The Play

This is the story of a small French cosmetics company with a popular suntan lotion at the centre of its business.

But when a young and beautiful princess, dying of skin cancer, agrees to be interviewed regularly on television during the final weeks of her life, sales plummet.

Staff are under pressure. Workers strike. Companies fall. This is the story of growth, collapse and re-growth and its effect on all concerned.

An extraordinary play about global capitalism.

Michel Vinaver, one of France’s leading playwrights and who has just been nominated for a Moliere, first wrote A La Renverse - Factors Unforeseen - in 1979. In 2006 the play was completely revised in a workshop and then presented in Paris in this new version.

This production, in a commissioned translation by Catherine Crimp, is the English language premiere.
The Orange Tree has previously produced six plays by Michel Vinaver: the world premiere of Portrait of a Woman (1995) as well as Overboard, Neighbours and Dissident, goes without saying (as part of the 1997 London French Theatre Season) and A Smile on the End of the Line (1987) and Situation Vacant (1989) which were produced in the old theatre above the Orange Tree pub.

Cast

Cast: David Antrobus, Paul Bigley, Paul Gilmore, Richard Hollis, Kieron Jecchinis, David Leonard, Ben Nathan, Christopher Naylor, Paul O'Mahony, Howard Saddler, Mike Sengelow, Christopher Staines, Tam Williams, Amber Agar, Jemma Churchill, Rebecca Egan, Emma Gregory, Sarah Lam, Amy Neilson Smith and Lisa Stevenson.                  
Director: Sam Walters
Designer: Tim Meacock
Lighting Designer: John Harris

Listing Information

Orange Tree Theatre

1 Clarence Street, Richmond

Surrey, TW9 2SA

www.orangetreetheatre.co.uk

Box Office: 020 8940 3633

Opening hours: 10am - 7pm

Nearest tube and mainline station: Richmond (District Line, South West Trains and Silverlink)

Ticket Prices

Monday evenings, Saturday matinees and previews (first Wednesday and Thursday of the run): £12 (concessions £10)
Thursday matinees ( post show discussion): £9
Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday evenings: £14(£12 concessions)
Friday evenings: £16 (concessions £14)
Saturday evenings: £19
No performances Bank Holiday Mondays Monday 4 May and 25 May.

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