Wheathampstead Dramatic Society- Time of My Life

Time of My Life - 16th, 17th and 18th February 2012. Performances start at 8pm. Tickets are £8 each. For more information on ticket availability and for large bookings please call Richard Suggitt on 01582 834669 or email: rsuggitt@btinternet.com

The play is written by Alan Ayckbourn, directed by WDS member Julie Field.

A bitter-sweet comedy will be on the menu as Wheathampstead Dramatic Society serves up Alan Ayckbourn's "Time Of My Life" as their February 2012 production. Set in a restaurant whose cuisine can best be described as 'intriguing' join Gerry Stratton and his sons Glyn and Adam at a small family dinner as they celebrate his wife Laura's birthday. Glyn is with his long-suffering wife Stephanie, their once-shaky marriage now appearing to be on firmer ground; wiith Adam is his new girlfriend Maureen, an outrageous hairdresser, and both are eager to impress.

The occasion suggests a happy domestic scene, but gradually we discover there are skeletons in this family's past. Starting from the present, Glyn's story moves forward in time while Adam's moves backwards, leaving Gerry and Laura in the present to pick apart their marriage and share recollections of first love.

In this classic play, Ayckbourn - our most prolific playwright - presents a time-shifting drama which is both dark and engaging in its examination of the tensions which inevitably underlie family relationships. And as Ayckbourn himself said "When eating out, why is it that the next table's conversation is often so much more fascinating ...?" a restaurant whose cuisine can best be described as 'intriguing'......

Date: Friday, January 27, 2012

Repeats: Every Day until Saturday, February 18, 2012