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THE LATE MIDDLE CLASSES

This production began performances on 19th March and closed on 10th April 1999.

Simon Gray’s quietly riveting new play, The Late Middle Classes, is about adapting to life after the Second World War. Harold Pinter’s atmospheric, absorbing production elicits superb performances from Gray’s cast of shell-shocked characters.

Mail on Sunday

England in the 1950s. Celia, desperate for distraction, fills her time with tennis and gin; Charles, a pathologist, is buried in his work among the living and the dead; and their gifted son, Holly, is having his first lessons on the piano and in life. The Late Middle Classes is a darkly funny study of the conflict between emotional needs and family restraints.

Deeply satisfying, funny-sad and perceptive.

The Independent

The Late Middle Classes was the winner of the award for Best New Play at the 1999 Barclays Theatre Awards.

Harold Pinter’s pitch-perfect production, beautifully acted by the likes of Harriet Walter and Nicholas get xanax online Woodeson, emphasises not only the Rattiganesque stage-craft but a Dickensian range of sympathies.

The Independent

CAST

NICHOLAS WOODESON – Thomas Brownlow

JAMES FLEET – Holiday Smithers/Charles Smithers

HARRIET WALTER – Celia Smithers

SAM BEDI – Holliday Smithers as a child

ANGELA PLEASENCE – Ellie Brownlow

CREATIVES

SIMON GRAY – Playwright

HAROLD PINTER – Director

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