The big Putney November show is Rattigan's Deep Blue Sea, directed by Roger Beaumont and Paula Robinson, so Cait interviews Carol (Mrs Elton) and Heidi (Ann Welch).
A dingy flat in Ladbroke Grove, West London, 1952. Hester Collyer’s life is in turmoil. She has gambled her life – her home, her status, her marriage to a High Court judge – to pursue a relationship with dashing ex-fighter pilot, Freddie. But it seems she has lost.
Left emotionally stranded, she can't see a way forward and going back is unbearable. She is stuck between the devil and the deep blue sea. As a single day unravels, she must stare into the abyss – and with help from an unexpected quarter, try to find a new way of living.
Terence Rattigan's exquisitely crafted masterpiece about unequal desire burns with loss and longing.
Cast
Hester Collyer - Sarah Sharpe
Freddie Page - Daniel Jonusas
Sir William Collyer - Pip Nixon
Mr Miller - Tim Iredale
Ann Welch - Heidi Bartholomew
Mrs Elton - Carol Stewart
Philip Welch – Callum Hudson
Jackie Jackson – George Nettleton
The Putney Theatre Company at The South West End!
See us online – www.putneyartstheatre.org.uk/whatson
Host: Cait Hart-Dyke.
Producer, podcast editor and sound design: Nick Wells.
Music is 'At the Tropicana' by Chalalatas, license courtesy of Epidemic Sounds.
Recorded at the Putney Arts Theatre.
