• Keith Allen finds Treasure at Haymarket

    05 Sep 2008

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    Actor, presenter and musician Keith Allen is set to limp his way through a West End Christmas season at the Theatre Royal Haymarket, playing peg-legged pirate Long John Silver in a new adaptation of Treasure Island. Read more


Treasure Island

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Showing at: Haymarket, Theatre Royal

Box Office: 0845 481 1870

Age: General

Genre: Play

Sub Genre: Drama

Treasure Island is a swashbuckling tale of adventure, intrigue, pirates, conspiracies, treasure and drama on the high seas. This new play at the Theatre Royal Haymarket, which stars Keith Allen as the notorious Long John Silver, has been adapted from Robert Louis Stevenson’s novel by Ken Ludwig.

In Treasure Island, young Jim Hawkins finds himself in the possession of a map showing the location of the fabled lost treasure of Captain Flint, a booty that many a pirate had tried to claim for himself. Setting sail to find it with a crew of gentlemen and hired scoundrels, including suspicious peg-legged cook Long John Silver, none of the crew know the adventures and perils that lie before them. Some will make it back alive, some will not.

Allen’s rum-swilling, parrot-shouldering, yo-ho-ho-ing return to London theatre in the cast of Treasure Island comes hot on the heels of playing another of literature’s classic blackguards, the Sheriff of Nottingham, in the recent BBC Saturday evening series of Robin Hood. His other London stage credits include a trio of Pinter pieces – The Room, The Celebration (both Almeida) and The Homecoming (National Theatre) – while his films include Trainspotting, Shallow Grave and 24 Hour Party People.

Treasure Island, which features a live band on the Theatre Royal Haymarket stage, is directed by Sean Holmes, who has had recent success with Moonlight And Magnolias at the Tricycle and The Entertainer at the Old Vic.

For more about Treasure Island at the Theatre Royal Haymarket read our First Night Feature.

Performance Details

  • previews from: 07 Nov 2008
  • opening night: 17 Nov 2008
  • closing: 10 Jan 2009

show times: Tue 19:00, Wed-Sat 19:30 Mats Wed & Sat 14:30, Sun 15:00

ticket prices: £20-£45

 

cast: Keith Allen, Michael Legge, Tony Bell, Paul Brennen, John Lightbody, Dermot Kerrigan, James Atherton, Mark Bagnall, Matt Costain, Estella Daniels, Branwell Donaghey, Howard Gossington, James Lailey, Mark Theodore, Sharlene Whyte.

author: Robert Louis Stevenson

adapted by: Ken Ludwig

director: Sean Holmes

music by: Tom Haines and Ross Hughes

sound: Emma Laxton

lighting designer: Paul Anderson

designer: Lizzie Clachan

producer: Brian Eastman and Andrew Welch

 

map: View Map

address: Haymarket, London, United Kingdom, SW1Y 4HT

nearest tube: Piccadilly Circus (150m) Leicester Square (500m)

nearest bus: 3, 6, 9, 12, 13, 14, 15, 19, 22, 23, 24, 29, 38, 40, 88, 91, 94, 139, 159, 176,

parking: Westminter City Council car park at Whitcomb Street. NCPs in Denman Street and Leicester Place. Meters and 1 disabled parking space in Suffolk Place.

air conditioned: Yes

 

Assisted Performance Booking Information

Access Booking: Tel: 020 7930 8800

Accessible Facilities Venue Information

discounts: Discounts available for wheelchair users and their companions.

limited mobility: There is more leg room in boxes A and B (4 steps into each box), or in seats F1, F21, G1 and G18 of the Stalls.

access description: Main entrance up three 15cm steps (staircases have handrails on both sides and are highlighted) through a set of double swing doors. Box Office counter to the right of the entrance. 18 steps down from the foyer to the Stalls, 28 steps up to the Royal Circle, and 60+ steps up to the Upper Circle and Gallery, through a separate entrance to the right of the main entrance. 4 steps in to each box.

hearing impaired: Sennheiser infra-red system with 20 headsets.

guide dogs policy: Guide dogs are not allowed into the auditorium but up to 6 can be looked after in the manager’s office.

wheelchairs: No steps to the auditorium through EXIT doors to the left and righthand side of the main entrance – please tell the Box Office in advance and they will be opened for you. 1 space for a wheelchair user at X18. The venue is suitable for scooters. Transfer seating available to any aisle seat for 1 scooter and 4 wheelchairs. The theatre can store 1 scooter and 4 wheelchairs per performance.

toilets: Women’s and men’s are down 11 steps from the foyer and at Royal Circle and Upper Circle level.

disabled toilets: Adapted toilet at Stalls entrance on street level.

bars: 1 licensed bar. Drinks in plastic cups can be brought to disabled customers in the auditorium. Stalls bar is 11 steps down from the foyer, Royal Circle bar is 28 steps up from the foyer, and there is another bar at Upper Circle level. No seating.

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