TOPPERS THEATRE GROUP presents
September in the Rain charts the life of Yorkshire couple Jack and Liz told through their annual summer holiday jaunt across the Pennines to Blackpool, which has been a ritual for over 40 years. It’s the golden age of donkey rides, talent contests, saucy postcards, stripy deckchairs, ice cream, rolled-up trousers and knotted hankies.
John Godber's hilarious comedy conjures up this lost world so vividly you will almost feel the sand in your socks and hear the rain bouncing off your pac-a-mac.
Jack is a strong-minded but good-hearted Yorkshire miner who cannot abide dirt and mess in any other part of his life. Liz is a Liverpudlian housewife who sometimes cannot understand her husband’s reluctance to hold her hand. They bicker, fall out, become friends again. Even after the years have passed, the pair are still very much in love with each other and Blackpool.
Join Jack and Liz as they dip in and out of time together recalling their first holiday as newlyweds, to their last, sharing memories filled with tears and laughter, fish and chips and wet and windy promenades in September.
Who is John Godber?
John Godber is an English dramatist, known mainly for his observational comedies. In the Plays and Players Yearbook for 1993 he was reckoned to be the third most performed playwright in the UK behind William Shakespeare and Alan Ayckbourn.
John Godber's hilarious comedy conjures up this lost world so vividly you will almost feel the sand in your socks and hear the rain bouncing off your pac-a-mac.
Jack is a strong-minded but good-hearted Yorkshire miner who cannot abide dirt and mess in any other part of his life. Liz is a Liverpudlian housewife who sometimes cannot understand her husband’s reluctance to hold her hand. They bicker, fall out, become friends again. Even after the years have passed, the pair are still very much in love with each other and Blackpool.
Join Jack and Liz as they dip in and out of time together recalling their first holiday as newlyweds, to their last, sharing memories filled with tears and laughter, fish and chips and wet and windy promenades in September.
Who is John Godber?
John Godber is an English dramatist, known mainly for his observational comedies. In the Plays and Players Yearbook for 1993 he was reckoned to be the third most performed playwright in the UK behind William Shakespeare and Alan Ayckbourn.
What the critics say:
“Godber paints his couple in bold, humorous brushstrokes” TIME OUT
“Amusing, at times moving, in its outrageously ordinary way” THE DAILY TELEGRAPH
"A quaint and gently moving story, full of laughs" BRITISH THEATRE GUIDE
"Not simply a Yorkshire story, but a human story of familiarity, warmth and nostalgia" BBC NORTH YORKSHIRE
“Godber paints his couple in bold, humorous brushstrokes” TIME OUT
“Amusing, at times moving, in its outrageously ordinary way” THE DAILY TELEGRAPH
"A quaint and gently moving story, full of laughs" BRITISH THEATRE GUIDE
"Not simply a Yorkshire story, but a human story of familiarity, warmth and nostalgia" BBC NORTH YORKSHIRE
Sunday 26th November 2017
Callington Town Hall
All tickets: £8
Tickets available from Callington Town Hall, Kivells in Fore Street or phone CRBO on 01726 879500
Start time: 2.30pm (Doors open at 2.00pm)
Callington Town Hall
All tickets: £8
Tickets available from Callington Town Hall, Kivells in Fore Street or phone CRBO on 01726 879500
Start time: 2.30pm (Doors open at 2.00pm)