Menier Chocolate Factory
The Menier Chocolate Factory comprises of a 150 seat theatre, restaurant, bar and rehersal space. It has been a full time producing house since 2004. It was built in 1870 to house a chocolate factory. It has been the chosen venue for many premieres for productions such as: ' Tick,Tick...Boom', 'The Last Five Years' and the 'Little Shop Of Horrors'.
Current productions being shown at the theatre are: the world premiere of 'Paradise Found', 'Educating Rita' and 'Shirley Valentine'.
53 Southwark Street
SE1 1RU
020 7907 7060 (box office)
020 7378 1712 (administration)
This anarchic comedy by Graham Greene and adapted for the stage by Giles Havergal, tells the story of retired bank manager Henry Pulling, and his globetrotting adventures with his Aunt Augusta. From Paris to Istanbul to Paraguay, the unlikely pair journey together discovering colourful characters and the possibilities that life conjures up in the most unusual of places.
Catherine has cared for her father Robert, a renowned mathematician, through his mental illness for the past five years. His ex-student, Hal, discovers a ground-breaking proof in Robert’s office but the question is posed: who is the real author of this brilliant work? Catherine struggles to solve this, and the most perplexing problem of all: how much of her father’s madness – or genius – has she inherited?
