A new stage adaptation of Drop The Dead Donkey is hitting the road for a UK tour in 2024 – here’s all you need to know.
The iconic BAFTA and Emmy award-winning TV comedy is reimagined for the stage as Drop The Dead Donkey: The Reawakening!.
Original cast members Stephen Tompkinson, Neil Pearson, Susannah Doyle, Robert Duncan, Ingrid Lacey, Jeff Rawle, and Victoria Wicks will star in the production, directed by Lindsay Posner.
Drop The Dead Donkey: The Reawakening! tour dates and venues
30 years since the launch of the trailblazing, smash-hit TV series, the Globelink News team are back, and now live on stage for the very first time.
The stage show is written by the same award-winning writing team as the original hit sitcom Andy Hamilton and Guy Jenkin.
The pair said: “We’re overjoyed to be working again with the original cast of Drop The Dead Donkey, after a brief hiatus of about 30 years. It’s going to be hugely enjoyable to watch those 7 funny, flawed characters from Globelink News being plunged into the cutthroat world of modern 24-hour news gathering and trying to navigate their way through the daily chaos of social media, fake news, and Interim Prime Ministers.”
Drop The Dead Donkey: The Reawakening! is directed by Lindsay Posner, and designed by Peter McKintosh, with lighting designs by Peter Mumford.