Lichfield Garrick Theatre 2024-25 Season

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Wed 11 Sep 2024 - Sat 25 Jan 2025

A theatre in Staffordshire is launching its biggest-ever season through to 2025, featuring a fantastic programme of shows with something for all ages and audiences. The multi award-winning Lichfield Garrick is bringing everything from West End drama to side-splitting comedy. The season kicks off with Jenny 'The Vixen' Ryan from the hit ITV quiz The Chase who brings her Out of the Box tour to Lichfield. She promises to deliver an intimate evening of song and storytelling with a few showbiz secrets thrown in!

That kicks off a jam-packed season of drama and comedy, including Solve-Along-A-Murder-She-Wrote and Murder for Two, for all true crime and murder mystery lovers, as well as Thomas Hardy’s Far from the Madding Crowd and Merry Opera’s Die Fledermaus for fans of the classics. The Garrick is also thrilled to present an in-house production in April 2025, of Elly Brewer and Sandi Toksvig’s The Pocket Dream, described as a hilarious reimagining of Shakespeare’s most popular comedy. The Pocket Dream will feature Garrick's favourite panto duo, Sam Rabone and Ben Thornton.



The production is adapted and directed by Lichfield Garrick’s Chief Executive and Artistic Director, Daniel Buckroyd, who says: “We love hosting the very best touring theatre, music and comedy at the Garrick, but there’s nothing quite like producing shows ourselves; a chance for our multi-talented team of theatre-makers to take centre stage and for local audiences to enjoy a production that’s been made right here in Lichfield.

"Sandi Toksvig and Elly Brewer’s re-imagining of Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream has everything you could ever want in a night out at the theatre – drama, romance, theatrical tricks-a-plenty and LOTS of laughs - and that’s before Sam Rabone and Ben Thornton get involved! It promises to be huge fun and we can’t wait to get into the rehearsal room to bring Sandi & Elly’s hilarious script to life and share it with our audiences.”



For music lovers, Lichfield Garrick welcomes the return of favourites such as The Glam Rock Show (formerly Get It On), The Magic of the Bee Gees, and 80s Mania, as well as brand new offerings such as Country Superstars, the world’s biggest country music tribute as seen on London’s West End, and Back In The Day, the ultimate nostalgia party taking fans on an unforgettable journey through the iconic sounds of the 80s, 90s and 00s. And The Queen of the West End, Kerry Ellis, will be singing everyone's show favourites in October.

Comedy lovers will be spoilt for choice, with street cop turned BBC radio star, Alfie Moore, hilarious powerhouse Omid Djalili who stops off for two evenings on his stand-up tour, Namaste, and Milton Jones, the star of TV shows such as Mock the Week and Live at the Apollo, who brings his Ha!Milton tour to Lichfield in March 2025. And New Old Friends theatre company return with Christmas Present & Correct, a brilliant new Christmas farce with their classic witty wordplay and multiple-role mayhem that fans know and love.



For younger audiences, there is plenty to enjoy as well, with children’s classics such as The Gruffalo, Dinosaur World Live, Storytime with Santa and Tom Fletcher’s There’s a Monster in your Show brought to the stage as a brand-new musical. For older kids, there is Frankenstein, a brand-new gothic thriller based on Mary Shelley’s novel, and Sh!tfaced Shakespeare: A Midsummer Night’s Dream and winner of the Laurence Olivier Best Comedy Award, and the hugely in-demand Pride & Prejudice (*Sort of) joins Lichfield Garrick direct from its triumph in the West End.

Thought-provoking drama also comes in a variety of forms, including Floella Benjamin's Coming to England, which tells her own story of coming to England from her home in Trinidad as a child. Her award-winning book has been adapted for the stage by David Wood, with performances taking place in October.



Copies of the new Lichfield Garrick season brochure are available to collect from the theatre or view online at www.lichfieldgarrick.com. Tickets can also be bought from the Box Office or by phoning 01543 412121.

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