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Welcome Back! It’s such a relief to us all that we are finally open and presenting shows in Mayflower Theatre whilst also opening our new venue MAST Mayflower Studios. We have been grateful for the support you have offered over the closure period and are very excited to have audiences back enjoying live theatre. I want to assure you that it is safe to return to our venues and we will continue to treat your safety as our main priority. We will continue to follow the Government advice and there will still be processes that we will need you to follow to ensure everyone remains safe. Please do read the pre visit information that we will send you and also be aware that some of our procedures have changed, for instance we are now entirely cashless throughout the venues. We have a great programme across both venues and our aim is to inspire and uplift all our customers. You can book with absolute confidence that we are following all the best guidance and please be reassured of a no quibble refund if you can’t attend a performance for any Covid reason. Please make sure when you are booking that you are aware of which venue you will be attending. On PAGE 51 there is a map indicating where both our venues are located. Also, look out on each page for one of these logos below which indicate the venue where the shows are taking place at. Once again we thank you for your support and all my colleagues look forward to welcoming you back to Mayflower Theatre and to introduce you to MAST Mayflower Studios. Very best wishes, Michael Ockwell, Chief Executive In line with current government guidance, safe measures will be in place including enhanced cleaning, e-tickets, and socially distanced spaces in between parties in the auditorium at certain performances. Customers will be sent a pre-visit email which will detail all our measures. Shows with socially distanced seating will be presented in exactly the same way as normal – with a full cast, set and costumes. The quality of the performances will not be compromised in any way. Mayflower Theatre, Commercial Road, Southampton SO15 1GE. MAST Mayflower Studios, 142-144 Above Bar Street, Southampton SO14 7DU. TUESDAY 6 – SATURDAY 10 JULY 2021 TUE – SAT 7.30PM, THU & SAT 2PM TICKETS FROM £20.50 THEY WATCH... THEY CHOOSE... THEY KILL ADAM GAYNOR WOODYATT AND FAYE IN The thrilling Roy Grace series from multi-million demons to contend with, while he tries to crack No.1 best-selling author Peter James returns the case in time to save the Bryce family’s lives. to Southampton with the world premiere stage production of Looking Good Dead, starring Adapted by award winning writer Shaun award-winning actor and EastEnders icon, McKenna, Looking Good Dead follows the Adam Woodyatt and star of stage and screen huge stage success of The Perfect Murder and Gaynor Faye (Emmerdale, Coronation Street, Dead Simple and will keep you on the edge of The Syndicate and Calendar Girls on stage). your seat until the chilling final moments! No good deed goes unpunished… hours Peter James is the UK’s number one after finding a discarded USB memory stick, bestselling author of crime and thriller novels. Tom Bryce, (Adam Woodyatt) inadvertently He is the creator of the much-loved Detective becomes a witness to a vicious murder. Superintendent Roy Grace, recently played by Reporting the crime to the police has disastrous John Simm in a major ITV series, Grace. consequences, placing him and his family in grave danger. When Detective Superintendent Don’t miss your chance to see the world Roy Grace becomes involved, he has his own premiere tour of Peter James’ gripping new play. 14 Recommended age. Box Office: 02380 711811 3 MONDAY 5 – SATURDAY 10 JULY 2021 12 MONDAY 12 – SATURDAY 17 JULY 2021 TICKETS FROM £14.50 TICKETS FROM £19.50 Daily Telegraph DRAMA ‘THE SHOW OF THE YEAR’ SPECIAL £10 TICKETS MONDAY – THURSDAY Use code DRAMOLE when booking* ‘A BRILLIANT REVIVAL OF A MASTERPIECE... THIS IS THEATRE AT ITS MOST RIVETING, SENSATIONALLY PERFORMED BY ITS ACTORS’ Guardian ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ‘A magnetic piece ‘Ralph Fiennes triumphs… ‘Ralph Fiennes’s finest Starring JONATHAN SLINGER and ROSIE SHEEHY of live theatre’ a magnificent theatrical hour… remarkable’ When Oleanna opened in Bath in warps into a nightmare which threatens Daily Telegraph experience’ Daily Mail December it caused a sensation. It was to destroy them both, when she files a Guardian greeted with five-star reviews from the claim of sexual harassment against him. Ralph Fiennes directs and stars in a world theatre, the four parts (Burnt Norton, East national critics who praised the sensational With its take on the corrosive excesses premiere adaptation of T.S. Eliot’s Four Coker, The Dry Salvages and Little Gidding) performances of Jonathan