Lesley Nicol, Shakespeare, Eleanor Grant, Richard Teverson, Nigel Hess & Michael Dore

The Food of Love

Devised and performed by Nigel Hess

Tuesday 3 March 2026, 7.30pm

Prices from £15.00 to £40.00

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Programme

PART ONE
The Wind and the Rain
(Twelfth Night, RSC 1995)
The Christening (Henry VIII, Chichester 1991)
With Love for Someone Dear (Henry VIII, Globe 2010 / words: Juan Anchieta)
Do but behold the tears that swell in me (Love’s Labour’s Lost, RSC 1993)
Sonnet XVII (Love’s Labour’s Lost, RSC 1993)
Sigh No More, Ladies (Much Ado About Nothing, RSC 2014)
It was a Lover and His Lass (As You Like It / music: Arthur Young)
Abbess Emilia (The Comedy of Errors, RSC 1983)
My Love is Fair (The Merry Wives of Windsor, Globe 2010 / words: George Peele)
The Balcony Scene (Romeo + Juliet, 1996 / music: Craig Armstrong)
Under the Greenwood Tree (As You Like It, 1936 / music: William Walton)
Ding Dong Bell (The Merry Wives of Windsor, Globe 2010)
When Daisies Pied (Love’s Labour’s Lost, RSC 1993)

 

PART TWO
Hey Robin, Jolly Robin
(Twelfth Night, RSC 2017)
Willow Song (Othello, RSC 1985)
Sonnet XVIII (music: Michael Kamen)
Brush Up Your Shakespeare (Kiss Me Kate / words & music: Cole Porter)
O Mistress Mine (Twelfth Night, RSC 1995)
Shakespeare in Love (1998 / music: Stephen Warbeck)
The Wind and the Rain (Twelfth Night, RSC 1995)

Performers

Nigel Hess piano
Lesley Nicol actor
Richard Teverson actor
Eleanor Grant vocalist
Michael Dore vocalist

This heartwarming and highly entertaining show is the creation of Nigel Hess, the pianist/ composer behind Ladies in Lavender and A Christmas Overture, and also for several years, house composer to the Royal Shakespeare Company and Shakespeare’s Globe.

His witty and delightful songs for them are presented here with glorious music from stage and screen celebrating the Bard, including Craig Armstrong’s gorgeous Balcony Scene for the 1996 film of Romeo & Juliet, Stephen Warbeck’s incidental music for Shakespeare in Love, and immortal compositions by William Walton, Michael Kamen and Cole Porter.

Plus stories behind the music, scandalous backstage anecdotes, and sublime settings of Shakespeare’s most poignant poetry.

Duration: approx. 1 hour 40 mins (incl. interval)

Ticket Information

£40, £30, £25, £15

Early bird discount: 20% off full price tickets booked before 31 October (offer ends 31 October at 23:59)

Students and Under 30s: half price (not available online, please call)

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