Cast
Heather Climer-McCalment
as Susan

Brian Sherwinski as Bill

Dan Matern as Andy

John Evans as Tony

Sarah Dooley as Lucy

Dave Pera as Gerald

Mary DeBoer as Muriel

Mike Dunbard as Rick

The Story: The comic poet of middle class life, always so very funny, goes deeper and darker in this triumphant play about a housewife named Susan who is married to a boring cleric named Gerald. After getting knocked out by stepping on the tooth end of a garden rake, Susan experiences hilarious hallucinations in which her oppressive and boring everyday life is replaced by a fantasy in which she is an ideal wife and mother with an ideal family. While her real family treats her with condescension and apathy, her fantasy family dresses in lovely white, always drinks champagne, lives in a stately home and tells her that she is wonderful. Eventually, the fantasy family becomes nightmarish and Susan begins to realize that she is going mad.

"Ayckbourn knows that even the bleakest situations aren't allergic to laughter, and he creates a set of believable people whose weaknesses and foibles are food for mirth. We laugh at ourselves through his characters and the experience is at once painful and exhilarating." -Sunday Express

"A savage tragi-comedy." -Guardian