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- The Festival Theatre at Hever Castle
- Hever Castle, Edenbridge, Kent TN8 7NG
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by Alan Ayckbourn
Directed by Pauline Armour
An amateur production by arrangement with Concord Theatricals Ltd
We are delighted to announce that this play will be performed at the Hever Castle Festival in August 2023, on the following dates:-
Friday 18th August 2pm
Friday 18th August 8pm
Saturday 19th August 8pm
This Olivier Award-winning play of 1984 was first seen at BLT in 1989 and then again in 2015. On both occasions, the heady mix of sex, laughs and amateur theatricals proved to be a winning combination.
A lonely and shy widower, Guy Jones, joins a local amateur light operatic society and rises through the company ranks purely by his inability to say no – this spills over into his personal relationships with members of the society.
The play is juxtaposed with scenes and music from John Gay’s The Beggar’s Opera. Skilfully, Ayckbourn draws parallels between the characters in the opera and the private lives of the amateur thespians.
Cast
| Guy Jones | Chris De Pury |
| Dafydd ap Llewellyn | Geoff Dillon |
| Hannah Llewellyn | Lucy White |
| Bridget Baines | Halimot Ibrahim |
| Mr Ames and Pianist | Chris Gardner |
| Enid Washbrook | Donna Dawson |
| Rebecca Huntley-Pike | Sallie Cross |
| Fay Hubbard | Alicia Clarke |
| Ian Hubbard | Alex MacDonald |
| Jarvis Huntley- Pike | Richard Gissing |
| Ted Washbrook | Stevie Hughes |
| Crispin Usher | TBC |
| Linda Washbrook | Aneira Knight |
Creatives | |
| Directors | Pauline Armour and Josh Lawson |
| Musical Direction | Jane Lee and Stevie Hughes |
| Stage Manager | TBC |
| Lighting Design | Tom Boulter |
| Sound Design | Andy Shaw |
| Wardrobe | Kerstin Beard |
| Set design | TBC |