Happy Chuffing Christmas - Network Theatre
Preview by Lizzie Guilfoyle
KIRSTY Eyre will direct her Happy Chuffing Christmas at Waterloo’s Network Theatre where it runs from December 1 to December 5, 2009.
Athena Warburton, Goddess of Barnsley, prides herself on her bacon butties. Sophia Ferrari, Siren of Siena, prefers Prosciutto di Parma. Never the two shall meet – until, that is, Darton High School exchange matches their daughters. Will Adele Warburton (old enough to have a tattoo) and the glamorous Letitzia (young enough to model) bond or battle?
The Italian job goes down a storm with the neighbours who keep coming round to inspect la bella Letitzia but few are as keen as Nick, Adele’s older brother. With an anglo-italian nativity in the making, the Warburtons and Ferraris are brought together at Christmas.
The cast includes Kay Murray, Judith Denwood, Lesley Winterflood, Andy Bradshaw, Roger Kennedy, Fleur de Henrie, Irene Fuma, Adam Simcox, Alison Rycroft, Sophi Darley, Sylvia Calabrese, Jennie Rich, David Fraser, Hannah Dolan, Christina Houghton and Barry Clarke.
Eyre’s other work includes Dick Lothario, Suburban Spaceman and Class.
Tickets: £10.
For more information visit the Network Theatre Website
Network Theatre, 246A Lower Road, Waterloo, London, SE1 8SJ (on London’s South Bank, under the arches of London’s Waterloo Station, between the IMAX and the Old Vic).