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Sat28Sep2024Sat05Oct20247.30 pm (only 2.30 pm Sunday matinee)Chesil Theatre, Winchester, SO23 0HU
Last Of The Red Hot Lovers
Chesil Theatre
Last Of The Red Hot Lovers
Written by Neil Simon
Directed by Terry Lohr
The first production of the new season at Chesil Theatre, Winchester, is The Last Of The Red Hot Lovers. This witty comedy, written by the shrewd observer of New York life, Neil Simon, is set in the late 1960s. Successful middle-aged, middle-class fish restauranteur, Barney Cashman, realises that life is passing by without anything really exciting happening to him. He wants to get in on this Sexual Revolution he's heard so much about before it’s too late. But how suave can this wannabe Casanova be when he is constantly worried about his fingers smelling of fish? Typical of his inept approach, he chooses his mother's Upper East Side apartment, which is empty one afternoon a week, as the location for his desired liaisons.
Over three weeks three very different ladies, Elaine, Jeanette and Bobbi arrive who offer opportunities for Barney to stray. Will he succeed?
Barney is played by Chesil favourite, Gary Nicholson. He also appeared in director Terry Lohr’s first production, Educating Rita, which won a NODA 2022 award of excellence. Terry is enjoying working with Gary again and the three actors who play the ladies: Karen Fitzsimmons, Cassandra Powers and newcomer, Jo-Anna Coyningham.
Terry says: “This comedy classic reflects the language and attitudes of the time it was written, but is also timeless as Barney tackles, and is bewildered by, the complexities of seduction.”
The play runs from Saturday 28 September to Saturday 5 October with curtain up at the new time of 7:30pm.
Tickets: Adults £18.00, Student / Under 18s £12.00, Group £16.20 (booking fees apply); Available online.