Kinks fans get ready for more good news… Following a sell-out run at the Hampstead Theatre Sunday Afternoon moves to the Harold Pinter Theatre where you can enjoy listening to The Kinks classics and follow the meteoric rise of the band and their frontman Ray Davies.
Sunny Afternoon comes to the West End this autumn
Lola, Dedicated Follower of Fashion, You Really Got Me, All Day and All of the Night, Dead End Street, not to mention Sunny Afternoon, there is no song quite like a Kinks’ song to get you singing along in fond reminiscence. It’s no wonder The Kinks’ classics have inspired generation after generation and are as celebrated today as they were when they released in the 1960s.
From Muswell Hill to America
Sunny Afternoon depicts the inspirational story of brothers Dave and Ray Davies forming the band in Muswell Hill, North London in 1963. The band rose to swift notoriety and became an influential part of the British Invasion of the US in the sixties. But how exactly did The Kinks go from musically conquering America to being banned from playing there at the height of their career.
Sunny Afternoon reveals the whole story of one of Britain’s most iconic and influential rock bands.
Featuring lyrics and music by Ray Davies, a book by the award-winning playwright Joe Penhall, who won the Lawrence Olivier Award for Best New Play for Blue/Orange at The National Theatre, and directed by Edward Hall, Sunny Afternoon generated a string of five-star reviews during its run at the Hampstead Theatre.
“Pop lovers would be mad to miss it”, wrote The Telegraph, a five-star accolade shared with the Daily Mail which wrote, “You really got me.”
Sunny Afternoon will run at The Harold Pinter Theatre from 3 October 29 November 2014.
Whether you’re an ‘original’ Kinks’ fan from their riotous sixties or second or even third generation of Kinks’ supporters, young and old will enjoy this extraordinary musical depiction of one of the most well-known names in rock and roll.
