A image of an Italian coastline, lots of small boats lined up in the bay

FILUMENA

Starring Felicity Kendal & Matthew Kelly
Tue 5 - Sat 9 November 2024
Tickets £25-£45*

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Amidst the heat of a Neapolitan summer, Filumena (Felicity Kendal) lies on her deathbed, waiting to marry Domenico (Matthew Kelly), the man who has kept her as his mistress for twenty-five years.

But no sooner than they are married, she makes a miraculous recovery, much to the surprise of her new, unwilling husband and his younger lover!

Filumena holds on to a secret from her past life, revealing one of her three grown-up sons is Domenico’s. But which one? Will he accept all three?

Eduardo De Filippo’s classic Italian comedy sparkles with optimism, affection, acerbic wit and a fierce determination for family, no matter what it takes.

Felicity Kendal and Matthew Kelly leads an exceptional cast including Julie Legrand (Footballers’ Wives, Wicked), George Banks (Coronation Street, The Mousetrap), Gavin Fowler (RSC, Penny Dreadful), Jamie Hogarth (Slow Horses, Bad Education), Ben Nealon (Soldier, Soldier, Twelve Angry Men), Lee Peck (Sleuth, Looking Good Dead), Fabrizio Santino (Marvel’s Captain America: The First Avenger, Hollyoaks), Jodie Steele (Mallory Towers, Heathers the Musical), Hilary Tones (RSC) and Eliza Le Touzel Teale.

Running Time

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Tickets

Tuesday – Saturday, 7.30pm
and Wednesday, Thursday & Saturday, 2.30pm:
£25/£35/£40/£45*

*All ticket prices include a £3 per ticket booking fee

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Felicity Kendall
Felicity Kendal (Filumena)

Felicity Kendal was an original member of the Actors’ Company, formed by Ian McKellen and Edward Petherbridge.  She won the Variety Club's Best Stage Actress Award for her performance as Marain in Michael Frayn's Clouds in the West End in 1978 and, in 1979, she played Constanze Mozart in Amadeus, directed by Peter Hall at the National Theatre.

Other theatre credits include the original productions of On the Razzle, The Real Thing and Hapgood and the revival of Jumpers. She won the Evening Standard Theatre Award in 1989 for her performances in Much Ado About Nothing and Ivanov.  

Later West End roles include Winnie in Happy Days, Esme in Amy’s View, Florence in The Vortex, Mrs Warren in Mrs Warren’s Profession, Sheila in Relatively Speaking and Judith Bliss in Hay Fever. She took her first role in a musical as Evangeline Harcourt in the 2021 London revival of Anything Goes at the Barbican Theatre and last year, she starred as Dotty Otley in the London revival of Noises Off.

Felicity’s television work includes Barbara in The Good Life, Gemma Palmer in Carla Lane’s Solo, Maxine in Carla Lane’s The Mistress, Helena Cuthbertson in The Camomile Lawn and Rosemary Boxer in Rosemary & Thyme.

Matthew Kelly
Matthew Kelly (Dom Domenico)

Matthew Kelly’s West End roles include the original Stanley in Funny Peculiar, Waiting For Godot with Ian McKellen and Roger Rees, Tim Firth’s Sign of the Times, the musical Lend Me A Tenor!, Lennie in Of Mice and Men at the Savoy Theatre, for which he won an Olivier Award for Best Actor, Noises Off, Big the Musical and Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?.

 

Matthew’s television work includes Inside No 9, Murder They Hope, Cold Blood, Benidorm, Bleak House and Moving On.  Matthew is also known for his presenting credits, including You Bet! and Stars in their Eyes.  

Julie Legrand
Julie Legrand (Rosalia)

Julie Legrand’s theatre credits include The Forest, The Cherry Orchard, The Critic, The Duchess of Malfi, Way Upstream, The Trojan War Will Not Take Place and Don Quixote (all for the National Theatre), Romeo and Juliet, Cymbeline, The Revenger’s Tragedy and Oedipus (all for the Royal Shakespeare Company) and West End musicals An American in Paris, Gypsy, The Fiddler on the Roof and Wicked.  

Her television credits include Ludwig, Romantic Getaway, Silent Witness, Call the Midwife, Paula Burrow in Holby City, Doctor Who, Nurse Bradshaw in Night and Day, Jeanette Dunkley in Footballers’ Wives, North Square, Bad Girls, Marji in Starting Out, Kavanagh QC, Inspector Morse, The House of Bernarda Alba and El CID.

George Banks
George Banks (Michele)

George Banks’s recent theatre credits include The Mousetrap (St Martin’s Theatre, West End), Dial M For Murder (Theatre Royal Windsor) and Birdsong (UK Tour).  On television, he’s appeared as Henry Newton in Coronation Street.

