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Rita, Sue & Bob Too! UK Tour Opens Starring Jake Quickenden
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Rita, Sue & Bob Too! UK Tour Opens Starring Jake Quickenden

The smash hit stage version of cult classic comedy Rita, Sue & Bob Too! is set to embark on a new 10-week nationwide tour, opening next month. TV favourite Jake Quickenden heads the stellar cast as Bob in the Regal Entertainments production which will visit 10 venues across the UK between Tuesday 4th February and Saturday 12th April 2025. The tour opens at St Helens Theatre Royal on Tuesday 4th February and then travels to Hunstanton, Stockport, New Brighton, Birmingham, Southport, Billingham, Rhyl and Barnstaple before ending at the Liverpool Olympia from 9th – 12th April. Over 10,000 tickets have already been sold across the tour proving its continued popularity. Andrea Dunbar’s hilarious and gritty tale of love, lust and tested friendships is based on the 1987 British fi...
JB Shorts 24 – 53two, Manchester
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JB Shorts 24 – 53two, Manchester

A bare stage in a formerly disused railway viaduct would seem an unprepossessing setting, but when hosted by Simon Naylor and the superb team at 53two, JB Shorts has firmly established itself as a ‘must see’ on the Manchester Theatre scene over the previous twenty-three seasons of its existence. Tonight is no exception, the six plays- each lasting just fifteen minutes - address both the political and personal in modern society and make for an eclectic and enthralling theatrical evening. Isobel Openshaw Saves the Day Writer Joyce Branagh takes the lead as the eponymous Isobel, an Aldi shop assistant who decides to stand for election to parliament against the Conservative forces of darkness embodied by Rory Cheese Bogg (Callum Sim). Elements of Victoria Woodesque writing pepper the scr...