

#WENDY NOTTINGHAM FULL#
With signature invention and imagination, the production will embrace the full breadth and playfulnessof Bryson’s life affirming travelogue in The Watermill’s fittingly intimate, quintessentially rural space. Akshay Sharan, Stephen Pinder, cMarc Brenner Steven Pinder, Mark Hadfield, cMarc Brenner Wendy Nottingham, Hayden Wood, cMarc Brenner Hayden Wood, cMarc Brenner Notes from a Small Island spent three years in the Sunday Times bestsellers list, sold over two million copies and was voted on World Book Day by BBC Radio 4 listeners as the book that best represents our British identity.


Why does the nation that produced Marmite, Gardener’s Question Time and people who say “Ooh lovely” at the sight of a cup of tea, hold such a special place in this American’s heart? What makes us love this country we call our own?įrom Calais to Scotland, Bill Bryson travels the length and breadth of Britain. Director Paul Hart - cMarc Brenner Anne Odeke, Akshay Sharan, Wendy Nottingham, Hayden Wood, cMarc Brenner Bryony Corrigan cMarc Brenner Anne Odeke, cMarc Brenner Starring alongside Mark in this world premiere, playing to Saturday, March 18, are Bryony Corrigan (The Play That Goes Wrong – West End & Broadway, Magic Goes Wrong & Peter Pan Goes Wrong – West End), Wendy Nottingham (Vera Drake, Mr Selfridge, Peaky Blinders), Anne Odeke (As You Like It, The Merry Wives of Windsor & The Comedy of Errors – Shakespeare’s Globe), Steve Pinder (Brookside, C4, Wicked – UK and Ireland tour), Akshay Sharan (Jack Absolute Flies Again – National Theatre, 2018 Stage Debut Award for ‘Best Actor in a Play’ for The Reluctant Fundamentalist –Yard Theatre) and Hayden Wood (The Play That Goes Wrong & Doctor Who: Time Fracture – West End, Richard II – Arcola). Directed by The Watermill’s Artistic Director Paul Hart, designed by Katie Lias and produced in association with Simon Friend Entertainment, Notes from a Small Island kicks off the theatre’s spring season next Friday, February 3 and will star Olivier-nominated Mark Hadfield ( Thérèse Raquin – Olivier, NT, Into the Woods – Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre), as ‘Bill Bryson’. Rehearsals are well under way for the Watermill's brand-new stage adaption of Bill Bryson’s award-winning memoir Notes From a Small Island, affectionately celebrating the quirks and eccentricities of British life.Īdapted by BAFTA and Olivier Award-winning playwright Tim Whitnall ( Les Dawson: Flying High – UK Tour, Morecambe – West End, Best Possible Taste: The Kenny Everett Story – BBC4).
