Photo Flash: Production Images from Alan Ayckbourn's HENCEFORWARD, Directed by Ayckbourn Himself!

Alan Ayckbourn's classic comedy Henceforward... returns to the Stephen Joseph

Theatre this autumn in a brand new production directed by the author.

All alone, high up in an isolated, derelict suburban tower block, avant garde

composer Jerome struggles vainly to complete his life's masterwork about love.

With the help of a deranged android childminder, he hatches a plan to retrieve his

source of artistic inspiration, his beloved daughter Geain, from his hostile and

estranged ex-wife.

But the best laid plans of men and mechanical women...

Henceforward... premiered at the Stephen Joseph Theatre in 1987, then at London's

Vaudeville Theatre a year later in a production which won the Evening Standard Best

Comedy Award.

This year's Scarborough revival follows a hugely successful production last year at a

theatre in Germany. The production at the Deutsches Schauspielhaus in Hamburg

opened in February 2015 and was so popular, regularly playing to full houses in the

1200-seat theatre, that the run was extended and the show ended up playing for

over a year.

The cast comprises Bill Champion, Andy Cryer, Russell Dixon, Jessie Hart, Velvet

Hebditch, Jacqueline King and Laura Matthews.

Tickets, priced from £10 to £24.50, are available from the Box Office on 01723

370541 and online at www.sjt.uk.com

Photo Credit: Tony Bartholomew