Taking Steps

by sally on Tuesday, December 27, 2011
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written by Alan Ayckbourn and directed by Ann Moore

Date: Tuesday 22nd to Saturday 26th May 2012 at 7:30 pm

Box office: 01905 611427

Tickets
First Night £7 thereafter £9.50; (Concessions: £8)
£2 off seats booked before 1st April
Parties of 9 or more: £3 off the £9.50 seats
Students: £5 on the door with no further concessions

Tickets may be booked in advance by telephone on the number above or in person at Worcester Live box office in Huntingdon Hall, Crowngate (open 10am-5pm Mon-Sat). They may also be purchased at the theatre on the evening during the 45 minutes prior to the start of the performance.

Venue: Swan Theatre

The play
Roland, a hard drinking business-man, is unaware that ‘The Pines’, the three-storey house he wants to buy, was once a high-class brothel reputed to be haunted by one of the hostesses, Scarlet Lucy. He is also unaware that his wife, Elizabeth, has planned to leave him and that his brother-in-law, Mark, will be staying the night in the attic bedroom along with his fiancée, Kitty – who ends up spending most of the night in a cupboard. Roland’s personal problems are not made any easier by the motor-cycling vendor and his practically incoherent solicitor.

In 1972 Ayckbourn deliberately set out ‘to write something for fun’, and when ‘Taking Steps’ toured into the West End critics wrote of a vastly superior farce packed with beautifully crafted set pieces and line after laugh line (Manchester Evening News) which was A splendidly inventive piece, the dialogue highly entertaining. Sunday Telegraph.

It is directed by Ann Moore, who during her thirty years directing for STAC has successfully produced, among many others, six plays by Alan Ayckbourn.

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