Humble Boy
by
Charlotte Jones
Directed by Derek Slater
10th - 17th October 2009
Felix Humble is an emotionally immature Oxford astrophysisist who makes a brief return to his home in the countryside for his father's funeral. His overbearing mother Flora seem's little moved by his father's death and Felix takes it badly when he finds she is already planning to re-marry. Especially when the groom-to-be is George Pye, with whom she has been having an affair, and who happens to be the father of Felix's former girlfriend Rosie (whom he abandoned to take up his Oxford studies).
When a garden party is arranged to bring them all together, with the decedent's ashes in a small pot on the table, mean-spirited sniping all-round soon becomes the order of the day.
| Felix Humble |
Adam Peerbaccus |
| Flora Humble |
Christina Theobald |
| George Pye |
Ian McBride |
| Rosie Pye |
Lottie Tyler |
| Mercy |
Linda Batson |
| The Gardener |
Martin Pritchard |
| Stage Manager |
Helen Bingle |
| Wardrobe |
Carole Holmes |
| Properties/ASM |
Helen Bingle
Charlie Cook
Liz Cook
Peter Janes |
| Sound |
Geoffrey Martyn |
| Lighting |
Bruce Williams |
| Prompt |
Sue Jones |
| House Managers |
Elizabeth Foster
Peter Foster
Trevor Jones |
The garden courtesy of
Petfields Day Centre Gardening Group at Macclesfield |
The play was kindly sponsored by
Bang And Olufsen of Wilmslow |
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