Keeler - Upstairs at the Gatehouse
Preview by Lizzie Guilfoyle
Keeler, a play by Gill Adams based on Christine Keeler’s 2001 autobiography The Truth at Last, runs Upstairs at the Gatehouse from February 14 to March 18, 2007.
Christine Keeler was the young showgirl at the heart of the 1963 Profumo scandal, in which John ‘Jack’ Profumo, the Secretary of State for War, was forced to resign after their affair was exposed. At the time, Keeler was also involved with a Russian spy.
In its aftermath, the Prime Minister Harold Macmillan also resigned and Stephen Ward, the man who introduced Keeler and Profumo, committed suicide.
Paul Nicholas and Alexander Holt direct a cast that includes Alice Coulthard (Keeler), Brian Cowan (Ward), Stacey Cadman (Mandy Rice Davis), Johnnie Lyne-Pirkis (Profumo), Patrick Ross, Martin Bendel, Ewan David Alman and Laurie Hagan.
Unlike A Model Girl which is currently playing at Greenwich Theatre, Keeler is not a musical although it does feature an early 1960s soundtrack with songs by Shirley Bassey, Adam Faith, The Platters and Ritchie Valens.
And again unlike the musical, Adams’ adaptation has Keeler’s full approval.
Tickets: £12, £10 concessions – Tuesday to Friday; £15, £12 concessions – Saturdays; and £10, £8 concessions – Sundays.
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