Performance

VenueHaymarket Theatre
Other spaces: Studio
TownLeicester
CountyLeicestershire
From1st November 2001
To17th November 2001
When19:30 Mats Nov 10, 14, 17 at 14:30
PricesFrom £6.50. To £14.50.
What is currently on at Haymarket Theatre (V431)

Dolly West's Kitchen

T05396390
Buncrana, Donegal, 1944: while Allied troops prepare for D-Day, Ireland remains steadfastly neutral - or as neutral as the widespread anti-English inclinations will allow. But in the West household, neutrality is about to get the elbow... Rima West, the elderly matriarch, is wise, mischievous and incorrigible. She thinks it does folk good, every so often, to let a bit of 'badness' into a house. And God knows, her three grown-up children certainly need something to turn their lives around. Ester, the eldest, has grown bitter locked in a sterile marriage to the undemonstrative Ned. Her youngest, Justin, is a priggish Irish army officer, who nurses a fervent hope that the Germans will win the war. Her middle child, Dolly, once a restaurateur in Italy, now presides over the kitchen of Rima's house by the sea, her life empty of love. Over the border in Derry, the Allies prepare for the invasion of France. Among them is Dolly's former lover, Alec, an Englishman now serving in the British army. So Rima invites Alec and a couple of GIs - one quiet, handsome and polite, the other, the campest infantryman in the US Army - to dinner. And when the soldiers of three different armies collide with the West clan at Dolly's kitchen table , a whole new front opens up...
Author Frank McGuinness


Archive :: production:T05396390, play:S01161497357, venue:V431

Production details

Main House

Special Performances


  • 15 Nov 01 Audio Described
  • 17 Nov 01 Audio Described

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Company

Producer Haymarket Leicester
Director Paul Kerryson
Design Adrian Rees
Lighting Chris Ellis
Performer Aislinn Mangan (Dolly West)
Performer Ann Rye (Rima)
Performer Jonjo O'Neill
Performer Chook Sibtain
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