Hope Amateur Dramatic Independent Theatre (HADIT) will be back on the Hope Methodist Hall stage from 15th–17th October with Alan Bennett’s glorious seaside romp Habeas Corpus.
The action takes place in 1960’s Brighton where Dr Arthur Wicksteed has his home and surgery. The disillusioned doctor is going through a mid-life crisis, his wife is desperate for love, his spinster sister craves a bigger bust and his son is a hypochondriac. Enter into the household a formidable ex-colonial lady and her beautiful daughter, the vertically challenged President of the British Medical Association, a repressed cleric, a ladies’ goods salesman and a suicidal patient! The resulting amorous encounters, mix ups and mistaken identities are commented on from the sidelines by the Wicksteed’s housekeeper, the aptly named Mrs Swabb (“Naught escapes me in a month of Sundays: I know when they change their undies”!).
Tickets are available from Hope Post Office. For more information or for telephone bookings contact Carolyn on 01433 620665.