Love Midlands Theatre

  • Home
  • Reviews
  • Contact
  • Home
  • Reviews
  • Contact

LONDON CLASSIC THEATRE PRESENTS ALAN AYCKBOURN’S MUCH-LOVED COMEDY

8/6/2015

0 Comments

 
Picture
Ashley Cook as Colin, Kevin Drury as Paul
From the company behind Equus and Entertaining Mr Sloane comes an all-new production of Alan Ayckbourn’s Absent Friends. Celebrating the 15th anniversary of London Classic Theatre, this brand new production will visit Coventry’s Belgrade Theatre from 8 to 13 June.  

Wealthy, unfulfilled housewife Diana arranges a gathering of old friends to cheer up bereaved Colin, whose fiancée drowned two months earlier.  Paul, her bullying, self-absorbed husband, has recently had a dalliance with Evelyn, the glamorous wife of his friend and incompetent business associate, John.  The party is completed by long-suffering Marge, who has left Gordon, her hypochondriac spouse, ailing at home. 

Preparations for the party spark tensions and open old wounds. As lingering resentments and deep-rooted jealousies surface, an unexpectedly cheerful Colin strolls into the mayhem. 

Acerbic and painfully funny, Absent Friends explores friendship, marriage and what it ultimately means to be happy.  In one of his finest plays, Ayckbourn’s craftsmanship and acute social observation have never been sharper or more biting. 

Alan Ayckbourn is an Olivier and Tony Award winning playwright who has written 78 plays, more than half of which have been produced in London's West End as well as around the world.  Some of his best known work includes Absurd Person Singular, The Norman Conquests, Relatively Speaking, Bedroom Farce, A Chorus of Disapproval and Communicating Doors.

Tickets for Absent Friends are priced from £11.25 - £26 with concessions available. To book, call the Belgrade Box Office on 024 7655 3055 or visit www.belgrade.co.uk where tickets are cheaper.
0 Comments



Leave a Reply.

    Love Midlands Theatre

    Sharing the latest theatre news and reviews around the Midlands.

    Picture

    Subscribe to our mailing list

    * indicates required
    Tweets by @midlandstheatre

    Archives

    May 2017
    April 2017
    September 2016
    August 2016
    June 2016
    May 2016
    April 2016
    March 2016
    February 2016
    January 2016
    December 2015
    November 2015
    October 2015
    September 2015
    August 2015
    July 2015
    June 2015
    May 2015
    April 2015
    March 2015

    Categories

    All
    Amateur
    Auditions
    Birmingham
    Burton
    Cannock
    Casting
    Coventry
    Family
    Lichfield
    Love Midlands Theatre
    News
    Opera
    Professional
    Redditch
    Reviews
    Semi Professional
    Solihull
    Stafford
    Stourbridge
    Sutton Coldfield
    Theatre
    Walsall
    Warwickshire
    West Midlands
    Wolverhampton
    Yardley

    RSS Feed

Proudly powered by Weebly