A WOKINGHAM-born musician and actor is preparing to tread the boards for a slightly different play this week.
Former Pop Idol Will Young is taking one of the lead roles at the Theatre Royal Windsor’s recreation of the old radio days.
A Thousand Clowns is part of the 2022 Windsor On Air season, and also stars Harry Potter‘s Luna Lovegood Evanna Lynch, The Bill‘s Andrew Lancel and CBBC legend Dave Benson Phillips.
Set in 1962m Uncle Murray Burns is endeavouring to rear his precocious nephew in New York City.
When social services arrive on the scene to ensure that the nephew is receiving a proper upbringing, he finds himself solving their problems and mayhem ensues in this comedy drama.
A radio play is a slightly different way of presenting a performance and is based on the old adage that the best pictures are on the wireless.
Instead of staging, costumes and bangs and flashes, this is a play for voices.
It depends on dialogue, music and sound effects to tell its story.
The season is directed by veteran actor Roy Marsden and celebrates this remarkable and ground-breaking medium by staging it for a live audience.
A Thousand Clowns starring Will Young is performed from Tuesday, March 29, through to Saturday, April 2.
For more details, call the box office on 01753 853 888, or log on to https://theatreroyalwindsor.co.uk/a-thousand-clowns-woa/
