When We Are Married
Garrick Theatre
Book until: Feb 26, 2011
Performance Schedule: Monday to Saturday at 7.30pm, Thursday and Saturday at 2.30pm
Yorkshire, 1908. Three highly respectable couples - the Parkers, Soppitts and Helliwells - married on the same day, at the same church, and by the same vicar, are celebrating 25 years of wedded bliss.
Out of the blue, disaster strikes, their vicar wasn't licensed ? they've merely been living together all these years! At a stroke, all the cherished certainties of their lives start to unravel.
Home truths fly like confetti, simmering resentments come to the boil and skeletons threaten to tumble out of cupboards. Can our three couples hide their shameful secret? Can they cling on to their hard-won standing in the community?
J.B.Priestley's work includes The Good Companions, Time and the Conways and An Inspector Calls. When We Are Married, which takes him back to his Yorkshire roots, has always been one of his most celebrated comedies. With its expert construction and gallery of unforgettable characters, it provides the perfect vehicle for an astonishing line-up of comic talent.
Starring; Olivier Award Nominated Rosemary Ashe (Witches of Eastwick, Phantom of the Opera), Lynda Baron (Open All Hours, Fat Friends), Susie Blake (Coronation Street, Victoria Wood), Michele Dotrice (Some Mothers Do Have 'Em), Roy Hudd (Coronation Street, BBC Radio 2), Sam Kelly ('Allo 'Allo), Olivier Award winning Maureen Lipman (A Little Night Music, Glorious) and Simon Rouse (The Bill).