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When We Are Married

13 June 2014–21 June 2014

A Bear Pit Theatre Company Production

@ The Bear Pit Theatre - Stratford-upon-Avon

Synopsis

Alderman Joseph Helliwell and his wife, Maria, are joined at their house in Clecklewyke in the West Riding of Yorkshire by Councillor Albert Parker and his wife, Annie, together with Herbert Soppitt and his wife, Clara.

They are celebrating their silver weddings, all three couples having been married on the same day in the same nonconformist chapel in Lane End, Clecklewyke.

Their characters quickly become clear:

Helliwell and his wife are easy-going, but he is self-satisfied and inclined to infidelity;

Parker is a narrow-minded and parsimonious bully and his wife is under his thumb;

Soppitt, contrariwise, is bullied by his domineering wife.

Ticket information

Standard – £8

Credits & acknowledgements

Directed by Vanessa Comer

Cast:

  • Ruby Birtle – Lucy Morris
  • Gerald Forbes – Dominic Skinner
  • Mrs Northrop – Nikki Baldwin
  • Henry Ormonroyd – Kevin Hand
  • Joseph Helliwell – Philip HIckson
  • Maria Helliwell – Juliet Grundy
  • Albert Parker – Paul Tomlinson
  • Herbert Soppitt – David Derrington
  • Clara Soppitt – Pamela Hickson
  • Annie Parker – Viv Tomlinson
  • Lottie Grady – Anne Bowen
  • Rev Clement Mercer – David Southeard

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