Details

It's 1958 and Havana is on the brink of revolution. All day and night, the streets are filled with dancing and the shadows are filled with criminals. In the midst of the warm tropical air, an English vacuum cleaner salesman lives a quiet life running a modest business, raising his teenage daughter Milly and collecting miniature whisky bottles. Just as Milly's love of shopping reaches new heights, James Wormold receives an offer from the British Secret Intelligence Service that is too good to refuse. What Wormold lacks in sleuthing experience, he makes up for with imagination. Nothing stays quiet for long in Havana and his life is soon turned upside down when the fictional events of his intelligence reports start to come true! World Premiere. A roller coaster comedy full of colourful characters and uplifting Cuban inspired songs, this new musical is based on Graham Greene's iconic novel that cleverly satirises the fine line between truth and lies.

Creatives/Company

Book by: Graham Green
Author(s): Ben Morales Frost, Richard Hough
Producer: The Watermill
Director(s): Amy Draper, Andrea Palaez
Design: Kat Heath
Choreographer: Andrea Palaez
Lighting: Robbie Butler
Sound: Tom Marshall
Musical Director: Eliane Correa