ALAN Ayckbourn will conclude his tenure as artistic director of the Stephen Joseph Theatre, Scarborough, with The Things That Go Bump season, three Ayckbourn plays about the ghosts that lurk in the dark corners of all our minds.
The trio comprises Haunting Julia, Snake In The Grass and his 71st premiere, Life And Beth.
The season opens with Haunting Julia on May 22. Julia Lukin, a brilliant musician with an exciting career as a composer ahead of her, took her own life. Or did she? Why did she have to die? Was it an accident? Suicide? Or something altogether more sinister?
Snake In The Grass runs from June 5. After the sudden death of their father, conscientious Annabel is keen to patch up old quarrels and make things right with eccentric younger sister, Miriam, but things are far from being right their sunlit garden is filled with deeply buried childhood memories.
Life And Beth premieres from July 17. Will recently widowed Beth make it through her first Christmas alone? Even the cat has walked out.
The family rally round but her alcoholic sister-in-law, accident-prone son and his truculent girlfriend make it hard for her to maintain her welcoming smile. Add in the local lovesick vicar and a further unexpected and totally uninvited guest and Beth is in for a Christmas she will never forget.
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The three plays will run in repertory until August 30. Snake In The Grass and Life And Beth will be directed by Ayckbourn, Haunting Julia by guest director Richard Derrington. No stranger to the play, Derrington starred in the 1999 revival.
A summer repertory company of six actors will star in the three plays: Susie Blake, Ruth Gibson, Liza Goddard, Ian Hogg, Adrian McLoughlin and Richard Stacey. Hogg and McLoughlin will both reprise their roles from the world premiere of Haunting Julia in 1994.
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