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AN IDEAL HUSBAND
5th - 11th January 2025
“London society is full of beautiful geniuses and brilliant lunatics…”
Oscar Wilde’s sharpest comedy of love and politics comes to the White Bear Theatre in a contemporary reimagining by Ramin Gray (RSC, Royal Court, Royal Opera) with an all-star international cast.
Giles Shenton Productions
What's Wrong With Benny Hill?
COMEDY KING OR MYSOGINISTIC MONSTER?
12th - 24th January 2025
A musical comedy by Mark Carey.
Music by Kevin Oliver Jones
Produced by Giles Shenton
Performed by Mark Carey & Georgie Taylor
Brought to you by the producer of Old Herbaceous, Three Men in a Boat and Dead on Cue comes a brand new comedy musical that uses the life of Benny Hill to debate current issues such as cancel culture and freedom of speech.
Benny Hill died alone in his spartan flat in 1992, he was 68. His body was undiscovered for several days. Benny was, had been and still is, one of the most successful comedians of all time.
When Apollo Eleven landed on the moon in 1969, millions watched live on TV but that evening many more had tuned in to “The Benny Hill Show”.
Today “The Benny Hill Show” is broadcast regularly in over a hundred countries around the world. In Britain he has, effectively been “cancelled”.
“What’s Wrong with Benny Hill?” is a brand-new comedy that explores the life and legacy of a very peculiar and brilliant comedian while raising questions about current issues around free speech.
What’s Wrong with Benny Hill?. The hilarious new musical comedy featuring Mark Carey and Georgie Taylor.
"Brilliant! Provokes discussion and debate.....whatever your views on comedy. Star quality performances." Tony Homer, Downstagewrite
"Ruddy marvellous! Brilliant performances! Thought provoking and challenging!" Gill Sutherland, Stratford-upon-Avon Herald
Potato/Tomato
4th – 7th February 2026
A new comedy/drama from Room One Theatre Company, the team behind the Off-Com winning production The Retreat (OFFIES COMMENDATION FOR SHOWS WITH A LIMITED RUN)
Best friends Mike and Josh attend a wedding. Josh discovers that his recently divorced ex-wife is there with her new boyfriend, whilst Mike attempts to chat-up the wedding singer…with hilarious results.
A romantic comedy about finding things…the value of friendship, the strength to move on from an ex, the courage to meet new people, and most of all…the right words.
Damn Cheek Productions Presents
Learning How To Dive
Three People, one uncertain future. A Play about Love, Lies, Loss and what comes next.
10th - 21st February 2026
What do you say when you answer the door to a man you’ve never met before?
Especially when you’ve known him for 30 years?
Where do you start? Where does it end?
And how about discovering your husband of fifty years is not who you thought he was? What then?
By turns tense and tender, Learning How to Dive tells the story of three people and the shared loss they find themselves facing
Directed by Willie Elliott
featuring Damn Cheek Co-Artistic Directors Darren Cheek and Karen Spicer
and award-winning playwright Brendan Murray
“one of the country’s most compassionate dramatists”
- The Guardian
