First look rehearsal images have been released of Paul Rider and John Sackville who star in Staircase by Charles Dyer at Southwark Playhouse @2scompbit.ly/2Sre7DN
Interview: Tricia Thorns @2scomp
For the first time in nearly 50 years, #Staircase by Charles Dyer will return to London in the @swkplay.
Ahead of the show we’ve spoken with director Tricia about highlight the challenges faced by the LGBTQA+ community. cfrycentrestage.wordpress.com/2021/06/04/int…
Staircase is a clarion call for a more accepting and generous society; for a world where people can be who they are in their hearts; where love is love and that love is championed in all its forms.
- and Charlie has been arrested in a pub while sitting on a man’s knee. Simmering underneath the banter and hilarious mockery, Charlie anxiously awaits a court summons and Harry has his own troubles – his hair is rapidly falling out, a disaster for a hairdresser.
It’s the early 1960s. Charlie and Harry are hairdressers in Brixton and have been together for 20 years. Quick humour and dreams keep them afloat but same-sex relationships are illegal and -
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Running through this laugh-out loud comedy is the sadness of those unable to live openly because the law and the public condemn them to an undercover life. Change may be in the air but, for these two, it might as well be a hundred years away.
WE'RE BACK! Laugh-out-loud comedy from 1966, STAIRCASE by Charles Dyer, Southwark Playhouse 23 June - 17 July. southwarkplayhouse.co.uk/show-whats-on/… to book!
My friends! Please follow @TambourinePlay for all the news of our next play at @finborough from 6 August. A touching and funny family story, some of whom are in the Salvation Army. Guys & Dolls but with fewer songs and English. In fact not Guys & Dolls at all. But very enjoyable.