For their summer open-air production this year at Gawsworth Hall and at Quarry Bank Gardens, the Wilmslow Green Room is performing Relatively Speaking, one of Alan Ayckbourn's most famous and best loved plays. It was his first West End hit in 1967.
Greg and Ginny are a young couple who live together. One day, Ginny goes off supposedly to visit her parents but is actually going to the house of her considerably older lover, Philip, in order to end their 'extra' relationship and to retrieve some compromising letters. Matters are complicated when Greg turns up unexpectedly and meets Philip's wife Sheila and believes her to be Ginny's mother.
Confusion reigns!
Having wrongly assumed Philip and Sheila are Ginny's parents, Greg asks for permission to marry Ginny! Ginny, through clever manoeuvring, convinces Philip to play the role of her father. The situation becomes increasingly complicated and hilarious!
The Wilmslow Green Room's production of Relatively Speaking is directed by John Chidgey and is a very clever and funny comedy of misunderstandings and mistaken identity. Not to be missed.
To Book Relatively Speaking, please contact the venue and not the Wilmslow Green Room.
At Gawsworth Open Air Theatre: 30th June – 2nd July 2016
In Quarry Bank Gardens Gardens, Styal: 8th and 9th July 2016
Gawsworth Hall: Tel 01260 223456
Quarry Bank Gardens: Tel 01625 445845
Photo: Josh Neary and Lorna Kong.
Guest post by Hilary Pinnock.
