BREAKAWAY THEATRE COMPANY
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A BRIEF HISTORY OF WOMEN
Design © Shelley Healy
REVIEWS
The Herts Advertiser
NODA
Breakaway Theatre Company's return to Inn On The Park was a sizzling sensation! The outdoor show had a spicy mix of love, laughter, and tears – served with romance, scandal and lust!
Alan Ayckbourn’s hilarious comedy, A Brief History Of Women, is about Anthony Spates, an unremarkable man, and the remarkable women who loved him, left him, or lost him. The play runs from Thursday 4 August to Saturday 6 August at the beautiful setting of the Inn on the Park in Verulamium Park, St Albans.
Spanning 60 years in four parts, the show shows how Spates ages from 17 to 77, changing jobs and changing relationships – and as the setting changes with Kirkbridge Manor becoming a school, an arts centre and a hotel.
CAST
Anthony Spates - Malcom Coakley
1925
Lord Edward Kirkbridge - Simon Ellis
Lady Caroline Kirkbridge - Lesley Cowland
Lady Cynthia Kirkbridge- Jo Baker
Captain Fergus Ffluke - Benedict Gaskin
Mrs Reginald Ffluke - Anne Hollis
1945
Doctor Wynford Williams - Simon Ellis
Miss Eva Miller - Elaine Hartless
Miss Ursula Brock - Jo Baker
Mr Desmond Kennedy - David Martin
Miss Phoebe Long - Shelley Healy
1965
Dennis Dunbar - Simon Ellis
Pat Wriggly - Elaine Hartless
Jenny Tyler - Shelley Healy
Rory Tudor - David Martin
Gillian Dunbar - Marguerite Skinner
1985
Gordon - David Martin
Caroline Seabourne - Lesley Cowland
Tilly Seabourne - Jo Baker
Ruby Jensen - Elaine Hartless
Directed by Abigail Giles
Sound - Richard Hartless
Stage Crew - James Healy