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"From the very start this show was filled with conviviality and laughter......a great production"
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COMPANY

ACTOR 1 - Jack Hulland
ACTOR 2 - Jonathan Parish
ACTOR 3 - Harvey Robinson
ACTOR 4 - Katherine Senior

Directed by Amanda Knott
Sound Design by Richard Price
Stage managed by Lizzy Dive

supported by Exeter Arts Council

          
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TRAVELS WITH 
MY AUNT
 from the novel by Graham Greene
adapted for the stage by Giles Havergal  

Four actors will take on over 20 characters in this hilarious mad cap dash around the world with - Henry Pulling. He is a retired suburban bank manager with a penchant for dahlias.

He meets his eccentric Aunt Augusta at what he supposes to be his mother's funeral. She persuades him to abandon his dahlias and travel with her to Brighton, Paris, Istanbul and across the world to Paraguay.
Through Aunt Augusta, a veteran of  hotel bedrooms and shady associates, Henry joins a shifty twilight society of pot smoking hippies, war criminals, men from the CIA and hard core art smugglers.  To his aunt’s great delight, he finds himself coming alive as he puts his former dull and predictable life behind him.
Travels with my Aunt not only gives us intoxicating entertainment, but also confronts us with some of the most perplexing of human dilemmas.

It was first a novel by Graham Greene which was adapted for film in 1972, starring Maggie Smith and Alec McCowen.

Giles Havergal wrote this version for the stage in 1989.

“…a miracle of lightness and wit..."
The Guardian 

THIS PRODUCTION TOURED TO

Shaftesbury Arts Centre, Victoria Hall-Tisbury,
The Mill Arms-Romsey, Fisherton Mill-Salisbury, New Theatre-Exeter, 
Marine Theatre-Lyme Regis, Blackmore Theatre-Exmouth,
Winsford Village Hall, Exmoor.