Big Pants And Botox Tickets London
The tour de force that is Big Pants And Botox starring Casualty's Rebecca Wheatley begins a season at the Arts Theatre in London this February after a phenomenally successful run in 2011. Written by Girls Night author Louise Roche, the show has been thrilling its audiences up and down the country since June.
Big Pants & Botox is a hilarious blend of powerful writing and acting leading its audience onto the emotional rollercoaster that is Barbra's 50th birthday celebration. As so often with Louise Roche's writing, the blend of humour and poignancy is to the forefront, as Barbra lets us into her big secret.
So if you have to empty your bladder before joining the kids on the trampoline, and if you know a prolapse has nothing at all to do with structural engineering, and that the word 'piles' does not have to be followed by the word 'of', then you'll be amused, comforted and even delighted by Louise Roche's new play showcasing at the Arts Theatre from February 9th
Theatre tickets in London to all performances and productions at the Arts Theatre can be purchased securely through this website.
The Arts Theatre in London is a theatre in Great Newport Street, in Westminster, Central London and operates as the West End's smallest commercial receiving house
The Arts Theatre seats 350 people in a two-tier basement auditorium. It opened on 20th April 1927 as a members only club for the performance of unlicensed plays, thus avoiding theatre censorship by the Lord chamberlain's Office. It was one of a small number of committed, independent theatre companies which took risks by producing a diverse range of new and experimental plays, or plays that were thought to be commercially non-viable on the regular west end stage. The theatrical producer Norman Marshall referred to these as ‘The Other Theatre' in his book of the same name in 1947.
The Arts theatre opened with Picnic, which was a revue by Herbert Farjeon, produced by Harold Scott and music by Beverley Nichols. Its first important production was Young Woodley staged in 1928, which later transferred to the Savoy Theatre when the Lord Chamberlain's ban was finally lifted. In 1938 a four week revival of the Stokes brothers Oscar Wilde starring Francis L. Sullivan opened on 25 October. This coincided with a Broadway production of the play. In 1942 Alec Clunes and John Hanau took over running of the theatre, and for the next ten years produced a wide range of plays, winning a reputation as a 'pocket national theatre.'
In August 1955, Peter Hall aged just 24, directed the English language premiere of Samuel Beckett's Waiting For Godot at the theatre which was an important turning point in modern theatre in th UK..Subsequently, from 1956 to 1959, Hall ran the Arts Theatre.
According to Who's Who in the Theatre, between April 1962 and January 1967 the Arts Theatre was known the New Arts Theatre.and from 1967 to 1999, the Arts also became a home for The Unicorn children's theatre under the direction of its founder Caryl Jenner who took over the lease. Meanwhile adult performances continued in the evening, including Tom Stoppard's satirical double-bill, Dirty Linen and Newfoundland which after opening in June 1976, ran for four years at the Arts.
The lease of the theatre was taken over by a consortium of UK and US producers in 2000, for a five-year period, and relaunched as a West End Theatre. The Arts now operates as the West End's smallest commercial receiving house.
Theatre tickets to performances at the Arts Theatre can be purchased securely online through this website.
