The Crown Jewels
Sat 05 Apr
|Cannock
King Charles II won’t let anyone touch his Crown Jewels in this royally, raucously funny comedy based on actual historical happenings.
Time & Location
05 Apr 2025, 19:30 – 22:00
Cannock, Church St, Cannock WS11 1DE, UK
About the event
King Charles II won’t let anyone touch his Crown Jewels in this royally, raucously funny comedy based on actual historical happenings.
Tower Players bid a temporary farewell to the Prince of Wales before the theatre’s much anticipated refurbishment in April 2025 with laughs as big as some of the wigs in Simon Nye's Restoration period romp which first premiered in the West End in 2003.
Unpredictable maverick Colonel Blood has come up with his boldest plan yet: he will steal the Crown Jewels from the Tower of London, in plain sight. A task this momentous calls for a gang of misfits at his side, and everything should go to plan. But Charles II can’t afford to have his jewels snatched, and he’ll do anything to avoid a royal scandal…
The Crown Jewels is a riotous comedy from BAFTA Award winner Simon Nye, whose credits include The Durrells and Men Behaving Badly, and is…