Gavin Fowler
Gavin Fowler (Umberto)

Gavin Fowler most recently appeared in the Bill Kenwright Ltd/Theatre Royal Windsor production of Accolade.  Other recent theatre credits include The Merchant of Venice 1936 (West End, RSC & UK Tour) and A Christmas Carol, Troilus & Cressida, Salome, The Winter’s Tale and The Taming of the Shrew (RSC).  On television, he appeared as Simon in the series Penny Dreadful.

Jamie Hogarth
Jamie Hogarth (Alfredo)

Jamie Hogarth most recently appeared in the Bill Kenwright Ltd/Theatre Royal Windsor production of Accolade.  Recent West End theatre credits include Best of Enemies, Death of a Salesman and MAMMA MIA!.  Television credits include Bad Education, Slow Horses, Our House, EastEnders and The Crown.

Ben Nealon
Ben Nealon (Nocella)

Ben Nealon has appeared in touring productions of Catch Me If You Can, The Lady Vanishes, Cat and the Canary, 12 Angry Men (for BKL) and Passport to Pimlico.  Most recently Ben was seen at the Theatre Royal Windsor as Maurice Mullins in Emlyn Williams’s A Murder Has Been Arranged, as Tony Wendice in Sean Mathias’s production of Dial M for Murder and as Bob Cratchitt in A Christmas Carol.  On television, Ben is best known as Lt Jeremy Forsythe in Soldier Soldier.  

His film roles include the Bollywood blockbusters The Rising and the Oscar-nominated Lagaan.  In 2012, Ben was awarded an OBE for his work for Pump Aid, an international water and sanitation charity working in sub-Saharan Africa, which he helped set up in 1999.

Lee Pack
Lee Pack (Waiter)

Lee Peck has appeared in touring productions of Sleuth, The Hound of The Baskervilles, Hamlet, A Midsummer Night’s Dream and Romeo and Juliet.

Fabrizio Santino
Fabrizio Santino (Ricardo)

Fabrizio Santino played David ‘Ziggy’ Roscoe for three years in Hollyoaks.  His films include The Unlock, Witch, Homeless Ashes, Are We Dead Yet, Pleasureland, It Never Sleeps, Gangsters Guns And Zombies, Captain America, Turnout, The Naked Poet and A Day Of Violence.

Jodie Steele
Jodie Steele (Diana)

Jodie Steele’s theatre credits include Shelley in Bat Boy (Palladium), Blanche Barrow in Bonnie and Clyde (Garrick Theatre), Heather Chandler in Heathers the Musical (West End and The Other Palace), Sheila in Hair (Palladium), Katherine Howard in Six (UK tour), Sherrie in Rock of Ages (UK Tour), Elphaba in Wicked (UK and International Tour), Daisy Buchanan in Gatsby (Southwark Playhouse) and War Of The Worlds (Dominion Theatre).

Her television credits include Lily Vernon in Malory Towers (BBC), Katerina Kaminska in Professor T.

Hilary Tones
Hilary Tones (Teresina)

Hilary Tones’s television credits include Shardlake (Disney+), Renegade Nell (Disney+), Criminal Justice, Fiona Drummond in The Bill, Wire in the Blood and Judge John Deed.

Films include Nanna in Bliss! and The Great Ecstasy of Robert Carmichael.  

Theatre includes A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian (Hull Truck), My Mother Said I Never Should and Thrill of Love (St James Theatre, London), Macbeth, Measure for Measure and Pericles (all at Shakespeare’s Globe), Absolutely (Perhaps!) (Wyndham’s Theatre) and Hamlet and Romeo and Juliet (both for the RSC).

Sarah Twomey
Sarah Twomey (Lucia)

Sarah Twomey can most recently be seen in Alex Garland’s feature film Men alongside Jessie Buckley and Netflix’s hugely successful The Sandman series alongside Tom Sturridge. In theatre, she most recently appeared at Theatre Royal Windsor and on tour in Emlyn Williams’s Accolade, The Southbury Child at the Bridge Theatre and, for the RSC, Venice Preserved, The Provoked Wife, A Christmas Carol and Twelfth Night. 

Eliza Le Touzel Teale
Eliza Le Touzel Teale (Understudy)

Eliza Le Touzel Tealeis making her professional debut in Filumena. 

Gallery

  • Filumena Rehearsals, Felicity Kendal © Jack Merriman
  • Filumena Rehearsals, Ben Nealon & Matthew Kelly © Jack Merriman
  • Filumena Rehearsals, Fabrizio Santino, Julie Legrand, Felicity Kendal © Jack Merriman
  • Filumena Rehearsals, Felicity Kendal, Matthew Kelly, Sean Mathias, Fabrizio Santino © Jack Merriman
  • Filumena Rehearsals, Gavin Fowler, George Banks & Fabrizio Santino © Jack Merriman
  • Filumena Rehearsals, George Banks & Fabrizio Santino © Jack Merriman
  • Filumena Rehearsals, Jodie Steele © Jack Merriman
  • 'A wonderfully wise play'

    THE TIMES