Details

A proud past, a shabby present, an uncertain future: the state of the nation in 1956 perhaps, but also the state of the Rice family in a run-down seaside resort, where Archie is fronting a strip-show in a seedy theatre. Ever the entertainer, he carries on joking, dancing, singing - increasingly dead behind the eyes. This is a modern classic: it is a play about the state of the nation, but it is also a play which is vaudeville: funny, sleazy, sentimental in turn, after turn, after turn.

Cast/Performers

Robert Lindsay (Archie Rice), Pam Ferris (Archie's wife), Emma Cunniffe, David Dawson, David Baron

Creatives/Company

Author: John Osborne
Corporate Sponsor: Morgan Stanley
Director: Sean Holmes
Design: Anthony Lamble
Lighting: Peter Mumford
Music(s): John Addison, Steven Edis (arrangements and additional music)
Choreographer: Paul Harris
Sound: Fergus O'Hare