This is a FREE pre-show event.
Genre: Accessible
Frankie Goes to Bollywood
After a smash-hit UK tour, Frankie Goes to Bollywood returns—bigger, bolder, and bursting with Bollywood glamour.
This dazzling musical comedy-drama dives deep into the glitzy, high-pressure world of Indian cinema, where dreams are mass-produced, identities are reshaped, and women are expected to smile and play by the script written for them.
At the centre of it all is Frankie, a young British woman with little interest in fame. But her quiet suburban life is turned upside down as she is thrust into a world of dazzling lights, choreographed perfection and media obsession. Frankie must decide: Can she become a star without losing who she really is?
What must she give up to succeed in a man’s world—and what is she willing to fight for?
With show-stopping choreography, lavish costumes, and a cast of unforgettable characters, Frankie Goes to Bollywood is a bold, uplifting story of ambition, transformation, and the power of telling your own story.
Featuring original Bollywood songs by hit composer Harry Anand, this is Rifco Theatre Company’s most ambitious production yet—a celebration of love, identity and courage, packed with joy, drama, and spectacular entertainment.
Whether you’re a fan of musicals, Bollywood films, or powerful British stories, this is one night at the theatre you won’t want to miss.
Perfect Show For Rachel – Q&A Session
This is a FREE after-show Q&A for Perfect Show For Rachel.
Rachel is a theatre-loving, enigmatic, learning-disabled 35 year-old who loves Kylie, heckling her sister, and seeing people falling over. At the touch of a button she commands the action, each scene brought to life by a skilled cast ready for whatever she asks of them. From bar room brawls to a bourbon biscuit cabaret – get ready, this is Rachel’s Perfect Show.
Perfect Show For Rachel
★★★★★ “Why can’t more theatre be like this? Open, relaxed, fun and full of love” – The Guardian
Rachel is a theatre-loving, enigmatic, learning-disabled 35 year-old who loves Kylie, heckling her sister, and seeing people falling over. At the touch of a button she commands the action, each scene brought to life by a skilled cast ready for whatever she asks of them. From bar room brawls to a bourbon biscuit cabaret – get ready, this is Rachel’s Perfect Show.
Perfect Show For Rachel is a “joyous celebration of theatre without the rules” (★★★★ The Stage) combining physical theatre, live music, family memories, massive fights and fart jokes in an electric, moving and triumphant tapestry.
Step into Rachel’s unique, often hilarious world in this critically acclaimed show.
★★★★ “A disarming labour of love” – The Times
Perfect Show for Rachel was developed with Rachel, to create a show on her own terms. It explores who defines artistic taste, and questions who that currently excludes. Created by Zoo Co Theatre, a multi award-winning company creating theatre that loudly champions access. Zoo Co won the Oxford Samuel Beckett Theatre Trust Award in 2022. Created in collaboration with Improbable, a pioneering company of improvisers and theatre-makers who have been making ground-breaking work for the past 25 years. Proud winners of Producer of the Year at The Stage Awards 2023.
Book your place at the free post-show Q&A on Fri 6 Feb.
Want to know more about the show? See the Perfect Show for Rachel Introduction Notes
Di and Viv and Rose – Touch Tour
Jack and the Beanstalk – Touch Tour
Di and Viv and Rose
A Queen’s Theatre Hornchurch and Theatre by the Lake production
Back in the 80s, Di, Viv and Rose are university housemates. Energetic and idealistic, they become friends – but where will life take them after that?
Filled with the iconic culture, fashion and music of the 80s, 90s and Noughties, Di and Viv and Rose follows these three women through the messy complexity of adulthood, in a must-see celebration of the power of lifelong friendship.
Candid and full of humour, Di, Viv and Rose talk about sex, ambition and love – sharing joyful moments, painful experiences, and some surprising secrets.
★★★★★ “The perfect show for a group of friends.” What’s Good to Do
★★★★ “A cracking night out at the theatre.” Northern Arts Review
★★★★ “You feel you have known these characters, thanks to the great performances.” North West End UK
Di and Viv and Rose is written by actor-writer Amelia Bullmore, best known for her portrayal of Steph Barnes in Coronation Street and more recently Riot Women (2025), Happy Valley (2016) and Scott & Bailey (2011). The original production of Di and Viv and Rose transferred to the West End after a sell-out run at Hampstead Theatre.
Don’t forget to attend our FREE Director’s Talk on Fri 17 Oct at 6.30pm – click here to book.
The Singing Mermaid
Did you ever go to Silversands
On a sunny summer’s day?
Then perhaps you saw the mermaid
Who sang in the deep blue bay
One day, the singing mermaid is tempted away from all of her sea creature friends and her peaceful home at Silversands to join a travelling circus. The audiences love to hear her sing, but the poor mermaid was tricked! Instead of the swimming pool she was promised, she is kept in a small tank by the wicked circus master Sam Sly, and she soon longs to return to the freedom of the sea.
Will she ever escape? And who will help her along the way?
Through beautiful puppetry and performance, and with music by Barb Jungr (We’re Going On A Bear Hunt, The Pixie and the Pudding, The Smartest Giant in Town, There May be a Castle), Julia Donaldson and Lydia Monks’s enormously popular story, The Singing Mermaid, is brought to life.
The Singing Mermaid by Julia Donaldson and Lydia Monks is adapted for the stage by Barb Jungr and Samantha Lane with music and songs by Barb Jungr.
Age recommendation 3-8 yrs.
Surinderella Touch Tour
Before Audio Described performances, we offer a free Touch Tour.
This is a guided tour that will allow you to experience the stage and set up close while exploring and touching set pieces, props and costumes.
Please book onto the touch tour when booking your tickets for Surinderella as spaces are limited. If you have any mobility difficulties, please make us aware prior to the performance.
Surinderella
Welcome to Bolly Woods, where the naach is non-stop, the drama is bigger than your aunties’, and the romance is straight out of a filmy blockbuster!
Meet Surinder – sweet, strong, and stuck in a never-ending chore list thanks to her two selfie-obsessed, Insta-vlogging stepsisters, Lovely & Bubbly. Her only real support? The one and only Basanti, a cow with more attitude than a desi girl.
Meanwhile, Prince Kavi is drowning in shaadi pressure from his royal family. But when he accidentally bumps into Surinder, sparks fly faster than a Bollywood dance sequence!
Enter the fabulous Devi Godmother, arriving in full-on glam mode with magic, makeovers, and masala moves. With a dazzling Bollywood Ball, a mystical slipper, and a lot of bakwas, Surinder’s destiny is about to get a serious glow-up!
Get ready for an evening of laughter, romance, and larger-than-life entertainment!
