Park Theatre

Peter Caulfield and Kellie Shirley take on all 14 characters in Jim Cartwright’s beloved drama about a bickering pub landlord and landlady and their colourful regular customers. James Haddrell directs the revival, which was a sell-out hit at Greenwich Theatre.

Newsreader, presenter and actor Zeb Soanes stars as the legendary Alec Guinness in a revival of Mark Burgess’s play about the acting titan, that explores his life and works and of course his role as Obi-wan Kenobi in Star Wars – a role so stratospherically popular he worried it would b ethe only thing he would be remembered for.

Returning for what you will not be shocked to hear is its fourth edition, the Park Theatre’s annual celebrity-based fundraiser is the same basic idea as the previous three editions, albeit with some fairly major new twists in terms of scenario. Whereas the earlier versions of the Jez Bond and Mark Cameron-written show (directed by Park boss Bond) have been murder mysteries in which the evening’s unrehearsed sleb guest played the role of the inspector, this one is set in the Wild West and casts the evening’s guest as the town sheriff, with a whole host of problems to solve.  As ever, every celebrity sheriff will do one show apiece, with their identity only made public when they first walk on stage. Although we don’t have the dates they’ll be performing we do have some names: Adjoa Andoh, Liz Carr, Julian Clary, Kerry Ellis, Chris McCausland, Alison Steadman and Cathy Tyson will all be participating for the first time, while returnees from previous editions include big names Gillian Anderson, Sanjeev Bhaskar, Hugh Bonneville, Jim Broadbent, Les Dennis, Adrian Dunbar and Emma Thompson. The tickets are a lot more than a normal Park Theatre show – that’s because it’s to raise money for the non-subsidised north London venue.