The Way Old Friends Do Tickets

Production photos are in for Ian Hallard's new comedy The Way Old Friends Do. Now playing at Birmingham Rep to 4 March 2023, the show is heading to London's Park Theatre from 15 March to 15 April 2023. The League of Gentleman's Mark Gatiss (The Unfriend) directs, with a cast that includes writer and star Ian Hallard (The Boys in the Band), Donna Berlin (Doctors), James Bradshaw (Endeavour), Sara Crowe (Private Lives), Andrew Horton (Jupiter’s Legacy) and Rose Shalloo (Call The Midwife). The play also features the voices of Miriam Margolyes and Paul O'Grady. The Way Old Friends Do is a tender, uplifting, hilarious show about two school friends in 1988 who tentatively come out to one another: one as gay, the other - more shockingly - as an ABBA fan! Nearly thirty years later, a chance meeting sets them on a brand-new path and they decide to form the world’s first ABBA tribute band - in drag! But can their friendship survive the tribulations of a life on the road which includes platform boots, fake beards and a distractingly attractive stranger? The creative team also includes Set & Costume Designer Janet Bird, Lighting Designer Andrew Exeter, Sound Designer Ben Harrison, Casting Director Marc Frankum and Assistant Director Gavin Joseph. Mark Gatiss recently directed new West End comedy The Unfriend at the Criterion Theatre starring Reece Shearsmith, Amanda Abbington and Frances Barber, which runs until 16 April 2023. He will also star as John Gielgud in The Motive and the Cue at the National Theatre in April 2023. The Way Old Friends Do is produced by Birmingham Rep and James Seabright. Book tickets to The Way Old Friends Do tickets at the Park Theatre in London Photos: The Way Old Friends Do [ngg src="galleries" ids="1045" display="pro_tile"]

The Park Theatre in London has announced its Spring 2023 season which includes new productions about cancel culture and PTSD to revivals of classic plays by experimental writers Philip Ridley and Neil LaBute. The Spring 2023 programme starts with Leaving Vietnam (14 March – 8 Apr). Running alongside the previously announced The Way Old Friends Do, directed by Mark Gatiss in Park200, the Park90 show is about the lived experience of a war veteran. Next in Park90 is cancel culture exploration Snowflakes (12 April – 6 May). Blending comedy, satire, sci-fi and drama, Snowflakes takes Cancel Culture quite literally to question ideas of morality, revenge and justice with gleeful, violent abandon. The show runs alongside ANIMAL in Park200. The first of two revivals, Leaves of Glass (11 May – 3 June) is a Philip Ridley play which returns for the first time in 16 years with a new production by long time collaborators, Lidless Theatre. Ridley’s four-hander is a gripping narrative of memory, manipulation, and power - now regarded as a modern classic In Park200, a major new revival of Neil LaBute’s The Shape of Things (24 May – 1 July) will be presented by the producers of last year’s hit revival of Clybourne Park. A fast-moving and thrilling piece of theatre set on a college campus in small-town America, it's a play about relationships, art and friendship where nothing is quite what it seems. Finally Paper Cut (7 June - 1 July) sees a young gay American soldier, returning from Afghanistan after being injured in an IED blast. Only a paper cut. Or that’s what he wants his friends, family, and a potential new love to believe. Paper Cut is a raw exploration of the physical and emotional toll of returning soldiers and how they navigate their way through another minefield – that of returning home. Park Theatre's current season include the windrush boxing drama On The Ropes, The Way Old Friends Do, Winner's Curse and ANIMAL.

Check out this photo shoot video for new play The Way Old Friends Do, including interviews with director Mark Gatiss and the cast of the show. The play gets its world premiere at Birmingham Rep on 17 February (to 4 March), before heading to the Park Theatre in London from 15 March to 15 April 2023. Written by Ian Hallard and directed by Mark Gatiss (Sherlock, Dracula, Doctor Who, The League of Gentlemen), The Way Old Friends Do promises to be a tender, uplifting, laugh-out-loud show about two school friends in the 80's who come out to one another: one as gay, the other - more shockingly - as an ABBA fan! The cast of the show includes Ian Hallard (The Boys in the Band), Donna Berlin (Doctors) James Bradshaw (Endeavour), Sara Crowe (Olivier Award winner for Private Lives), Andrew Horton (Jupiter’s Legacy) and Rose Shalloo (Call The Midwife). The play also features the voices of Miriam Margolyes and Paul O'Grady. The cast of The Way Old Friends Do The show's creative team also includes Set & Costume Designer Janet Bird, Lighting Designer Andrew Exeter, Sound Designer Ben Harrison, Casting Director Marc Frankum and Assistant Director Gavin Joseph. Mark Gatiss is currently directing new West End comedy The Unfriend at the Criterion Theatre starring Reece Shearsmith, Amanda Abbington and Frances Barber, which starts its run on 15 January 2023. Book tickets to The Way Old Friends Do tickets at the Park Theatre in London Video: The Way Old Friends Do

The cast has been announced for new play The Way Old Friends Do. The show will have its world premiere at Birmingham Rep on 17 February, running to 4 March 2023. The show will then tour the UK, including a run at the Park Theatre in London from 15 March to 15 April 2023. The show will star Ian Hallard (The Boys in the Band), who also wrote the play, alongside Donna Berlin (Doctors), James Bradshaw (Endeavour), Sara Crowe (Olivier Award winner for Private Lives), Andrew Horton (Jupiter’s Legacy) and Rose Shalloo (Call The Midwife). The play also features the voices of Miriam Margolyes and Paul O'Grady. Directed by Mark Gatiss (Sherlock, Dracula, Doctor Who, The League of Gentlemen), The Way Old Friends Do promises to be a tender, uplifting, laugh-out-loud show about two school friends in the 80's who come out to one another: one as gay, the other - more shockingly - as an ABBA fan! Alongside Mark Gatiss, the creative team includes Set & Costume Designer Janet Bird, Lighting Designer Andrew Exeter, Sound Designer Ben Harrison, Casting Director Marc Frankum and Assistant Director Gavin Joseph. Mark Gatiss is currently directing new West End comedy The Unfriend at the Criterion Theatre starring Reece Shearsmith, Amanda Abbington and Frances Barber, which starts its run on 15 January 2023. The Way Old Friends Do is produced by Birmingham Rep and James Seabright. Book tickets to The Way Old Friends Do tickets at the Park Theatre in London