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Preston Drama Club presents When We Are Married by J B Priestley
Preston Playhouse, Market Street West, Preston, Lancashire PR1 2HB
Wed 25 Sep to Saturday 28 Sep 2024
7.30pm, Tickets £12 and £11
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Preston Drama Club presents When We Are Married by J B Priestley
It’s the early 1900s - marriage is still sacrosanct. Divorce is a rarity, and living over the brush very socially unacceptable.
So there You are, Pillars of the local community, lavishly celebrating your 25th wedding anniversary, when you’re told that the Minister who performed your marriage ceremony all those years ago was not actually qualified to do so, and that for those last 25 years you have been living in, to put it politely, unmarried (and yet not-quite) bliss. Shock! Horror! The scandal!
Three couples at the height of Clecklewyke Society, find themselves in exactly this situation, just as a photographer and a reporter from the local paper turn up to record their milestone anniversary for posterity! Not to mention the delectation of all the good people of Clecklewyke!
Will the unfortunate couples have to leave the district in shame, heads bowed, their carefully structured reputations in tatters? Or, now, thinking about it, do they take this setback as a golden opportunity to change their present?
In JB Priestley’s ‘When We Are Married’, time is once again of the essence, but this time it’s definitely a ‘farcical comedy’.
Audience members are advised that the play is of its time, and reflects early 20th century attitudes to relationships and domestic violence.
So there You are, Pillars of the local community, lavishly celebrating your 25th wedding anniversary, when you’re told that the Minister who performed your marriage ceremony all those years ago was not actually qualified to do so, and that for those last 25 years you have been living in, to put it politely, unmarried (and yet not-quite) bliss. Shock! Horror! The scandal!
Three couples at the height of Clecklewyke Society, find themselves in exactly this situation, just as a photographer and a reporter from the local paper turn up to record their milestone anniversary for posterity! Not to mention the delectation of all the good people of Clecklewyke!
Will the unfortunate couples have to leave the district in shame, heads bowed, their carefully structured reputations in tatters? Or, now, thinking about it, do they take this setback as a golden opportunity to change their present?
In JB Priestley’s ‘When We Are Married’, time is once again of the essence, but this time it’s definitely a ‘farcical comedy’.
Audience members are advised that the play is of its time, and reflects early 20th century attitudes to relationships and domestic violence.
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