Photo Flash: Inside Rehearsal for RULES FOR LIVING on Tour

English Touring Theatre, Royal & Derngate, Northampton and Rose Theatre Kingston present Sam Holcroft's Rules for Living. BroadwayWorld has a sneak peek at the cast in rehearsal below!

Simon Godwin directs Jane Booker (Edith), Jolyon Coy (Matthew), Ed Hughes (Adam), Carlyss Peer (Carrie), Laura Rogers (Nicole) and Paul Shelley (Francis) in Rules for Living, which opens in Northampton before touring to Cambridge, Windsor, Brighton, Ipswich and Kingston.

Edith must clean to keep calm. Matthew must sit to tell a lie. Everyone creates their own rules for living. But what happens when an extended family gathers for a traditional Christmas dinner, and each of them rigidly follows those rules?

Christmas day will never be the same again. As the drinks flow and the obligatory games intensify, family resentments rise and relationships are pulled apart with a bang - like oh so many Christmas crackers.

The regional première of this darkly funny play is produced in collaboration with the producing team, English Touring Theatre, Royal & Derngate, Northampton and Rose Theatre Kingston, who recently won the 2016 UK Theatre Award for Best Touring Production for The Herbal Bed.

The Rules for Living production team features Sound Designer and composer Mark Melville, movement director Shelley Maxwell, projection designer Andrzej Goulding, associate director Spencer Noll, and casting director Hancock Stevenson Casting.

Performances run 8 - 30 September at Royal & Derngate, Northampton, with press night set for 13 September, followed by the tour.

Photo Credit: Mark Douet

Carlyss Peer (Carrie)

The RULES FOR LIVING company

Ed Hughes (Adam)

Jane Booker (Edith)

Jolyon Coy (Matthew) and Carlyss Peer (Carrie)

Jolyon Coy (Matthew) and Carlyss Peer (Carrie)

Jolyon Coy (Matthew) and Carlyss Peer (Carrie)

Jolyon Coy (Matthew)

Jolyon Coy (Matthew)

Laura Rogers (Nicole)

Paul Shelley (Francis)

Paul Shelley (Francis), Ed Hughes (Adam) and Jane Booker (Edith)

Jane Booker (Edith)

Sam Holcroft (Playwright) and Simon Godwin (Director)

Sam Holcroft (Playwright)

Sam Holcroft (Playwright) and Simon Godwin (Director)

Simon Godwin (Director)

Simon Godwin (Director)

Simon Godwin (Director)