Synopsis
This triple award-winning play is Ida's story. It is her eighty-sixth birthday - a milestone the pain-racked old lady would rather not have reached. Her family have gathered to cheerfully celebrate and patronise her with a birthday tea. Into their midst comes the prodigal daughter Susan, returning after a twenty-five year absence. She discovers that her mother is now given to only brief moments of lucidity and no longer remembers her!
This is a play that deals with euthanasia under ordinary and painful circumstances and how the family manage with pacts, rivalries, antagonism, inadequacies and English mores at their hilarious, moving and provoking worst. It engages the heart, the mind and above all the conscience.
Act 1, Scene 1: Late afternoon
Act 1, Scene 2: Evening
Act 2: Late evening
Time: The present
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Credits
| Cast | |
|---|---|
| Role | Person |
| Ida (aged 86) | June Cross |
| Katherine (Ida's daughter) | Kay Sutton |
| Geoffrey (K's husband) | Mike Schofield |
| Michael (their son) | Nick Pearce |
| Margaret (Ida's daughter) | Michelle Clare-Hudson |
| Douglas (M's husband) | Richard Stanway |
| Susan (Ida's daughter) | Rachel Taylor |
| Mrs Jackson (from next door) | Pat Stimson |
| Crew | |
| Role | Person |
| Stage Manager | Simon Carney |
| Set Design | Bob Allen |
| Lighting | Mark Whitehouse |
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Properties
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Rona Wright
Ann Aplin |
| Prompt | Di Roper-Marshall |
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Publicity
Tickets |
Danny Rogers
Christine Rogers |
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Set Construction
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Simon Carney
Bob Allen |
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Lighting & Sound
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Mark Whitehouse
Geoff Wilkinson |
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Bar
|
Godfrey Laundy
Val Laundy |
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Front of House
|
Steve Birch
Alan Cross |
| Photographs | Ray Bulmer |