It’s America in the 1960s and Harold Ryan, the famous war-hero, has been missing for eight years. Presumed dead, he returns in secret to discover his house is not exactly as he left it. His hunting trophies still adorn the walls, but there is an inexplicable birthday cake on the table. Worse yet, his son has grown into a sissy and his wife is engaged to a hippy. In Vonnegut’s time-warped version o
f Odysseus’ return, expect the unexpected, with animalistic doorbells, vacuums and a host of heavenly visitors. The cast
Harold Ryan - Vincent Jerome
Penelope Ryan - Alix Dunmore
Looseleaf - Marcus Powell
Shuttle - Emma-Jane Martin
Woodly - Katy Slater
Paul - Fiona Drummond. Creative Team
Director - Ant Stones
Assistant Director- Rachel IIllingworth
Designer - Megg Witts
Assistant Designer - Sam Strong
Lighting Designer - Christopher Nairne
Sound Designer - Patrick Gleeson
Producer - Gemma Lloyd
Production Manager - Kim Myers
Stage Manager - Rachel Condon
Accent coach – Catherine Weate
Logo design - Matt Ashton
Photographer – Susan Smart
Captioner – Glenn Hathaway
Ambassadors - Melissa Bethune, Steve Cox, Stephen Davidson, Lianne Herbert, Glenda Weedman. We only have 23 performances so jump in now.. also pre-show performances by the public voted for by the public as well as performances by the amazing spoken word collective Chill Pill. www.chill-pill.co.uk/
And the captioned performance is on Friday 23rd November. http://www.oldredliontheatre.co.uk/happy-birthday-wanda-june.htm
And finally but the most importantly, we are captioning one of the performances for anyone that happens to be deaf or deafened or hard of hearing with the aid of the amazing charity STAGETEXT. Like us both, we think no one should be excluded from theatre. We are currently raising funds to make this happen. So appreciate it if you could share the campaign on Twitter/Facebook and email. https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/227056
