BOEING BOEING

GALLERY

BOEING BOEING

by Marc Camoletti

translated by Beverley Cross & Francis Evans

2015

Prepare to jet back to the 1960s in this high flying fabulous farce. Bernard has the perfect life – a swish Parisian apartment and three glamorous air stewardess girlfriends. With some assistance from his disapproving housekeeper, his carefully constructed timetable runs like clockwork until a new, faster jet goes into service.

His supersonic lifestyle hits turbulence when the unexpected schedule changes bring all three women to his apartment at the same time, and his intricate ruse unravels in one wild, door-slamming night of comic mayhem.

­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­Winner! 2008 Tony Award, Best Revival of a Play

“soars right out of its time zone and into some unpolluted stratosphere of classic physical comedy.”

The New York Times

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REVIEWS

The standard of comic acting is as good as I'd expect in the West End.
Philip Szlapak
Philip Szlapak
Terrific script with very convincing characterisation by the cast and we scarcely had a straight face in the second half!
Jill Potter
Jill Potter
A most enjoyable experience with some very notable acting
Paul F Legge
Paul F Legge
Boeing Boeing's first night was excellent!! Why go to the West End when you can be entertained on your doorstep ...... 2 hours of perfectly timed comedy
Nigel & Sue Barton
Nigel & Sue Barton
The key players were fantastic... Genius!
Jennie Faik
Jennie Faik
Did not disappoint. Funny and professional. Good to have West End quality productions in Tunbridge Wells.
Anne M Pierce
Anne M Pierce
Thoroughly enjoyed the show, it was really very funny and the comic timing was spot on.
Colley Rodemark
Colley Rodemark
It was great, the best play we have yet seen at Trinity. We thought the acting was excellent, the whole cast was so funny
Clare Lucas Alkins
Clare Lucas Alkins
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Creative Team

ProducerJohn Martin
DirectorDavid Fawcett
Set DesignerAndy Newell
Lighting DesignerTheo Farringdon
Original MusicTony Stenson
ChoreographySally Anne Leigh

Cast

GLORIALauryn Allman
BERNARDEthan Chapples
BERTHAEunice Drewry
ROBERTJohn Martin
GABRIELLAEleanor Russo
GRETCHENDonna Gray

Director's Notes

Boeing Boeing is one of the classic farces, a theatre genre which is enjoying a revival recently with plays such as ‘One Man Two Guvnors ‘having world-wide success.

Recently produced in the West End and on Broadway to huge acclaim, the challenges faced as a director of this show in 2015 revolve around the criticism that the play is somewhat misogynistic by modern standards. Which indeed it probably is on the surface, but this cleverly crafted script ensures that in the end the ladies come out on top and are left firmly in control of the situation! After all, it is the 60’s, when anything went, and the characters created by writer Marc Camoletti reflect the attitudes of the time and gloriously remind us of a time when love and life were simple – until modern technology changed the rules…!

David Fawcett

Production Credits 

Stage Manager /DSMKaren Woodward
Set ConstructionAndy Newell/ Mark Lott /Henry Pearce/ Richard Adams
Costumes and PropertiesPatsy Dale
Trinity Chief TechnicianTheo Farringdon
Trinity TechniciansTim Gear and Henry Pearce
Publicity and MarketingDarren Smallman and Hannah Patterson 
Special thanks to:
Patrick Kearns Artistic Director of talking Scarlet talking-scarlet.co.uk – for the kind loan of air hostess costumes and bags
Oldham Coliseum Theatre and Holden and Sons for kind permission to use their logo

Produced in association with Trinity Theatre www.trinitytheatre.net

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