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Absurd Person Singular

10 December 2021–18 December 2021

A Bear Pit Theatre Company Production

@ The Bear Pit Theatre - Stratford-upon-Avon

Synopsis

Three married couples. Three kitchens. Three Christmas parties.

Sidney Hopcroft, a small-time tradesman, persuades his wife Jane to throw a Christmas party, hoping to find favour with a bank manager and local architect.

As the celebrations get under way, class differences and naked ambition combine to hilarious effect as, one by one, the characters seek refuge in Jane’s kitchen.

Over the next two years, the Jacksons and the Brewster-Wrights take turns to host festivities. But Sidney’s star has begun to rise and roles are increasingly reversed as the cracks in the other couples’ marriages begin to show.

Alan Ayckbourn’s comic masterpiece of social climbing in 1970s suburbia fuses a potent mix of farce and black comedy.

Ticket information

Standard – £14
Concessions – £12

Telephone: 0333 666 3366

In person at:
The Bear Pit Theatre Box Office
from 30 minutes before the screening

Credits & acknowledgements

Directed by Vanessa Comer

Cast:

  • Sidney Hopcroft – Paul Tomlinson
  • Jane Hopcroft – Viv Tomlinson
  • Geoffrey Jackson – Peter Ward
  • Eva Jackson – Kathy Buckingham-Underhill
  • Marion Brewster-Wright – Lesley Simms
  • Ronald Brewster-Wright – Graham Buckingham-Underhill

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