The world premiere of CABLE STREET (Southwark Playhouse Borough – February/March 2024) – offered out earlier than the present even opened!
Now this thrilling new musical is returning for simply 42 performances this Autumn – and the thrill and rush on tickets, as soon as once more reveals that CABLE STREET catches the zeitgeist to inform this pressing story for as we speak’s audiences.
The place and when?
5* new British musical CABLE STREET prepares to open on the Southwark Playhouse Elephant this Autumn (Friday 6 September to Thursday 10 October 2024).
Who’s within the solid?
CABLE STREET continues its onwards life, with a number of of the unique solid becoming a member of the additional developed new manufacturing, together with Danny Colligan (Soiled Dancing, Guide of Mormon, Les Misérables), Sha Dessi (Les Misérables – nominated by Sir Cameron Waterproof coat for the Stage 25 Awards 2022) and Joshua Ginsberg (Wesker’s Hen Soup with Barley – BBC Radio 4, 2024) – as the three younger associates (Ron, Mairead and Sammy) who passionately reside their lives within the multi-cultural melting pot that’s Cable Road in 1936.
Becoming a member of them will probably be new solid members Davina Moon, recognized for her West Finish roles together with Life Of Pi, Bombay Goals, Miss Saigon and lots of on display credit together with the movie Matilda and fashionable TV collection Ted Lasso. Making her London debut is Mia Overfield (Demon Dentist – UK tour, Jack & The Beanstalk – York for which she was nominated Finest Early Profession Newcomer within the UK Pantomime Awards 2024).
Marching once more into CABLE STREET the staff is delighted to welcome again authentic solid members Max Alexander-Taylor (The Lion – Southwark Playhouse); Aiofe Mac Namara (Cable Road), Ethan Pascal Peters (Showstopper! The Improvised Musical) and Jez Unwin (Groundhog Day, As soon as, Ghost, Candy Charity, Evita), making up the improbable line up of on-stage expertise.
Artistic staff
The Battle of Cable Road nonetheless resonates as we speak, and the award-winning composer/lyricist Tim Gilvin and playwright Alex Kanefsky determined that CABLE STREET should function a up to date rating: bringing to life an important a part of London’s wealthy range and historical past. CABLE STREET is Directed by Adam Lenson, Lead Producer Dylan Schlosberg’s 10 to 4 Productions (a manufacturing firm devoted to creating and investing in new musicals) and Producer Neil Marcus. The manufacturing staff additionally consists of Choreography Jevan Howard-Jones, Musical Supervisor Tamara Saringer, Musical Director Ellen Campbell, Affiliate Director Jamie Buller, Orchestrations and preparations by Tim Gilvin, Vocal preparations by Tim Gilvin & Tamara Saringer, Set Design Yoav Segal, Lighting Design Sam Waddington, Sound Charlie Smith, Costume Design Lu Herbert, Dramaturg Olivia Mace, Manufacturing Administration The Manufacturing Workplace, Casting Sarah Leung.
What’s the present about?
CABLE STREET is an electrifying reimagining of one among London’s most momentous days – when The Battle of Cable Road was fought and received within the coronary heart of London’s East Finish on the 4th October 1936. With racial tensions working excessive, individuals took to the streets. The vastly highly effective and topical CABLE STREET celebrates a group who got here along with a name for motion. A timeless story, as highly effective as we speak because it was in 1936.
This terribly gifted ensemble firm inform their story as they desperately attempt to carve out their very own lives on Cable Road, when Oswald Mosley’s British Union of Fascists (Blackshirts) begin to march on the East Finish. Over 100 thousand Jews, Irish employees, commerce unionists, the labour and communist events, ladies and kids all unite to blockade Cable Road – the highway all of them name house. Because the individuals increase their voices with cries of, They Shall Not Cross, they take a united stand towards hatred. The lives of the streets’ residents will change without end.
The efficiency on Friday 4 October will probably be notably poignant for all, being the anniversary of The Battle of Cable Road.
Assisted performances
TBC
The place can I get tickets?
CABLE STREET is the dazzling new British musical with an pressing story for as we speak’s audiences – so seize your tickets when you can! https://southwarkplayhouse.co.uk/productions/cable-street/
