The Double Act

The Double Act

By Mark Jagasia

Directed by Pauline Armour

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Once upon a time, Biddle and Bash were the country’s best-loved comedy partnership. Now, years after their spectacular falling out, fate brings them back together for one final reunion. As they begin to reminisce, old jokes reopen old wounds, long-buried resentments bubble to the surface and memories of happier times prove impossible to ignore.

Mark Jagasia’s touching comedy-drama looks beyond the spotlight to explore the friendships that survive success, failure and the passing of time. Balancing laugh-out-loud humour with moments of real tenderness, it’s a wonderfully observed play about growing older, making peace with the past and discovering that some partnerships never quite leave us.

‘Jagasia has crammed comedy into every nook and cranny of the script.’  London Pub Theatres

‘As thematically rich as it is darkly funny.’   The Telegraph