‘Iggety ziggety zaggety zoom!’ Tall Stories is delighted to announce that the company’s Olivier Award-nominated adaptation of Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler’s classic picture book, Room on the Broom, directed by Olivia Jacobs, will be flying into MAST Mayflower Studios from Thursday 20 to Sunday 23 February 2025. Enchanting...
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Interview: Michael Betteridge, Composer of Riders to the Sea and prologue The Last Bit of the Moon
Riders to the Sea written by Ralph Vaughan Williams based on the play by JM Synge visits MAST Mayflower Studios from Thursday 30 January to Saturday 1 February 2025. We spoke to Michael Betteridge, Composer of Riders to the Sea and prologue The Last Bit of the Moon. How did...
Interview: Flora McIntosh, Artistic Director of OperaUpClose and Director of Riders to the Sea
Riders to the Sea written by Ralph Vaughan Williams based on the play by JM Synge visits MAST Mayflower Studios from Thursday 30 January to Saturday 1 February 2025. We spoke to artistic director of OperaUpClose and director of Riders to the Sea, Flora McIntosh, ahead of the show. Why...
Record-breaking 100,000 attend Mayflower shows over festive period
The city’s Mayflower venues (Mayflower Theatre and Mayflower Studios) are celebrating a record-breaking run of festive shows. Over 100,000 people came to see English National Ballet’s Nutcracker, Elf the Musical, A Very Hungry Christmas Caterpillar, Jack and the Beanstalk, and The Wind in The Willows, across both venues. Mayflower...
Preview: Yipee Ki Yay, MAST Mayflower Studios, Southampton
Following critically acclaimed UK tours, two Edinburgh Festival Fringe seasons and two North American seasons, the acclaimed rhyming retelling of classic (festive?) film Die Hard is at MAST Mayflower Studios on Wednesday 22 January 2025. When gunmen seize an LA skyscraper, off-duty policeman John McClane is the hostages’ only...
Preview: Walk Right Back, MAST Mayflower Studios, Southampton
Following an incredible sell out tour, Walk Right Back returns to stages in 2025 by popular demand, visiting MAST Mayflower Studios on Saturday 11 January 2025. From the producers of smash hit show, That’ll Be The Day, this phenomenal production tells the story of the most successful musical duo...
Preview: The Wind In The Willows – Toad’s BIG Musical Adventure, MAST Mayflower Studios, Southampton
A new festive musical comedy with larger-than-life characters, The Wind in the Willows – Toad’s BIG Musical Adventure, will play at MAST Mayflower Studios from Sunday 22 to Tuesday 31 December 2024. Join Rat, Badger and Mole on Toad’s BIG Musical Adventure as the classic tale of The Wind...
Preview: The Very Hungry Caterpillar Christmas Show, MAST Mayflower Studios, Southampton
The Very Hungry Caterpillar Christmas Show will play at MAST Mayflower Studios from Wednesday 4 to Saturday 14 December 2024. Suitable for all ages, the show faithfully adapts four stories by author/illustrator Eric Carle: Brown Bear, Brown Bear, 10 Little Rubber Ducks, the magical Christmas story Dream Snow and, of course, the...
Review: Wonderboy, MAST Mayflower Studios, Southampton, 5 November 2024
By Lewis MacLean. The first thing that caught my eye (and ears) in Wonderboy – which opened at MAST Mayflower Studios last night – was the use of vivid colourful shapes and funky music courtesy of innovative use of digital technology. ‘This was new’, I thought and as time...
Preview: Monty Python and The Foley Grail, MAST Mayflower Studios, Southampton
Get ready for an adventure like no other as Compass Presents brings you the 50th-anniversary tour of Monty Python and the Holy Grail, reimagined as an interactive and immersive experience, when it comes to MAST Mayflower Studios on Friday 15 November. Described as “a silly show for silly people,”...