To Jaipur via Cheltenham: Beloved comedy-drama ‘The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel’ comes to Everyman Theatre this week

The Everyman Theatre is proud to announce the highly-anticipated arrival of ‘The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel’ onto its Main Stage from today, Tuesday 28th February to Saturday 4th March. The critically-acclaimed stage adaptation of the much-treasured 2011 film, based on the Sunday Times bestseller by Deborah Moggach, follows the lives of a group of eclectic British retirees who move to a retirement hotel in Jaipur, India.

The Cheltenham performances will see actors Belinda Lang (2 point 4 children), Paul Nicholas (Jesus Christ Superstar, Eastenders), Tessa Peake-Jones (Only Fools and Horses) and Graham Seed (The Archers, The Mousetrap) take to their roles for the first time, as the tour kicks off its second leg on the Everyman Theatre stage before heading to Cardiff, Liverpool, Wolverhampton and more in a UK tour that finishes in June 2023.

Audiences will be transported on a heart-warming and humorous journey as the characters navigate the ups and downs of their new lives in India, and explores the themes of taking risks, finding love and embracing second chances, even in the most surprising of places.

The film The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel (directed by John Madden) saw its UK theatrical release in 2012. Within two weeks of its cinematic distribution, the film had topped the UK Box Office and went on to become a hit internationally performing as one of the highest-grossing films of 2012 in Australia and New Zealand in addition to the United Kingdom.

The interwoven stories of the film’s stellar ensemble, which included Judi Dench, Bill Nighy, Maggie Smith, Penelope Wilson, Tom Wilkinson, Celie Imrie, and Ronald Pickup - with Dev Patel as the put-upon owner of a past-its-best hotel for ‘the elderly and beautiful’ - shone a light on issues such as the outsourcing of care and NHS treatments, the complexity of family relationships around the world, love, compassion, and companionship in our twilight years.

Tickets for ‘The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel’ are on sale now and can be purchased online at www.everymantheatre.org.uk or by calling the Box Office on 01242 572573.

Don’t miss the chance to see one of the most beloved stories of recent years come to life on stage in Cheltenham.