Chiswick Playhouse Launches Inaugural Season
I Love You, You're Perfect, Now Change, is the first production
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The relaunched Tabard Theatre, now known as Chiswick Playhouse starts its first new season with the UK premiere of a brand new version of I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change.
This is an in-house production and runs from 30 October to 30 November.
After playing over 5,000 performances off-Broadway, this musical comedy was substantially re-written in 2018 to reflect the challenges facing the romantics of today.
It is now presented for the first time in the UK with a West End cast and direction from Charlotte Westenra (Kiss of the Spiderman, Donmar Warehouse; Frost/Nixon).
The course of true love never does run smoothly and with wonderful songs, outrageous comedy and heart-rending emotion, I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change is for anyone who’s fallen in, or out, of love.
Following the joys and tribulations of first dates, marriage, and growing old, it will star George Rae (Joseph and the Amazing Technicolour Dreamcoat and The Lion King, West End;) and Dominic Hodson (War Horse and Beautiful: The Carole King Musical,
West End), alongside Laura Johnson (Hair 50th Anniversary,; Madagascar, UK tour) and Naomi Slights (Mamma Mia, West End; Priscilla, Queen of the Desert and Saturday Night Fever, UK tour).
Also coming to Chiswick Playhouse:
From 4 December to 4 January, Chiswick Playhouse will present a reimagined
take on the classic Christmas tale Hansel and Gretel, directed by Lucy Jane Atkinson (A Hundred
Words for Snow, Trafalgar Studios; Vespertilio, VAULT Festival). This children’s adventure will
take audiences far from city life, gaming and social media into a world of lollipop houses and
tap-dancing cockroaches. Here lives a witch with a penchant for single-use plastic and the only
remaining sustainable food source: children.
Another festive option, Christmas at Chiswick Playhouse is a series of Sunday evening concerts throughout December, featuring a host of the UK’s leading musical theatre talent. With free mulled wine, songs from hit shows and Christmas classics.
Blowing away those January blues, the New Year will see emerging artists across
comedy, magic and new writing come to Chiswick Playhouse for a run of week-long
engagements. Paul Aitchinson’s unique mix of mind-melting magic and bonkers character
comedy in Could It Be Magic is followed by the subversive take on Tudor History, Great
British Mysteries: 1599. To conclude the month, Get Over It Productions present The Scene, a
festival of new writing with 30 short plays across five nights.
Running from 5 to 29 February, the revival of Tryst will return following a sell-out run in 2017, once again directed by Phoebe Barran (Four Days In Hong Kong, Orange Tree Theatre; award-winning short film Snapshots). Based on a true story, this tense thriller is about the serial fraudster, George Love, who encountered a naïve and vulnerable shop-girl, Adelaide Pinchin, in Victorian London. What follows shocks them both as Love’s elaborate heist begins to unravel in frightening and unpredictable ways.
Chiswick Playhouse will continue The Tabard’s reputation as a comedy venue, with
numerous emerging and high-profile comedians, including Love Island’s Iain Stirling who will
perform in March.
November 1, 2019
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November 9, 2019
