🏛️🎾 Park Theatre is the place to be this summer for a tennis experience with a difference and the critically acclaimed smash hit show ‘Jimmy’. Read on for a preview and the latest ticket information.
Following a sold-out run at the Edinburgh Festival, Comedy Award winner Adam Riches brings his one-man show inspired by the original tennis bad boy Jimmy Connors to London for a limited run. Taking place from Monday 23 June to Saturday 12 July, ‘Jimmy’ at Park Theatre tickets are on sale now.
★★★★ ‘The physicality and pacing are mesmeric. Jimmy has the scent of a victorious performance’
The List
In 1974, Jimmy Connors was the greatest tennis player on Earth. In 1991, he’s getting annihilated at the US Open by his arch-nemesis’ little brother.
What happened next was one of the greatest comebacks in sporting history, when Jimmy, fuelled by ghosts of his turbulent past, winds back the clock to remind the world what happens when you rattle the cage of a geriatric tiger, one last time.
Directed by Tom Parry (Don Rodolfo, Adam Riches and John Kearns are Ball & Boe – For Fourteen Nights Only), Jimmy is a fast-paced, funny and intensely physical ride, deep inside the mind of an ageing, swaggering alpha.
★★★★★ ‘Solo shows are ten a penny at the Edinburgh festival, but this feels like one in a million’
The Telegraph
★★★★ ‘Energetic, brash, incredibly well synchronised. This is a compelling hour of theatre. Highly recommended.’
One4Review
★★★★ ‘Riches embodies Connors with such muscularity, such commitment, that the play transcends the limitations of the biodrama format.’
The Guardian
– Cast biography here.
– Creative team biographies here.
TICKETS, TIMINGS & TRAVEL
Tickets are available via the ‘Get Tickets’ link. Seats are unreserved. 16+ only.
Show starts nightly at 7pm. Running length approximately 55 minutes.
🚊 🚗 Travel tips: Park Theatre is a short walk from from Finsbury Park station which is connected by Underground (Piccadilly and Victoria) and National Rail services. Check out the Park Theatre ‘Getting Here’ guide for more information.
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