A DOLL’S HOUSE is a drama about money, fraud, blackmail and love.  It tells the story of Nora, a wife who is prized by her husband Torvald for her good looks and childish devotion to him.  In order to pay for a trip to help Torvald’s ailing health, Nora secretly commits fraud.  Her crime is discovered by the desperate Krogstad, who callously blackmails her.  When Torvald learns of Nora’s secret, his reaction changes both their lives forever.

The Serious Business of Choosing a Mate

Following the sell-out success of its first production, CandyKing Theatre presented THE SERIOUS BUSINESS OF CHOOSING A MATE – a richly comic double bill of unsuitable suitors, guns and strange proposals in a three week run at The Pleasance Theatre. 

In FAIRY TALE, a princess waiting for her perfect prince has to overcome a shocking reality if she is to make her dreams come true. In THE PROPOSAL, a nervous landowner finally decides to ask for his neighbour’s hand in marriage.  But there are two obstacles: him and her.  Both comedies explored that age-old question: what if the person of your dreams never actually turns up?

Look Back in Anger

CandyKing Theatre’s first production was a revival of John Osborne’s Look Back In Anger at the Greenwich Playhouse, one of London’s most respected fringe venues.

John Osborne’s bombshell beneath the boards exploded the post-war theatrical comfort zone and introduced us to a legion of angry young men.  The first production of Look Back In Anger (Royal Court Theatre, 8th May 1956) provoked a major controversy between those who saw it as the first totally original play of the new generation, and those who hated the play and the world it represented.  Even these critics, however,  acknowledged that the play marked a new voice on the British stage, with Arnold Wesker describing Osborne as having “opened the doors of theatres for all the succeeding generations of writers.”