Story of a passionate one-night stand that lasts for 25 years to be staged at Theatre Royal
Kieran Buckeridge and Sarah Kempton who take the roles of George and Doris. Photo: S Burnett.
One of the world’s most widely staged plays “Same Time Next Year” is coming to the Theatre Royal Bury St Edmunds, next week.
Originally produced on Broadway in 1975 it ran for four years, winning a Tony Award for lead actress Ellen Burstyn, who later recreated her role in the successful film of the same title opposite Alan Alda.
The story centres round Doris and George who meet in 1951, a chance encounter in a Californian hotel that leads to a passionate one-night stand.
Both are married to other people but, soon aware that this might be the start of something, they promise to meet 12 months later. So begins a romantic love affair that lasts 25 years.
London Classic Theatre’s “Same Time Next Year” charts their lives through the ups and downs of parenthood, career highs and lows as well as the shifting fashions and morals of the passing decades.
Bernard Slade paints a bittersweet, nostalgic and very funny portrait of two likeable protagonists who find themselves in the most unusual of long-term relationships.
Kieran Buckeridge plays George and Sarah Kempton is Doris and it is at the Theatre Royal from Tuesday to Saturday, February 15 to 19.
Tickets can be booked via the website www.theatreroyal.org/shows/same-time-next-year or the box office, Monday to Saturday, 10am to 6pm, on 01284 769505. The prices start at £10.50.