The Entertainer

Fri 16 Jan to Sat 7 Feb 2004

PLAYHOUSE

“You’ve been a good audience... Let me know where you’re working tomorrow night – and I'll come and see YOU.”

A desperate, past-his-sell-by-date comedian performs to a bored, past-its-sell-by-date audience in a shabby, past-its-sell-by-date seaside town in the conformist, past-its-sell-by-date England of 1957.

On the stage where his parents met and fell in love, one of this country’s most prolific actors and directors, Corin Redgrave, plays Archie Rice in a major new production of John Osborne’s coruscating modern classic of self-delusion, desperation…and belly laughs.

Company

Cast Leslie Randell, Eileen Walsh, Corin Redgrave, Paola Dionisotti & Mark Rice-Oxley

Director John Tiffany

Designer Ti Green

Lighting Designer Natasha Chivers

Composer John Addison