Latest News - September 2009

Hambi will be performing at the Shakespeare's Globe Theatre in the new production of A New World - A Life of Thomas Paine

Directed by Dominic Dromgoole
Designed by Tim Shortall
Composed by Stephen Warbeck
In association with Richard Attenborough.

Hambi Pappas as King Louis XVI, Citizen

*****'Big, bawdy, hugely ambitious, jaw-droppingly original and imbued with a tremendous sense of fun... The dialogue is pacy and often very funny, and there is some jaunty music, all making something approaching the perfect theatrical experience' Sunday Telegraph

**** 'Griffiths has the priceless ability to show the power of Paine's ideas and to make history come alive... John Light shines out strong and clear as a doggedly uncompromising Paine... First-rate support from Keith Bartlett as the jovial narrator Benjamin Franklin, Jamie Parker as a laconic Jefferson and Alix Riemer as Paine's French translator. Adorned with rousing songs by Stephen Warbeck, this is an intelligent historical spectacle packed with contemporary resonance' The Guardian

'Visually and in many other ways perfect... Succeeds in so many ways, not least by reminding us what a principle is, and, of course, of the rights of man... A splendid James Garnon as Danton' The Observer