After a premiere in Birmingham last year, Sean Mathias’ production of The Exorcist has resurfaced in the West End in the hope of recreating the chills and thrills of the 1973 movie, despite the fact that it is notoriously difficult to get horror right in the theatre.
NEWS: Casting announced for West End premiere of The Exorcist
Jenny Seagrove, Peter Bowles, Adam Garcia and Clare Louise Connolly reprise their performances in the West End transfer of The Exorcist.
LATE COMPANY – Trafalgar Studios ★★★★
The play benefits from this close actor-audience involvement – you are drawn into the play as it unfolds, and leave feeling utterly involved, transformed in some way by what you have witnessed.
FEATURED SHOW: Late Company makes a triumphant West End premiere, ★★★★★ reviews are in!
Have you caught the European premiere of Jordan Tannahill’s Late Company yet? After transferring following its sell-out spring season at the Finborough Theatre, Michael Yale’s production has won another slew of five- and four-star reviews in the West End. Its limited season at Trafalgar Studios 2 must finish on 16 September 2017. A selection of some of our favourite review quotes is gathered below…
LATE COMPANY – Trafalgar Studios ★★★★★
Jordan Tannahill’s taut, 75-minute darkly comic real-life social drama Late Company draws two Toronto couples into God of Carnage country as they attempt to broker closure over the suicide of Joel, bullied at high school for homosexuality.
LATE COMPANY – Trafalgar Studios ★★★★
This is a dinner that, much like Titus Andronicus’ endgame, is a meal that not one person around the table wishes to attend.
Late Company Q&A podcast: How do we deal with grief, loss & prejudice?
Why has the Campaign Against Living Miserably (CALM) got involved with the play? Why did the director choose not to relocate the play to the UK? How have the actors visualised the absent but ever-present Joel and their characters’ relationships with him?
New post-show Q&A: Join Terri to talk to Late Company cast in West End premiere
Mates co-founder Terri Paddock will talk to the stars and director of the European premiere of Jordan Tannahill’s LATE COMPANY, transferring from the Finborough Theatre to the West End’s Trafalgar Studios, on Wednesday 23 August 2017. Got any questions?
LATE COMPANY – Finborough Theatre
Set around the dinner table of the bereaved parents, their guests for the evening are Bill and Tamara Dermot together with their son Curtis, a peer of Joel’s at school and the ringleader of the bullies who had taunted him to his death.
LATE COMPANY – Finborough Theatre
Guess who’s coming to dinner, Toronto-style. The table has been set at Debora and Michael’s oh-so-tasteful upper class home but the atmosphere is thick with tension as their guests are Curtis, the schoolboy who bullied their son Joel – who committed suicide a year ago – and his parents.
LATE COMPANY – Finborough Theatre
Jordan Tannahill’s taut, 70 minute darkly comic real-life social drama Late Company draws two Toronto couples into God of Carnage country as they attempt to broker closure over the suicide of Joel, bullied at high school for homosexuality, and confront the teenager who may have been his antagonist.
THE EXORCIST – Birmingham
The majority of us are familiar with the original horror film which was based on the novel by William Peter Blatty. To this day, it can still turn my stomach (not my head… fortunately!) and make my toes curl, so, looking for a play to watch on the run up to Halloween?