 2009, he was the Evening Standard’s chief theatre critic.
His book Politics, Pruderies and Perversions (Methuen), an analysis of the operations of twentieth century Theatre Censorship in the UK won a Theatre Book Prize from the Society of Theatre Research. His Not in Front of the Audience was a pioneeering account of homosexuality on stage in the twentieth century.