Slinger and of political correctiness and exploration Quartets to welcome audiences back were the culminating achievement of Rosie Sheehy. The public acclaimed it as a of the use and abuse of language, this is to live theatre. Compelling, moving and Eliot’s Nobel Prize winning literary career. masterpiece which continues to provoke the ultimate drama of pupil power and symphonic, Four Quartets offer four the passionate response for which this student revenge. interwoven meditations on the nature Ralph Fiennes’ distinguished stage work extraordinary drama is famous. Addressing issues which are strikingly of time, faith, and the quest for spiritual is matched by performances in some of Set on an American campus, a seemingly current, this is a fascinating opportunity enlightenment. Written mostly during the greatest films of our time, including innocuous conversation between a to see this landmark play from the WWII when the closure of playhouses Schindler’s List; The Grand Budapest Hotel; college professor and his female student perspective of our #MeToo era. during the Blitz interrupted Eliot’s work in The Dig and The Harry Potter series. *Maximum 6 per booking. Excludes matinee performances. 4 MAST Box Office:02380 711833 mayflowerstudios.org.uk mayflowerstudios.org.uk MAST Box Office:02380 711833 55 FRIDAY 16 – SATURDAY 24 JULY 2021 FRI 16 JULY & MON – THU 8PM, FRI 23 JULY & SATURDAYS 5PM & 8.30PM TICKETS FROM £19.50 TUESDAY 20 – SATURDAY 24 JULY 2021 DRAMA TICKETS FROM £14.50 SPECIAL 14 £10 TICKETS TUESDAY – THURSDAY Use code DRAMRITA ORE ODUBA when booking* STRICTLY COME DANCING WINNER THE WORLD ACCLAIMED PRODUCTION New York Times THE GREAT BRITISH COMEDY ‘STILL THE SEXIEST & FUNNIEST SHOW IN TOWN’ EVENING STANDARD THE 40TH ANNIVERSARY PRODUCTION Ready to thrill you with fun and naughty it Janet, and of course, the pelvic-thrusting, moments, Richard O’Brien’s legendary rock show-stopping Time Warp. When married hairdresser Rita enrols This hilarious and heart-warming ‘n’ roll musical, the Rocky Horror Show on a university course to expand her comedy won the Olivier award when it returns, having been seen by over 30 million The Rocky Horror Show is the story of two horizons, little does she realise where was produced in London's West End by theatregoers. squeaky clean college kids – Brad and his the journey will take her. the RSC and was adapted into the multi award winning film which starred Julie fiancée Janet. When by a twist of fate, their Her tutor Frank is a frustrated poet, Walters and Michael Caine. Starring Strictly Come Dancing winner Ore car breaks down outside a creepy mansion brilliant academic and dedicated Oduba as Brad and directed by Christopher whilst on their way to visit their former college drinker, who's less than enthusiastic Written by Willy Russell, one of our greatest Luscombe, the Rocky Horror Show is a professor, they meet the charismatic Dr about taking Rita on, but the two soon playwrights, and starring one of our best guaranteed party and features timeless Frank’n’Furter. It is an adventure they’ll never realise how much they have to teach loved actors Stephen Tompkinson as Frank classics, including Sweet Transvestite, Damn forget, filled with fun, frolics, frocks, and frivolity. each other. and introducing Jessica Johnson as Rita. *Maximum 6 per booking. Excludes matinee performances. 14 Recommended age. Connect 6 Book Online: mayflower.org.uk with us on mayflowerstudios.org.uk MAST Box Office:02380 711833 7 MAYFLOWER BROCHURE PAGE 148 X 187 +3MM BLEED BLLEED MONDAY 26 – SATURDAY 31 JULY 2021 THE MORMONS ARE COMING MON – SAT 7.30PM, THU & SAT 2PM SEE PAGE 42 TICKETS FROM £24.50 “SIMPLY A WORK ” OF GENIUS. THE GUARDIAN “ “ NOT JUST FUNNY AS HELL YOU CAN’T STOP’ OUR BEAT – HAIRSPRAY IS BACK ON TOUR – SO RUN AND TELL THAT!” After breaking box office records and But can she win equality – and Link’s heart THE BEST delighting audiences in the West-End, on – without denting her ’do? Starring Brenda . BroadwayIT and onS the big screen FUNNIER since 1988, Edwards as Motormouth Maybelle and Norman ROLLING STONE this smash hit musical-comedy has quite the Pace as Wilbur Turnblad. This fun-filled, feel legacy, and now we’re heading back out on good show is bursting with show-stopping tour around the UK and Ireland. numbers, dazzling costumes, and dizzying dance-routines that you can’t help but shimmy MUSICAL Welcome to the 60s, where everyone’s too! Featuring some of musical theatre’s grooving to a brand-new sound! Enter our biggest and best hit songs, including Welcome OF THIS vivacious heroine Tracy Turnblad, who has big To The 60s, You Can’t Stop The Beat, hair, a big heart, and big dreams to dance her Good Morning Baltimore and so many more, ” way onto national TV, and into the heart of Hairspray is the hilarious, joyous, and uplifting teen idol Link Larkin.