Orange Tree Theatre announces extension of Terence Rattigan’s WHILE THE SUN SHINES

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Orange Tree Theatre have announced a week-long extension of Terence Rattigan’s While The Sun Shines due to popular demand, now running until 15 January 2022.

Directed by OT Artistic Director Paul Miller, the production also has livestreamed performances via OT on screen on 6 and 7 January. 

On the eve of his wedding, the young Earl of Harpenden – Bobby to his friends – has offered his room to Joe, an American soldier he drunkenly met the night before. When Bobby’s fiancée Lady Elizabeth turns up, Joe makes a move, thinking she must be Bobby’s ex, the wonderful Mabel Crum. But a Free French lieutenant also has eyes for her… And to complicate matters, Bobby’s future father-in-law turns up too. London in the Blitz, and identities get confused: time to make hay…

The cast includes Rebecca Collingwood (Lady Elisabeth Randall), Conor Glean (Lieutenant Mulvaney), John Hudson (Horton), Sophie Khan Levy (Mabel Crum), Philip Labey (The Earl of Harpendon), Michael Lumsden (The Duke of Ayr and Stirling) and Jordan Mifsúd (Lieutenant Colbert).

Completing the creative team are designer Simon Daw, lighting designer Mark Doubleday, and sound designer and composer Elizabeth Purnell.

This first major revival in decades of Rattigan’s delectably charming comedy had an acclaimed sold out run in 2019. It was the writer’s greatest hit playing for over 1,000 performances in the West End when it opened in 1943.

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