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With Nicholas de Jongh’s playwriting debut making waves across theatreland, whatsonstage.com were delighted to take 130 Theatregoers to the Duchess Theatre to see the revered reviewer’s very own first play.

And what a first play it is, both amusing and poignant, Plague Over England set in England in the 1950s tells of John Gielgud’s notorious arrest in a Chelsea public toilet. Not only did we get to enjoy the play itself but we were also treated to a question and answer session after the show with Mr de Jongh himself, the director Tamara Harvey, and key members of the cast, including Celia Imrie (who plays Dame Sybil Thorndike).

Edited highlights of this Q&A will appear in the news section of the site shortly and are definitely worth a look. The cast tell of receiving bad reviews, de Jongh of making the leap from reviewing to creating and Tamara of her own reasons for taking on this brave piece.

Please do feel free to email your comments and thoughts about the play, as well as any photos you have of the event and the evening through to feedback@whatsonstage.com, we love to hear from you.

Thanks for joining us for this event, and do check the homepage to keep up to date on all of our upcoming Outings.

- Laura Norman
Club Manager

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