Barking In Essex adds Sunday performances

Barking In Essex has changed its performance schedule, adding Sunday matinees and axing Monday evening performances. From 17th November there will now be a 3pm performance each Sunday through to 22nd December 2013. Sunday shows are becoming increasingly popular in the West End, with The Commitments, Dirty Dancing, Jersey Boys, Let It Be, The Lion King, Matilda, Stomp and Thriller all having one or two performances on a Sundays.

The limited season of Clive Exton’s comedy, Barking In Essex, starring Lee Evans, Sheila Hancock, Keeley Hawes, Karl Johnson and Montserrat Lombard, must end at London’s Wyndham’s Theatre on Saturday 4th January 2014. The play received mostly negative reviews but has succeeded to attract new audiences to the theatre. 

Review: Barking In Essex at the Wyndham’s Theatre

Barking In Essex

Wyndham’s Theatre

Reviewed on Tuesday 17th September 2013

I am still in shock after seeing Barking In Essex, a play which just gets worse and worse. Incest, death and sexual encounters involving a car that I do not want to know about are a few words and phrases which spring to mind.

Further casting announced for Barking In Essex starring Lee Evans and Sheila Hancock

Keeley Hawes

Further casting has been announced of Clive Exton’s comedy, Barking In Essex which will premiere at Wyndham’s Theatre on Monday 16th September 2013 (previews from 6th September). Keeley Hawes, Karl Johnson and Montserrat Lombard join previously announced Lee Evans and Sheila Hancock. 

Freedom finally beckons for lowlife con man Algie Packer. He’s done seven years inside and now he’s coming home to spend his carefully stashed cash - £3.5million in untraceable notes. But there’s something Algie’s family has forgotten to mention… The Packers are your average dysfunctional Essex crime family with a big problem. Are they going to be able to cover their tracks before Algie arrives home? 

Lee Evans (The Producers, Endgame, The Dumb Waiter) is hapless, dim-witted Darnley, Sheila Hancock (The Last of the Duchess, Sister Act, The Birthday Party) is Emmie, his mother and very much the boss of the family, and Keeley Hawes (Spooks,Ashes to Ashes, Upstairs Downstairs) is Chrissie, Darnley’s perma-tanned wife. Karl Johnson (Lark Rise to Candleford, Noises Off and a long career at the National Theatre) plays their neighbour and friend Rocco, and Montserrat Lombard (St Trinian’s 2,Ashes to Ashes, Love Soup) plays Allegra, Archie’s high-class lawyer and girlfriend, whom he’s sent on ahead to retrieve the money.

Lee Evans and Sheila Hancock to star in Barking In Essex at the Wyndhams Theatre

Clive Exton’s new comedy, Barking In Essex, starring Lee Evans and Sheila Hancock, will premiere at Wyndham’s Theatre on Monday 16th September 2013, following previews from 6th September.