{"id":49180,"date":"2023-01-13T18:09:16","date_gmt":"2023-01-13T18:09:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/2023\/01\/13\/watermill-theatre-announces-cast-for-notes-from-a-small-island-there-ought-to-be-clowns\/"},"modified":"2023-01-13T18:09:16","modified_gmt":"2023-01-13T18:09:16","slug":"watermill-theatre-proclaims-solid-for-notes-from-a-small-island-there-ought-to-be-clowns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/2023\/01\/13\/watermill-theatre-proclaims-solid-for-notes-from-a-small-island-there-ought-to-be-clowns\/","title":{"rendered":"Watermill Theatre proclaims solid for Notes from a Small Island \u2013 There Ought To Be Clowns"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The Watermill have introduced the total solid of the brand-new stage adaption of Bill Bryson\u2019s award-winning memoir Notes from a Small Island<\/strong><\/em><\/a>,\u00a0<\/strong>affectionately celebrating the quirks and eccentricities of British life, tailored by BAFTA and Olivier Award successful playwright\u00a0Tim Whitnall\u00a0(Les Dawson: Flying High<\/em>\u00a0\u2013 UK Tour,\u00a0Morecambe<\/em>\u00a0\u2013 West End,\u00a0Best Possible Taste: The Kenny Everett Story<\/em>\u00a0\u2013 BBC4). Directed by The Watermill\u2019s Artistic Director\u00a0Paul Hart, designed by\u00a0Katie Lias, and produced in affiliation with\u00a0Simon Friend Entertainment,\u00a0Notes from a Small Island<\/em>\u00a0kicks off the Newbury-based award-winning theatre\u2019s spring season, and can star Olivier-nominated\u00a0Mark Hadfield\u00a0<\/strong>(Th\u00e9r\u00e8se Raquin<\/em>\u00a0\u2013 Olivier, NT,\u00a0Into the Woods<\/em> \u2013 Regent\u2019s Park Open Air Theatre), as \u2018Bill Bryson\u2019.<\/p>\n

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Starring alongside Mark on this world premiere, taking part in from Friday 3 February to Saturday 18 March,\u00a0are\u00a0Bryony Corrigan\u00a0<\/strong>(The Play That Goes Wrong\u00a0<\/em>\u2013 West End & Broadway,\u00a0Magic Goes Wrong\u00a0<\/em>&\u00a0Peter Pan Goes Wr<\/em>ong \u2013 West End),\u00a0Wendy Nottingham\u00a0<\/strong>(Vera Drake<\/em>,\u00a0Mr Selfridge<\/em>,\u00a0Peaky Blinders<\/em>),\u00a0Anne Odeke<\/strong>\u00a0(As You Like It, The Merry Wives of Windsor\u00a0<\/em>&\u00a0The Comedy of Errors\u00a0<\/em>\u2013\u00a0Shakespeare\u2019s Globe),\u00a0Steve Pinder\u00a0<\/strong>(Brookside<\/em>, C4,\u00a0Wicked<\/em>\u00a0\u2013 UK and Ireland tour),\u00a0Akshay Sharan<\/strong>\u00a0(Jack Absolute Flies Again\u00a0<\/em>\u2013 National Theatre,\u00a02018 Stage Debut Award for \u2018Best Actor in a Play\u2019 for\u00a0The Reluctant Fundamentalist\u00a0<\/em>\u2013Yard Theatre) and\u00a0Hayden Wood<\/strong>\u00a0(The Play That Goes Wrong\u00a0<\/em>&\u00a0Doctor Who: Time Fracture\u00a0<\/em>\u2013 West End,\u00a0Richard II\u00a0<\/em>\u2013 Arcola).<\/p>\n

What makes us love this nation we name our personal?<\/em><\/p>\n

From Calais to Scotland, Bill travels the size and breadth of Britain. Why does the nation that produced Marmite, Gardener\u2019s Question Time and individuals who say \u201cOoh lovely\u201d on the sight of a cup of tea, maintain such a particular place on this American\u2019s coronary heart?<\/em><\/p>\n

Notes from a Small Island<\/em>\u00a0spent three years within the Sunday Times bestsellers record, offered over two million copies and was voted on World Book Day by BBC Radio 4 listeners because the e-book that greatest represents our British identification.<\/p>\n

With signature invention and creativeness, the manufacturing will embrace the total breadth and playfulnessof Bryson\u2019s life affirming travelogue in The Watermill\u2019s fittingly intimate, quintessentially rural area.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

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