'Bully Boy' at the St James Theatre

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Those going to London might want to consider this new show, 'Bully Boy' at the new St James Theatre (London's first new theatre in 30 years) literally a few minutes stroll from the VPT. This play, by BBS radio and television personality and comedian Sandy Toksvig, stars Anthony Andrews ('IF', 'Upstairs Downstair'), is about Oliver Hadley, a major, and a Falklands veteran leading the enquiry into his unit’s alleged involvement in the death of an eight-year-old local boy; Private Eddie Clark is the last of the soldiers to be interviewed, and is bristling with pent-up anxieties and aggression.

Rising from the ashes of the former Westminster Theatre in London’s Palace Street, next to Buckingham Palace, the newly built, £7 million St James Theatre complex – comprising a 312-seat main house, flexible 100-150 seat studio, bar, café, restaurant and broadcast studio – launches its inaugural season this week, under the helm of its founding artistic director, David Gilmore.

Earlier in his 50-year career, Gilmore ran two leading regional playhouses, the Nuffield Theatre in Southampton and the Watermill Theatre in Newbury. His many West End credits include the original award-winning productions of Daisy Pulls It Off, Ken Ludwig comedy Lend Me a Tenor, Defending the Caveman and the premiere of Melvyn Bragg and Howard Goodall’s musical The Hired Man. Most notably in the West End, Gilmore’s production of Grease ran for seven years at the Dominion and Cambridge Theatres before returning to the Victoria Palace, and touring internationally.

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Gilmore’s many other productions, at home and abroad, include plays As You Like It, The Tempest, The Merchant of Venice, Hedda Gabler, David Mamet’s Glengarry Glen Ross and [Ben Elton’s] Gasping; and musicals Footloose and Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Song and Dance.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-19636447

http://www.stjamestheatre.co.uk/

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