Common Pursuit, The
Menier Chocolate Factory
Book until: Jul 20, 2008
Tuesday - Saturday evenings at 8pm, Saturday and Sunday matinees at 3.30pm
This sharp comedy charts the progress of a group of Cambridge undergraduates who launch a literary publication - THE COMMON PURSUIT.
Fresh, determined and gifted, their joint venture brings them together in friendship, hope and the promise of a bright future. But as the years go by the friends find it hard to stay true to the ideals of their youth in the world beyond...
A study in how friendships evolve and outlast their original form, Gray's play is as defined a study of friendship now as it was when it was first performed 25 years ago.
The amazing cast includes:
Reece Shearsmith (League of Gentlemen; The Producers - West End), James Dreyfus (Gimme, Gimme, Gimme; Cabaret - West End), Nigel Harman (Eastenders; Guys & Dolls - West End); Robert Portal (39 Steps - West End); Ben Caplan (The Passion - BBC; Two Thousand Years - NT) and Mary Stockley (Ballet Shoes - BBC; Look Back in Anger - NT).
Director Fiona Laird
most recently directed Cinderella by Stephen Fry at the Old Vic
Theatre, the world premiere of Arnold Wesker's play Longitude at
Greenwich Theatre and her other work includes Oh! What A Lovely War
for the National Theatre.
Playwright Simon Gray was born in 1936. His other plays include: Butley,
Otherwise Engaged, Quartermaine's Terms and The Old
Masters. He has also written many plays for television and radio, several
novels and numerous memoirs including The Smoking Diaries, The
Year Of Jouncer, Fat Chance, Enter A Fox and most
recently The Last Cigarette.