Two men, one older than the other, sit on the ground with legs out in front of them

A VOYAGE ROUND MY FATHER

Tue 17 - Sat 21 October 2023
Tickets £25-£50 *

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BAFTA and Golden Globe nominee Rupert Everett stars in John Mortimer’s celebrated autobiographical play, A Voyage Round My Father.

Growing up in the shadow of a brilliant and eccentric barrister, a man whose tea-time conversation could take in music hall, adultery, evolution, the ridiculous inconvenience of sex, Shakespeare, and the importance of avoiding anything heroic in wartime, the son continually yearns for his father’s love and respect.

A Voyage Round My Father shines a light on this delicate relationship between a young man and his father who adored his garden and hated visitors, and whose blindness was never mentioned, and introduces us to world of hilarious eccentrics, bumbling headteachers and exasperated relatives.

Take a look at the newly released production images below © Manuel Harlan.

Running Time

Approx. 2 hours 5 minutes including an interval

General Guidance

Performance contains mild language, flashes of light (non strobe) and loud sounds.

Tickets

Tuesday - Saturday, 7.30pm
and Wednesday, Thursday & Saturday, 2.30pm: £25/£30/£40/£50 *

* All ticket prices include a £3 per ticket booking fee

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Rupert Everett

Rupert Everett’s leading roles have included the multi award-winning film My Best Friend’s Wedding, The Importance of Being Earnest, An Ideal Husband, Dance With A Stranger and The Happy Prince. His stage roles have included Blithe Spirit on Broadway, Pygmalion and The Judas Kiss in the West End and Uncle Vanya in the Theatre Royal Bath Summer Season.

Julian Wadham
Julian Wadham

Julian Wadham starred with Rupert Everett and Kenneth Branagh in the original West End production of Another Country. His extensive screen career has included roles in The Madness of King George, The English Patient, Victoria & Abdul and Downton Abbey, with numerous stage appearances with the National Theatre and the Royal Court.

Jack Bardoe
Eleanor David
Allegra Marland
Heather Bleasdale
Zena Carswell
John Dougall
Calum Finlay
Richard Hodder
Leoni Kibbey
Rob Pomfret
Richard Eyre
Richard Eyre (Director)

Richard Eyre is an English film, theatre, television and opera director. He was the former Artistic Director of the National Theatre between 1987 and 1997.

His extensive credits include directing plays by Noel Coward, David Hare, Tom Stoppard, Howard Brenton and Alan Bennett. 

His film credits include Notes on a Scandal, Iris and most recently Alleujah starring Jennifer Saunders.

John Mortimer (Playwright)

John Mortimer was a novelist, playwright and a barrister in his own right, renowned for his political dramas and creator of Rumpole of The Bailey.

Bob Crowley (Set & Costume designer)
Jamie ToddAssociate Designer (Associate Designer)
Hugh Vanstone (Co-Lighting Designer)
Sam Waddington (Co-Lighting Designer)
John Leonard (Sound Designer)
Stephen Warbeck (Composer)
Abigail Pickard Price (Assistant Director)

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  • 'Rupert Everett is spiky, witty and tender. Laurence Olivier would have loved him'

    DAILY MAIL
  • 'Jack Bardoe is winningly self-effacing as Mortimer'

    THE TIMES
  • 'Rupert Everett shines in Mortimer's Autumnal drama'

    THE TIMES
  • 'Julian Wadham twinkles in a 1920s headmaster’s speech'

    THE TIMES
  • '(Everett) cuts an imposing figure and convincingly traces the arc of ageing, becoming gaunt and cadaverous before our eyes'

    THE DAILY TELEGRAPH
  • 'Rupert Everett is blustering and volatile'

    THE STAGE
  • 'Allegra Marland shines as Mortimer’s acerbic wife'

    THE TIMES
  • 'Bardoe works a neat line in frustrated conventionality, wanting to rebel while simultaneously following the paternal passage to the bar, with outbreaks of artistic endeavour along the way'

    THE DAILY TELEGRAPH