September in the Rain charts the life of Yorkshire couple Jack and Liz through their annual summer holiday jaunt across the Pennines to Blackpool, which has been a ritual for over 40 years. It’s the golden age of donkey rides, talent contests, saucy postcards, stripy deckchairs, ice cream, rolled-up trousers and knotted hankies. Read more …
John Godber's hilarious comedy conjures up this lost world so vividly you will almost feel the sand in your socks and hear the rain bouncing off your pac-a-mac.
Follow the journey of Jack and Liz as they dip in and out of time recalling their first holiday as newlyweds, to their last, as OAPs, sharing memories filled with tears and laughter, fish and chips and wet and windy promenades in September.If the style of the show is reassuring, September In The Rain leaves us in no doubt that love and romance are not the same thing, and that the magic and glamour of the love-songs Liz and Jack sometimes poignantly sing is, most of the time, not for them, but for some other world.
Claire Sweeney and John Thomson star in September in the Rain revival
Theatre Royal, Glasgow from Monday November 25, 2013, until Saturday November 30, 2013. More info: www.theambassadors.com/theatreroyalglasgow/
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