Performance of Eurocrash at the Ambassadors Theatre on
19th February
A performance of EuroCrash! will be held on
19th February at the Ambassadors Theatre, West Street London WC2H 9ND, starting at 8 pm.
EuroCrash!, a
musical satire-cum-comedy by David Shirref, a contributing editor of The Economist magazine, is ‘inspired by’
(if that is the right expression) the rise and fall of the euro. A performance
at the UKIP annual conference in Birmingham last September was given a standing
ovation. The notice is below.
EuroCrash! at
the Ambassadors
EuroCrash! the Musical will play
for one night only at The Ambassadors Theatre, London
On Tuesday 19th February
2013 at 8.00pm - Tickets £20 or £25 - Box
office: 08448 112 334 ( Tickets online
at: www.theambassadorstheatre.co.uk)
EuroCrash! has had amazing success
with audiences in London, Berlin and Frankfurt. It is a drama about the rise and
fall of the euro, wrapped in the fairy-tale of Hansel & Gretel. It is as
entertaining, thought-provoking, and as weird as Alice in Wonderland. Meet Mark and
Gilda, the Hansel & Gretel of Euroland, Papa Kohl and Madame Mitterand who
run the European Currency School, the Snake, the PIIGS, paying for past
profligacy, the Rating Agencies, the wild currencies of eastern Europe and the
mighty Bundesbank.
Special guest appearances by Angela
Merkel, David Cameron and François Hollande.
All this gives us something between
Gilbert & Sullivan and Berthold Brecht, with hard-hitting lyrics and great
songs - all original. The words were written by David Shirreff, a writer on
European business and finance for The Economist. The music is by Russell Sarre,
an Australian composer. They collaborated on an earlier musical Broke Britannia!
which played at the Edinburgh Fringe in 2010. EuroCrash is a thoroughly gripping
show of about 75 minutes from which all, euro-savvy experts and laymen alike,
generally emerge amused and perhaps trifle wiser about the biggest issue facing
Europe, yes even us in Britain.
