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WHAT’S NEW IN 2024:
‘A gem of a show … this musical should have global audiences’ — Fringebiscuit ⭐️⭐️⭐️
‘A delightful piece of storytelling: well choreographed, intricately scored and charming’ — London Pub Theatre Review ⭐️⭐️⭐️💫
‘Richly assembled and given both humour and poignancy’ — LouReviews ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
‘Tremendous … interesting, thoughtful, pacey, energetic, slick, funny, great harmonies!’
‘Outstanding performances across the board. Captivating story, beautifully told, ingenious staging and use of props as you come to expect from Three Chairs and a Hat’ — audience feedback
These were some of the lovely comments we received for our Camden Fringe revival of MRS PACK, our musical about a real woman who turned the Stuart royal court upside-down. We performed just four shows in August at the Etcetera Theatre over the Oxford Arms on Camden High Street — the first time MRS PACK has taken to the stage since the debut run at Edinburgh in 2022. But, we hope, not the last … we’re already in discussion with another London theatre for more shows in 2025 — watch this space!
A video of the Edinburgh Fringe production was officially selected in the Montreal Women Film Festival — you can see the film on Scenesaver or Three Chairs and a Hat’s YouTube channel 🎬, along with a filmed performance at Camden.
More good movie news, as two of our digital productions enjoyed success in the Paris Lady MovieMakers Film Festival — Shakespeare (she/her), our major video project created by Wayne T Brown, reaching the semi-finals for best TV/Web Pilot, and animated musical Lady M, based on the bard’s most famously feisty woman, winning Best Short Animation 🎬
‘Fantastically clever …’ ‘snappy, inherently human’ … ‘Sharp and witty’ … ‘More than a touch of Sondheim’ … ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Some of the lovely reviewer comments about VERITY and DEXTER, two musicals about one disastrous wedding, which played at the 2023 Edinburgh Fringe and can be seen in the video version on Scenesaver and Three Chairs and a Hat’s YouTube channel. Both shows made the semi-finals of the Edinburgh Film Awards for Winter 2024 — congratulations to all the team 🎬
Plans are underway to bring VERITY and DEXTER to the Oxford stage — watch this space…
Great news that our animation PETER: The Homecoming won Best Animation at the Berlin Women Cinema Festival 2024. You can see this first episode of our musical about Peter the Great’s astonishing life on Scenesaver or YouTube 🎬
VERITY & DEXTER - Our companion musicals had great feedback at the 2023 Edinburgh Fringe and will hit the Oxford stage in 2024 — watch this space for details!
Wedding Song performed by Frankie Alexandra
READ ALL ABOUT IT! - 'Taut writing' … 'Great atmosphere … loved it!'—some of the lovely feedback for my novel VERA VENTI (and I promise it wasn't from me). Available as ebook and paperback: click the cover to get your order in!
