GETTING ON

by Alan Bennett

Director - Michael Munn

Performance Dates - Tuesday 17th - Saturday 21st November 2009

Getting On follows the home life of George Oliver, Labour MP, over a few months in the early 1970s.

George is getting older and the 1960s' revolutions have rewritten the post-war certainties. Blustering, overbearing, ultimately endearing, George rails against the new age, his teenage son and the gentrification of his own life. Meanwhile, his family and firends tiptoe around him, trying to frame meaning from their own lives.

Through his aprkling and witty script, Bennett gives us a timely reminder of an age before career and opportunities eclipsed principle and idealism.

THE CAST

George Oliver, MP - Malcolm Hollister

Polly Oliver - Helen Arbon

Enid Baker - Monica Murphy

Brian Lowther, MP - Paul Vella

Geoff Price - Tom Turner

Andy Oliver - Tom Eddington

Mrs Brodribb - Anne Foster