Adroit Theatre Productions

Playhouse Creatures by April de Angelis.

New Theatre Royal welcomes Adroit Theatre Productions for its brilliant dramatic comedy Playhouse Creatures by April de Angelis.

The year is 1669, a bawdy and troublesome time, and theatres have just reopened after seventeen years of Puritan suppression. There is a surge in dramatic writing and the first English actresses appear on the stage.

Playhouse Creatures focuses on the most famous (Nell Gwyn, Elizabeth Farley, Rebecca Marshall, Doll Common and Mary Betterton) to provide a comic and often moving account of the precarious lives of the Restoration actresses.

Backstage conversations about life behind the curtain are interspersed with scenes from their performances in a way that will have audiences laughing out loud one minute and swallowing the lump in their throat the next.

Adroit Theatre Productions are proud to present this 'Raucously funny and deeply poignant' dramatic comedy in an intimate setting with an original live music score.