Noël Coward’s Christmas Spirits

Running Time: 2 hours approx including an interval

I’ll sing of home and love and work

Of Magna Carta and Dunkirk

And Christmas bells and charity and pride

London, December 1940: the bombs rain down in the Blitz, and Britain faces up to Christmas under fire.

In his Mayfair flat, Noël Coward uses his latest creation, Madam Arcati, the visionary medium, to summon up voices that tell of the enduring spirit of Christmas through the ages.

The show will feature music from Coward including London Pride, Don’t Let’s Be Beastly to the Germans and Would You Please Oblige Us With a Bren Gun, and other songs from the blitz era. As well as more seasonal fare, and poetry from writers as diverse as Ben Jonson, Thomas Hardy, Walter de la Mare and Dylan Thomas.

There are powerful prose pieces from the Civil War and from the First World War, from Blitz newsreels and from domestic accounts of the war, from the United States and across the globe. All mixed with the Master’s wit and humour, and a large helping of Christmas spirit!

Starring Stefan Bednarczyk, Issy van Randwyck and Charlotte Wakefield, this promises to be a celebration of Christmas even the Luftwaffe can’t destroy!

Musical Direction by Stefan Bednarczyk
Designed by Annie Gosney

★★★★ ‘a true seasonal treat’ Daily Express

★★★★★ ‘A wonderful piece of theatre, magically magpie and delivered with full heart. And on the tables there are clove-stuck oranges: breathe them in deep, drink mulled wine, it’s proper Christmas.’ Theatre Cat

★★★★ ‘Ding dong merrily indeed.’ WhatsOnStage

‘I could happily have stayed there listening to these brilliant performers from one Christmas to the next.’ Broadway World

Offer

Get 4 tickets to the show, a pre-booked table in the Studio and a bottle of wine for £100, by calling the box office on 0844 264 2140. There are only a limited number available per performance. Bookable by phone only, not available online.