The Battle of Cable Street’s Anniversary will be remembered on Friday 4 October 2024 at CABLE STREET As new British musical marches onwards to Southwark Playhouse Elephant
CABLE STREET prepares to open at the Southwark Playhouse Elephant with a limited run of just 42 performances from Friday 6 September to Thursday 10 October 2024, catching the zeitgeist to tell this urgent story for today’s audiences.
The performance of CABLE STREET on Friday 4 October at the Southwark Playhouse Elephant will be particularly poignant for all the cast and company, alongside any audience member lucky enough to grab a ticket for this special night, the 88th anniversary of The Battle of Cable Street that was fought and won on the 4 October 1936. A timeless story, as powerful today as it was in 1936.
The evening on Friday 4 October will start at 7.20pm with the audience seated in the auditorium to hear a lively discussion between CABLE STREET’s key creatives and Professor Nadia Valman, who specialises in the history and culture of east London (Queen Mary University of London, co editor of Remembering Cable Street: Fascism and Anti-fascism in British Society).
The emotionally charged performance of CABLE STREET will then start at its usual time of 7.45pm, immediately after this fascinating talk. All ticket holders will, of course, be given admittance for this memorable talk, or arrive to be seated for show time. The hugely powerful and topical CABLE STREET celebrates a community who came together with a call for action. Post show please do stay to meet the cast and raise a glass to The Battle of Cable Street. No Pasarán – They Shall Not Pass.
The excitement and rush on tickets for this thrilling new musical’s limited run of just 42 performances, with nearly 70% of all the tickets already sold! So, grab your tickets while you can as the world premiere of CABLE STREET (Southwark Playhouse Borough – February/March 2024) – sold out before the show even opened!
In this further developed new run of the critically acclaimed 5* British musical CABLE STREET, there is now a larger cast, with the final line up also including born and bred East Ender Gemma Salter (Made in Dagenham, Only Fools & Horses), Jimmy Chambers (Sherlock Holmes and the Poison Wood – Watermill Theatre) and Brady Isaacs Pearce (The Sandman – Southwark Playhouse, Les Misérables – International Tour). They will appear alongside the already announced new cast members Davina Moon, known for her West End roles including Life Of Pi, Bombay Dreams, Miss Saigon and many on screen credits including the film Matilda and popular TV series Ted Lasso. Making her London debut is Mia Overfield (Demon Dentist – UK tour, Jack & The Beanstalk – York).
The original cast returning to their much loved roles include Danny Colligan (Dirty Dancing, Book of Mormon, Les Misérables), Sha Dessi (Les Misérables – nominated by Sir Cameron Mackintosh for the Stage 25 Awards 2022) and Joshua Ginsberg (Wesker’s Chicken Soup with Barley – BBC Radio 4, 2024) – as the three young friends (Ron, Mairead and Sammy) who passionately live their lives in the multi-cultural melting pot that is Cable Street in 1936.
Marching again further original cast members Max Alexander-Taylor (The Lion – Southwark Playhouse); Aiofe Mac Namara (Cable Street), Ethan Pascal Peters (Showstopper! The Improvised Musical), Sarah Leatherbarrow (Miss Saigon) and Jez Unwin (Groundhog Day, Once, Ghost, Sweet Charity, Evita), making up the fantastic full line up of on-stage talent.
The extraordinarily talented ensemble company tell their stories as they all desperately try to carve out their own lives on Cable Street, when Oswald Mosley’s British Union of Fascists (Blackshirts) start to march on the East End. Over a hundred thousand Jews, Irish workers, trade unionists, the labour and communist parties, women and children all unite to blockade Cable Street – the road they
all call home. As the people raise their voices with cries of, They Shall Not Pass, they take a united stand against hatred. The lives of the streets’ residents will change forever.
CABLE STREET is an electrifying reimagining of one of London’s most momentous days – when The Battle of Cable Street was fought and won in the heart of London’s East End on the 4 October 1936 as racial tensions were running high and people took to the streets.
The Battle of Cable Street still resonates today, and the award-winning composer/lyricist Tim Gilvin and playwright Alex Kanefsky decided that CABLE STREET must feature a contemporary score: bringing to life a vital part of London’s rich diversity and history. CABLE STREET is Directed by Adam Lenson, Lead Producer Dylan Schlosberg’s 10 to 4 Productions (a production company dedicated to developing and investing in new musicals) and Producer Neil Marcus. The production team also includes Choreography Jevan Howard-Jones, Musical Supervisor Tamara Saringer, Musical Director Ellen Campbell, Associate Director Jamie Buller, Orchestrations and arrangements by Tim Gilvin, Vocal arrangements by Tim Gilvin & Tamara Saringer, Set Design Yoav Segal, Lighting Design Sam Waddington, Sound Charlie Smith, Costume Design Lu Herbert, Dramaturg Olivia Mace, Production Management The Production Office, Casting Sarah Leung.
CABLE STREET is the dazzling new British musical with an urgent story for today’s audiences. Make sure you buy your tickets for CABLE STREET before it opens on 6 September!