Details

As a luxury liner steams its way across the Atlantic, Turai and Gal try frantically to finish their play in time for the New York opening. But the show depends on the music of a young composer - who can't compose because his girl friend, the leading lady, seems to be rekindling an old flame with the show's leading man, who isn't ready to admit that he is no longer the lover he was in his somewhat distant youth. Add lifeboat drills, the dramatic criticism of a cognac-tippling steward and other storms at sea for a fast-moving 1930s-style screwball farce.

Cast/Performers

Robert Duncan (Ivor), Matthew Kelly (Turai), Nick Lumley (Gal), David Martin (Adam), John Ramm (Dvornicheck), Abigail Thaw (Natasha)

Creatives/Company

Author: Tom Stoppard
Company(s): The Palace Theatre Watford, Salisbury Playhouse
Adapted by: Ferenc Molnar
Director: Joanna Read
Design: Nancy Surman
Lighting: Jim Simmons
Music: Stuart Thomas