Season's Greetings at Wolverhampton Grand Theatre
A frustrated wife, seductive stranger, two eccentric uncles and a mechanical monkey make for a feast of hilarity in a play that opens at Wolverhampton's Grand Theatre today.
A frustrated wife, seductive stranger, two eccentric uncles and a mechanical monkey make for a feast of hilarity in a play that opens at Wolverhampton's Grand Theatre today.
Season's Greetings, Alan Ayckbourn's much-loved comedy, will run until November 26 at the venue.
The piece has been described as being one of Alan Ayckbourn's finest works and will be visiting Wolverhampton following a recent sell out season at the National Theatre.
Grand Theatre spokeswoman Vicky Price said Season's Greetings stars Glynis Barber, best known for her role as Eastenders' vixen Glenda Mitchell, who first shot to fame as the glamorous half of Eighties crime fighting duo Dempsey and Makepeace.
It also features Denis Lill (The Royal ); Ricky Groves, who played lovable Gary Hobbs in Eastenders' for nine years prior to his Strictly Come Dancing success; Matthew Bose, who played Paul Lambert in Emmerdale; Jenny Funnell, Sandy in the hit comedy As Time Goes By and Christopher Timothy, best known for portraying James Herriot in the classic TV Series All Creatures Great and Small and more recently 'Mac' McGuire in Doctors.
Ayckbourn is one of the world's most popular and prolific professional playwrights. He has written 75 full length plays and more than 20 other revues and plays for children.
He is also an acclaimed director, who Arthur Miller said directed the definitive version of his play A View From The Bridge. He was born in Hampstead, London, on 12 April, 1939.
His mother was Irene Maud Worley – better known as the novelist Mary James – and his father Horace Ayckbourn, lead violinist with the London Symphony Orchestra.
Tickets for Season's Greetings cost £10 to £23 and are available at www.grandtheatre.info