Theatre Royal Stratford East
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Sep 25, 2026
James O'BrienHOST
Gosh
Eric IdleGUEST
... at Stratford East with Joan Littlewood.
James O'BrienHOST
Of course, yeah.
Eric IdleGUEST
Extraordinary production.
Sheldon HallHOST
This is his first feature film and it's adapted from the 1963 stage production by Joan Littlewood of the same title.
Sheldon HallHOST
It had been staged at Littlewood's Theatre at Stratford East in 1963.
Sheldon HallHOST
I never saw it on stage but it had a very different form from the film itself.
Sheldon HallHOST
sharing some of its Bractean qualities, but presented as a kind of highly self-conscious music hall performance.
Warren WillsHOST
Major theatrical works, Manda Negra, Dancing on Blackwater, Jitterbug, Hotel Cerise, and, of course, Marilyn and Ella, that I did with her for a year or two, of which, indeed, I was the composer, musical director and arranger.
Warren WillsHOST
Her play about the relationship between Marilyn Monroe and Ella Fitzgerald, which went from the Edinburgh Festival to Theatre Royal Stratford East and to London's Apollo Theatre in the West End.
Warren WillsHOST
With much, much love, dear Bonnie.
Warren WillsHOST
And welcome back to your listeners.
Nick CurtisHOST
Really cracking sort of melodrama about the press.
Nancy DurrantHOST
A bit of a preview, this one, because we are going to review it in a later episode, but Bloodsport at Theatre Royal Stratford East.
Nick CurtisHOST
Yeah, I would say excellent.
Nick CurtisHOST
I mean, it's an early...
Mickey JoHOST
We will be discussing For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow Is Enuf at the newly opened Yard Theater.
Mickey JoHOST
Then Blood Sport: After Helen of Troy at Stratford East.
Mickey JoHOST
And finally, the return of Man to Man at the Royal Court as part of its 70th anniversary season.
Mickey JoHOST
Plenty for us to discuss about all of these.
17 MINS LATER
Mickey JoHOST
Go and check out the newly redeveloped Yard Theatre, and go and see this play.
Mickey JoHOST
We arrive next at what was quite possibly my favorite of the bunch, and one that I've been very excited to tell you about.
Mickey JoHOST
This is Blood Sport: After Helen of Troy at Stratford East.
Mickey JoHOST
Written by rising star playwright Ava Pickett, who has recently been hugely celebrated for her work 1536, which played at the Almeida Theatre and then transferred to a sold-out run at the Ambassadors and was scorchingly good.
Sarah CromptonHOST
Margot Robbie's a producer and all the rest of it.
Sarah CromptonHOST
So it is fabulous that this is opening at Stratford East, that it's sort of a commitment to being a theatrical animal, which I love.
Alex WoodHOST
Yes, I think it's...
Alex WoodHOST
It's really satisfying to be able to celebrate a playwright that is being universally lifted up and recognised for her talents.
Lucia Santos RoldánGUEST
hard one because I find it quite difficult to generally just feel really proud of something and not just I find it really difficult to not just hold on to the things that I know were not perfect or the things that I know needed to be fixed I think the This show, I feel really proud of this, partly because it was a lot of hard work and it was bigger scale than things I've done.
Lucia Santos RoldánGUEST
A few years ago, it was Wonderful War of Dissocia at Stratford East.
Lucia Santos RoldánGUEST
And I think I actually feel really proud of that, partly because it was a lot of hard work and it was quite a complicated piece.
Lucia Santos RoldánGUEST
So by the time we got to the end, it felt really satisfying.
Jonathan ThomasHOST
Unfortunately, it's been sold out for months, but you may be able to get tickets on the day because they do release tickets on the day.
Jonathan ThomasHOST
Bloodsport, After Halloween of Troy, Stratford East, September 3rd to October 10th.
Jonathan ThomasHOST
Michelle Dockery from Downton Abbey and Laura Aikman are in a world premiere about the woman whose face started a war.
Jonathan ThomasHOST
So it's like a it's a twist on the Odyssey and the Iliad.