Book Your Visit to the Best Exotic Marigold Hotel
Anant Varman as Mohan and Kerena Jagpal as Kamila. Photo (c)Johan Persson.
The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, at The Belgrade Theatre, Coventry, 13 to 17 June.
Preview by Arabella Neville-Rolfe
The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel –Deborah Moggach’s stage adaptation of her Sunday Times best-selling novel, which inspired one of this century’s most treasured films – will play at the Belgrade Theatre Coventry from 13 – 17 June, with a press night on 13 June.
The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel takes us on a journey to India with an eclectic group of British retirees as they embark on a new life. The luxury residence is far from the opulence they were promised, but as their lives begin to intertwine and they embrace the vibrancy of modern-day India, they are charmed in unexpected and life-changing ways.
Tessa Peake- ones as Evelyn and Paul Nicholas as Douglas. Photo (c) Johan Persson.
The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel is a joyous, feel-good comedy about taking risks, finding love, and embracing second chances, even in the most surprising of places.
Much-loved comedy actress Belinda Lang (ITV’s Second Thoughts; BBC 1’s 2point4 Children), will star as ‘Madge’, Graham Seed, best known for his award-winning long-running performance as Nigel Pargetter in BBC Radio 4’s The Archers, will play ‘Norman’, and Paola Dionisotti (HBO’s Game of Thrones, Florence Foster Jenkins and ITV’s Harbour Lights) will play ‘Dorothy’, Paul Nicholas (Jesus Christ Superstar, BBC 1’s Just Good Friends, Eastenders, The Real Marigold Hotel) will play ‘Douglas’, with many more famous faces gracing the Belgrade's stage.
Belinda Lang as Madge. Photo (c) Johan Persson.
The film The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel (directed by John Madden) saw its UK theatrical release in 2012. Within two weeks of its cinematic distribution, the film had topped the UK Box Office and went on to become a hit internationally performing as one of the highest-grossing films of 2012 in Australia and New Zealand in addition to the United Kingdom.
