Habeas Corpus
- By:
- Alan Bennett
- Management:
- Octagon Theatre Bolton, by arrangement with Samuel French Ltd
- Cast:
- Tobias Beer, Colin Connor, Howard Crossley, Russell Dixon, Rob Edwards, Paula Jennings, Margot Leicester, John Levitt, Fran Ryan, Eve Steele
- Director:
- David Thacker
- Design:
- Ciaran Bagnall (also lighting)
- Sound:
- Andy Smith
- Costumes:
- Mary Horan
Production information can change over the run of the show.
Search Amazon for Habeas Corpus items Search for tickets at TicketmasterBawdy farce is not something you automatically association with Alan Bennett. But in 1973 the future national treasure got his Brian Rix on with this seaside postcard of a play, set among the sex-mad middle-classes of Hove. From a 21st-century perspective, however, it remains an oddity, as musings about death and desire - a devil may care ethos suggested by its Latin title - liberally pepper the comic misunderstandings, door-slamming and trouser-dropping. The unreal tone is heightened by characters that break into rhyming couplets and the running commentary of housekeeper Mrs Swabb, played with Norman Evans-like gusto by Russell Dixon, adding proceedings a pantomimic air...
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