Based on David Lean's iconic 1945 movie and Noel Cowards one-act play, Still Life, Brief Encounter is a multi media show staged in a West End cinema and has all of the cutting edge inventiveness that theatre goers have come to expect from Emma Rices Kneehigh company. In a tale of doomed love, Laura, the respectable suburban wife, and Alec, the idealistic, married doctor, meet in a station buffet, and fall passionately in love. High drama ensues played out by top class actors who create complex, believable characters you will fall in love with.
The Woman in Black is a thriller adapted by Stephen Mallatratt from the novel by Susan Hill that has been running at the Fortune Theatre since February 1989 to sold-out theatre goers. The Woman in Black does not disappoint. The show is a clever and thrilling ghost story that invites you to use your powers of deduction whilst scaring the bejezus out of you with surprises that will have you jumping out of your seat with fright. The story centres on a young solicitor who is sent to wind up the affairs of a recently deceased woman. However, the dead woman had led a reclusive life in a remote and mysterious house that all the locals believe is cursed. The play begins years later when the solicitor tells the strange and mysterious story to his family and friends in a frantic bid to rid himself of the ghosts of the past.
Hollywood actor Josh Hartnett who starred in blockbusters including Pearl Harbor, Black Hawk Down, 30 Days of Night, Virgin Suicides, The Black Dahlia and Lucky Number Slevin will make his West End debut on Tuesday the 9th of September at the Apollo Theatre on Shaftesbury Avenue. Josh Hartnett is joined by Adam Godley in a stage adaptation of the multi Oscar winning film Rain Man in which Tom Cruise and Dustin Hoffman star. Josh Hartnett will take on the role Tom Cruise played in the film, Charlie Babbitt, an L.A. car dealer and hustler who discovers that he has an older brother, played by Adam Godley, who is an autistic savant hidden away in an institution for most of his adult life. Charlie takes his brother out of hospital and the two brothers embark on a road trip that will change their lives forever. Rain Man is one of the most attended West End theatre shows of the year. The coveted Rain Man tickets are expected to be in high demand.
