The Bespoke Overcoat

Archive Listings for The Bespoke Overcoat

T0336167964 (NEWEND10) Producer New End Theatre. Director Ninon Jerome. Performer George Layton. Performer David Graham. Performer James Barron. Performer Sam Hoye.
18 May 10 to 17 Jul 10	New End Theatre, Inner London :: V215 listing details L0609631153
T387323022 (ACTON07) Company Sturdy Beggars Group Theatre. Director Jack O'Connor.
17 Nov 07 to 1 Dec 07	General, Outer London :: V1087 listing details L02134490143
T456959652 (NEWEND00) Director William Glynne. Design Miriam Buther. Lighting Mike Robertson. Performer Leonard Fenton. Performer Melvyn Hayes. Performer Simon Balfour. Performer Tom Keller. Performer Christopher Fox. Performer Simon Rhodes.
31 May 00 to 16 Jul 00	New End Theatre, Inner London :: V215 listing details L2138472710

Details

Play :: The Bespoke Overcoat is an unconventional love story - the love of one old friend for another. Set in 1950s in East End of London. Fender, a clerk in a clothing business, is short of food, suffers bitterly from the cold and is unable to afford one of the coats sold by his boss, Ranting. So he asks Morry, his friend the tailor, to repair his old one. Morry believes that the coat is so far gone as to be irreparable, persuades Fender to let him make a bespoke overcoat at cost price. Against the odds of old age, ill-health and fast-developing commercialism, will Morry get the coat done in time? Based on Nikolai Gogol’s classic short story "The Overcoat", Wolf Mankowitz adapted it into a play in 1953 and later made into a short film which won an Academy Award.

Author	Wolf Mankowitz
Book by	Nikolai Gogol