Staircase

Archive Listings for Staircase

T01934755334 (TRON11) Company Tron Theatre Company. Design Kenny Miller. Performer Benny Young. Performer Andy Arnold.
23 Feb 11 to 5 Mar 11	The Tron, Glasgow :: V622 listing details L1368895101
T168820229 (SHP00) Company David Tudor Productions. Company The Rep College. Performer Fraser Jekkasm. Performer Rory Thersby.
31 Aug 00 to 2 Sep 00	South Hill Park Arts Centre, Wilde Theatre, Bracknell :: V731 listing details L01248453484
T01861113455 (OLDC99) Director Caroline Smith. Performer Kenneth Alan Taylor. Performer Roy Barraclough.
16 Sep 99 to 9 Oct 99	Coliseum Theatre, Oldham :: V497 listing details L914217323

Details

Play :: Not everyone was swingin’ in sixties London... Charles and Harry have been a couple for twenty-odd years, running an East End barber shop where they both dream of better days. Over the course of an evening their camp, bitchy and very funny banter becomes increasingly bitter and previously unknown truths emerge with news of the impending arrival of Charles’ daughter from an early foray into wedded normality, a court summons for ‘improper conduct’ and the subsequent prospect of life apart should a jail sentence be handed down. Deep into the night, the barbed jibes and cruel put-downs drive each of them into a despair that will ultimately unravel their carefully constructed reality. Archly funny yet also poignantly sad, Staircase, last staged in London forty-five years ago, is the blackest of comedies shot through with the wretchedness of lives blighted by social stigma.

Author

Charles Dyer