Photo Flash: Inside Rehearsal For Alan Ayckbourn's BIRTHDAYS PAST, BIRTHDAYS PRESENT at Scarborough's Stephen Joseph Theatre
A brand new play from celebrated author Alan Ayckbourn is currently in rehearsal, and opens at Scarborough's Stephen Joseph Theatre in September.
Birthdays Past, Birthdays Present is the author's 83rd play, and premieres in the year of his 80th birthday.
Directed by the author, it will be performed by a cast of four: Jamie Baughan, Jemma Churchill, Russell Dixon and Naomi Petersen. Design is by Kevin Jenkins and lighting design by Jason Taylor. The Associate Sound Designer is Paul Stear.
It's Micky's 80th birthday, and he and his wife Meg are awaiting the arrival of their son, Adrian, and his new (and latest!) fiancée, Grace.
Adrian has, according to his parents, a certain reputation regarding women, and they feel meek, mild-mannered Grace should surely be warned of this. But are things really as they appear? As birthday follows birthday, the truth is finally revealed about Adrian, the suburban closet Lothario.
Alan Ayckbourn says: "It's no coincidence that this is a special year for me, being my 80th. I like to pin things on anniversaries, and I thought 'why not birthdays?'
"But it's a bit conventional to have one person maybe having his 20th birthday and his 50th and then 80th birthdays, so I thought it would be fun to do it backwards.
"Usually in plays, we see the cause first and the effects follow on, but in this case, we see the effect first and our first question is, just how did we get there?
"It's really a story about a man who's trying to deal with and understand women; it's a sort of companion piece to my 2017 play, A Brief History Of Women."
Birthdays Past, Birthdays Present can be seen in the Round at the SJT, in rep, from Wednesday 4 September to Saturday 5 October 2019. Tickets, priced from £10, are available from the box office on 01723 370541 and online at www.sjt.uk.com
Photo Credit: Tony Bartholomew
Jamie Baughan and Naomi Petersen
Jemma Churchill, Jamie Baughan, Naomi Petersen
Jamie Baughan, Russell Dixon, Jemma Churchill
Jamie Baughan, Jemma Churchill, Naomi Petersen, Russell Dixon
Jamie Baughan, Jemma Churchill
Alan Ayckbourn, Jamie Baughan, Naomi Petersen
Jamie Baughan, Russell Dixon, Naomi Petersen, Jemma Churchill
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