The Retirement of Tom Stevens

PREMIERE

By William Ivory

8 - 25 March 2006

CAST
Denise Black
Tim Dantay
Elaine Glover
Simon Merrells
Maurice Roeves

The Retirement of Tom Stevens is Screenwriter William Ivory’s debut stage play. A darkly comical examination of family, filial duty and genetics. It charts the events which surround the retirement party of the fiercely patriarchal Tom and the subsequent Christmas he spends in Southwell, Nottinghamshire with his son Richard, a successful sports journalist now living in London and David, his second child, a manager for a small chain of hotels based in the East Midlands.

Across three days, Richard and David and the two women in their lives, Mary, David’s wife and Richard’s new ( and much younger) girlfriend, Susan become embroiled in a gradual uncovering of the past and a revealing of the truth which binds them all together.

What the press said about The Retirement of Tom Stevens
"…it’s an outrageously honest analysis of character and relationships that deserves a national audience” Nottingham Evening Post

CREATIVE TEAM
Director: Matt Aston
Designer: Helen Fownes Davies
Lighting Designer: Richard G Jones
Sound Designer: Paul Stear