Grand Guignol
1903. Paris, Montmartre and the Theatre du Grand Guignol opens its doors to an unsuspecting public. The plays, rife with madness and murder, are sold out every night to an awestruck public, avid for the horrors that are nightly set before them. But when a psychiatrist, obsessed with the gruesome dramas, ingratiates his way into the company and starts to unpick the author’s mind, the boundaries between theatre and truth begin to blur…Playing at the Southwark Play House until 22 November
Sunny Afternoon
Featuring some of The Kinks’ best-loved songs, including You Really Got Me, Waterloo Sunset and Lola, Sunny Afternoon marks the 50th Anniversary year of the band’s debut release. At the Harold Pinter Theatre until 31 Jan
Boeing Boeing
It’s the 1960s, and swinging bachelor Bernard couldn’t be happier: a flat in Paris and three gorgeous stewardesses all engaged to him without knowing about each other. But Bernard’s perfect life gets bumpy when his friend Robert comes to stay and a new and speedier Boeing jet throws off all of his careful planning. Soon all three stewardesses are in town simultaneously, Robert is forgetting which lies to tell to whom, and catastrophe looms.Playing at the Bridewell Theatre 28th Oct – 1 Nov 7.30pm
‘Tis Pity She’s a Whore
John Ford’s tale of incestuous lust and obsessive revenge. At the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse until 7th December
Girlfriends
at the Union Theatre until 22 Nov is co-written by Richard Curtis.
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