Time of My Life by Alan Ayckbourn
Sat, 25 Sept
|Players Theatre
A family celebration in the local Italian brings up all kinds of issues... Directed by Anne Wint. Performances at 19:45 every night for a week (excluding Sunday). Shows on 27th & 28th will be special socially distanced performances and only be available to book by phone - call 0161 485 7704
Time & Location
25 Sept 2021, 19:45 – 02 Oct 2021, 19:45
Players Theatre, Anfield Rd, Cheadle Hulme, Cheadle SK8, UK
About the event
Please note that for the 21/22 season the Monday and Tuesday night performances of all four plays are to be Socially Distanced Performances. Tickets for Monday and Tuesday nights are not available on TicketSource. If you wish to book tickets for Monday or Tuesday performances please phone the Ticket Secretaries on 0161 485 7704.
Laura Stratton is celebrating her 59th birthday in a restaurant with her husband Gerry, her son Glyn and his wife Stephanie and her other son Adam and his girlfriend, Maureen.
The play is set in three different periods of time in a small Italian restaurant in Northern England.
When Gerry Stratton plans a family meal out with his two grown up sons to celebrate his wife, Laura’s 54th birthday and proposes an almost prophetic toast to ‘happy times’, he has no idea of the events that will unfold over the course of that evening. Their elder son, Glyn, is now back together with his long-suffering wife Stephanie, and their younger son, Adam has brought along his new girlfriend, an outrageous hairdresser, to meet the Stratton family for the first time.
Family skeletons intrude on cheerful domesticity as we get a glimpse of Glyn and Stephanie’s story unfolding in the future scenes. Meanwhile at another table in the same restaurant, Adam and Maureen’s story is played out in reverse chronology, with Gerry and Laura remaining in the present time unpicking their marriage and recalling first love.
Time of My Life will be directed by Anne Wint. Follow us on social media for further updates.