Sidmouth Rep: Out of Order

Mary Youlden
Authored by Mary Youlden
Posted: Wednesday, July 29, 2015 - 3:54pm

The Oliver-award winning farce will play from Thursday 30 July to Wednesday 12 August.

The Summer Rep Season sees one company of actors present a season of twelve classic revivals throughout summer, with a new production each week until the end of September.

Set in a suite at the Westminster Hotel in London, just around the corner from the House of Commons, Out of Order is a classic farce full of hilariously disastrous twists and turns. Richard Willey, a government minister, plans to spend the evening with Jane Worthington, one of the opposition's typists. Under the cover of an all-night commons sitting, Richard thinks he will have no problem slipping away to Suite 648 at the Westminster Hotel. But things quickly start to unravel, and Richard summons his trusty private secretary George Pigden to help get him out of a very sticky situation. Winner of the 1991 Olivier Award for Best Comedy, Out of Order is one of the most successful farces of all time.

Ray Cooney OBE is an English playwright and actor. His biggest success, Run for Your Wife, ran for nine years in London's West End, where in total 17 of his plays have been staged. Cooney has also appeared on TV and in several films, including a film adaptation of his successful theatrical farce Not Now, Darling (1973), which he co-wrote with John Chapman. In 1983, Cooney created the Theatre of Comedy Company and became its artistic director. During his tenure the company produced over twenty plays such as Pygmalion starring Peter O'Toole and John Thaw, Loot, and Run For Your Wife. Cooney co-wrote a farce with his son Michael, Tom, Dick and Harry (1993). Cooney's farces combine a traditional British bawdiness with structural complication, as characters leap to assumptions, are forced to pretend to be things that they are not and often talk at cross-purposes. In 2005, Cooney was made an OBE in recognition of his services to drama.

The 2015 Season Company is Alec Fellows-Bennett, Andrew Beckett, Anton Tweedale, Chris Casey, Daniele Coombe, Ellen Verenieks, Ethan Chapples, Evie Lockley, Fiz Marcus, Francis Adams, Gary Roe, Grace Miller, Hannah Vesty, James Lawrence, James Pellow, John Askew, Jonathan Ray, Julie Ross, Lou Lou Mason, Matthew Curnier, Natalie Douglas, Nova Skipp, Pearl Marsland, Russell Anthony, Sabi Perez, Sarah Dearlove, Sarah Dungworth, Sarah Kempton, Stephanie Willson, Toby Joyce and Tom Read Wilson.

The Summer Rep Season 2015 is directed by Paul Taylor-Mills (Out of Order), Lillie Collier (Hay Fever, Boeing Boeing), Stuart Burrows (Amy's View, Rope), (Joking Apart, The Mating Game, Hound of the Baskervilles), Max Reynolds (September Tide), James Murphy (Sweet Revenge, Wait Until Dark) and James Pellow (The Importance of Being Earnest). It is produced by Paul Taylor-Mills and Lillie Collier with Associate Producer Kylie Vilcins. It is designed by David Shields with costumes designs by Barbara Williams and lighting by Tony Hill.

Performances at 8pm (no shows on Sunday).

Tickets:   Adults £15 and £14, under 16s £8 (Season tickets available).

Box office: 01395 514 413

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Venue

Manor Pavilion, Sidmouth

Event Date

Sunday, August 9, 2015 - 7:00pm to Wednesday, August 12, 2015 - 7:00pm

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