The King's Head presents its first in-house producing season for more than a decade! Get ready for four world premiere musicals and three plays which include one world premiere, one UK premiere and one adaptation:

BETWIXT

6TH May-22nd June

Book, music and lyrics by Ian McFarlane

Fantasy novelist Bailey Howard and his flamboyant friend Cooper Fitzgerald are magically transported to the world of the In-Between. Their arrival fulfills the ancient prophecy that the oppressed land and its kidnapped Prince Haydn will be rescued by a conquering hero and a great queen. Setting off on their journey Bailey and Cooper encounter a host of curious characters, from the seductive Nymph Queen to a deranged theatrical troupe, the evil Languidere and a singing disembodied head. Alternating between Bailey's fantasy adventures and the real world he has left behind, Betwixt! is a witty musical romp, set to a richly comic score that is sure to engage and enthrall.

GRAND SLAM

24th June-27th July

By Lloyd Evans

The tennis player, Madeleine, is in London as a wild card entrant into Wimbledon. Her usual bodyguard has suffered an injury to his hand and Cedric has been hired as the replacement live-in protector. For the first time in her career, Madeleine manages to win the early stages of the tournament and suddenly finds herself in the unbelievable territory of the Wimbledon semi-finals. Madeleine's and Cedric's relationship develops with unexpected results.

The show will be playing over the Wimbledon Tennis Championships, with pre-show matches being screened in the pub and strawberries & cream and Pimms available behind the bar.

THE SHADOW MASTER

29th July-7th September

Adapted from JM Barrie's Dear Brutus, and directed by Stephanie Sinclaire

A dark tragi-comic social satire. A group of people meet at the country residence of the mysterious Lob for a summer house party. The household is odd, the host eccentric, the butler menacing and there is an eerie wood which can only be entered on Midsummer Night. The Machiavellian Lob sends them in and before the night is out, the wood will reveal much more than the second chance they all secretly long for. Gosford Park meets Midsummer Night's Dream by way of the Twilight Zone.

CHERRY DOCS

9th September-19th October

By David Gow

Caught between his career and his principles, Jewish lawyer Danny must defend Mike, an aggressive and violent skinhead accused of a vicious racist murder. Over the course of developing a defence for Mike, an intense and fiery relationship develops between the two men and the Danny is forced to examine the limits of his own liberalism.

STREET MAGIC

21st October-7th December

Book by Lisa Forrell
Music & Lyrics by Brett Kahr

Based on a true story, Street Magic is a moving rite of passage tale, charting the journey of a young girl, Sugar, the daughter of Desdemona, a Brixton brothel owner originally from Jamaica. The story contrasts Sugar's discovery of young love with local boy Rem and her horrific introduction to prostitution, both on her 13th birthday. Her search for the identity of her father parallels her search for her own identity with devastating, and finally redemptive, onsequences.

GODIVA

9th December-25th January

Book & lyrics by Guy Bolton
Music by Vivian Ellis CBE

In the court of Leofric, the Earl of Mercia, trouble is brewing - Lady Godiva, the Earl's wife in all but the eyes of the church, won't go to bed with him unless he pays his penance to the local Bishop. However, when Leofric imprisons the cousins of Godiva's handsome tailor Tom, she has little choice but to carry out his demand to ride naked through the centre of the city in order to free them.

A musical tale of Anglo Saxon attitudes to a soundtrack of minstrels' lutes and debauched singing where (almost) everything will be revealed.

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