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Over the River and Through the Woods

“I look at Nick and I think how many grown adults actually get to have dinner with all four of their grandparents” says Caitlin to Nick, after being introduced to the family. This is Nick’s blessing but it is a mixed one – he has four loving grandparents who have pulled themselves from poverty after migrating to the USA in the twenties. Every Sunday he travels out of New York City for dinner with them in Hoboken, New Jersey. He loves them in return but he finds it difficult to understand them and their world which seems so strange and remote from his own. Likewise his grandparents cannot understand his life – his job, his ambitions, and his failure to marry and raise a family. When he is offered a glittering promotion which entails a move across the continent to Seattle they are horrified at this threat to the famiglia. How they work out their relationship is by turns very touching and very funny.

Bryan Rycroft, a founder member of Abbots Langley Players over 50 years ago, returns to direct this play – having appeared in both its European and British premières. The grandparents are played by Annette Toms, Brian Hibberd, Sylvia Poole and Bob Andrews with Mike Jenkins in the role of Nick and a very welcome ALP debut by Lucy Gibbons in the part of Caitlin.

You can book tickets from the Box Office on 0844 804 5354. Early booking is recommended.

 

Abbots Langley Players 2011