Notting Hell: The Greatest Love Story In The Underworld (Stage, 2024)

Eternal pain and suffering, never-ending torment, ceaseless misery – falling in love isn’t always easy. When the foppishly handsome owner of a quaint bookshop falls for a jaw-droppingly gorgeous international mega celeb, little did he think he’d soon find himself deep in the fiery pits of the underworld, surrounded by horses, hounds and facing off with the cursed spawn of satan himself! Oh, bloody hell! This Christmas finding true love is going to take a lot of sacrifice, human sacrifice.

Directed by Helena Middleton (The Wardrobe Ensemble), Notting Hell is the latest alternative comedy mash-up parody from The Wardrobe Theatre, the people that brought you The Good, The Bad & The Coyote Ugly, MDH: Puppets Do A Movie, Little Women In Black, Drac & Jill and many more – a fast, smart and devilishly funny new comedy that promises to be surreal, but nice.

An original production by The Wardrobe Theatre, written and devised by the company

Director – Helena Middleton

Cast – Shôn Dale-Jones, Tom England, Stephanie Houtman, Adiza Shardow

Understudy – Holly Meechan

Stage Manager – Gemma Smith

Composer & Sound Designer – Jack Drewry

Designer – Ella Barraclough

Dramaturg – Matthew Whittle

Movement Director – Deepraj Singh

Lighting Designer – Chris Collier

Intimacy Director – Sophie Grenfell

Associate Director – Rachael Walsh

Associate Designer – Ruby Brown

Set Builder – William Datson

Session Musician – Tom Crosley-Thorne

Wellbeing Support – The Artist Wellbeing Company

Photography – Jack Offord

Producer – Alice Massey

Special Thanks – Front Room Theatre, Jack Greenwood, Alice Lamb, Jesse Meadows, Caitlin Campbell, Tom Rolfe, Bristol Old Vic Theatre School, Tit 4 Tat, MAYK, Peter Clifford, Dik Downey, Barney Ludlow, Remi and Raffy

“The Wardrobe has consistently managed to find Bristol’s funny bone. Tuning in to the city’s penchant for poking fun at authority and levelling up on inequalities, it manages to do this with a ribald and occasionally absurd sense of humour, elements of surprise, moments of magic and madness but always with spirited performance.”

★★★★★ Stage Talk Magazine

“As funny a show you could want in this world. Or under it… A delight, and testimony to what theatre is capable of in such an intimate place.”

Bristol 24/7