New Venture Theatre
Please note all evening performances now start at 7:30pm
Our Next Production
1 to 9 December 2023
In the Theatre Upstairs
Bedroom Farce
by Alan Ayckbourn
directed by Katie Brownings
Tickets Available Here
Now with an additional Matinee on Saturday 9 December
As the title implies, the play is an absurd and confusing farce, comparing and contrasting the differences between couples young and old, and the different troubles they encounter.
Elderly Ernest and Delia in their bedroom. Worrying over son Trevor’s relationship with ‘complex’ wife Susannah. Fish on toast in bed is a comfort.
Nick and Jan’s bedroom. Jan was once ‘destroyer’ Trevor’s girlfriend.
Malcolm and Kate’s bedroom. Tonight it’s a cloakroom for their housewarming party. Trevor arrives. Then wife Susannah. Blazing row. Jan appears. Complications.
Nick and Jan’s. Back at home Jan tells jealous Nick she and Trevor had a mutual snog.
Ernest and Delia’s. Doorbell. It’s crazy daughter-in-law Susannah
Nick and Jan’s. Trevor’s ringing their bell.
Kate and Malcolm’s. Awaiting Trevor’s return to sleep over.
Anything but a typical bedroom farce - though we hear about a range of sexual troubles. Is marriage sustained more by habit than mutual excitement? Or is there a certain blessedness? Ayckbourn’s play is moving, observant and hugely funny.
This amateur production of “Bedroom Farce” is presented by arrangement with Concord Theatricals Ltd on behalf of Samuel French Ltd.
www.concordtheatricals.co.uk
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Proposal to Direct
Proposals to Direct in the 2024/25 season are now open
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NVT Christmas Social Evening
All members and guests welcome
Saturday 16 December from 7pm
Tickets available here