Press release: Henceforward... returns to the Stephen Joseph Theatre, Scarborough

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