Performances
Dates: Saturday 25th September 2021, 7.30pm
Sunday 26th September 2021, 4pm & 7.30pm
Monday 27th September 2021, 7.30pm
Venue: Bloomsbury Theatre, 15 Gordon Street,
London, WC1H 0AH
Composer and Conductor : Scott Stroman
Librettist : Tamsin Collison
Assistant Music Director : Sarah Wilkinson
Orchestral Leader : Lucy Waterhouse
Producer: Greg Klerkx
Cast
Stephen Febble : Adrian Thompson
Virginia Febble : Kathy Taylor-Jones
Diana : Joanna Harries
Alan : Rob Gildon
Hugh Bedales : Cleveland Watkiss
Charlotte : Rachel Maby
Duff : Tom Poldre
Bridget : Donna Canale
About The Weekend
The Weekend is a new jazz-infused comedy opera, drawn from the play by Michael Palin and composed by Scott Stroman with words by Tamsin Collison. It turns on Stephen, a disaffected retiree whose calm weekend is invaded by his daughter's boisterous family (complete with dog), disrupted by revelations about his best friend, and self-sabotaged at an unwanted cocktail party featuring a surprise visitor. Loyal wife Ginny manages valiantly until things come to a head....
The Weekend was H.O.T.'s 8th production and 4th new stage works by Stroman, after the musical Fever Pitch the Opera, As You Like It, and youth theatre piece Fables.