⭐ NEW PRODUCTIONS ANNOUNCED TO STREAM FROM CHICHESTER FESTIVAL THEATRE – INCLUDING DAVID WALLIAMS’S THE MIDNIGHT GANG ⭐
David Walliams’s The Midnight Gang and the Chichester Festival Youth Theatre production of Beauty and the Beast will be the next productions to be streamed online from Chichester Festival Theatre.
David Walliams’s The Midnight Gang, adapted by Bryony Lavery with music and lyrics by Joe Stilgoe, premiered at Chichester Festival Theatre in 2018, directed by Dale Rooks.
This inventive tale of fun, friendship and the importance of kindness, about a gang of children who each night escape from their hospital beds to make their dreams come true, is adapted from David Walliams’s biggest-selling children’s book of 2016.
In 2017, the award-winning Chichester Festival Youth Theatre presented a brand new adaptation of Beauty and the Beast by Anna Ledwich (The Butterfly Lion) from the original fairy tale, with music and lyrics by Richard Taylor (Flowers for Mrs Harris).
A cursed prince sits alone in an enchanted castle, destined to remain in monstrous form until he can learn to love and be loved in return. But who could ever love a Beast? Prejudice, jealousy, compassion and love are woven through this magical story, studded with enchanting and deliciously scary characters.
Dale Rooks, whose work at Chichester includes The Butterfly Lion and the award-winning Running Wild, directs a cast of 72 young people in a visually spectacular show.
Both will be available on CFT’s website for 30 days, starting with The Midnight Gang from 30th April and then Beauty and the Beast from 21st May, and will be free to watch.
Both productions will be captioned for Deaf/deaf and hard of hearing audiences.
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