Cast

• Joy Brook
• Claire Cartwright
• Trevor Fox
• Michael Hodgson
• Viktoria Kay
• Brian Lonsdale
• David Leonard
• Lawrence Neale
• Deka Walmsley
• David Whitaker

Creative

• Writer Lee Hall
• Designer Gary McCann
• Lighting Douglas Kuhrt
• Sound Martin Hodgson

Tickets

£45, £35, £20 

Performances

Monday to Saturday: 7.30pm

Thursday and Saturday: 2.30pm

THE PITMEN PAINTERS

Book online or call 0844 482 9672(24hrs) Tickets from £20.00

Presented by Bill Kenwright, following celebrated seasons at the National Theatre and on Broadway, Lee Hall’s The Pitmen Painters is enjoying a West End season at the Duchess Theatre.

Written by Lee Hall, creator of the worldwide sensation Billy Elliot, THE PITMEN PAINTERS has received huge critical acclaim and won the Evening Standard award for Best New Play.

In 1934, a group of Ashington miners hired a professor to teach an art appreciation evening class. Rapidly abandoning theory in favour of practice, the pitmen began to paint – prolifically. Within a few years avant-garde artists became their friends and their work was acquired by prestigious collectors; but every day they continued to work, as before, down the mine… The Pitmen Painters is highly amusing, deeply moving and always entertaining as it examines the lives of a group of ordinary men who do extraordinary things.

Duchess Until 14th Apr 2012

Press Coverage

• The most accessible, enthralling and life affirming show in town

  Sunday Express

• The Pitmen Painters, in Max Roberts' perfectly pitched and acted production, manages to be tragic, funny and illuminating in one fell swoop of energy.

  Evening Standard

• Breathtaking in its scope, Lee Hall's remarkable play provides a fascinating debate about art and socialism

  Guardian

• A wonderful piece of theatre: comic, sad and stirring in the same breath

  Financial Times