Lettice and Lovage by Peter Shaffer

"Lettice and Lovage" by Peter Shaffer

"If this is not Prince Charles’s favourite play, it should be! “
(The Express Newspaper)

Have you enjoyed - or heaven forbid missed! - our season of professional English theatre at Bastionen this year?

Playmate Theatre Malmö has presented 2 plays in 2017. The intellectual, witty, moving, and very British staged BBC monologues "Talking Heads" by iconic Alan Bennett. Then in September, the powerful, sexy, dramatic American comedy thriller "Venus in Fur" (in collaboration with Down the Rabbit Hole Theatre Copenhagen.) We are delighted to say both plays sold out. They brought the house down in Malmö and Copenhagen!

Now Book in Thursday 18/ Friday 19/ Saturday 20th January 2018.
19:00 hrs.
Performance is IN ENGLISH at blackbox theatre Bastionen, just across the canal from Malmö Central Station.
Booking opens soon...

We have a ticklingly delightful, very English comedy in store, a tour de force originally written for Maggie Smith “…to celebrate her extraordinary gifts, her glee and glitter and perfect timing and wit - her presence is witty”.

The play won Tony Awards for both female leads on Broadway. A funny, very English and clever comedy by acclaimed playwright Sir Peter Shaffer. Shaffer is best known for his worldwide successful hit plays Five Finger Exercise, The Royal Hunt of the Sun, Equus ,(recently revived at the West End with Daniel Radcliffe in the lead ) and in particular Amadeus, which was turned into one of the most successful films of the 1980s.

"Lettice and Lovage" is a fast-paced, witty, high camp, female version of the archetypal Shaffer play. It celebrates English wit, banter, repartee and a love of language, of history and theatricality, with a whopping dose of old-fashioned slapstick - seldom surpassed.

Meet the cast in Malmö:

The gleefully comic and loveable Boel Larsson, a well-known face in Swedish TV and theatre. Boel trained in the UK and you can watch her in the British Wallander series.

Vanessa Poole, a regular performer in English theatre in Copenhagen, who wowed audiences as Vanda Jordan in the powerful thriller Venus in Fur at Bastionen in September and who audiences in Malmö will remember as the vivacious Lesley in Talking Heads for Playmate Theatre.

Kevin Benn, veteran Malmö stage performer, fresh from touring southern Sweden in childrens’ theatre and who delighted audiences as the antiquarian in Talking Heads at Bastionen in May.

"Lettice and Lovage" by Peter Shaffer is presented by special arrangement with SAMUEL FRENCH, LTD.