Following the phenomenal audience and critical acclaim, McQueen transfers to the Theatre Royal Haymarket for a strictly limited season from 13th August.
A mysterious girl has been hiding in a tree in McQueen’s Mayfair garden for the past eleven nights, secretly watching him as he struggles to find inspiration for his new collection. Tonight she climbs down and breaks into his house to steal a dress she could never afford to buy, in the hope of becoming someone special. Together, they go out onto the streets of London and into the whirlwind of McQueen’s life. As the girl begins to unravel before him, it becomes clear that she needs more than her dream dress to see her through the night. With its beauty, the world invites us all to live another day, and with each other, two troubled souls may just find the comfort they so desperately crave.
McQueen will take you on a beautiful and haunting voyage into the visionary imagination and dark dream world of the late Alexander McQueen, fashion’s greatest contemporary artist.
A new play by James Phillips Directed by John Caird. Starring Stephen Wight as Alexander McQueen and Carly Bawden as Dahlia, with Tracy-Ann
Oberman as Isabella Blow, Laura Rees as Arabella and Michael Bertenshaw as Mr Hitchcock
“John Caird’s production is suitably fabulous”
Holly Williams, The Independent
“Powerful and memorable”
Christopher Hart, The Sunday Times
“Absolutely fabulous”
Georgina Brown, Mail on Sunday
“Inventive and beautiful”
Michael Coveney, WhatsOnStage
“Christopher Marney’s choreography is sensual and menacing... David Farley’s design is
elegant and evocative… a fabulous performance from Stephen Wight”
Clive Davis, The Times
“Stephen Wight captures the tormented genius of Alexander McQueen”
Henry Hitchings, Evening Standard