Time of My Life
A comedy by Alan Ayckbourn
Thursday 9 May 1996 - Saturday 11 May 1996
Faringdon Corn Exchange, Corn Market, Faringdon SN7 7JA
Directed by Roger Leitch
Performances start 7:30 pm. Doors open 30 minutes earlier.
Tickets were available from Breath of Spring (florist), 4a Market Place, Faringdon.
The play follows the relationships of three couples within a family, but at different stages of their lives and at different time intervals, with the clock going backwards and forwards. Time of my life charts the decline and fall of a successful family business, founded and nurtured by Gerry and Laura Stratton. It is Laura’s 54th birthday and Gerry has organised a small family dinner at their favourite restaurant.
Domestically, all seems well. Glyn, their eldest son has patched up his marriage with Stephanie; younger son Adam has a new girlfriend and is deeply in love, but as we suspect all this is surface stuff. For, as their evening proceeds, gradually, we are made aware of family skeletons. The present opens up to have Glyn’s story move forward in time and Adam’s backward, while, at the centre, Gerry and Laura pick apart their marriage and recall first love.
Cast (in order of appearance):
Gerry Stratton - Peter Webster
Laura Stratton - Sarah Varnom
Glyn Stratton - Alistair Warner
Adam Stratton - Robert Wentworth
Stephanie Stratton - Helen Barter
Maureen (Adam's girlfriend) - Debbie Lock
Mm. Calvinu (Restaurateur) - Debra Keasal
Tuto - John Williams
Aggi - Walther Schoonenberg
Dinka - Irene Schoonenberg
Bengie - Catherine Hunt
See programme for further details.
Production No.121 (3 shows were performed over 3 days).