Shang-a-Lang

Hitting forty with the force of a car crash!

It’s Pauline’s fortieth and best friend Jackie’s taking her to Butlin’s for a seventies weekend to pick her up and relive happier times. But nostalgia isn’t what it used to be and nothing goes quite according to plan…
Shang-a-Lang is a ruthlessly funny examination of friendships, of reaching a certain age and of reassessing…
Catherine Johnson wrote international stage and screen smash Mamma Mia! Her earlier play Shang-a-Lang hasn’t been seen in London since 1998 – don’t miss it this time!
‘…Has the rare knack of making you roar with laughter at the same time as punching you in the solar plexus…’ Financial Times on Shang-a-Lang.
King’s Head Theatre,
London 22 January – 15 February 2014