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"She wanted spontaneity, adventure… I said I can be spontaneous… I just need a little bit of time to plan.”

Peta is new in town and ready for whatever London has to throw at her. She’s looking for romance, for friendship, for exciting people to lead her on big adventures. But being an independent woman in the new millennium isn’t easy, especially when there’s a constant reminder of the life you’re trying to escape. With each new encounter, Peta flirts with what might have been, but has the journey to London put enough distance between her and her past?

This is the first major revival of this fascinating and funny play from Susan Smith Blackburn Prize-winning playwright Chloë Moss (This Wide Night, Soho Theatre; Dickensian, BBC) which was first produced at Bush Theatre in 2004.

Michelle Collins will star as Marion alongside Nigel Boyle (Line of Duty, Peaky Blinders), Benjamin O’Mahony (BBC’s Ripper Street), Yana Penrose (A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre), Larner Wallace-Taylor (An Inspector Calls, UK tour), and Duncan Moore (Windows and Caste, Finborough Theatre)

How Love Is Spelt is directed by Charlotte Peters (Associate Director War Horse, UK Tour and An Inspector Calls, West End)

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“How Love Is Spelt signals the arrival of a remarkably assured new talent. I can’t remember a play in recent years that so adroitly captured the difficulty of being young and alone in the capital or did so with such refreshing humour.”
Dominic Cavendish, The Telegraph

“The finest and most assured writing to be found outside the National Theatre this year… Chloe Moss has lived up to her early promise with a moving and mature study of love, loneliness and the need to define one’s own identity… One of the year’s undoubted highlights.”
Evening Standard

“Moss’s writing evokes these nocturnal collisions beautifully, using silence as powerfully as words, and brittle comedy as deftly as tremendous sadness.”
The Guardian

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4 - 28 SEPT 2019
Start Time 8pm
Matinee Starts 3:30pm (tues and Sat matinees)
Running Time 120 mins including interval
Price £22 | £18 concessions | All previews £14 (4 & 5 Sept)

Tickets now on sale - from £15.00

West End Wilma, the mother and son theatre blogging duo, are delighted to announce that the sixth, annual, West End Wilma Awards in association with Free@Last TV Ltd and Martina Cole, will take place on Sunday 10 November 2019 at Café de Paris in the West End of London. This year’s entertainment is sponsored by Encore Radio.

TICKETS ON SALE NOW - £15.00
https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/wilmaawards

VIP tickets, priced at £35.00, include 1 ticket to the ceremony, guaranteed seat in the first three rows, signed programme (by the performers on the day), access to watch the exclusive soundcheck on the day, West End Wilma #Stagey T-shirt, West End Wilma #Stagey tote bag.

10% of ticket sales will be donated to the National Autistic Society to help create more accessible theatre.

This years award categories are:

Best Touring Production
sponsored by The Orchard Theatre, Dartford

Best Cabaret/Solo Performance
sponsored by Royal Vauxhall Tavern

Best Takeover In A Role

Best Understudy

Best Ensemble Performer
sponsored by The MTA

Best Performer In A West End Show

Best Performer In An Off-West End Show

Rising Star
sponsored by Concord Theatricals

Best Off-West End Show

Best West End Show

The West End Wilma Awards launched in November 2014, to help celebrate the best of UK Theatre. Nominees are decided every year between West End Wilma and those that review for the website, from all of the shows seen over the past year. Shortlisted nominees are put to the theatre going public to vote for the winners.

Shortlisted nominees will be announced on 30 August 2019 and online voting will begin on 13 September 2019.

For more information about the West End Wilma Awards visit https://www.westendwilma.com/awards/

For sponsorship/media enquiries please contact Ed Baker wilma@westendwilma.com

An exclusive offer for West End Wilma readers.

Make sure you’re one of the first to see this European Premiere, jetting across from the bright lights of Broadway to the rolling rivers of Greenwich! If you can make it in the first few days then previews are just £16, but as an exclusive special offer this Summer we’re offering tickets for £20 until the 10^th October if you book by the 26^th of August. What are you waiting for?

Use promo code Early20 to receive our special offer!

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Brooklyn The Musical is a story within a story. On the outside, a band of soulful street singers and storytellers sharing a story from their lives. And their story: a young Parisian coming to America to search for fame and the Father she never knew. Her only clue, her name.... Brooklyn.

With a brilliant mix of pop, rock and soul, these stories interweave to create a musical that is a touching and inspiring sidewalk-fairy tale.

Running from 27 Sep – 19 Oct at the Greenwich Theatre

Ticket prices: £28.50

"So you gotta ask yourself, do you believe in happy endings?" Book now!

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FINAL WEEKS FOR
ACCLAIMED PRODUCTION
MUST END 31 AUGUST

You only have until 31 August to experience all of the passion and poetry that made Louis de Bernières’ love story a multimillion best-selling novel and a smash-hit Hollywood movie.

A BLISSFUL WARTIME ROMANCE. WONDERFULLY TRUE TO THE MUCH-LOVED BOOK. BRAVO - THE TIMES

BASED ON THE NOVEL BY LOUIS DE BERNIERES, ADAPTED BY RONA MUNRO, DIRECTED BY MELLY STILL

From the vivid descriptions of the village and its inhabitants, to the brutal life and epic sweep of the soldiers caught up in the constantly changing politics of war, don’t miss this stunning production.

Cephalonia 1941. Captain Corelli, an enigmatic young Italian officer, is posted to the idyllic Greek island as part of the occupying forces. The Captain is soon thrown together with Dr Iannis’ strong – willed and beautiful daughter Pelagia, who discovers all of the complexities of love, and how it can blossom in the most unexpected and profound way.

MUST END 31 AUGUST

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