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Edwin Drood arrives in Clapham next week!
With a cast headed up by Natalie Day (Les Misérables, Queens) as Edwin Drood, Victoria Farley (Les Misérables, Barbican) as Rosa Budd and Daniel Robinson (Jekyll and Hyde Tour) as John Jasper with former Coronation Street star Wendi Peters as Princess Puffer, you’d be forgiven for thinking that this exciting adaptation of The Mystery of Edwin Drood was coming to the West End. But no … it’s on our doorstep!
Based on the unfinished novel by Charles Dickens, The Mystery of Edwin Drood is a compelling and comical play within a play following the exploits of the Theatre Royale Music Hall Company. Wendi Peters, best known for playing Cilla Battersby-Brown in Coronation Street, is delighted to be returning to the stage as the Princess Puffer. LoveClapham caught up with her and here’s what she had to say:
“The Mystery of Edwin Drood is a wonderful mix of Music Hall, murder, mystery and
musical Theatre all rolled into one evening. I’m really enjoying being in my 1st
musical for 15 years, although some of the dance routines are scaring me a little !!
We have a wonderful company of 13 actors and 5 musicians and guarantee you a fun
evening with an ‘X Factor’ ending … The audience decide the outcome and the
murderer !! Hope to see you all there …. Best wishes and ‘VOTE FOR ME ‘ !!!”
Edwin Drood runs from April 11th to 5th May at the Landor Theatre , Clapham North. Tickets start from £10.
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This is an exciting idea, in good Dickens taste- I am very much looking forward to seeing it myself. Towards the end of his life, the great man was getting worse and worse healthwise- his farewell Talks at St James’s Theatre were exhausting, with his blood pressure shooting up to alarming levels; he wore himself out working on Drood while staying at 5 Hyde Park Place, then staggered back to Gads Hill to rest in May 1870. Then early in June, again while writing Drood, he had a major stroke, from which he never regained consciousness, and died on the 9th June, aged 57. The power and influence continues today, hence the huge interest in the 200 years of celebration- Dickens of a good job, too!